Regency Household: A Rectory House

RECTORY HOUSE DESIGN No 6 It was well observed by a late representative in Parliament for Oxford that honour is due to the founders of our constitution for their appro priating a certain and competent portion of the land for the promotion of piety and learning When it is considered that the revival of learning in the middle ages was entirely the work of the priesthood and that the maintenance thereof from age to age has been confided to the clergy at our universities and public schools it is but justice to continue to provide for them as ministers of a congregation that respectability and comfort which appertain to an eligible dwelling house The parish priest should possess every inducement to form a local attachment to the site of his living as nothing perhaps has more con duced to the demoralization of the parishioners of a rural vicarage than the non residence of their spiritual guide amongst them Indeed a pious and benevolent resident clergyman with a competent living has the means of benefiting his parishioners morally and physically in the proportion to his income consequently the proceeds of a living are dispensed with commensurate benefit to the neighbourhood from which it is derived It has been observed that the architectural character of the Rectory should be in conformity with the Church This design for a Rectory House is therefore composed in the old English domestic style which may be considered not only externally appropriate but capable of all the internal accommodations and conveniencies of any modern structure The estimate for this building executed in brick and stucco if erected in England 2907 In brick and stucco and faced with stone upon the two principal fronts and returned from A to B vide Ground Plan 3557 If erected in Ireland or Scotland or elsewhere in the immediate neighbourhood of stone quarries for a sum considerably less

The design and description appeared in Domestic Architecture: Being a Series of Designs for Mansions, Villas, Rectory Houses, Parsonage Houses, Bailiffs’ Lodge, Gardener’s Lodge, Game-keeper’s Lodge, Park Gate Lodges, Etc. in the Grecian, Italian, and Old English Styles of Architecture. With Observations on the Appropriate Choice of Site; the Whole Designed with Strict Reference to the Practicability of Erection, and with Due Attention to the Important Consideration of Uniting Elegance, Convenience and Domestic Comfort with Economy … With Accurate Estimates Appended to Each Design (1833).


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