The principal focus of the present composition is a large elm tree, which no longer exists, as it was felled during the 1970s. To the left is the parish church of St Andrew. The view in the painting looks south-east, although Nicholson has taken liberties with the actual topography, having placed the high wall along the Manor House entrance drive, inaccurately, in the same plane as Lutyens’s summer house, which appears at the extreme left of the composition. Also, in reality, the elm tree was not near the church but at least four hundred yards away in a field.¹ In the left foreground the shadow of the artist at his easel can be discerned on the grass.