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CherryPie — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:07:22 +0000

This is a picture on 18th century glass painted by Thomas Jervais.

This panel was restored in 2000:

The glass panel had been broken in many places an repaired with lead over the last century which was not sympathetic to the original construction. The panel was restored for the National Trust in 200 by Alfred Fisher.

The painting was dismantled by cutting away the lead and removing the putty that had been used to seal the glass. Following the dismantling, it was found that most of the edges of the glass had been cut back to allow the repair leads to be inserted without increasing the size of the panel. This made it impossible to obtain the perfect joining of the pieces and an infill of epoxy resin used in the joints.*

*Printed on an information sheet at the property.

Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

CherryPie — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:59:49 +0000

Thinking doesn’t pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Robert A. Heinlein

Baddesley Clinton – Glasshouses

CherryPie — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:55:31 +0000

The glasshouses are Victorian, one contains two surviving Black Hamburg vines and the others are used to store house-plants and more tender bedding plants.

Baddesley Clinton – The Lakeside Walk

CherryPie — Tue, 10 May 2011 09:40:24 +0000

Baddesley Clinton – The Stables

CherryPie — Mon, 09 May 2011 18:24:15 +0000

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.’

Baddesley Clinton – The Sacristy

CherryPie — Sat, 07 May 2011 22:51:55 +0000

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.

Parliamentary Interest

CherryPie — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:00:56 +0000

Baddesley Clinton – From the Inside

CherryPie — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:20:45 +0000

Baddesley Clinton – The Courtyard

CherryPie — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:07:23 +0000

After crossing the moat you pass through the gatehouse in into the courtyard, with its yews, lawns and brick paths. It was created in 1889 by Edward Heneage Dering and has changed little since that time. The main charge of the Ferrers arms (seven mascles, or lozenges) is laid out on the lawn and is planted in its yellow and red heraldic colours. *

*Information from the Baddesley Clinton guidebook.

Baddesley Clinton – The Walled Garden

CherryPie — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:14:10 +0000

Edward Ferrers was responsible for creating this ‘court garden’ by 1722 as part of his improvements to the house. It is an enclosed and formal area of grass, in the centre of which a sundial has recently been reinstated.*

The National Trust has planted apple trees of historical nature along the lawn.

*Information from the Baddesley Clinton guide book.