A man of strong faith, he devoted much of his time and expertise to the care and conservation of ecclesiastical buildings.
The property was inherited by William Iveson Croome, at the time a young child, on the death of his father in 1895.
[4] Croome served as Registrar of Wounded at the Second Southern General Hospital in the First World War.
[7] Photographs attributed to Croome are held in the Conway Library at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
[11] Probate records note that he lived at Barton Mill House, Cirencester at the time of his death.
[12] William Iveson Croome was awarded a CBE for public services in Gloucestershire in the 1957 New Year Honours.