This Victorian umbrella stand is believed to have once stood in the Entrance Hall greeting guests into the mansion.*
*from an information board next to the artwork…
Archive for the tag 'Croome'
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Malvern 2018
Bizarre Beauty
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 20th 2018
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Malvern – Day Two
Mr C woke up at 7.17, precisely two minutes after the alarm was due to go off! When we opened the curtains sunshine blazed through the windows and the Malvern hills were layered in soft mist. Breakfast was freshly cooked to order and lived up to our expectations.
We settled our bill and, before departing took [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 15th 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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Commodes
A signboard next to these carefully crafted and decorated wooden objects informs that they are a pair of commodes:
The name is taken from the French word for a chest of drawers. They were introduced during the reign of King Louis XIV (1638-1715) and the style was adopted in the mid-1700s when French fashions became popular [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2017
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Croome Court – The House
After Croome Court passed out of the hands of the Coventry family it had several owners each leaving their mark as can be seen in different rooms around the house.
In 1921 the 9th Earl set up the Croome Estate Trust, in order to ensure that the 15,000 acre estate would be preserved. However, in 1939, [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 5th 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
