10 OCTOBER 1931, Page 15

TITHE BARNS.

In reply to Mr. G. S. Hewins' letter in your issue of the Spectator for September 5th, I know a very well preserved tithe barn at Cherhill, which is near Devizes in Wiltshire. I only hope that others will answer Mr. Hewins' letter and give all the information they can about these fine buildings and do all that is in their power to try to preserve them.—Enwnam PATEY, Wolborough House, Newton Abbot, S. Devon.

There is a beautiful tithe barn at Glastonbury still put to its original use ; also one at Middle Littleton, between Evesham and Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire (I have not seen this one for years).. One at South Cerney, Glos., is now turned into a parish hall. There is a small one at Chelvey, Somerset. —M. Y. AWDREY, Edington, 6 Hallam Road, Clevedon, Somerset.

I enclose a photograph of the tithe barn at Tisbury, which I have often seen. As you will :see, it is of the fifteenth century, and is 188 feet long by 32 feet wide.—MABEn ESCOMBE, Fairfield, Clifton Road, Winchester.

There is a fine tithe-barn at Abbotsbury, near Weymouth, in Dorset. It is a fifteenth-century structure and measures some two hundred and seventy-six feet by thirty-one feet. It has a large porch and buttresses and a hexagonal staircase- tower.—HELEN POkEROY, Catterthun, Harlow Oval, Harro- gate.