Cheverel Manor

Cheverel Manor,Home of Sir Christopher and Lady Cheverel, which Sir Christopher rebuilds in the Gothic style. "The castellated house of grey-tinted stone, with the flickering sunbeams sending dashes of golden light across the many-shaped panes in the mullioned windows, and a great beech leaning athwart one of the flanking towers, and breaking, with its dark flattened boughts, the too formal symmetry of the front; the broad gravel-walk winding on the right, by a row of tall pines, alongside the pool--on the left branching out among selling grassy mounds, surmounted by clumps of trees, where the red trunk of the Scotch fir glows in the descending sunlight against the bright green of limes and acacias." The original of Cheverel Manor was Arbury Hall, the seat of the Newdigate family near Nuneaton, which was rebuilt in the Gothic style by Sir Roger Newdigate just as Cheverel Manor was rebuilt by Sir Christopher. George Eliot was frequently at Arbury during her childhood (See Newdigate, The Cheverels, passim; Bartholomew, Literary and Historical Atlas, p. 135.)

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