My Tuesday
As I said, on Tuesday, I went with Christine to the 16 sided house , A La Ronde ... it was built in the 18th century by two spinster cousins, Jane and Mary Parminter.
The shape means that you can follow the sun around as the day progresses. The two ladies did "the grand tour" and brought back some amazing things ... and designed the upper area as a "Shell Gallery". Over the last couple of years National Trust have been preserving this gallery ... Not that you can go up there, but you can now spy it here and there.
Anyway - enjoy
Love the triangular windows ... with their collapsable blinds/curtains
Great at filling up the random odd shaped spaces
This is an 18th century representation of Moses in the Bullrushes .... you see the baby being placed in, then being found, then taken to Pharoah
The central room
Some more of the ladies work ... the feather border
Looking up to the Shell gallery
They have set up a copy of the gallery down in the lower floor
There's not much garden, but Christine & I loved this tree
The shape means that you can follow the sun around as the day progresses. The two ladies did "the grand tour" and brought back some amazing things ... and designed the upper area as a "Shell Gallery". