What We Did Last Saturday

[poliphilo]

This is Sudbury Hall. We stopped here on the way home last Saturday. The house is 17th century and grand and cold and echoey. The servant's wing houses a charming Museum of Childhood- where we sat for fifteen minutes in a mock-up of a late Victorian schoolroom and got to write on slates and practice our seven times table.



The church- just off to the side of the house- is mostly 19th century restoration, but I managed to find this charming (15th century?) angel on the north wall.

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[nostoi.livejournal.com]

She is very charming, looks a little bit sulky too :) I love houses where the servants' quarters are open, it's the most interesting part of the house for me.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Sulky? And why not? I imagine she once had a number of sisters- and now she's the only one left.

The servants quarters are built to a human scale. The main house is all about power and money and display- and I found it rather hateful.