England / Kent - Knole House
Knole (/noʊl/) is a country house situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre (400-hectare) park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent. The house apparently ranks in the top five of England's largest houses, under any measure used, occupying a total of four acres. Vita Sackville-West, who grew up there, recounts a legend that it is a calendar house: 'its seven courtyards correspond to the days of the week, its fifty-two staircases to the weeks of the year, its three hundred and sixty-five rooms to the days of the year, but 'I do not know that anyone has ever troubled to verify it.' The meticulous planning of a calendar house certainly does not fit well with the organic growth and reconstruction of the house over more than 500 years.
The current house dates back to the mid-15th century, with major additions in the 16th and, particularly, the early 17th centuries. Its grade I listing reflects its mix of late-medieval to Stuart structures, and particularly its central façade and state rooms. It is currently undergoing an extensive conservation project, to restore and develop the structures of the buildings, and thus help to conserve its important collections. The surrounding deer park has also survived with varying degrees of management in the 400 years since 1600.
Knole is located at the southern end of Sevenoaks, in the Weald of west Kent. To the north, the land slopes down to the Darenth valley and the narrow fertile pays of Holmesdale, at the foot of the North Downs. The land around Sevenoaks itself has sandy soils, with woodland that was used in the Middle Ages in the traditional Wealden way, for pannage, rough pasture and timber.[The Knole estate is located on well-drained soils of the Lower Greensand. It was close enough to London to allow easy access for owners who were involved with affairs of state and it was on 'sounde, parfaite, holesome grounde', in the words of Henry VIII. It also had a plentiful supply of spring water. The knoll of land in front of the house gives it a sheltered position. The wooded nature of the landscape could provide not only timber but also grazing for the meat needs of a grand household. Moreover, it made an excellent deer park, being emparked before the end of the 15th century. The dry valley between the house and the settlement of Sevenoaks also makes a natural deer course, for a combined race and hunt between two dogs and fallow deer.
The earliest recorded owner of the core of the estate, in the 1290s, was Robert de Knole. However, nothing is known of any property he had on the estate. Two other families, the Grovehursts and the Ashburnhams, are known to have held the estate in succession until the 1360s, and the manor of Knole is first mentioned in 1364.[11] In 1419, the estate, which then spread over 800 acres, had been bought by Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, and, by 1429, he had extended it to 1500 acres.[12] The estate remained in the hands of the Langley family, it seems, until the mid-1440s when it had been acquired by James Fiennes, first Lord Say(e) and Sele. The circumstances of this transfer are not known, but it is clear that Lord Saye was also enlarging the estate by further, sometimes forcible, purchases of adjoining parcels of land. For example, in 1448 one Reginald Peckham was forced to sell land at Seal (at the north-eastern end of the current estate) to Saye 'on threat of death'.[13] Forcible land transfers recur in the later history of the house, including that between archbishop Thomas Cranmer and Henry VIII.
Lord Saye and Sele seems to have begun a building project at Knole, but it was incomplete by his death in 1450. His ruthless exploitation of his powerful position in Kent was a motivating factor in the Jack Cade Rebellion; The lord was executed on the authority of a hastily-assembled commission initiated by Henry VI in response to the demands of Cade's rebels when they arrived in London.
Although its complex history reveals Knole to have been the result of many periods of development, its national importance is primarily for its 17th-century structure. As Newton puts it:
Knole is neither sublime nor picturesque. It is, however, especially in the distant view, authentic, looking almost exactly now as it did in the year Thomas Sackville died... . No English great house but Haddon has managed to remain motionless like this since the early-seventeenth century, balanced between growth and decay.
At the time of Sackville's rebuilding, little notice was taken of his work. It was not at the forefront of architectural development and, in 1673, John Evelyn called it '‘a great old fashioned house', quite unlike the classical style favoured by Inigo Jones and also illustrated by Thomas Howard, the first earl of Suffolk's almost contemporary rebuilding of Audley End. Knole may no longer look much like Bourchier's late-medieval house, but it can still give the impression of a sombre, squat, complex of houses, not least thanks to its use of the dark Kentish ragstone. However, Town asserts its importance, arguing that 'what Sackville achieved at Knole was a remarkable synthesis of what was inherited from the existing fabric and what was newly built.'[78] He had taken a great, late-medieval house for a series of archbishops of Canterbury, usually among the most powerful men in the state, which had already experienced other changes of function and occupancy during the sixteenth century, and made it a Jacobean country house. Sackville recommended the "very excellent surveyor" John Thorpe to survey and make "plots" in 1605 for the rebuilding of Ampthill for Anne of Denmark and Prince Henry, and may have employed him on his own building projects.
