Westwood Manor Near Bradford on Avon.
Westwood Manor is a 15th-century manor house with 16th-century additions and 17th-century plaster-work in the village of Westwood near Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England. It is the former home of Edgar Lister, a diplomat at the Ottoman court in the early years of the 20th century.
The house contains fine furniture, musical instruments and tapestries collected by Lister between 1911 and 1956, when he died in a car crash. He restored the house throughout and adorned the garden with topiary; he was also an expert in needlepoint and upholstered much of its furniture in Florentine work.
Pevsner describes Westwood Manor as a perfect Wiltshire manor house. It has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1956 and was designated as Grade I listed in 1962.
The property is occupied by a tenant, who administers it on behalf of the National Trust, and is open to the public a few days of the week in the summer.
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Andy's National Trust Travel Blogs: Westwood Manor
There are 500+ places of interest in the UK under the National Trust banner and I will be attempting to visit as many as I can, reporting as I do all the important stuff relative to accessibility. In this episode I go to Westwood Manor and garden, a Jacobian property, unchanged since 1650. The church next door was inaccessible due to steps and would have been a bonus attraction had I been able to get inside. As it turned out I had enough problem getting into the manor house.
WESTWOOD MANOR - WILTSHIRE - ENGLAND
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Avebury Manor
A Visual Tour around the renovated Elizabethan House of AVEBURY MANOR, owned and maintained by THE NATIONAL TRUST.
Filmed and Edited by Marq English
Music by Kevin Macleod
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Coughton Court English Tudor Country House Warwickshire.
Coughton Court is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
The house has a long crenelated façade directly facing the main road, at the centre of which is the Tudor Gatehouse, dating from 1530; this has hexagonal turrets and oriel windows in the English Renaissance style. The gatehouse is the oldest part of the house and is flanked by later wings, in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style, popularised by Horace Walpole.
The Coughton estate has been owned by the Throckmorton family since 1409. The estate was acquired through marriage to the De Spinney family. Coughton was rebuilt by Sir George Throckmorton, the first son of Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton Court by Catherine Marrow, daughter of William Marrow of London. The great gatehouse at Coughton was dedicated to King Henry VIII by Throckmorton, a favorite of the King. Throckmorton would become notorious due to his almost fatal involvement in the divorce between King Henry and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Throckmorton favoured the queen and was against the Reformation. Throckmorton spent most of his life rebuilding Coughton. In 1549, when he was planning the windows in the great hall, he asked his son Nicholas to obtain from the heralds the correct tricking (colour abbreviations) of the arms of his ancestors' wives and his own cousin and niece by marriage Queen Catherine Parr. The costly recusancy (refusal to attend Anglican Church services) of Robert Throckmorton and his heirs restricted later rebuilding, so that much of the house still stands largely as he left it.
After Throckmorton's death in 1552, Coughton passed to his eldest son, Robert. Robert Throckmorton and his family were practicing Catholics therefore the house at one time contained a priest hole, a hiding place for priests during the period when Catholics were persecuted by law in England, from the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The Hall also holds a place in English history for its roles in both the Throckmorton Plot of 1583 to murder Queen Elizabeth I of England, and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, although the Throckmorton family were themselves only indirectly implicated in the latter, when some of the Gunpowder conspirators rode directly there after its discovery.
The house has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1946. The family, however, hold a 300-year lease and previously managed the property on behalf of the Trust. In 2007, however, the house reverted to management by the National Trust. The management of the property is renewed every 10 years. The family tenant until recently was Clare McLaren-Throckmorton, known professionally as Clare Tritton QC, until she died on 31 October 2017.
The house, which is open to the public all year round, is set in extensive grounds including a walled formal garden, a river and a lake.
The house was used as a filming location for the BBC One series Father Brown in the episode The Mask of the Demon.
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You Need To See These Places In Wiltshire
You Need To See These Places In Wiltshire// Wiltshire is one pretty county I'm telling you! Here are some places that are well worth a visit and I'm showing you only a tiny fraction.
If you're a fan of Poldark (who isn't?), you need to visit Great Chalfield Manor which is a National Trust property. And when it comes to quintessential English villages/towns, you will instantly fall in love with Bradford on Avon and Castle Combe. Did you know that Castle Combe has the most romantic hotel too? If you want to book a very special stay, I think The Manor House is perfect. Makes you think of the film The Holiday. I can already picture Amanda and Graham.
