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.

Comments

[mummm.livejournal.com]

I imagine those old homes, though beautiful, are very chilly! It's wonderful though, and I love the angel.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They must be teribly expensive to heat.

I understand the family still live in parts of Sudbury Hall- away from the grandiose public rooms.