Tyneham
Although I read Patrick Wright’s The Village That Died for England when it first came out in 1995, I have never been to Tyneham, nor the valley in which it sits. I was not prepared for the beauty of the view from the top of the hill overlooking Tyneham – a scene of field and…
St. George’s, Portland
We went to the Isle of Portland yesterday, source of Portland stone, including the church of St. George’s, built on an ambitious scale in the late 1750s, consecrated in 1764, an unusual moment for church building, designed and constructed by Thomas Gilbert, whose grandfather supplied much of the stone for St. Paul’s Cathedral. The tower…
Dunshay Manor
Dunshay Manor gets a somewhat laconic entry in Pevsner under Worth Matravers, doesn’t appear in the index and there is no mention of the striking and unusual gate posts. A very uncharacteristic lapse. The house repays close study, not just for it fifteenth-century origins, but for the quality of its renovation in 1906 by Philip…
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