The guidebook provides the following information:
the old stable block, which is listed in Edward Ferrers’s ‘Account of what I have built and altered in and about Baddesley house’ as costing £76 17s 7d in 1714. Some of the arched entrances were bricked up to allow the interior to be fitted out with Victorian loose-boxes.
The timber-framed clock turret above the stable had to be renewed by the National Trust in 1981, after it had become dilapidated. the single-handed turret clock has a fine unaltered mechanism now restored to working order. Edward Ferrers spent £19 4s on ‘The Clock, Bell, Fan Dyall Board etc.’
10 Comments CherryPie on May 9th 2011
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
Robert A. Heinlein
18 Comments CherryPie on May 8th 2011
During the nineteenth century a priest would have used the space in front of this icon to robe and prepare before saying mass in the chapel which is situated next door to the sacristy.
This part of the room also housed a garde-robe (in the place of the current trap-door). This became the escape route into the sewer below when the Jesuit priests were in residence during 1587-91. *
*Information taken from the Baddesley Clinton guidebook.
2 Comments CherryPie on May 7th 2011
I struggled with this one a bit. I have lots of unpublished digital photos but I didn’t want to just post one that had no other connection. Eventually I remembered that I had one of those self portraits with me taking a photo in the mirror. You can just about see me (and the camera) 
11 Comments CherryPie on May 6th 2011
I gained 1lb this week which could be due to the fact that I was back in my winter clothes again this week which weigh heaver than my thin summer ones. Anyway I am going to shake up my eating habits this week to see if I can get back on track properly.
11 Comments CherryPie on May 6th 2011
