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A visit to Charlecote Park for an afternoon visit to this National Trust property in Warwickshire. Near Stratford-upon-Avon. A deer park with a country house in the middle of it.
Charlecote Park (grid reference SP263564) is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It has been administered by the National Trust since 1946 and is open to the public. It is a Grade I listed building.
The Lucy family owned the land since 1247. Charlecote Park was built in 1558 by Sir Thomas Lucy, and Queen Elizabeth I stayed in the room that is now the drawing room. Although the general outline of the Elizabethan house remains, nowadays it is in fact mostly Victorian. Successive generations of the Lucy family had modified Charlecote Park over the centuries, but in 1823, George Hammond Lucy (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1831) inherited the house and set about recreating the house in its original style.
Charlecote Park covers 185 acres (75 ha), backing on to the River Avon. William Shakespeare has been alleged to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man and been brought before magistrates as a result.
From 1605 to 1640 the house was organised by Sir Thomas Lucy. He had twelve children with Lady Alice Lucy who ran the house after he died. She was known for her piety and distributing alms to the poor each Christmas. Her eldest three sons inherited the house in turn and it then fell to her grandchild Sir Davenport Lucy.
In the Tudor great hall, the 1680 painting Charlecote Park by Sir Godfrey Kneller, is said to be one of the earliest depictions of a black presence in the West Midlands (excluding Roman legionnaires). The painting, of Captain Thomas Lucy, shows a black boy in the background dressed in a blue livery coat and red stockings and wearing a gleaming, metal collar around his neck. The National Trust's Charlecote brochure describes the boy as a "black page boy". In 1735 a black child called Philip Lucy was baptised at Charlecote.
The lands immediately adjoining the house were further landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760. This resulted in Charlecote becoming a hostelry destination for notable tourists to Stratford from the late 17th to mid-18th century, including Washington Irving (1818), Sir Walter Scott (1828) and Nathaniel Hawthorn (c 1850).
Charlecote was inherited in 1823 by George Hammond Lucy (d 1845), who married Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, from who's extensive diaries the current "behind the scenes of Victorian Charlecote" are based upon. GH Lucy's second son Henry inherited the estate from his elder brother in 1847. After the deaths of both Mary Elizabeth and Henry in 1890, the house was rented out by Henry's eldest daughter and heiress, Ada Christina (d 1943). She had married Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, (d 1944), a line of the Fairfax Baronets, who on marriage assumed the name Fairfax-Lucy.
From this point onwards, the family began selling off parts of the outlying estate to fund their extensive lifestyle, and post-World War II in 1946, Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy, who had inherited the residual estate from his mother Ada, presented Charlecote to the National Trust in-lieu of death duties. Sir Montgomerie was succeeded in 1965 by his brother, Sir Brian, whose wife, Lady Alice, researched the history of Charlecote, and assisted the National Trust with the restoration of the house.
Laundry and Brewhouse and Stables and Coach House.
Also Tack Room & Second-Hand Book Shop.
Grade I Listed Building
Laundry and Brewhouse and Stables and Coach House Immediately South of Charlecote Park
Listing Text
CHARLECOTE
SP2556 CHARLECOTE PARK
1901-1/10/25 Laundry, brewhouse, stables and
05/04/67 coach house immediately S of
Charlecote Park
(Formerly Listed as:
Outbuildings at Charlecote Park)
GV I
Laundry, brewhouse, coach house, stables and deer
slaughterhouse. Laundry and brewhouse: C16 with later
restoration. Brick laid to English bond with limestone
dressings and high plinth; steeply pitched old tile roof with
octagonal brick ridge and internal stacks. L-plan.
Stables: C16 with early C19 cladding and interior alterations.
Brick laid to Flemish bond with diaper pattern in vitrified
headers; old tile roof.
EXTERIOR: laundry/brewhouse wing: south side of 2 storeys plus
attic; 5-window range; 2 cross-gables. To right, 2 entrances
have 4-centred heads and plank doors and flank 2 C19
round-headed coach entrances with keystones and paired doors.
