Packwood House, Warwickshire
Packwood House had a beginning as a modest house built of wood by John Fetherston during 1556-1560. The last member of the family Fetherston died in 1876.
The east front of the house still Reveals it's late 16th-century
origins though the timber framing has been Replaced by rendered brick.
My next trip to the site belonging to the National Trust funacji Packwood House is lying near the village Lapworth in Warwickshire.
Packwood House had a beginning as a modest house built of wood by John Fetherston during 1556-1560. The last member of the family Fetherston died in 1876.
In 1904, the house was bought by a wealthy industrialist from Birmingham - Alfred Asha.
in 1925, inherited by his son, Graham Baron Ash, who during two decades has created a house of a Tudor. He bought extensive collection of furniture, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, some from nearby Baddesley Clinton. The great barn was converted into a dance hall and combined it with the main building by adding
Long Gallery in 1931.
in 1921 Packwood House visited Queen Margaret, who was here for lunch, today you can see china from which it drank tea.
The estate also includes the famous Yew Garden, which contains more than 100 trees, some of the yews are more than 15 m in height. Garden was founded in the mid-seventeenth century, the grandson of piewszego owner
lawyer John Fetherston.
Its characteristic elements are monumental yews, cut and formed over 150 years. Alone on a hill facing the huge yew, which symbolizes Jesus preach a sermon, 16 small yew trees in the bottom of the 12 apostles and four evangelists.
In 1941 the house with a garden came into possession of the National Trust Foundation.
>> information about Packwood House at National Trust \u0026lt;
Received on 5 May, 2011
Travel time: 4 days
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