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Images from our recent visit to Wimpole Hall and Estate, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, England.
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop with TK-9 Panel).
You can find out more about Wimpole Hall and Estate by clicking Here.
Phil and Karen
1. Wimpole has been owned by a number of different families, including the Earls of Hardwicke. By 1942, it had been bought by Captain George and Mrs Elsie Bambridge. The only surviving child of novelist Rudyard Kipling, Elsie Bambridge used the royalties from her father’s books to refurbish the house.
2. The Yellow Drawing Room, built for Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, hosted concerts and dancing. Refurbished in the 1960’s, it features a ceiling mounted gas light/ heater.
3. The Library and Book Room house 10,000+ books collected by the Hardwicke and Bambridge families - one of the most significant collections in the care of the National Trust.
4. The Chapel was created in the 1720’s for Lord Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. It took artist James Thornhill 3 years to paint the chapel.
5. The stairway near the Butler’s Pantry . Mrs Bambridge bequeathed the house to the National Trust on her death aged 80 in 1976.
6. The Gothic Tower (a folly), sits across the estate from the house. It was realised under the supervision of the great landscape designer ‘Capability’ Brown between 1768-72.
(Sources: National Trust, Wikipedia).
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop with TK-9 Panel).
You can find out more about Wimpole Hall and Estate by clicking Here.
Phil and Karen
1. Wimpole has been owned by a number of different families, including the Earls of Hardwicke. By 1942, it had been bought by Captain George and Mrs Elsie Bambridge. The only surviving child of novelist Rudyard Kipling, Elsie Bambridge used the royalties from her father’s books to refurbish the house.
2. The Yellow Drawing Room, built for Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, hosted concerts and dancing. Refurbished in the 1960’s, it features a ceiling mounted gas light/ heater.
3. The Library and Book Room house 10,000+ books collected by the Hardwicke and Bambridge families - one of the most significant collections in the care of the National Trust.
4. The Chapel was created in the 1720’s for Lord Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. It took artist James Thornhill 3 years to paint the chapel.
5. The stairway near the Butler’s Pantry . Mrs Bambridge bequeathed the house to the National Trust on her death aged 80 in 1976.
6. The Gothic Tower (a folly), sits across the estate from the house. It was realised under the supervision of the great landscape designer ‘Capability’ Brown between 1768-72.
(Sources: National Trust, Wikipedia).
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