Double-chamfered mullioned windows of 2, 3 or 8 lights with
leaded glazing. Left end has entrance to brewhouse and blocked
windows. Lead rainwater goods.
Slaughterhouse for deer attached to east end; gabled
single-storey structure with modillioned brick cornice; north
entrance has grille to overlight and to south an entrance and
2-light window.
Stables: 2 storeys; 8-window range with cross-wing and cupola
to left of centre. Moulded stone plinth and first-floor drip
course; stone-coped brick parapet. Wing breaks forward with
coped gable; elliptical-arched carriageway with moulded
responds and arch and groin vault; oriel has 1:2:1-light
transomed windows over panels (central panel has Lucy Arms)
and pierced parapet copied from gatehouse (qv).
Ground floor to left of wing: 2 coach house entrances as above
and entrance with single-chamfered Tudor arch with label mould
and fanlight to paired panelled doors and a 3-light
ovolo-mullioned window with 4/4 sashes to right. To right of
wing: 2 similar stable entrances but with plank doors each
with similar window to left.
First floor has 2-light double-chamfered mullioned windows
with decorative leaded glazing and returns to drip, 3 to left
and 4 to right. South end similar, with 3-light windows.
Rear has plain arch to carriageway with 2-light window above
and small stack; to left of wing C16 brick to ground floor
with C19 brick corbelled out above; to right some C16 diapered
brick with ashlar opening to 8/8 sash and attached loose-box
block with stone-coped parapet over 3 Tudor-headed entrances
with overlights to plank doors; coped gable with finial;
attached brick gate pier with plank gate; 2 loose boxes in
gabled rear range.
INTERIOR: brewhouse has mostly C18 brewing equipment, water
pumps, coppers and stalls. Laundry has hearth and coppers; 3
segmental-headed recesses to one wall; slaughterhouse has
channels to brick/flag floor and a hoist.
Stables: full-height tack room has fittings including gallery
to 3 sides and bolection-moulded fireplace; stables to south
have stop-chamfered beams and posts; stable and loose-box
partitions; loft above has wall posts supporting 5 trusses
with braced tie beams, collars and struts, that to north with
lath and plaster infill, one with plank partition; double
purlins, wind braces and riven rafters.
The brewhouse is a particularly interesting survival complete
with equipment; the deer slaughterhouse is a rare example of
its kind.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N & Wedgwood, A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 228-9; Charlecote Park:
guidebook: 1991-: 38-44).
Listing NGR: SP2594556378
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Coach House
Breaking Cart Late 19th Century
To the glory of God
And in loving memory of
Gifford Sherman READE
Of Holbrook House, Ipswich, England
Born 1846 Died at Auckland 5 Dec. 1929
And of his wife
Margaret Augusta Walker
Born 1843 Died 6 July 1929
Mr Reade gave his family property and large fortune to the Admiralty for the benefit of
the Navy and in memory of its services during the Great War 1914-1918
In thee oh Lord have I put my trust
Plaque on top of grave
“Benefactor to The Royal Hospital School
Holbrook, England”
Area 4 Block A Lot No. 10
A GIFT TO THE NATION.
...new Naval College which is to be erected at Holbrook, Suffolk, as the result of the munificent gift of an Auckland citizen, Mr. Gifford Sherman Reade. He has given his ancestral home of 850 acres and an endowment of a total value of £1,000,000. The Admiralty has let a contract for the buildings, which, on their completion in four years' time, will supersede the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, where 1000 boys are educated.
Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 159, 8 July 1929, Page 17
OBITUARY.
