The Dukeries

Murray Gilchrist

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Dukeries, by R. Murray GilchristThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: The DukeriesAuthor: R. Murray GilchristIllustrator: E. W. HaslehustRelease Date: August 30, 2008 [EBook #26486]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DUKERIES ***Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttp://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from imagesgenerously made available by The Internet Archive/AmericanLibraries.)ContentsPageWorksop and the Manor 5Sherwood Forest and Robin Hood 13Welbeck Abbey 25Clumber 35Thoresby 39Ollerton 48Rufford 52Edwinstowe and the Oaks 60THEDUKERIESTHE PRIORY GATEWAY, WORKSOP THE PRIORYGATEWAY, WORKSOPView larger imageBack to List of IllustrationsT H ED U K E R I E SDescribed by R. Murray GilchristPictured by E. W. HaslehustThe DukeriesBLACKIE AND SON LIMITEDLONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY1913Beautiful EnglandVolumes ReadyOxford The Cornish RivieraThe English Lakes Dickens-LandCanterbury WinchesterShakespeare-Land The Isle of WightThe Thames ChesterWindsor Castle YorkCambridge The New ForestNorwich and the Broads Hampton CourtThe Heart of Wessex ExeterThe Peak District HerefordThe DukeriesUniform with this SeriesBeautiful IrelandLEINSTER ...

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Dukeries, by R. Murray Gilchrist

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: The Dukeries

Author: R. Murray Gilchrist

Illustrator: E. W. Haslehust

Release Date: August 30, 2008 [EBook #26486]

Language: English

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DUKERIES ***

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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Worksop and the Manor Sherwood Forest and Robin Hood Welbeck Abbey Clumber Thoresby Ollerton Rufford Edwinstowe and the Oaks

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THE PRIORY GATEWAY, WORKSOP THE PRIORY GATEWAY, WORKSOP View larger image Back to List of Illustrations

T H E D U K Described by R. Murray Gilchrist Pictured by E. W. Haslehust

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The Priory Gateway, Worksop Worksop Manor Robin Hood's Larder The Major Oak, Thoresby Park The Beech Avenue, Thoresby Welbeck Abbey Clumber Thoresby Ollerton Rufford Abbey The Japanese Garden, Rufford Abbey Edwinstowe

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WORKSOP AND THE MANOR Although within the last twenty-five years Worksop has suffered many changes, unfortunate enough from an æsthetic point of view, the Dukeries end of the principal street still suggests the comfortable market town in the neighbourhood of folk of quality. The only relic of notable antiquity is the quaint inn, known as the Old Ship—a building with projecting upper story and carved oaken beams that might have been transported from Chester. The twin-towered Priory Church, a gatehouse of singular interest, and some slight, gracefully proportioned ecclesiastical ruins are the main features of interest. The Priory was founded by William de Lovetot, and used by the canons of the order of St. Augustine. Great men were buried there, notably several chiefs of the Furnival family, who had for town residence Furnival's Inn in Holborn. The interior of the church contains some excellent round and octagonal pillars, and one or two ancient effigies. The walls are coated with stucco, which detracts considerably from the beauty of this handsomely proportioned building. One of the most interesting things to be seen is a piece of a human skull, pierced with an arrowhead. This hangs to the left of the doorway by which the vestry is reached. There is a weird superstition concerning the moving of this relic. Near by is the ruined chapel, erected about the middle of the thirteenth century. It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and in olden times must have blazed with gorgeous colours. The roof has fallen; little remains of its former beauty save the lancet windows. The double piscina and the sedilia are still in fair preservation, and we are shown the round holes in the stonework once filled with the pegs of the canons' oaken seats. In the churchyard are a few quaint epitaphs for such as delight to dwell upon the virtues of the forgotten dead. The Priory Gatehouse at the farther end is perhaps one of the most interesting buildings of its kind in existence. The stonework is of soft grey, and the roof chiefly of well-coloured tiles. A roadway about fifteen yards in length passes through the building; the original ceiling of oaken beams with graceful braces is still in good condition. Above this was the Hospitium, or guest chamber, where may be seen the hooded chimney-piece and the hearth before which old-time travellers rested o' nights and told tales that Chaucer might have loved, before retiring to the smaller chambers, to sleep heavily after the good cheer provided by their priestly hosts. In front of this relic stands the old market cross; and near by, until within the nineteenth century, were the stocks for vagrants and refractory townsmen. Camden tells us that in his time Worksop was "noted for its great produce of liquorice, and famous for the Earl of Shrewsbury's house, built in our memory by George Talbot, with the magnificence becoming so great an Earl, and yet below envy". In Park Street, not far from the Priory Gateway, is one of the entrances to the Manor Park. The trees still remaining are not noteworthy in the matter of size, with the exception of a few cedars and beeches near the terrace of the house. As one approaches, the Manor Hills, gently sloping and well wooded, with heather-covered clearings, may be seen to the left. As for the house itself, the garden front of to-day, without being of great architectural interest, has a very pleasant air of unpretentious comfort and brightness. There is a flower garden whose beds are edged with box and yew. The chief object of note is a long and high wall, probably a portion of the ancient house; this is somewhat dignified with its worn coping, whereon stand various urns the carving of which time has softened. From the terrace one looks down on the sloping park with its mere, and scattered trees, and graceful groups of young horses. Passing round the house, and entering a vast gateway surmounted by a lion, one sees, to the right, part of the manor built after 1761, when the house which replaced the Elizabethan palace built by the Earl of Shrewsbury and his Countess Bess, with its pictures and furniture and some of the Arundelian marbles, was destroyed by fire. To my thinking, the most suggestive view of the present edifice is gained from the Mansfield road, within a few minutes' walk of the town. From an ancient engraving we find that the first house bore some resemblance to Hardwick Hall, the great Bess's most successful building. It contained five hundred rooms; in front was a fine courtyard, with a central octagonal green plot surrounding a basin with a fountain. The artist gave to this a touch of life by drawing a coach and six proudly curving towards the outlet; on the lawns beyond are ladies with fan-shaped hoops, and thin-legged gentlemen with puffed coat skirts.

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