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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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

A lot of these big stately homes are horribly impersonal. They're about power and display and contain nothing that betrays the individual taste of the owners- perhaps because they didn't have any.

Erddig sounds lovely. My personal favourite- out of recent visits- is Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire, which was designed to the eccentric specifications of a mid 17th century Duke and Duchess of Newcastle- both of them near-geniuses.