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Ightham Mote, near Sevenoaks in Kent, is a perfectly preserved medieval moated manor house dating back to 1320. Built largely from Kentish ragstone and oaks, the house is packed with original features, giving the visitor a strong idea of how other such houses would have looked and functioned in the Middle Ages.
Surrounded by a moat, the house has 70 rooms arranged round a central courtyard. The owner left the property, complete with lakes, streams, an orchard and gardens, to the National Trust in 1985.
More images to follow.
The core of the house dates from the 1340s, although a complicated series of alterations and additions were made in the late 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. A moat surrounds all four wings of the house, which in turn is built around an open courtyard.
Ightham Mote bears few external signs of change in architectural style. This is partly due to the modest ambitions of its successive owners, who expanded the house as their needs dictated, only doing so in a manner sympathetic to the medieval origins of the house.
Wisbech street. Dog sitting in his owner's motability scooter on guard.
Yashica T2 compact camera
AgfaPhoto Vista Plus 200 film (Poundland film)
Scanned on Epson V500
Originally dating to around 1320, the building is important because it has most of its original features; successive owners effected relatively few changes to the main structure, after the completion of the quadrangle with a new chapel in the 16th century. Pevsner described it as "the most complete small medieval manor house in the county", and it remains an example that shows how such houses would have looked in the Middle Ages. Unlike most courtyard houses of its type, which have had a range demolished, so that the house looks outward, Nicholas Cooper observes that Ightham Mote wholly surrounds its courtyard and looks inward, into it, offering little information externally.[9] The construction is of "Kentish ragstone and dull red brick,"[10] the buildings of the courtyard having originally been built of timber and subsequently rebuilt in stone.[11]
The moat of Ightham Mote
The house has more than 70 rooms, all arranged around a central courtyard, "the confines circumscribed by the moat."[10] The house is surrounded on all sides by a square moat, crossed by three bridges. The earliest surviving evidence is for a house of the early 14th century, with the great hall, to which were attached, at the high, or dais end, the chapel, crypt and two solars. The courtyard was completely enclosed by increments on its restricted moated site, and the battlemented tower was constructed in the 15th century. Very little of the 14th century survives on the exterior behind rebuilding and refacing of the 15th and 16th centuries.
The structures include unusual and distinctive elements, such as the porter's squint, a narrow slit in the wall designed to enable a gatekeeper to examine a visitor's credentials before opening the gate. An open loggia with a fifteenth-century gallery above, connects the main accommodations with the gatehouse range. The courtyard contains a large, 19th century dog kennel.[12] The house contains two chapels; the New Chapel, of c.1520, having a barrel roof decorated with Tudor roses. [13] Parts of the interior were remodelled by Richard Norman Shaw.[14] wikipedia
16th century-late 19th century
The house remained in the Selby family for nearly 300 years.[3] Sir William was succeeded by his nephew, also Sir William, who is notable for handing over the keys of Berwick-upon-Tweed to James I on his way south to succeed to the throne.[4] He married Dorothy Bonham of West Malling but had no children. The Selbys continued until the mid-19th century when the line faltered with Elizabeth Selby, the widow of a Thomas who disinherited his only son.[5] During her reclusive tenure, Joseph Nash drew the house for his multi-volume illustrated history Mansions of England in the Olden Time, published in the 1840s.[6] The house passed to a cousin, Prideaux John Selby, a distinguished naturalist, sportsman and scientist. On his death in 1867, he left Ightham Mote to a daughter, Mrs Lewis Marianne Bigge. Her second husband, Robert Luard, changed his name to Luard-Selby. Ightham Mote was rented-out in 1887 to American Railroad magnate William Jackson Palmer and his family. For three years Ightham Mote became a centre for the artists and writers of the Aesthetic Movement with visitors including John Singer Sargent, Henry James, and Ellen Terry. When Mrs Bigge died in 1889, the executors of her son Charles Selby-Bigge, a Shropshire land agent, put the house up for sale in July 1889.[6]
Late 19th century-21st century
The Mote was purchased by Thomas Colyer-Fergusson.[6] He and his wife brought up their six children at the Mote. In 1890-1891, he carried out much repair and restoration, which allowed the survival of the house after centuries of neglect.[7] Ightham Mote was opened to the public one afternoon a week in the early 20th century.[7]
Sir Thomas Colyer-Fergusson's third son, Riversdale, died aged 21 in 1917 in the Third Battle of Ypres, and won a posthumous Victoria Cross. A wooden cross in the New Chapel is in his memory. The oldest brother, Max, was killed at the age of 49 in a bombing raid on an army driving school near Tidworth in 1940 during World War II. One of the three daughters, Mary (called Polly) married Walter Monckton.
