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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.
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Canopy over Doorway of Buckingham House, Portsmouth
Methuen & Co. Ltd.
36 Essex Street W.C.
London
1910
CONTENTS
I.
INTRODUCTION
1
II.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ENGLAND
15
III.
OLD WALLED TOWNS
28
IV.
IN STREETS AND LANES
67
V.
OLD CASTLES
111
VI.
VANISHING OR VANISHED CHURCHES
133
VII.
OLD MANSIONS
166
THE DESTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC
VIII.
203
REMAINS
IX.
CATHEDRAL CITIES AND ABBEY TOWNS
210
X.
OLD INNS
230
XI.
OLD MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
266
OLD CROSSES
283
XII.
XIII.
STOCKS AND WHIPPING-POSTS
306
XIV.
OLD BRIDGES
318
OLD HOSPITALS AND ALMSHOUSES
333
XV.
VANISHING FAIRS
349
XVI.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF OLD
XVII.
364
DOCUMENTS
XVIII.
OLD CUSTOMS THAT ARE VANISHING
375
THE VANISHING OF ENGLISH SCENERY
383
XIX.
XX.
CONCLUSION
392
INDEX
399
FOOTNOTES
End
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
The George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset
Frontispiece
Canopy over Doorway of Buckingham House, Portsmouth  Title page
Rural Tenements, Capel, Surrey
4
Detail of Seventeenth-century Table in Milton's Cottage,
6
Chalfont St. Giles
Seventeenth-century Trophy
9
Old Shop, formerly standing in Cliffe High Street, Lewes
12
Paradise Square, Banbury
14
Norden's Chart of the River Ore and Suffolk Coast
19
Disused Mooring-post on bank of the Rother, Rye
24
Old Houses built on the Town Wall, Rye
30
Bootham Bar, York
33
Half-timbered House with early Fifteenth-century Doorway,
37
King's Lynn, Norfolk
The "Bone Tower," Town Walls, Great Yarmouth
41
Row No. 83, Great Yarmouth
43
The Old Jetty, Gorleston
45
Tudor House, Ipswich, near the Custom House
46
Three-gabled House, Fore Street, Ipswich
47
"Melia's Passage," York
49
Detail of Half-timbered House in High Street, Shrewsbury
53
Tower on the Town Wall, Shrewsbury
56
House that the Earl of Richmond stayed in before the Battle
59
of Bosworth. Shrewsbury
Old Houses formerly standing in Spon Street, Coventry
61
West Street, Rye
63
Monogram and Inscription in the Mermaid Inn, Rye
65
Inscription in the Mermaid Inn, Rye
66
Relic of Lynn Siege in Hampton Court, King's Lynn
68
Hampton Court, King's Lynn, Norfolk
69
Mill Street, Warwick
71
Tudor Tenements, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford (now
73
demolished)
Gothic Corner-post. The Half Moon Inn, Ipswich
75
Timber-built House, Shrewsbury
76
Missbrook Farm, Capel, Surrey
79
Cottage at Capel, Surrey
81
Farm-house, Horsmonden, Kent
82
Seventeenth-century Cottages, Stow Langtoft, Suffolk
83
The "Fish House," Littleport, Cambs.
85
Sixteenth-century Cottage, formerly standing in Upper Deal,
86
Kent
Gable, Upper Deal, Kent
87
A Portsmouth "Row"
89
Lich-gate, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks
90
Fifteenth-century Handle on Church Door, Monk's
91
Risborough, Bucks
Weather-boarded Houses, Crown Street, Portsmouth
95
Inscription on Font, Parish Church, Burford, Oxon
97
Detail of Fifteenth-century Barge-board, Burford, Oxon
98
The George Inn, Burford, Oxon
99
Maldon, Essex. Sky-line of the High Street at twilight
103
St. Mary's Church, Maldon
104
Norman Clamp on door of Heybridge Church, Essex
105
Tudor Fire-place. Now walled up in the passage of a shop in
106
Banbury
Cottages in Witney Street, Burford, Oxon
109
Burgh Castle, Suffolk
113
Caister Castle, Norfolk
127
Defaced Arms, Taunton Castle
128
Knightly Basinet (temp. Henry V) in Norwich Castle
132
Saxon Doorway in St. Lawrence's Church, Bradford-on-
143
Avon, Wilts.
St. George's Church, Great Yarmouth
149
Carving on Rood-screen, Alcester Church, Warwick
158
Fourteenth-century Coffer in Faversham Church, Kent
161
Flanders Chest in East Dereham Church, Norfolk, temp.
