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English Landscape courtesy of Capability Brown.
The original church at Croome Court was demolished by the 6th Earl of Coventry when he decided to replace his adjacent Jacobean house in the 1750s. His new house and park were designed and laid out by Capability Brown as was the church, set on a low hill nearby in Croome Park as an ‘eye catcher’. The interiors of both house and church are attributed to Robert Adam and were completed in 1763. The new church is of the early gothic revival period. The chancel is really a mausoleum to the Coventry family. Monuments to earlier members of the family were brought from the old church.
Other monuments to the 'less noble' members of the Coventry family can be found here in the church at Elmley Castle
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English Landscape courtesy of Capability Brown.
The original church at Croome Court was demolished by the 6th Earl of Coventry when he decided to replace his adjacent Jacobean house in the 1750s. His new house and park were designed and laid out by Capability Brown as was the church, set on a low hill nearby in Croome Park as an ‘eye catcher’. The interiors of both house and church are attributed to Robert Adam and were completed in 1763. The new church is of the early gothic revival period. The chancel is really a mausoleum to the Coventry family. Monuments to earlier members of the family were brought from the old church.
Other monuments to the 'less noble' members of the Coventry family can be found here in the church at Elmley Castle