MRS. G. S. READE,
The death occurred on July 6, at her home, "Summit," 1, Landscape Road, Mount Eden, of Mrs. Margaret Augusta Reade, wife of Mr. Gifford Sherman Reade, and daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Walker, of Edinburgh, Scotland. Mrs. Reade was 84 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Reade came to New Zealand thirteen years ago on a holiday trip and decided to settle in Auckland. Their former home was Holbrook House, near Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Mr. Reade spent 35 years of his life in India, where he had extensive estates in Assam and acquired interests in various industries. He retired 25 years ago. In July, 1928, the fact was announced by cable that Mr. Reade had donated his ancestral estate of 850 acres on the southern portion boundary of Suffolk, overlooking the estuary of the River Stour, together with a large sum of money, for the purpose of establishing a naval training school to replace the present one at Queen's Hall, Greenwich. The total value of the gift of Mr. Reade was £1,000,000. The foundation stone was laid by the Duke of York, and building is expected to be completed within four years' time. The interment of Mrs. Reade took place at Hillsboro' [sic] Cemetery. [2]
Margaret’s probate is available:
archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=9383051
“On the 5th December 2008, two former pupils of the Royal Hospital School attended a service at the grave of Gifford Sherman Reade in Auckland, New Zealand. The gravestone has recently been renovated under the guidance of the New Zealand Navy and service coincided with the 79th anniversary of his death.
Gifford Sherman Reade was born in 1864 at Holbrook House and he became a very successful tea trader and ship owner. In 1921 he gifted his Holbrook estate to the Admiralty enabling the relocation of the Royal Hospital School from Greenwich to Holbrook. Gifford Sherman Reade died in 1929 before the new school buildings were complete but he made a further bequest of funds in his will in gratitude for the Royal Navy's safeguarding of his merchant fleet during the First World War.
The service of rededication of Reade's gravestone at Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland was led by a New Zealand naval chaplain and attended by Tom Blackett, son of the Royal Hospital School's Headmaster, Howard Blackett. Fellow former pupil Chris Emmerson also attended with his father Graham, who transferred as an officer serving with the Royal Navy to the New Zealand Navy four years ago.“ [1]
Holbrook Estate
www.grenhosp.org.uk/general/holbrook-estate/
Gifford’s obituary reads similarly, with the addition that “its erection will enable the famous Macpherson collection to be eventually installed at Queen’s House, Greenwich, where the school is at present established”. [3]
Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 289, 6 December 1929, Page 5
"I have now given my all to the Navy," was the reply that Mr. Gifford Sherman Reade was in the habit of sending to the numerous begging letters he received, after it was made public that he had donated for the benefit of the British Navy, property and endowments to the value of £1,000,000. This statement was quite true, as Mr. Reade, in July last, divested himself of all but a small income on which to live for the remaining term of his life. Mr. Reade's death took place last evening at his home in Landscape Road East, Mount Eden, at the age of 85 years, his wife having died last July. As is but fitting, the Royal Navy will be represented at the funeral of this giver of wealth to the Empire by the two commanders of the New Zealand Division, and a lieutenant in charge of a firing party of 24 men. Wreaths have also been sent by the officers. Mr. Reade's former home was at Holbrook House, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, and it is this valuable property, including 850 acres of land which had belonged to his ancestors for generations, which he donated to the Navy, together with funds to equip and endow a training school. The British Admiralty let a contract for the buildings, the foundation stone of the school was laid in October last year by the Duke of York, who forwarded to Mr. Reade a special cable concerning the ceremony. It is estimated that it will take four years to complete the buildings, which will be capable of accommodating 1000 boys.
During the war Mr. Reade made munificent gifts to the cause of the Allies, including huge consignments of tea for the men at the front. This endowment is to be administered as a national trust. Mr. Reade amassed his fortune as the owner of several tea growing estates in Assam. He was also interested in other industries, including coal mining. He spent 35 years of his life in India, and came to New Zealand with his wife 1 year ago. Having no family, and liking the climate, he made Auckland his headquarters, but travelled extensively over New Zealand. He was a keen fisherman.
