Preview of paintings at the Guildhall, Finchingfield Invitation to View visitors to Finchingfield Guildhall on Tuesday 28th April can enjoy a preview of an exhibition of paintings by local artist Helga Crouch, which runs from 30th April to 14th May. A founder member of the Society of Botanical Artists, her detailed paintings were recently the…
Suffolk gems Invitation to View houses feature in two new volumes of James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner’s The Buildings of England (Suffolk: East and Suffolk: West), and of all the architectural gems in the west of Suffolk, Columbine Hall, Stowupland, has been chosen to illustrate the back cover of Suffolk: West. The front cover illustration…
Finchingfield finds on display Two fascinating sticks have been donated to Finchingfield Guildhall by Joan King. The first is a witch stick (left) found in a wall of her father Daniel Peddar’s 17th century thatched cottage. Daniel Peddar said his great, great grandmother’s sister had been beaten to death as a witch and he believed…
Three Invitation to View houses appear in a German book published this month. The gardens of Island Hall (left), Columbine Hall and Silverstone Farm, all in East Anglia, are featured in Die geheimen Gärten von England (Secret Gardens of England) by Heidi Howcroft and photographer Marianne Majerus.
The baroque splendour of Crowcombe Court, Somerset, and its impressive undercroft (left) can be seen on Salvage Hunters, series 6 episode 2, on Quest TV. Catch up at http://www.questtv.co.uk/video/salvage-hunters-6-episode-2/, or better still, join the Kenyons for their next Invitation to View tour on 21st May.
Congratulations to Andrew Brogan at Henstead Exotic Garden, which was chosen by Alan Titchmarsh as ‘Britain’s Best Back Garden’.
As well as a new website, Invitation to View has 13 new properties to visit during 2015: Cressing Temple Barns, Hoveton Hall, Letheringham Lodge, Spains Hall, Talliston House and Valentines Mansion…
Tickets for Belle Grove in Suffolk can be hard to come by. If you haven’t been lucky enough to visit this extraordinary property, known to many as the ‘Dragon House’, you can catch a glimpse of it on George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces on Channel 4.
In 2015, the Throckmortons of Coughton Court celebrate 600 years of living there but this is nothing to the Kellys of Kelly House and the Fulfords of Great Fulford who have both been in situ since the 12th century.
Two medieval keys found in the moat at Columbine Hall, Suffolk, led artist Lillias August, who was on an Invitation to View visit there, to be inspired by owner Hew Stevenson’s collection.
