Items in Penshurst

71. Penshurst Place, Kent

Penshurst Place, Kent. The Great Hall. There’s another picture in Wharton’s book, English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans. Penshurst Place dates from the first half of the 14th Century, and was ori [...]

Keywords: manors, interiors, fireplaces, windows, ceilings

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2006-01-11

+ S K L R N

Pound’s Bridge, Near Penshurst, Kent

From a drawing by William Twopeny. “The drawing of Pound’s Bridge, near Penshurst (facing page 14), is in itself a valuable document, recording the condition of the house as it was during the first ha [...]

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, houses

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2006-09-19

+ S K L R N

Reconstructed Interior of Fourteenth-century Hall (Penshurst, Kent).

The lord and lady are dining on the daïs, the retainers grouped round the hearth. Notice the dog and the jester. From a model of the Great Hall at Penshurst. Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York [...]

Keywords: interiors, windows, halls, manors, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-08

+ S K L R N

Baronial hall, Penshurst Place

“On the left are the buttery and the kitchens and, separated from the stone passage by a screen of carved oak panels, is the Great Hall, the glory and wonder of the castle, with its open timber roof, [...]

Keywords: interiors, fireplaces, manors, furniture

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

+ S K L R N

The Post-Office at Penshurst

Perhaps Tudor or older?

Keywords: houses, gravestones, chimneys

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

+ S K L R N

Penshurst Place, Kent

“In this fourteenth-century castle lived the great English liberal, Algernon Sidney, the friend and counsellor of William Penn, who had a hand in drawing up the famous “Frame of Government” for the Pr [...]

Keywords: manors, trees

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

+ S K L R N