Some 20 years ago Mr. Reade retired from active business, and travelled extensively with his wife before coming to New Zealand to spend the evening of their days. It was the splendid work done by the British Navy during the Great War that caused Mr. Reade to decide upon making his munificent gift to the Empire. His idea was to enable the Admiralty to transfer the boys from Queen's College Naval Training School, at Greenwich, to more suitable quarters. The Admiralty sent Mr. Smallwood, principal of the college, to New Zealand to finalise with Mr. Reade the details of his gift, which included the offer of £100,000 to be allowed to accumulate until the principal sum is sufficiently large to produce a, sum which will entirely support the institution.
Mr. Reade was a very quiet, unassuming-: man, but with the true instinct of an Englishman, he recognised that the safety of the Empire depended upon the Navy, hence his munificence in providing for the training of youths to man the ships in the future.[4]
A portrait of Gifford is here:
www.mwadui.com/RHS/Index_rhs.htm
Gifford’s probate is available:
archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=9383050
WITH NAVAL HONOURS.
MR. G. S. READE'S FUNERAL
ADMIRALTY SENDS WREATH.
A naval funeral was accorded Mr. Gifford Sherman Reade, who was buried at Hillsboro' [sic] Cemetery on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Reade, who had ardently supported the Navy throughout his life, and who had presented his entire estate to the Admiralty for the establishment of a naval school, which he endowed to the extent of more than £1,000,000, was buried with full honours.
A naval detachment, consisting of Commander Robertson, of H.M.s. Veronica. Commander Jeffries and Lieutenant R. S. Jessall. of H.M.s. Dunedin, and 24 men from the combined vessels of the New Zealand station, was present. Regret at their inability to attend was expressed by Commodore Blake and Commander Tobin. of H.M.s. Philomel, who were detained by the naval manoeuvres conducted by the Royal Naval Reserve. Three wreaths, one from the Lord- Commissioners of the Admiralty, one from the commanders, officers and men of the ships of the New Zealand station, and one from the superintendent, officers and boys of the Royal Naval School at Greenwich were sent.
Mr. Reade, whose wife died last July, was not survived by any relatives in New Zealand, nor had he many acquaintances. Two families of his very intimate friends were represented at the funeral. Mrs. G. Haydock, Mr. R. Haydock and Mr. B. Haydock and Mr. and Mrs. D. Gillies. The Rev. E. P. Willis, vicar of St. Andrew's Church, Epsom, conducted the service; he was assisted by the naval chaplain, the Rev. G. T. Robson. Eight men from the New Zealand station acted as pall-bearers. [5]
SOURCES:
[1]
www.royalhospitalschool.org/default.asp?page=560&news...
[2]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[3]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[4]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS...
[5]
After many days of dismal weather the sun finally shone today. An opportunity to visit the local National Trust site - Nymans Gardens in Sussex.
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Suzuki: Trust me Dexter, you have to try it! It taste soooooooo good!
Dexter: But it looks like spooge!
Suzuki and Dexter discussing the finer things in life!
The 25 most interesting photos in the Landmark Trust Flickr group, according to Flickr (January 2013)
Click the links below for the original photos (L to R from top left corner)
1. Another Stogursey Castle HDR, 2. Stogursey Castle IR, 3. Snowy Stogursey Castle, 4. Stogursey Castle 27th Feb 2008, 5. Tardebigge flight, 6. The Library by Night [Explore], 7. stogursey castle, 8. Stogursey Castle on a Moonit Eve, 9. Frosty Morning, 10. Luttrells Tower At Night, 11. Ty Coch, 12. PictureWindow, 13. Table and chair still life, 14. Luttrells Tower At Night, 15. Hole Cottage 7, 16. Stogursey Castle at Sunset, 17. Fort Clonque, 18. Inside the Music Room, Sun Street Square, Lancaster, UK, 19. Luttrells Tower At Night, 20. "Old Light", Lundy Island, in the morning sun, 21. The Gothic Temple: Stowe Landscape Gardens, 22. Master bedroom 1, 23. Goddards, 24. Brinkburn Priory - Digital IR, 25. Rosslyn Castle
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You get a good swing action, and then the girl holds the rope.
