Talk:Barrington Court

GA Review

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Reviewer: Khazar2 (talk · contribs) 02:10, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

I'll be glad to take this review. Initial comments to follow in the next 1-3 days. Thanks in advance for your work on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:10, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Initial comments

On first pass, this looks strong and ripe for promotion. Again, thanks for your work on it.

I've made some tweaks as I went along, and also added a touch of historical context at one point for us Yanks. Please feel free to revert anything you disagree with, though. Below are some points I couldn't immediately fix myself. -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:36, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

• "The house was then mortgaged and, in 1625, to William Strode" -- should this sentence have the word "sold" in it?
• " although the buildings has no furniture" -- should either be "buildings have" or "building has" for subject/verb agreement
• "a screens passage with the Hall on the left" -- hall is capitalized here but wasn't above; this should be made consistent
• "when it was given a new west front" -- what is "it" here?
• "a single-story" -- should this be "storey" for consistency of spelling?
• "agents house" -- I'm not familiar with this term, but it seems likely this should be "agent's house" or "agents' house"
• "The gateway to the west of the forecourt was rebuilt in the 1920s with tall piers and moulded stepped caps, permits a full view of its symmetrical facade" -- this sentence needs to be sorted somehow. What is permitting a look at what here?
• "or Parterre 70 metres" -- is it correct to capitalize "parterre" here?
• "Barrington Court is noted for its Arts and Crafts-style gardens for which garden designer Gertrude Jekyll provided planting plans,[26] which are being used to restore the gardens, laid out in 1917 by J. E. Forbes, of the partnership Forbes & Tate, for Lieut-Col. A. Arthur Lyle, in a series of walled rooms that include a white garden, a rose and iris garden and a lily garden; however the planting scheme has been changed from that designed by Jekyll by Mrs Lyle in the 1960s" -- this seems like it could be chopped into 2 or 3 sentences for readability--it's quite convoluted.
• " this includes all types of fruit and vegetables" -- I realize this is a pedantic point, I know, but "many types" would be better here than "all types"
• "The local school at Barrington and Ilton also have" -- subject/verb agreement again, but I'm not sure where the error lies--is this one school or two? -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:36, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for spotting these errors with my grammar - hopefully they have all been sorted now. If there are other issues please don't hesitate to let me know.— Rod ^talk 09:40, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

• Nope, that'll do it. Thanks for the quick responses! -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:53, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

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	3a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic.
	3b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).
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	6a. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content.
	6b. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.
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Lead image

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  Current lead image
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  The rear facade
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  At an angle

There are a few options for lead images which I thought might be considering so I've put them in a gallery above. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 09:50, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Richard, Thanks for identifying these. I don't have strong preference. Personally I like the composition of the second image with the walls at the front but the fourth one "at an angle" is probably best for showing the architectural features.— Rod ^talk 10:01, 14 September 2017 (UTC)