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Audley End Paul Drury

Audley End By Paul Drury

Audley End by Paul Drury


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Audley End was one of the greatest houses in England. This fully revised guidebook contains a tour of the house and gardens and a history of Audley End, illustrated with new reconstruction drawings, photographs, plans and historical images.

Audley End Summary

Audley End by Paul Drury

Built between about 1605 and 1614 by Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, Audley End was one of the greatest houses of Jacobean England. This immense 'palace' prompted James I to quip that, though it was 'too big for a king ...it might suit a Lord Treasurer'. The house gradually declined in scale over subsequent centuries, and was altered many times. Today, visitors to Audley End can see interiors and gardens reflecting its generations of owners. In the early 19th century the 3rd Lord Braybrooke and his wife created a nursery for their eight children on the top floor of the south wing. This revised second edition of the guidebook includes a new section on these rooms, now open to the public for the first time, as well as new features on the Braybrooke's children and the original 19th-century dolls' house. The re-dressed rooms of the 19th-century apartment are captured in atmospheric new site photography, and new features focus on Audley End's impressive paintings and natural history collections. This fully revised guidebook offers a complete tour and history of Audley End house and gardens. A new reconstruction drawing of the Jacobean house helps visitors to visualise its original scale, and the story of the house and gardens is brought to life with new photography, historic images and contemporary eye-witness accounts.

Table of Contents

TOUR OF THE HOUSE Entrance Front Porches Entrance Hall Great Hall Stair Saloon The 19th-Century Apartment South Lobby Picture Gallery Chapel Vestibule and Chapel North Wing Second Floor Nursery The Adam Room Lower Gallery Service Areas TOUR OF THE GARDENS AND LANDSCAPE Lion Gate and Lodge Adam Bridge and Ring Hill Polish Memorial and Wartime Defences Mount Garden and Parterre Temple of Concord and Place Pond Elysian Garden Kitchen Garden Stable block HISTORY OF THE HOUSE AND GARDENS SPECIAL FEATURES The Painting Collection The Doll's House The Braybrooke Children Running the House 'Capability' Brown Visiting Monarchs Audley End in the Time of Charles II Natural History Collection Audley End's Secret Wartime Past PLANS Audley End House

Additional information

GOR007389297
9781848022928
1848022921
Audley End by Paul Drury
Used - Very Good
Paperback
English Heritage
2014-09-30
60
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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