Thursday, June 27, 2013

Dyrham Park House

The house, with its large orangery to the left (conceals servants' block)















One of two bookcases designed by Blathwayt friend, diarist
Samuel Pepys; the other is in the V&A




















Marrow spoons; we've just got to get some for our camping kit














Murillos' boy teasing a woman eating porridge


















Staircase, as seen in...














An episode of Dr. Who filmed at Dyrham














Flower vase, reflecting the Dutch thing... there were several
more



















Inside the door is A View Down a Corridor, by Samuel van Hoogstrattaen















Royal bed--just in case the monarch dropped by--never
did, never slept in



















Figurine collection


















During WWII, Dyrham was home to babies and toddlers moved away from the
areas being bombed by the Germans; a photo from the garden
















"You rang, sir?" episode #7














Hundreds of antique Delft tiles, once, presumably, from Blathwayt's office, now
adorning the dairy

1 comment:

Tawana said...

I was looking up more info on Wikipedia on orangeries and found this: "The orangery at Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, which had been provided with a slate roof as originally built about 1702, was given a glazed one about a hundred years later, after Humphrey Repton remarked that it was dark; though it was built to shelter oranges, it has always simply been called the "greenhouse" in modern times."
Interesting that this orangery was so important!