Beyond the Jacobean facade, plentiful evidence still exists of the earlier house. One of the main surviving elements is the northern range of Stone Court. The upper floors contain a series of high-status apartments, and these are demonstrated by a number of structural features, such as the series of large garderobe towers protruding on the north side and the cellars below, which contain some late-15th-century wall paintings.
In 2013, Knole was granted £7.75m. by the Heritage Lottery Fund for conservation and repair work to the House. As part of this work, in 2014, archaeologists found that the late-medieval wall and roof timbers, and the oak beams beneath floors, particularly near fireplaces, had been scorched and carved with scratched marks. Initial media coverage focused on these being apotropaic marks, or "witch marks", to prevent witches and demons from coming down the chimney. This is one of a series of possible interpretations of such marks, which are now being found increasingly on medieval and renaissance building across England, including at Sissinghurst. However, all interpretations suggest they were apotropaic rituals to ward off fire damage or evil spirits.[83] Since many of these are late-medieval marks, covered up during the early-17th century rebuilding of Knole, it is fanciful to link them to James I's interest in witchcraft, particularly since, after the publication of his book Daemonologie (1597), he later became much more sceptical about the existence of witches.
The house is mostly cared for and opened by the National Trust, which has owned the house since it was donated by Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville in 1947; however, the Trust owns only the house and an adjoining modest park – overall 52 acres (21 ha).[ More than half the house has been kept by the Sackville-Wests: Lord Sackville, Robert Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville or his family trust own the remaining gardens and estate but permit commercialised access and certain charitable and sporting community events. There is an oft repeated myth that Knole is a calendar house, which had 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and 7 courtyards. While the number of rooms is approximately correct, the number of staircases has been reduced by internal renovations and changes. There are, however, certainly 7 spaces called courts – Green Court, Stable Court, Stone Court, Water Court, Queen's Court, Pheasant Court and Men's Court.
In January 2012, the National Trust launched a seven-year plan to conserve and restore the house, including a public appeal for £2.7M.
t was the setting for the filming in January 1967 of the Beatles' videos that accompanied the release of "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever". The stone archway through which the four Beatles rode on horses can still be seen on the southeastern side of the Bird House, which itself is on the southeastern side of Knole House. The same visit to Knole Park inspired another Beatles song, "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!," which John Lennon wrote after buying an 1843 poster in a nearby antiques shop that advertised Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal.
Knole House also appears in the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl, along with nearby Penshurst Place and Dover Castle. It has been featured in several other films including Burke and Hare (2010), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
The British Film Institute has a freely-available, family home film from 1961, showing how the park looked at that point. More interesting, and evocative, is a 1950 film made by the Sevenoaks Ciné Society, an amateur group, called Hikers' Haunt.
(Wikipedia)
Knole House ist ein als Kulturdenkmal der Kategorie Grade I klassifiziertes Herrenhaus im jakobinischen Stil am Stadtrand von Sevenoaks im Nordwesten der Grafschaft Kent in England. Bemerkenswert ist der zum großen Teil seit dem frühen 17. Jahrhundert unveränderte Erhaltungszustand des Anwesens und seiner Räume.
