The Tithe Barn Great Coxwell by danob

Photography • Architecture • posted on Feb 10, 2009

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Another wonderful place near my home just up the road in Oxfordshire. I have shown the exterior before this was taken in the Summer, with me hiding behind the pillars with a few coloured flash gells to add to the atmosphere, not sure if I overdid that!! The Tithe Barn at Great Coxwell was described by William Morris as "the finest piece of architecture in England...unapproachable in its dignity, as beautiful as a cathedral, yet with no ostentation of the builder's art". This is a stunning example of Gothic architecture, the enormous barn (12m x 40m) was built by the Cistercian Order in the early 1300s. It was used to gather the yearly tithe or rent from the numerous tenants who worked the surrounding land. Every year after the harvest the barn would be stuffed full of sheaves of corn, livestock and wool before the monks carted off the lot to their headquarters at Beaulieu Abbey in the New Forest.