Charlecote Park

I was a volunteer at Charlecote for 20 years since 2000 and I present here some articles on the things I have seen there.

Len Mullenger
also at MusicWeb International

 

Tour of the Property

The Great Hall

The Borghese Table      Further information

The Library

The Scagliola tables

Griffins

Shakespeare 400th Anniversary Lecture (2016) [Book Talk 2]

Atlas and Globes

The Bardin Globes

Ortelius History of the World

Botany and Horticulture

Curtis's Flora Londinensis

Ferns

Paxton's Botany

Plant Names: Miller's Gardener's Dictionary

John WoolridgeThe Art of Gardening 1700

Natural History

Jardine's Naturalist's Library

Ornithology

History

The Froissart Chronicles

Miscellaneous

Books used to be put on the shelves the "wrong way round" - Linacre Gramatica

Appert The art of preserving food

Charlecote and the First World War

Costumes of Great Britain

Culpeper The practice of Physick

Mrs Delany

Eothen, or traces of travel brought from the East. By Alexander William Kinglake 1844

Johnson's Dictionary

King Henry VIII Defence of the Seven Sacraments

Mason The punishments of China

William Painter The Palace of Pleasure

Palmistry

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Julie

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
By Washington Irving


Faith and the Lucys

 

The Drawing Room

The Italian circular table

 

The Dining Room

The Black Marble Clock

The French Porcelain

The Princes Centrepiece

Wallpaper

The Ebony Bedroom

The Ebony bed

The table of fossils

Frank's Forages

Lady Ramsey Fairfax No.1a

Thomas Willement. No. 2a

The Da Pozzo Portraits No. 3a

Two Archibald Montgomeries. No. 4a

Frans Snyders No.5a

Callart No. 6a

The William Larkin Portraits No. 7a

The Luce No. 8a

The Boddelwyddan Miniatures No. 9a

The Silver Centerpiece No.10

Alfred Edward Borthwick No.11

The Ramsay Connection No. 12

Sir Henry Raeburn No. 13

After Britannia No. 14

'Carry' No. 15

The Princes Centrepiece
No.16a

George Harcourt No.17

Paul de Vos No.18

The Dining Room silver hallmarks No. 19

Plinths No. 20a

The French Porcelain No. 21a

The Lucy Pedigree No. 22a

The Isabella Portrait. No. 23a

 Charles II No. 24a

Thomas Williamson-Ramsay No. 25a

The Pietra Dura Table No. 26a

Mary Somerville No 27a

The Cameron Connection No 28a

The Inspiration of Cassandra No.29 a

Music in the Library No 30a

Lixmount No 31

The Gouache paintings No. 32a

Wasperton No 33

Major-General Charles Powlett Lane No. 34

Sir Henry William Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy No. 35

Ben Nevis No. 36

Monuments No.37

Sybil Mary Lucy No. 38

Sir Brian and WWI No. 39

The Bracket Clock No. 40

Bird's Eye View No. 41

Charlotte Wellesley No. 42

Davenport and Hammond No. 43

Sir William George Herbert Taylor Ramsay-Fairfax No. 44

The Indian Mutiny No. 45

Charlecote Extras:

Memorandum by Thomas Williamson Ramsay CE1

The Family Relationship to Lord Duncan CE3

A Letter from China CE4

A New Discovery - Mary Queen of Scots CE5

Letters from Norfolk Island CE6

Who was Henry Gregory? CE7

Butterflies CE8

Sir Berkeley Lucy CE9

Standish CE10

Coat Hangers? CE 11

The Arms of Henry Faifax

Charlecote and Belton

 

 

 

 

Chris Purvis

The WILLEMENT Heraldic Glass

The EYFFLER Heraldic Glass

A Heraldic Glossary

Relationships between the portraits in the Great Hall

Kevin Coleman

The cost to the Lucy family for being supporters of King Charles 1

Stewart Scott

A Comparison of Charlecote Servants Wages with a Semi-Skilled Worker in 1841

Kevin Coleman

William Lucy, Fourth son of Sir Thomas Lucy 2nd.

 

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