Knole wird erstmals 1281 in Urkunden des Lambeth Palace erwähnt. Die Lage auf einem Hügel (engl. knoll) soll dem Anwesen seinen Namen gegeben haben. Das Herrenhaus wurde Geoffrey, Lord de Say übereignet, dessen Enkel 1447 zum Lord Say and Sele ernannt wurde. Dessen Sohn William Fiennes verkaufte das Anwesen 1456 an Thomas Bourchier, Erzbischof von Canterbury. Dieser ließ das Haus zwischen 1456 und 1486 zu einem befestigten, zweigeschossigen Palast ausbauen. Der Bau soll eine strenge, festungsartige Anlage um einen Innenhof gewesen sein und eine große Halle, eine große Kammer und ein turmbewehrtes Torhaus besessen haben. Der angrenzende Wildpark wurde ab 1465 errichtet. Knole blieb im Besitz der Erzbischöfe bis 1538, als Heinrich VIII. sich das Haus von Erzbischof Thomas Cranmer schenken ließ. Der König ließ Knole ab 1543 ausbauen, um sein Gefolge unterzubringen. Aus dieser Epoche stammt die Anlage des Green Court mit dem dreigeschossigen Torturm. 1561 wollte Elisabeth I. Knole an den Earl of Leicester übertragen, der das Gut jedoch ablehnte, worauf Elisabeth Knole 1566 an ihren Vetter Thomas Sackville, 1. Earl of Dorset verschenkte. Dieser ließ das Haus von 1605 bis 1608 erheblich erweitern. Knole blieb über 400 Jahre im Familienbesitz der Sackvilles, die 1720 zu Herzögen von Dorset erhoben wurden. Nach dem Tod des 4. Herzogs 1815 erbte seine Schwester Elizabeth das Schloss, die mit George West, 5. Earl De La Warr, verheiratet war. Ihre jüngeren Nachfahren erhielten den Titel Baron Sackville. Die Schriftstellerin Vita Sackville-West wurde in Knole geboren. 1945 gab der vierte Lord Sackville das Haus samt Garten sowie dem angrenzenden, etwa zehn Hektar großen Garten an den National Trust. In einem Teil des Hauses hat die Familie Sackville als Untermieter ewiges Wohnrecht. Der eigentliche Park ist weiterhin in Privateigentum.
Teile des Herrenhauses können von April bis Oktober besichtigt werden. 2012 startete eine aufwändige Restaurierung des Hauses, die zu den größten Projekten des National Trust zählt.
Knole House liegt auf einem Plateau inmitten des Wildparks und bietet so Ausblicke über den Park und die umgebende Landschaft von Kent und den North Downs. Die weitläufige Anlage hat 365 Zimmer wie das Jahr Tage, 52 Treppen wie das Jahr Wochen und sieben Höfe wie die Woche Tage und ist damit ein sogenanntes „Kalenderhaus“.
Die Zufahrt durch den Torturm in der nordwestlichen Hauptfassade führt in den rasenbedeckten Green Court, der im 16. Jahrhundert angelegt wurde. Hinter dem Hof liegt der ursprüngliche Palast aus dem 15. Jahrhundert, dessen Kern das mittelalterliche Herrenhaus ist. Das um zwei Innenhöfe angelegte Herrenhaus ist zum Großteil aus Kieselsandstein erbaut, nur die Obergeschosse des Ostflügels sind aus verputztem Fachwerk. Beim Umbau durch Thomas Sackville erhielt das Gebäude ein neues Dach und den Anbau der Stallungen im Norden des Green Court, während im Südflügel die Staatsgemächer eingerichtet wurden. 1823 wurde die Orangerie an der Südwestecke des Green Court errichtet.
Vita Sackville-West beschrieb Knole House in ihrem Werk Knole and the Sackvilles, das 1922 veröffentlicht wurde. Als ihr Vater im Jahr 1928 starb, durfte sie den Besitz nicht erben, da die männliche Erbfolge eintrat. Vita Sackville-West hat diesen Verlust nie verwunden, selbst der Kauf von Sissinghurst Castle, den sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Ehemann Harold Nicolson im Jahr 1930 tätigte, war nur ein kleiner Trost.
Ihre Freundin Virginia Woolf nahm die Geschichte des Hauses und die der Sackville-Familie in ihrer Romanbiographie Orlando zur Grundlage. In der Great Hall ist ein Faksimile des gebundenen Manuskripts von Orlando ausgestellt.
Das Herrenhaus diente mehrfach als Filmkulisse, unter anderem in dem englischen Historiendrama Die Schwester der Königin. Im Januar 1967 drehten die Beatles im Park Promotionfilme für ihre Songs Strawberry Fields Forever und Penny Lane, die mit zu den ersten Musikvideos gerechnet werden.
