The Architecture of Entertainment

This paper discusses two related buildings, the ‘Hospice’, Ansty, Wiltshire, and the Riding House (Wolfeton Barn), Charminster, Dorset. They were not pre-selected for their similarities; the author was invited by English Heritage to undertake the survey and analysis of each building independently, as an adjunct to applications for repair grants. However the buildings proved to share the same plan and to have other features in common. This led to a consideration of their date and function, and the conclusion that although they served different purposes, the former as a lodge to Old Wardour Castle, and the latter as a Riding House, they were both designed by the Somerset mason-architect William Arnold, who was active in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

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