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Great Chalfield Manor & Gardens.
Great Chalfield Manor is an English country house at Great Chalfield, near Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.
The house is a moated manor house built around 1465–1480 for Thomas Tropenell, a modest member of the landed gentry who made a fortune as a clothier. The independent hall, lit on both sides, is flanked by unusually symmetrical gabled cross wings, with oriel windows and lower gabled porches in the inner corners, in the north-facing former entrance court, for which the richest effects were reserved. Its external symmetry, unusual for its date, is superficial.The intimately connected parish church, largely rebuilt by Tropnell, also faces into the court, which was formerly entered obliquely through a gatehouse in the west wing. Part of a moat survives, but the forecourt has been opened up to the outside in a manner that changes its original inward-facing aspect.
It was altered substantially (with some of the original character lost) after the Neale family commissioned the architect Thomas Larkin Walker, a pupil of Pugin, to carry out a detailed survey of the manor in 1836; though his restoration proposals of 1837 were never carried out, the house was reduced and in particular, the great hall, adapted as a farmhouse, lost its ornate ceiling, with only one of the original bosses surviving.
Externally there is a garden with four tree houses, groups of four clipped yews that have grown together and been hollowed out inside to allow one to walk through. A feature of the church is the unusual bellcote, a stone belfry built on to the gable peak.
The house and garden were purchased by George Fuller MP (of Neston Park) in the early 1900s, and restored and furnished between 1905 and 1911 by his fourth son, Major Robert Fuller, under the guidance of Sir Harold Brakspear. The restoration included a sympathetic garden design by Alfred Parsons. Robert Fuller gave the property to the National Trust in 1943, and it is open to the public. Robert Floyd, grandson of Robert Fuller, and his family live here and manage the property for the Trust. Tours of the house are at fixed times and visitors are escorted by a guide. The historic Tropenell Cartulary is still kept at the house.
The house and grounds have hosted the film industry since the end of the 20th century.
They were used for Wives and Daughters in 1999, the BBC television adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, as Hamley Hall, the country house of a squire. They were later used for location filming of the 2008 film version of the historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl, and some scenes of the 2008 BBC Television adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Scenes for the BBC's Tudor-era historical TV serial Wolf Hall were filmed there in 2014. The house is also used as the filming location for Killewarran House in the BBC series of Poldark.
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Plas Mawr. An Elizabethan town house.
Plas Mawr at Conwy, North Wales, is probably the finest surviving example of an elizabethan town house in Britain. It was built by Robert Wynn, a wealthy Welsh merchant, between 1576 and 1585. His initials and dates of construction can be found in the ornate plasterwork. He married Dorothy Griffith. Look out for her initials also, together with one of the badges of her family, which was a severed head!
Lytes cary Manor
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Iford Estate - Historic House, Wildlife and a Drone's View
Commissioned by our client, this video shows the beauty of a truly stunning location. The Iford valley in Wiltshire (close to Bath) is home to Iford Manor and the beautiful Harold Peto deigned Grade-I listed garden, which is open to the public.
We used a combination of drones, ground based cameras and patience to capture the natural beauty of the location. Watch in 4K if you can!
Andy's National Trust Travel Blogs: Great Chalfield Manor and Gardens
There are 500+ places of interest in the UK under the National Trust banner and I will be attempting to visit as many as I can, reporting as I do all the important stuff relative to accessibility. In this episode I go to Great Chalfield Manor near to Bradford on Avon. It is a manor house with a moat, although only partial nowadays. You can see me get stuck twice and run out of battery, so brace yourself for a belly-laugh or two.
A Walk Around Iford Manor: The Peto Gardens
We take a walk around the beautiful Peto Gardens at Iford Manor, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire in this short video.
Filmed on a phone and GoPro, this gives you a quick insight into some of the things you can see on a visit to this peaceful garden.
Find out more about Iford Manor and other historic houses and gardens on our website visitwiltshire.co.uk
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Inside Lanhydrock House Cornwall.