(Wikipedia)
England / Kent - Knole House
Knole (/noʊl/) is a country house situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre (400-hectare) park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent. The house apparently ranks in the top five of England's largest houses, under any measure used, occupying a total of four acres. Vita Sackville-West, who grew up there, recounts a legend that it is a calendar house: 'its seven courtyards correspond to the days of the week, its fifty-two staircases to the weeks of the year, its three hundred and sixty-five rooms to the days of the year, but 'I do not know that anyone has ever troubled to verify it.' The meticulous planning of a calendar house certainly does not fit well with the organic growth and reconstruction of the house over more than 500 years.
The current house dates back to the mid-15th century, with major additions in the 16th and, particularly, the early 17th centuries. Its grade I listing reflects its mix of late-medieval to Stuart structures, and particularly its central façade and state rooms. It is currently undergoing an extensive conservation project, to restore and develop the structures of the buildings, and thus help to conserve its important collections. The surrounding deer park has also survived with varying degrees of management in the 400 years since 1600.
Knole is located at the southern end of Sevenoaks, in the Weald of west Kent. To the north, the land slopes down to the Darenth valley and the narrow fertile pays of Holmesdale, at the foot of the North Downs. The land around Sevenoaks itself has sandy soils, with woodland that was used in the Middle Ages in the traditional Wealden way, for pannage, rough pasture and timber.[The Knole estate is located on well-drained soils of the Lower Greensand. It was close enough to London to allow easy access for owners who were involved with affairs of state and it was on 'sounde, parfaite, holesome grounde', in the words of Henry VIII. It also had a plentiful supply of spring water. The knoll of land in front of the house gives it a sheltered position. The wooded nature of the landscape could provide not only timber but also grazing for the meat needs of a grand household. Moreover, it made an excellent deer park, being emparked before the end of the 15th century. The dry valley between the house and the settlement of Sevenoaks also makes a natural deer course, for a combined race and hunt between two dogs and fallow deer.
The earliest recorded owner of the core of the estate, in the 1290s, was Robert de Knole. However, nothing is known of any property he had on the estate. Two other families, the Grovehursts and the Ashburnhams, are known to have held the estate in succession until the 1360s, and the manor of Knole is first mentioned in 1364.[11] In 1419, the estate, which then spread over 800 acres, had been bought by Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, and, by 1429, he had extended it to 1500 acres.[12] The estate remained in the hands of the Langley family, it seems, until the mid-1440s when it had been acquired by James Fiennes, first Lord Say(e) and Sele. The circumstances of this transfer are not known, but it is clear that Lord Saye was also enlarging the estate by further, sometimes forcible, purchases of adjoining parcels of land. For example, in 1448 one Reginald Peckham was forced to sell land at Seal (at the north-eastern end of the current estate) to Saye 'on threat of death'.[13] Forcible land transfers recur in the later history of the house, including that between archbishop Thomas Cranmer and Henry VIII.
Lord Saye and Sele seems to have begun a building project at Knole, but it was incomplete by his death in 1450. His ruthless exploitation of his powerful position in Kent was a motivating factor in the Jack Cade Rebellion; The lord was executed on the authority of a hastily-assembled commission initiated by Henry VI in response to the demands of Cade's rebels when they arrived in London.
Although its complex history reveals Knole to have been the result of many periods of development, its national importance is primarily for its 17th-century structure. As Newton puts it:
Knole is neither sublime nor picturesque. It is, however, especially in the distant view, authentic, looking almost exactly now as it did in the year Thomas Sackville died... . No English great house but Haddon has managed to remain motionless like this since the early-seventeenth century, balanced between growth and decay.
At the time of Sackville's rebuilding, little notice was taken of his work. It was not at the forefront of architectural development and, in 1673, John Evelyn called it '‘a great old fashioned house', quite unlike the classical style favoured by Inigo Jones and also illustrated by Thomas Howard, the first earl of Suffolk's almost contemporary rebuilding of Audley End. Knole may no longer look much like Bourchier's late-medieval house, but it can still give the impression of a sombre, squat, complex of houses, not least thanks to its use of the dark Kentish ragstone. However, Town asserts its importance, arguing that 'what Sackville achieved at Knole was a remarkable synthesis of what was inherited from the existing fabric and what was newly built.'[78] He had taken a great, late-medieval house for a series of archbishops of Canterbury, usually among the most powerful men in the state, which had already experienced other changes of function and occupancy during the sixteenth century, and made it a Jacobean country house. Sackville recommended the "very excellent surveyor" John Thorpe to survey and make "plots" in 1605 for the rebuilding of Ampthill for Anne of Denmark and Prince Henry, and may have employed him on his own building projects.