163
Henry VIII
Reversed Rose carved on "Miserere" in Norwich Cathedral
165
Oak Panelling. Wainscot of Fifteenth Century, with addition
circa late Seventeenth Century, fitted on to it in angle of
167
room in the Church House, Goudhurst, Kent
Section of Mouldings of Cornice on Panelling, the Church
168
House, Goudhurst
The Wardrobe House, the Close, Salisbury
169
Chimney at Compton Wynyates
175
Window-catch, Brockhall, Northants
176
Gothic Chimney, Norton St. Philip, Somerset
177
The Moat, Crowhurst Place, Surrey
179
Arms of the Gaynesfords in window, Crowhurst Place,
181
Surrey
Cupboard Hinge, Crowhurst Place, Surrey
182
Fixed Bench in the hall, Crowhurst Place, Surrey
183
Gothic Door-head, Goudhurst, Kent
184
Knightly Basinet (temp. Henry V) in Norwich Castle
185
Hilt of Thirteenth-century Sword in Norwich Museum
185
"Hand-and-a-half" Sword. Mr. Seymour Lucas, R.A.
186
Seventeenth-century Boot, in the possession of Ernest
186
Crofts, Esq., R.A.
Chapel de Fer at Ockwells, Berks
187
Tudor Dresser Table, in the possession of Sir Alfred Dryden,
191
Canon's Ashby, Northants
Seventeenth-century Powder-horn, found in the wall of an
193
old house at Glastonbury. Now in Glastonbury Museum
Seventeenth-century Spy-glass in Taunton Museum
194
Fourteenth-century Flagon. From an old Manor House in
195
Norfolk
Elizabethan Chest, in the possession of Sir Coleridge Grove,
197
K.C.B.
Staircase Newel, Cromwell House, Highgate
199
Piece of Wood Carved with Inscription. Found with a sword
(temp. Charles II) in an old house at Stoke-under-Ham,
200
Somerset
Seventeenth-century Water-clock, in Norwich Museum
201
Sun-dial. The Manor House, Sutton Courtenay
202
Half-timber Cottages, Waterside, Evesham
209
Quarter Jacks over the Clock on exterior of north wall of
215
Wells Cathedral
The Gate House, Bishop's Palace, Well
217
House in which Bishop Hooper was imprisoned, Westgate
219
Street, Gloucester
The "Stone House," Rye, Sussex
221
Fifteenth-century House, Market Place, Evesham
224
Fifteenth-century House, Market Place, Evesham
225
Fifteenth-century House in Cowl Street, Evesham
226
Half-timber House, Alcester, Warwick
227
Half-timber House at Alcester
228
The Wheelwrights' Arms, Warwick
233
Entrance to the Reindeer Inn, Banbury
235
The Shoulder of Mutton Inn, King's Lynn
237
A Quaint Gable, the Bell Inn, Stilton
243
The Bell Inn, Stilton
245
The "Briton's Arms," Norwich
247
The Dolphin Inn, Heigham, Norwich
249
Shield and Monogram on doorway of the Dolphin Inn,
250
Heigham
Staircase Newel at the Dolphin Inn
250
The Falstaff Inn, Canterbury
251
The Bear and Ragged Staff Inn, Tewkesbury
253
Fire-place in the George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset
255
The Green Dragon Inn, Wymondham, Norfolk
257
The Star Inn, Alfriston, Sussex
258
Courtyard of the George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset
261
The Dark Lantern Inn, Aylesbury, Bucks
263
Spandril. The Marquis of Granby Inn, Colchester
265
The Town Hall, Shrewsbury
269
The Greenland Fishery House, King's Lynn. An old Guild
275
House of the time of James I
The Market House, Wymondham, Norfolk
279
Guild Mark and Date on doorway, Burford, Oxon
281
Stretham Cross, Isle of Ely
287
The Market Cross, Salisbury
295
Under the Butter Cross, Witney, Oxon
299
The Triangular Bridge, Crowland
325
Huntingdon Bridge
327
The Crane Bridge, Salisbury
329
Watch House on the Bridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts
331
Gateway of St. John's Hospital, Canterbury
334
Table of Contents:
  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ENGLAND
  3. OLD WALLED TOWNS
  4. IN STREETS AND LANES
  5. OLD CASTLES
  6. VANISHING OR VANISHED CHURCHES
  7. OLD MANSIONS
  8. THE DESTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC REMAINS
  9. CATHEDRAL CITIES AND ABBEY TOWNS
  10. OLD INNS
  11. OLD MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
  12. OLD CROSSES
  13. STOCKS AND WHIPPING-POSTS
  14. OLD BRIDGES
  15. OLD HOSPITALS AND ALMSHOUSES
  16. VANISHING FAIRS
  17. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF OLD DOCUMENTS
  18. OLD CUSTOMS THAT ARE VANISHING
  19. THE VANISHING OF ENGLISH SCENERY
  20. CONCLUSION