De Gereformeerde 1948.
One of the old B&W photos now re-colourised automatically.
What may look like companionship was really nest protection. A heron will eat most any moving thing and the redwing blackbird followed him on his hunt through the marsh staying between him and his nest.
Baddesley Clinton is a moated manor house, located just north of the historic town of Warwick in the English county of Warwickshire; the house was probably established during the 13th century when large areas of the Forest of Arden were cleared and eventually converted to farmland. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and the Hall is a Grade I listed building.
Snowshill Manor is a 16th-century Cotswold country house located in the secluded village of Snowshill, Gloucestershire. It is famous for housing the extraordinary and eccentric collection of Charles Paget Wade, an Edwardian architect, poet, and craftsman who purchased the property in 1919. Rather than arranging it as a formal museum, Wade used theatrical lighting, colour, and texture to create an immersive, curated world. Strikingly, he packed the manor to the rafters with over 22,000 objects and chose to sleep in the adjacent garden barn.
..in the Lord with ALL your heart and lean NOT on your on understanding"
Proverbs 3:5
25 March 2011; 19.56 GMT
Canon 60D | ISO 200 | 50mm | 1/40 | F1.8
The house was recognised as a local tourist attraction and was purchased by the town and doanted to the National Trust in 1926 where it operates as a visitor centre in summer months.
To view more images, of Blickling Hall click "here"
Blickling Hall is a stately home which is part of the Blickling estate. It is located in the village of Blickling north of Aylsham in Norfolk, England and has been in the care of the National Trust since 1940. In the 15th century, Blickling was in the possession of Sir John Fastolf of Caister in Norfolk (1380–1459), who made a fortune in the Hundred Years' War, and whose coat of arms is still on display there. Later, the property was in the possession of the Boleyn family, and home to Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife Elizabeth between 1499 and 1505. Although the exact birth dates of their children are unknown, historians including Eric Ives are confident that all three surviving children were likely born at Blickling - Mary in about 1500, Anne in about 1501, and George in about 1504. A statue and portrait of Anne may be found at Blickling Estate which carry the inscription, "Anna Bolena hic nata 1507" (Anne Boleyn born here 1507), based on earlier scholarship which assigned Anne a (now thought highly improbable) year of birth of 1507.
The house of Blickling seen today was built on the ruins of the old Boleyn property in the reign of James I, by Sir Henry Hobart, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and 1st Baronet, who bought Blickling from Robert Clere in 1616. The architect of Hatfield House, Robert Lyminge, is credited with the design of the current structure. The Lord Chief Justice married Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Robert Bell of Beaupre Hall, Outwell/Upwell, Norfolk, Speaker of the House of Commons 1572–1576. A grand display of heraldic material is present throughout the estate. During World War II the house was requisitioned and served as the Officers' Mess of nearby RAF Oulton. It was at this time that the house and its estate passed to The National Trust, under the terms of the Country Houses Scheme. RAF servicemen and women were billeted within the grounds in Nissen Huts, whilst RAF Officers were housed within Blickling itself. The National Trust has created the RAF Oulton Museum on site in tribute to the RAF pilots and ground crew who served in the Second World War, and this may be visited for no additional entrance fee.
At the end of the war, the house was de-requisitioned. The National Trust again let it to tenants until 1960, when the Trust began the work to restore the house to a style reflecting its history. The house and grounds were opened to the public in 1962 and remain open under the name of "Blickling Estate". The library at Blickling Estate contains one of the most historically significant collections of manuscripts and books in England. The most important manuscript associated with the house is the Blickling Homilies, which is one of the earliest extant examples of English vernacular homiletic writings. The Blickling homilies were first edited and translated in the 19th century by Richard Morris (Early English Text Society os 58, 63 & 73) and there is a more recent edition and translation by Richard J. Kelly (Continuum, 2003). It is said that every year, on the anniversary of her execution, Anne Boleyn's headless ghost arrives at Blickling in a carriage driven by an equally headless coachman. But she hasn't lost her head completely in the afterlife—she carries it along with her during her hauntings.