Beyond the Jacobean facade, plentiful evidence still exists of the earlier house. One of the main surviving elements is the northern range of Stone Court. The upper floors contain a series of high-status apartments, and these are demonstrated by a number of structural features, such as the series of large garderobe towers protruding on the north side and the cellars below, which contain some late-15th-century wall paintings.
In 2013, Knole was granted £7.75m. by the Heritage Lottery Fund for conservation and repair work to the House. As part of this work, in 2014, archaeologists found that the late-medieval wall and roof timbers, and the oak beams beneath floors, particularly near fireplaces, had been scorched and carved with scratched marks. Initial media coverage focused on these being apotropaic marks, or "witch marks", to prevent witches and demons from coming down the chimney. This is one of a series of possible interpretations of such marks, which are now being found increasingly on medieval and renaissance building across England, including at Sissinghurst. However, all interpretations suggest they were apotropaic rituals to ward off fire damage or evil spirits.[83] Since many of these are late-medieval marks, covered up during the early-17th century rebuilding of Knole, it is fanciful to link them to James I's interest in witchcraft, particularly since, after the publication of his book Daemonologie (1597), he later became much more sceptical about the existence of witches.
The house is mostly cared for and opened by the National Trust, which has owned the house since it was donated by Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville in 1947; however, the Trust owns only the house and an adjoining modest park – overall 52 acres (21 ha).[ More than half the house has been kept by the Sackville-Wests: Lord Sackville, Robert Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville or his family trust own the remaining gardens and estate but permit commercialised access and certain charitable and sporting community events. There is an oft repeated myth that Knole is a calendar house, which had 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and 7 courtyards. While the number of rooms is approximately correct, the number of staircases has been reduced by internal renovations and changes. There are, however, certainly 7 spaces called courts – Green Court, Stable Court, Stone Court, Water Court, Queen's Court, Pheasant Court and Men's Court.
In January 2012, the National Trust launched a seven-year plan to conserve and restore the house, including a public appeal for £2.7M.
t was the setting for the filming in January 1967 of the Beatles' videos that accompanied the release of "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever". The stone archway through which the four Beatles rode on horses can still be seen on the southeastern side of the Bird House, which itself is on the southeastern side of Knole House. The same visit to Knole Park inspired another Beatles song, "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!," which John Lennon wrote after buying an 1843 poster in a nearby antiques shop that advertised Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal.
Knole House also appears in the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl, along with nearby Penshurst Place and Dover Castle. It has been featured in several other films including Burke and Hare (2010), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
The British Film Institute has a freely-available, family home film from 1961, showing how the park looked at that point. More interesting, and evocative, is a 1950 film made by the Sevenoaks Ciné Society, an amateur group, called Hikers' Haunt.
(Wikipedia)
Knole House ist ein als Kulturdenkmal der Kategorie Grade I klassifiziertes Herrenhaus im jakobinischen Stil am Stadtrand von Sevenoaks im Nordwesten der Grafschaft Kent in England. Bemerkenswert ist der zum großen Teil seit dem frühen 17. Jahrhundert unveränderte Erhaltungszustand des Anwesens und seiner Räume.
