Items matching stately homes (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Alnwick CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

A colour engraving, printed using multiple plates (or stones) each engraved for a different colour. We see in the foreground a stone bridge over a river, with a tomb of, or monument to, a dog on it. T [...]

Keywords: towers, castles, bridges, battlements, turrets, trees, parks, people, fishing, stately homes, manors, buildings, exteriors, colour

Places shown: Alnwick; Northumberland; England

Added: 2023-02-24

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Aldermaston, BerkshireThe Mansions of England in the Olden Time (1906)

Aldermaston Court, the manor house in Aldermaston Park, was largely destroyed by fire just a few years after Joseph Nash painted this picture. Today (2020) the Victorian replacement manor is for sale. [...]

Keywords: interiors, mansions, stately homes, staircases, ceilings, people, statuart, dogs, chidren, women, boys, sculpture, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, carving, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: Aldermaston; Berkshire; England

Added: 2020-10-15

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Chatsworth, DerbyshireThe People’s Gallery of Engravings (1844)

The engraving, based on a picture by Thomas Allom, shows in the foreground deer and people on horseback under large tree, but the view is dominated by the massiveness of the house itself. It is still [...]

Keywords: houses, palaces, stately homes, architecture, exteriors, deer, trees, hunting, peope, parks, greyscale

Places shown: Chatsworth; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2018-03-20

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A ReminiscenceArt-Journal (1850)

A path through the trees, strewn with the fallen masonry of gateposts with their terracotta balls; mature trees on either side. In the backgrouns a person wearing a ha and using a cane (or umbrella) w [...]

Keywords: mansions, stately homes, ruin, nostalgia, trees, paths, poetry, poems, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2023-12-13

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Brereton, CheshireThe Mansions of England in the Olden Time (1906)

Brereton Hall was built in 1586 and is a Grade I listed building. It is a private home today. The foundation stone was said to have been laid by Queen Elizabeth I, although there was a manor house at [...]

Keywords: halls, manors, stately homes, mansions, parks, entrances, towers, windows, tudor architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Brereton Hall; Brereton Green; Brereton; Cheshire; England

Added: 2020-11-03

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Cranbourne House, DorsetThe Mansions of England in the Olden Time (1906)

Cranborne Manor dates back to the start of the Thirteenth Century, but was rebuilt in the 1600s. It belongs to the Marquess of Salisbury, and is traditionaly occupied by the heir, who is given the tit [...]

Keywords: halls, manors, stately homes, mansions, entrances, steps, gothic archtecture, greyscale

Places shown: Cranborne; Dorset; England

Added: 2021-02-08

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Taymouth CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

TAYMOUTH CASTLE Near Aberfeldy, Perthshire,—Marquis of Breadalbane. This magnificent seat may well carry us back in thought to the feudal times, and even in them it would have been conspicuous for siz [...]

Keywords: stately homes, castles, mountains, forests, trees, windows, towers, battlements, lawns, turrets, manors, colour

Places shown: Kenmore; Perthshire; Scotland

Added: 2024-12-23

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311.—Avebury Manor, WiltshireEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Avebury Manor, Wiltshire.

Church, Stable and House

The church predates 1275 but the main part of the house probably dates from the 1560s. The south porch bears the date 1601, however.

Keywords: manors, churches, trees, sundials, creeper, windows, stately homes, topiary, colour

Places shown: Avebury Manor; Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2003-08-16

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Cholmondeley CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

The first thing to say about this castle is that it’s pronounced Chumley. Really. The picture, in colour, shows the “castle” that was mostly built in the early part of the 19th Century, replacing an o [...]

Keywords: stately homes, castles, windows, towers, battlements, creeper, ivy, lawns, trees, turrets, colour

Places shown: Cholmondeley; Malpas; Cheshire; England

Added: 2023-02-24

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Chatsworth.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

CHATSWORTH. near Bakewell, Derbyshire.—Duke of Devonshire. The situation of Chatsworth is exceedingly beautiful, in the romantic part of Derbyshire which Sir Walter Scott has celebrated in “Peveril o [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, exteriors, views, parks, deer, animals, people, trees, palaces, colour

Places shown: Chatsworth; Bakewell; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2018-03-27

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Guy’s Cliffe.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A strikingly beautiful manor house, with the moat in the foreground; today it lies in ruins. There are several other pictures of the same site; see the Location link. I have included a 1680x1050 pix [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, exteriors, parks, buildings, colour, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2007-06-16

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Mount EdgcombePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

Mount Edgcombe House was built in the middle of the sixteenth century, but it was badly damaged by bombs in World War II. In 1971 the (then) Earl sold the new-ly-restored estate to the county council, [...]

Keywords: stately homes, castles, windows, towers, battlements, creeper, ivy, lawns, trees, turrets, colour

Places shown: Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park; Cremyll; Torpoint; Cornwall; England

Added: 2025-04-12

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Haddon Hall, EnglandFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

Almost in the centre of England stands this ideal specimen of an old baronial mansion, known as Haddon Hall. In the twelfth century it came into the possession of the Vernon family, who occupied it fo [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, windows, battlements, tudor architecture, courtyards, ivy, creeper, trees, greyscale

Places shown: Haddon Hall; Bakewell; Derbyshire

Added: 2020-09-19

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Whitley CourtPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

Witley Court was badly damaged by a fire in 1937, some 60 years after this picture was made. The description in the book tries hard, i think, to hide the writer’s disdain for the self-made. WHITLEY CO [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, victorian excess, opunlence, columns, houses, parks, colour

Places shown: Witley Court; Great Witley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2020-11-01

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Eaton HallThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

Eaton Hall, the Cheshire seat of the Duke of Westminster, is situated in a very large, though hardly picturesque, park, which is liberally thrown open to strangers, and, in consequence, is a great bo [...]

Keywords: stately homes, bridges, parks, trees, cattle, towers, manor houses, greyscale

Places shown: Ecclestone; Cheshire; England

Added: 2020-07-20

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Bryn-y-PysThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

This hall was built in the late 1730s, was remodelled in the 1850s, and, having fallen into disrepair, was demolished in 1956. The engraving here was printed in 1875 and probably shows the hall after [...]

Keywords: stately homes, mansions, houses, buildings, trees, parks, views, windows, parks, deer, animals, greyscale

Places shown: Bryn-Y-Pys; Overton-on-Dee; Denbigh; Wales

Added: 2019-01-13

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Passages From The Poets – A Garden.Art-Journal (1850)

The picture shows a gentleman and two ladies in probably eighteenth century dress, in the grounds of some large house or castle; they have met along a broad path leading to stone steps, and in the bac [...]

Keywords: trees, gardens, people, romance, paths, forests, stately homes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-02-01

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Hinchinbrook House, HuntingdonThe Story of Some English Shires (1897)

Queen Elizabeth I was entertained here in 1564 by the owner and original builder, Henry, grandson of one Morgan Williams of Glamorganshire, wife to the sister of Oliver Comwell. The house was sold in [...]

Keywords: houses, mansions, buildings, stately homes, battlements, tudor architecture, mullions, windows, towers, people, hunting, dogs, animals, greyscale

Places shown: Hinchinbrooke; Huntingdon; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2013-10-17

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Buckingham PalaceEngland (1898)

Buckingham Palace, or Buck House is it is affectionately known in the House of Lords, to those who wish to sound so familiar with it that they must undoubtedly be important people, was built in 1703. [...]

Keywords: stately homes, palaces, buckingham palace, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2025-05-05

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