The exterior of the house was used as 'Maryiot Cells' at 'Maiden Worthy' in Buckinghamshire in the hit 1945 film The Wicked Lady.
It was voted the most haunted house in Britain in a National Trust survey in October 2007. A house and garden existed at Blickling before the estate was purchased by the Boleyn family in the 1450s, but no records survive to give an indication of their appearance. After Sir Henry Hobart acquired the estate in 1616, he remodelled the gardens to include ponds, wilderness and a parterre. A garden mount– an artificial hill in Blickling's flat landscape, was made to provide views of the new garden. With the accession of Sir John Hobart (later the 1st Earl of Buckingham) in 1698 the garden was expanded to add a new wilderness and the temple was constructed.
In the latter half of the 18th century John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckingham, embarked on works that would radically change the appearance of the gardens. All traces of formality were removed, and naturally arranged clumps of trees were planted to create a landscape garden. By the 1780s an orangery had been built to overwinter tender citrus trees. Following the 2nd Earl's death in 1793, his youngest daughter Caroline, Lady Suffield, employed landscape gardener Humphry Repton and his son John Adey Repton to advise on garden matters. John Adey Repton would go on to provide designs for many garden features. The estate was inherited by nine-year-old William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian in 1840. He later re-introduced the formality and colour schemes of the parterre. After his death at the age of 38, responsibility for the gardens rested with Lady Lothian and her head gardener Mr Lyon. Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquis of Lothian, inherited the estate in 1930. After disparaging comments in a publication of Country Life, Lothian engaged socialite gardener Norah Lindsay to remodel the gardens. In the parterre she replaced the jumble of minuscule flower beds with four large square beds planted with a mixture of herbaceous plants in graduated and harmonious colours. Other improvements included removal of a line of conifers in the Temple walk, which were replaced with plantings of azaleas.
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Stourhead from the Grotto. I have officially become middle aged and joined the National Trust and got excited about it :)! First trip to Stourhead, what a beautiful place.
I put my trust into you guys in letting you lead the way on this walk…..And now look……We are lost in the deepest jungle miles away from any civilisation ……And to make matters worse…… I swear I caught a glimpse of a python snake in the poison yellow plant undergrowth……And for goodness sake don’t look behind you now, but I swear that is a black widow spider on the gate …..And don’t get me started on the pack Lions I can hear behind the hedge row……Gulps…..Now form a ring of steel around me to protect me from this place and get me back to civilisation as quickly as you can……..What do you mean that I have over exaggerated our problem by calling a worm a snake……A money spider a black widow…..And a herd of dairy cows a pride of lions ……And making a butter cup into a poison plant……And that the facts are, that we are in the Oxfordshire countryside, in middle England……..Ummmmmmmm…….Well okay…….Maybe it was a bit of over reaction on my part……But you should know by now….. That I like to see a pub or two on our walks……And look as I might……I really don’t see one……Do you….No …..I thought not……What that you say…..You have packed a couple of beers in my camera bag for me to sit and enjoy……. That’s great news guys……Now come and sit close with me whilst I enjoy…..And let me say that I never really doubted you guys……As I always knew I could trust a Sheltie to get it right ….
Feb. 21, 2022: During arm negotiations with the former Soviet Union, Pres. Ronald Reagan was quoted, "Trust but Verify." On Presidents Day, I found the quote being used for Covid-19 restrictions at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library cafeteria in Simi Valley. 56/365
These are the new life's hand and his grandfather's. It's wonderful to see how the baby abandons his hand on the bigger one. The baby's hand and the other one, two generations older, melt together in this simple gesture of trust. Trust should never have barriers.
Estas son las manos de la nueva vida, y la de su abuelo. Es una maravilla ver cómo el niño abandona su mano en esa otra más grande. En este sencillo gesto de confianza se funden la mano del niño y otra, dos generaciones mayor. La confianza no debería nunca tener barreras.