Friends of St Mary's, Little Crosby
Visit to Browsholme Hall,
in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire.
September 4th, 2011
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Friends of St Mary's, Little Crosby Visit to Browsholme Hall,
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Hall. The Hall, dating back to the original house built after 1507, was once sixty-eight feet long and is arguably the finest surviving antiquarian interior in England. After 1603 the front was refaced in rusticated pink sandstone and the central portico added displaying the orders of architecture, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. A hundred years later the small Queen Anne wing was added to the east. Browsholme has a unique historic collection, an eclectic accumulation of family possessions spanning the fourteen generations who have occupied the Hall since 1507. Ancient oak furniture, fine furnishings by Gillow, portraits by Romney, Lely and Devis, arms and armour, Chinese porcelain, medieval stained glass and a fragment of a Zeppelin. |
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Browsholme
Hall as seen from the old Main Gate
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Some of the friends
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This
amazing window is made from a jigsaw of stained glass of various dates
from the 13th to the 19th centuries, created from pieces said to have
come from Whalley Abbey and Skipwith, York.
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Tea
in the courtyard after the tour
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Friends
of St Mary's, Little Crosby.
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