Walls And Gates To East South And West Of The Manor House

GREAT HASELEY THAME ROAD SP60SW (East side) 5/89 Walls and gates to E, S and W of the Manor House

GV II

Walls and gates. C17 and C18. Limestone rubble with ashlar piers. Uncoursed rubble wall runs from outbuilding attached to The Stables (q.v.), on the east, and returns to the south of the Manor House (q.v.). In the south-east corner is a pair of plain low gatepiers with ball finials, possibly C17, connected by a simple C20 iron overthrow with central lantern. The wall returns around the south-west corner to a tall C18 pier with ball finial. From this point the west wall breaks back: the southern half being brick lined with a raking brick coping; the northern half with a flat stone coping. In the central part of the latter section the wall returns in quadrants to a recessed pair of C18 gatepiers with bases for stone finials. The northern quadrant contains a side gate. The main gateway is now built up. The building of the south wall is reputed to have been demanded by the Church authorities in order to prevent C17 churchgoers from viewing orgies at the Manor House.

Listing NGR: SP6432801754