Archive for the tag 'Croome Estate'
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Malvern 2018
Croome – The Chinese Bridge
Comments Off CherryPie on Sep 19th 2018
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Croome – St Mary Magdalene Church
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 18th 2018
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Ultimately we have just one moral duty:
to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum
16 Comments CherryPie on Sep 9th 2018
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Croome – The Landscape
The Landscape at Croome was not made as an afterthought. House and garden here form an integrated design. The park may be in the naturalistic style, based partly on the landscape paintings of Claude Gellee ‘le Lorraine’ and Nicolas Poussin and partly on ‘Capability’ Brown’s native Northumberland scenery, replacing the formal patterns of earlier periods, [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 8th 2017
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The Ice House – Croome Park
Within the Church of St Mary Magdalene shrubbery, the ice house that served Croome Court can be found. The ice house became overgrown and filled with rubble when it ceased to be used in 1915.
The thatched roof was partly a decorative touch to make the building blend in with its surroundings but it also fulfilled [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 3rd 2017
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The Church of St Mary Magdalene – Croome Park
The original medieval church was considered, by the 6th Earl of Coventry and Capability Brown (who landscaped the estate) to be too close to the house and was demolished. A new church was built in 1763 which incorporates interior masonry and timbers from the old church. The exterior of the church was designed by Capability [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jul 27th 2017