The great house stands in extensive grounds (360 hectares or 890 acres) above the River Fowey and it has been owned and managed by the National Trust since 1953.[8] Much of the present house dates back to Victorian times but some sections date from the 1620s. It is a Grade I listed building and is set in gardens with formal areas. The hill behind the house is planted with a fine selection of shrubs and trees.
Lanhydrock estate belonged to the Augustinian priory of St Petroc at Bodmin but the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the 1530s saw it pass into private hands. In 1620 wealthy merchant Sir Richard Robartes acquired the estate and began building Lanhydrock House, designed to a four-sided layout around a central courtyard and constructed of grey granite. Robartes died in 1624 but work on the building was continued by his son John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, a notable public figure who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.
During the 18th century the east wing of the house was demolished leaving the U-shaped plan seen today. In 1881 a major fire destroyed the south wing and caused extensive damage to the central section. Of the main house only the north wing, with its 29 m Long Gallery, and the front porch building survived intact, though the original gatehouse also dates back to the mid 17th century. New sections were built behind the south wing, including a kitchen block, in the style of the original building - which was unusual at the time.
The Robartes family declined significantly during the First World War, including the heir Thomas Agar-Robartes MP, who was killed during the Battle of Loos in France, trying to rescue a colleague from no-man's land. Only one descendant survives, living in a cottage on the estate.
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Storytelling at The National Trust's Big Camp event at Waddesdon Manor 2017
Check out this whistle-stop tour of our time at the Big Camp while we were storytelling! Remember, if you enjoy our vids and want to see more of us give our Facebook page a Like (@StrangeTwig) or subscribe to us on Youtube!
Many thanks to Waddesdon Manor and also to the National Trust for organising and hosting the event, but most of all giving us free rein to tell our crazy stories well into the night. We're already looking forward to going back next year with even more of the same!
Lytes Cary Manor, Somerset
A short video of a visit to a national Trust property, Lytes Cary Manor on 10th August 2017.
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Lytes Cary Manor House Somerset.
Lytes Cary is a manor house with associated chapel and gardens near Charlton Mackrell and Somerton in Somerset, England. The property, owned by the National Trust, has parts dating to the 14th century, with other sections dating to the 15th, 16th, 18th, and 20th centuries. Yet all parts blend to perfection with one another and with the gentle sunny landscape that surrounds them, comments Nikolaus Pevsner. The House is listed as Grade I by English Heritage.
The chapel predates the existing house, having been built around 1343, and functioned as a chantry chapel, where masses could be said for the souls of the family, both living and dead. The great hall was added in the 15th century and the Oriel Room in the 16th. Various renovations were undertaken during the 16th and 17th centuries after which the house fell into disrepair with the north range being demolished by the early 19th century. In 1907 Sir Walter Jenner of the Jenner baronets bought the house and restored it in a period style, furnishing it with fine 17th century and 18th century oak furniture, antique tapestries and fabrics modelled after medieval textiles, along with historic and period paintings. On his death in 1948 he left the house to the National Trust.
The gardens are listed as Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. The original 17th-century gardens have disappeared. However, the Jenners laid them out in an Arts and Crafts style with a series of 'rooms', which are separated from each other by high, neatly clipped box and yew hedges. These are complemented by ponds and walks in and between each of the 'rooms'.
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Tintagel Old Post Office, Cornwall.
Tintagel Old Post Office is a 14th-century stone house, built to the plan of a medieval manor house, situated in Tintagel, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The house, and its surrounding cottage garden, are in the ownership of the National Trust, and the building is Grade I listed.
The name dates from the Victorian period when it briefly held a licence to be the letter receiving station for the district. The Trust has restored it to this condition. It was among the early acquisitions of the Trust (1903) and closes in the winter months.
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Killewarren, home of Ray Penvenen, Caroline Penvenen and Dr Dwight Enys In the TV series of Poldark
Great Chalfield Manor, a National Trust property near Bath, is the Poldark filming location for Killewarren.
The house and grounds have hosted the film industry since the end of the 20th century.
They were used for Wives and Daughters in 1999, the BBC television adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, as Hamley Hall, the country house of a squire. They were later used for location filming of the 2008 film version of the historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl, and some scenes of the 2008 BBC Television adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Scenes for the BBC's Tudor-era historical TV serial Wolf Hall were filmed there in 2014.
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