Knole wird erstmals 1281 in Urkunden des Lambeth Palace erwähnt. Die Lage auf einem Hügel (engl. knoll) soll dem Anwesen seinen Namen gegeben haben. Das Herrenhaus wurde Geoffrey, Lord de Say übereignet, dessen Enkel 1447 zum Lord Say and Sele ernannt wurde. Dessen Sohn William Fiennes verkaufte das Anwesen 1456 an Thomas Bourchier, Erzbischof von Canterbury. Dieser ließ das Haus zwischen 1456 und 1486 zu einem befestigten, zweigeschossigen Palast ausbauen. Der Bau soll eine strenge, festungsartige Anlage um einen Innenhof gewesen sein und eine große Halle, eine große Kammer und ein turmbewehrtes Torhaus besessen haben. Der angrenzende Wildpark wurde ab 1465 errichtet. Knole blieb im Besitz der Erzbischöfe bis 1538, als Heinrich VIII. sich das Haus von Erzbischof Thomas Cranmer schenken ließ. Der König ließ Knole ab 1543 ausbauen, um sein Gefolge unterzubringen. Aus dieser Epoche stammt die Anlage des Green Court mit dem dreigeschossigen Torturm. 1561 wollte Elisabeth I. Knole an den Earl of Leicester übertragen, der das Gut jedoch ablehnte, worauf Elisabeth Knole 1566 an ihren Vetter Thomas Sackville, 1. Earl of Dorset verschenkte. Dieser ließ das Haus von 1605 bis 1608 erheblich erweitern. Knole blieb über 400 Jahre im Familienbesitz der Sackvilles, die 1720 zu Herzögen von Dorset erhoben wurden. Nach dem Tod des 4. Herzogs 1815 erbte seine Schwester Elizabeth das Schloss, die mit George West, 5. Earl De La Warr, verheiratet war. Ihre jüngeren Nachfahren erhielten den Titel Baron Sackville. Die Schriftstellerin Vita Sackville-West wurde in Knole geboren. 1945 gab der vierte Lord Sackville das Haus samt Garten sowie dem angrenzenden, etwa zehn Hektar großen Garten an den National Trust. In einem Teil des Hauses hat die Familie Sackville als Untermieter ewiges Wohnrecht. Der eigentliche Park ist weiterhin in Privateigentum.
Teile des Herrenhauses können von April bis Oktober besichtigt werden. 2012 startete eine aufwändige Restaurierung des Hauses, die zu den größten Projekten des National Trust zählt.
Knole House liegt auf einem Plateau inmitten des Wildparks und bietet so Ausblicke über den Park und die umgebende Landschaft von Kent und den North Downs. Die weitläufige Anlage hat 365 Zimmer wie das Jahr Tage, 52 Treppen wie das Jahr Wochen und sieben Höfe wie die Woche Tage und ist damit ein sogenanntes „Kalenderhaus“.
Die Zufahrt durch den Torturm in der nordwestlichen Hauptfassade führt in den rasenbedeckten Green Court, der im 16. Jahrhundert angelegt wurde. Hinter dem Hof liegt der ursprüngliche Palast aus dem 15. Jahrhundert, dessen Kern das mittelalterliche Herrenhaus ist. Das um zwei Innenhöfe angelegte Herrenhaus ist zum Großteil aus Kieselsandstein erbaut, nur die Obergeschosse des Ostflügels sind aus verputztem Fachwerk. Beim Umbau durch Thomas Sackville erhielt das Gebäude ein neues Dach und den Anbau der Stallungen im Norden des Green Court, während im Südflügel die Staatsgemächer eingerichtet wurden. 1823 wurde die Orangerie an der Südwestecke des Green Court errichtet.
Vita Sackville-West beschrieb Knole House in ihrem Werk Knole and the Sackvilles, das 1922 veröffentlicht wurde. Als ihr Vater im Jahr 1928 starb, durfte sie den Besitz nicht erben, da die männliche Erbfolge eintrat. Vita Sackville-West hat diesen Verlust nie verwunden, selbst der Kauf von Sissinghurst Castle, den sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Ehemann Harold Nicolson im Jahr 1930 tätigte, war nur ein kleiner Trost.
Ihre Freundin Virginia Woolf nahm die Geschichte des Hauses und die der Sackville-Familie in ihrer Romanbiographie Orlando zur Grundlage. In der Great Hall ist ein Faksimile des gebundenen Manuskripts von Orlando ausgestellt.
Das Herrenhaus diente mehrfach als Filmkulisse, unter anderem in dem englischen Historiendrama Die Schwester der Königin. Im Januar 1967 drehten die Beatles im Park Promotionfilme für ihre Songs Strawberry Fields Forever und Penny Lane, die mit zu den ersten Musikvideos gerechnet werden.
(Wikipedia)