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The third party must present a photographic form of ID when collecting. The Collection Of an Architect: The old Rectory | 3 The COLLECTION oF GILES NEWBY VINCENT Tucked away in an unspoilt corner of the Garden of England, and It is small wonder that Giles’s finely tuned eye was attracted by protected by ancient willow-fringed water meadows, lies the small the excellent proportions and elegant panelled rooms of The Old historic village of Wickhambreaux. The Little Stour gurgles and froths Rectory, as his pre-disposition towards architecture, fine antiques beside the towering white weather-boarded gables and slatted wheel and art was pre-ordained by his background and ancestry. His of Wickham Mill, standing sentinel at the entrance to the village. A paternal grandfather, also an architect and collector, lived at white painted Kentish bridge spans the rush-fringed stream which the Braishfield Manor Estate in Hampshire; his maternal great then meanders to the coast, eventually joining The Great Stour near grandfather acquired The Whittern estate in Herefordshire in 1860, Sandwich, some 10 miles distant. To one side are the venerable where he built a distinguished country house, which was replaced chequered stone and flint elevations of the manor house of Joan of by Giles’s grandfather - also an amateur architect - in the mid Kent, who married The Black Prince and was the mother of Richard twentieth century. Giles’s Buckinghamshire childhood home was II. Beyond the bridge and encircling the green, partly hidden behind also a beautiful building - a fine Regency house with much-admired a group of stately lime trees, yet more buildings of great character gardens designed by Percy Cane. It was later sold to the Prince de justify Wickhambreaux’s claim to be one of Kent’s prettiest villages: Rohan. Giles’s flair for interior decoration in particular owes a debt the fourteenth-century flint tower and mediaeval timber porch of St to his eccentric aunt, Elizabeth Newby Vincent, a Devizes antique Andrew’s church; the Regency double-height bow windows of Old dealer who was a close friend and formative influence on leading Willow Farm; the pale brick shuttered Georgian façade of Wickham decorators such as Robert Kime and the late Geoffrey Bennison. Court; the half-timbered diminutive Rose Inn - and, on a rise of Her philosophy that “antiques should look inherited rather than ground, the unmistakably Baroque elevations of The Old Rectory. bought” is one that Giles has adhered to, and this is borne out by the fine patina of many pieces in the collection. The first impression one has is that the village has perhaps undergone some painstaking preparation for the scenes of a Once qualified in his chosen profession, Giles worked for the period drama. As Pevsner describes it in The Buildings of England: distinguished conservation architect Sir Donald Insall, where ‘One can imagine a novel of Jane Austen’s being acted out at he became job architect for the restoration of Kedleston Hall, Wickhambreaux…’. When it dawns upon one that this is no stage Derbyshire for The National Trust.