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Pictures from English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott and Company, MCMXV [1915].
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton was born on 15th December 1845 and died on 29th July 1928, more than 70 years ago, so that this work is out of copyright. She was a descendent of Joseph Wharton and hence related to Thomas Wharton Jr. (1735-1778), the first President of Pennsylvania.
Title: Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans
City: London
Date: 1915
Total items: 12
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Austerfield Church]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/046a-Austerfield-Church-q75-327x200.jpg "[picture: Austerfield Church]")
“Austerfield is a typical north country village. Less picturesque than such midland and southern hamlets as Brington, Ecton and Penshurst, these northern villages, with their steep-roofed, narrow-gabled houses of brick and stone, substantial, and built to keep out the winter storms, which are severe in this part of England, with no attempt at ornament, [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Baronial hall, Penshurst Place]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/151-BaronialHall-293x200.jpg "[picture: Baronial hall, Penshurst Place]")
Baronial hall, Penshurst Place
“On the left are the buttery and the kitchens and, separated from the stone passage by a screen of carved oak panels, is the Great Hall, the glory and wonder of the castle, with its open timber roof, its minstrels’ gallery, its “dais” [more...] [$]
![[picture: Penshurst Place, Kent]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/147-penshurst-place-kent-303x200.jpg "[picture: Penshurst Place, Kent]")
![[picture: Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/210-Church-of-St-Mary-Redcliffe-Bristol-q84-314x200.jpg "[picture: Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol]")
Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol
Admiral Sir William Pen (1621 – 70), son of Giles Penn of Redcliffe, was buried at St Mary Redcliffe Church. He was a squadron commander in Cromwell’s Navy. He received Pennsylvania as a land grant in exchange for services rendered to King Charles II, and founded a Quaker colony there. Admiral Penn is buried in the church shown here. I don’t [...] [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Methley Hall, Yorkshire]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/290-Methley-Hall,-Yorkshire-q75-299x200.jpg "[picture: Methley Hall, Yorkshire]")
