Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Monday 2 August 2021

The continuing restoration of Wentworth Woodhouse


The Art Newspaper has a report today about the latest developments in the massive and utterly commendable restoration project at Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire. The aspect they particularly feature is the plan to restore the derelict Camelia House, but which still has its eighteenth century camelias, and they are back in bloom.

The article, which also outlines both the scale of the house and the scale of the restoration facing the Trust who now own this remarkable building, can be read at Eccentric Wentworth Woodhouse estate—home to centuries-old camellias—gets set to bloom again in Yorkshire

I have posted about Wentworth Woodhouse before in Wentworth Woodhouse from 2014 and last year in Wentworth Woodhouse: A House and its Follies

Growing up only about twenty miles away from  this historic building which was inaccessible and reading about it in Pevsner, who for once waxes lyrical about a country house when describing it, Wentworth Woodhouse has intrigued me for upwards of sixty years. The fact that it is now being saved from the ravages inflicted upon it by the twentieth century is truly heartening.


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