Vanishing England

P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Vanishing England, by P. H. Ditchfield, Illustrated by Fred Roe 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: Vanishing England Author: P. H. Ditchfield Release Date: January 20, 2005 [eBook #14742] Language: en Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VANISHING ENGLAND*** E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Victoria Woosley, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) The George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset VANISHING ENGLAND THE BOOK BY P.H. DITCHFIELD M.A., F.S.A., F.H.S.L., F.R.HIST.S. THE ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED ROE, R.I. Canopy over Doorway of Buckingham House, Portsmouth Methuen & Co. Ltd. 36 Essex Street W.C. London 1910 CONTENTS I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. INTRODUCTION THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ENGLAND OLD WALLED TOWNS IN STREETS AND LANES OLD CASTLES VANISHING OR VANISHED CHURCHES OLD MANSIONS 1 15 28 67 111 133 166 VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. THE DESTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC REMAINS CATHEDRAL CITIES AND ABBEY TOWNS OLD INNS OLD MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS OLD CROSSES STOCKS AND WHIPPING-POSTS OLD BRIDGES OLD HOSPITALS AND ALMSHOUSES VANISHING FAIRS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF OLD DOCUMENTS OLD CUSTOMS THAT ARE VANISHING THE VANISHING OF ENGLISH SCENERY CONCLUSION INDEX FOOTNOTES 203 210 230 266 283 306 318 333 349 364 375 383 392 399 End LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset Canopy over Doorway of Buckingham House, Portsmouth Rural Tenements, Capel, Surrey Detail of Seventeenth-century Table in Milton's Cottage, Chalfont St. Giles Seventeenth-century Trophy Old Shop, formerly standing in Cliffe High Street, Lewes Paradise Square, Banbury Norden's Chart of the River Ore and Suffolk Coast Disused Mooring-post on bank of the Rother, Rye Old Houses built on the Town Wall, Rye Bootham Bar, York Half-timbered House with early Fifteenth-century Doorway, King's Lynn, Norfolk The "Bone Tower," Town Walls, Great Yarmouth Row No. 83, Great Yarmouth The Old Jetty, Gorleston Tudor House, Ipswich, near the Custom House Three-gabled House, Fore Street, Ipswich "Melia's Passage," York Detail of Half-timbered House in High Street, Shrewsbury Tower on the Town Wall, Shrewsbury House that the Earl of Richmond stayed in before the Battle of Bosworth. Shrewsbury Old Houses formerly standing in Spon Street, Coventry West Street, Rye Monogram and Inscription in the Mermaid Inn, Rye Inscription in the Mermaid Inn, Rye Relic of Lynn Siege in Hampton Court, King's Lynn Hampton Court, King's Lynn, Norfolk Mill Street, Warwick Tudor Tenements, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford (now demolished) Gothic Corner-post. The Half Moon Inn, Ipswich Timber-built House, Shrewsbury Missbrook Farm, Capel, Surrey Cottage at Capel, Surrey Farm-house, Horsmonden, Kent Seventeenth-century Cottages, Stow Langtoft, Suffolk The "Fish House," Littleport, Cambs. Sixteenth-century Cottage, formerly standing in Upper Deal, Kent Gable, Upper Deal, Kent A Portsmouth "Row" Frontispiece Title page 4 6 9 12 14 19 24 30 33 37 41 43 45 46 47 49 53 56 59 61 63 65 66 68 69 71 73 75 76 79 81 82 83 85 86 87 89 Lich-gate, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks Fifteenth-century Handle on Church Door, Monk's Risborough, Bucks Weather-boarded Houses, Crown Street, Portsmouth Inscription on Font, Parish Church, Burford, Oxon Detail of Fifteenth-century Barge-board, Burford, Oxon The George Inn, Burford, Oxon Maldon, Essex. Sky-line of the High Street at twilight St. Mary's Church, Maldon Norman Clamp on door of Heybridge Church, Essex Tudor Fire-place. Now walled up in the passage of a shop in Banbury Cottages in Witney Street, Burford, Oxon Burgh Castle, Suffolk Caister Castle, Norfolk Defaced Arms, Taunton Castle Knightly Basinet (temp. Henry V) in Norwich Castle Saxon Doorway in St. Lawrence's Church, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts. St. George's Church, Great Yarmouth Carving on Rood-screen, Alcester Church, Warwick Fourteenth-century Coffer in Faversham Church, Kent Flanders Chest in East Dereham Church, Norfolk, temp. Henry VIII Reversed Rose carved on "Miserere" in Norwich Cathedral Oak Panelling. Wainscot of Fifteenth Century, with addition circa late Seventeenth Century, fitted on to it in angle of room in the Church House, Goudhurst, Kent Section of Mouldings of Cornice on Panelling, the Church House, Goudhurst The Wardrobe House, the Close, Salisbury Chimney at Compton Wynyates Window-catch, Brockhall, Northants Gothic Chimney, Norton St. Philip, Somerset The Moat, Crowhurst Place, Surrey Arms of the Gaynesfords in window, Crowhurst Place, Surrey Cupboard Hinge, Crowhurst Place, Surrey Fixed Bench in the hall, Crowhurst Place, Surrey Gothic Door-head, Goudhurst, Kent Knightly Basinet (temp. Henry V) in Norwich Castle Hilt of Thirteenth-century Sword in Norwich Museum "Hand-and-a-half" Sword. Mr. Seymour Lucas, R.A. Seventeenth-century Boot, in the possession of Ernest Crofts, Esq., R.A. Chapel de Fer at Ockwells, Berks Tudor Dresser Table, in the possession of Sir Alfred Dryden, Canon's Ashby, Northants Seventeenth-century Powder-horn, found in the wall of an old house at Glastonbury. Now in Glastonbury Museum Seventeenth-century Spy-glass in Taunton Museum Fourteenth-century Flagon. From an old Manor House in Norfolk Elizabethan Chest, in the possession of Sir Coleridge Grove, K.C.B. Staircase Newel, Cromwell House, Highgate Piece of Wood Carved with Inscription. Found with a sword (temp. Charles II) in an old house at Stoke-under-Ham, Somerset Seventeenth-century Water-clock, in Norwich Museum Sun-dial. The Manor House, Sutton Courtenay Half-timber Cottages, Waterside, Evesham Quarter Jacks over the Clock on exterior of north wall of Wells Cathedral The Gate House, Bishop's Palace, Well House in which Bishop Hooper was imprisoned, Westgate Street, Gloucester The "Stone House," Rye, Sussex Fifteenth-century House, Market Place, Evesham Fifteenth-century House, Market Place, Evesham Fifteenth-century House in Cowl Street, Evesham Half-timber House, Alcester, Warwick Half-timber House at Alcester 90 91 95 97 98 99 103 104 105 106 109 113 127 128 132 143 149 158 161 163 165 167 168 169 175 176 177 179 181 182 183 184 185 185 186 186 187 191 193 194 195 197 199 200 201 202 209 215 217 219 221 224 225 226 227 228 Half-timber House at Alcester The Wheelwrights' Arms, Warwick Entrance to the Reindeer Inn, Banbury The Shoulder of Mutton Inn, King's Lynn A Quaint Gable, the Bell Inn, Stilton The Bell Inn, Stilton The "Briton's Arms," Norwich The Dolphin Inn, Heigham, Norwich Shield and Monogram on doorway of the Dolphin Inn, Heigham Staircase Newel at the Dolphin Inn The Falstaff Inn, Canterbury The Bear and Ragged Staff Inn, Tewkesbury Fire-place in the George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset The Green Dragon Inn, Wymondham, Norfolk The Star Inn, Alfriston, Sussex Courtyard of the George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset The Dark Lantern Inn, Aylesbury, Bucks Spandril. The Marquis of Granby Inn, Colchester The Town Hall, Shrewsbury The Greenland Fishery House, King's Lynn. An old Guild House of the time of James I The Market House, Wymondham, Norfolk Guild Mark and Date on doorway, Burford, Oxon Stretham Cross, Isle of Ely The Market Cross, Salisbury Under the Butter Cross, Witney, Oxon The Triangular Bridge, Crowland Huntingdon Bridge The Crane Bridge, Salisbury Watch House on the Bridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts Gateway of St. John's Hospital, Canterbury Inmate of the Trinity Bede House at Castle Rising, Norfolk The Hospital for Ancient Fishermen, Great Yarmouth Inscription on the Hospital, King's Lynn Ancient Inmates of the Fishermen's Hospital, Great Yarmouth Cottages at Evesham Stalls at Banbury Fair An Old English Fair An Ancient Maker of Nets in a Kentish Fair Outside the Lamb Inn, Burford Tail Piece 228 233 235 237 243 245 247 249 250 250 251 253 255 257 258 261 263 265 269 275 279 281 287 295 299 325 327 329 331 334 339 341 343 347 348 350 356 359 361 363 VANISHING ENGLAND CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION This book is intended not to raise fears but to record facts. We wish to describe with pen and pencil those features of England which are gradually disappearing, and to preserve the memory of them. It may be said that we have begun our quest too late; that so much has already vanished that it is hardly worth while to record what is left. Although much has gone, there is still, however, much remaining that is good, that reveals the artistic skill and taste of our forefathers, and recalls the wonders of old-time. It will be our endeavour to tell of the old country houses that Time has spared, the cottages that grace the village green, the stern grey walls that still guard some few of our towns, the old moot halls and public buildings. We shall see the old-time farmers and rustics gathering together at fair and market, their games and sports and merry-makings, and whatever relics of old English life have been left for an artist and scribe of the twentieth century to record. Our age is an age of progress. Altiora peto is its motto. The spirit of progress is in the air, and lures its votaries on to higher flights. Sometimes they discover that they have been following a mere will-o'-the-wisp, that leads them into bog and quagmire whence no escape is possible. The England of a century, or even of half a century ago, has vanished, and we find ourselves in the midst of a busy, bustling world that knows no rest or peace. Inventions tread upon each other's heels in one long vast bewildering procession. We look back at the peaceful reign of the pack-horse, the rumbling wagon, the advent of the merry coaching days, the "Lightning" and the "Quicksilver," the chaining