On Sir Thomas's death in 1951, the property and the baronetcy passed to Max's son, James. The high costs of upkeep and repair of the house led him to sell the house and auction most of the contents. The sale took place in October 1951 and lasted three days. It was suggested that the house be demolished to harvest the lead on the roofs, or that it be divided into flats. Three local men purchased the house: William Durling, John Goodwin and John Baldock. They paid £5,500 for the freehold, in the hope of being able to secure the future of the house.[8]
In 1953, Ightham Mote was purchased by Charles Henry Robinson, an American of Portland, Maine, United States. He had known the property when stationed nearby during the Second World War. He lived there for only fourteen weeks a year for tax reasons. He made many urgent repairs, and partly refurnished the house with 17th-century English pieces. In 1965, he announced that he would give Ightham Mote and its contents to the National Trust. He died in 1985 and his ashes were immured just outside the crypt. The National Trust took possession in that year.[8]
In 1989, the National Trust began an ambitious conservation project that involved dismantling much of the building and recording its construction methods before rebuilding it. During this process, the effects of centuries of ageing, weathering, and the destructive effect of the deathwatch beetle were highlighted. The project ended in 2004 after revealing numerous examples of structural and ornamental features which had been covered up by later additions.[1]
looking for John Kevin Rourke, born Hammersmith mother Mote. You were adopted.I am a relative please contact me.
2/52. Bokeh
So while I was moving around to help my model into place and show her how I wanted her to pose, I noticed two things:this awesome ray of sunlight and all my moving around was kicking up dust motes that have probably been there for years. Before I knew it, I was thinking of how I could incorporate this into the shot. I've never really done bokeh before so I thought I'd give it a go and I have to say, I love the results =)
I love how a lot of the motes have color to them
I have been away on a short break but I only took photos on the first day.
Here is Hetty at Ightham Mote near Sevenoaks in Kent.
I was bowled over at how pretty it was here.....wow!
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ightham-mote
I will now go and catch up on all I have missed while I have been away. I hope you are all well!
This is the view of one side of the courtyard. Ightham Mote is called the £10,000,000 house because, after the National Trust took it over, they spent £10,000,000 and 15 years renovating the building. One of the jobs they did was to take up all 35,000 cobbles in this courtyard, clean them, then re-lay them!
It's a beautiful place in the heart of Kent, and we love visiting.
Another one from my infrared shoot at Mote Park, Maidstone, UK... I've been fixing photos for two days now... this was the last one... time to go shoot some more... =)
My personal favorite from April 2008
101 Oil Studies, No. 62
Objective: Abstract
Painted in 3 sessions: 19–22 Feb 2025
Pigments (Winsor & Newton Artists' oil colour unless otherwise noted): Permalba white (Weber), lamp black, burnt sienna. Medium: Gamsol.
Centurion OP DLX oil primed linen, 22.9 x 30.5 (9 x 12 inches)
19 Feb: Wash of permalba white, lamp black, and a touch of burnt sienna thinned with Gamsol. I've applied it with brush strokes into a strong pattern, looking almost like dense caligraphy. No wiping. 21 Feb: In-class during Michael Ottersen session, I applied light patches and heavey strokes of burnt sienna. 22 Feb: A fresh look and additional strokes of the burnt sienna, tending toward heavier ones.
Beskrivelse: Sommermoter 1953
Fotograf: Billedbladet NÅ/Kopke
År: 1953
Arkivreferanse: Riksarkivet/PA-797_254_006
FASHION, SUMMER 1953
Summer fashion
Nestled at the bottom of a path sits a picture-perfect, 14th-century timber-framed manor house, on its own little island surrounded by water.
Built nearly 700 years ago, this house has seen many changes and been owned by medieval knights, courtiers to Henry VIII and high-society Victorians.
The gardens are as equally diverse as the house - a formal lawn, flower borders, secret glades and a sweetly scented cuttings garden. And then there are walks and views taking in lakes, an orchard, ancient bluebell woodland and Kentish farmland
Beskrivelse: Sommermoter 1953
Fotograf: Billedbladet NÅ/Kopke
År: 1953
Arkivreferanse: Riksarkivet/PA-797_254_003
Attempt at adding a texture to this shot of Ightham Mote.
Texture by www.flickr.com/photos/cathairstudios/
Ightham Mote - Ightham - Kent - England - United Kingdom
Ightham Mote (pronounced "item moat") is a medieval moated manor house close to the village of Ightham, near Sevenoaks in Kent, England.
Originally dating to around 1320, the building is important because it has most of its original features; successive owners effected relatively few changes to the main structure, after the completion of the quadrangle with a new chapel in the 16th century.
The house has more than 70 rooms, all arranged around a central courtyard. The house is surrounded on all sides by a square moat, crossed by three bridges.
I'd not been in the kitchen before, and me thinks it might just have been updated since Victorian times :)
My version of Legohaulic's E-mote. I am blown away by the techniques used in Tyler's original E-mote. The hardest part for me was the abdominal joint, there are no clear pictures of how he did this. I found my own solution that I am not going to share just yet.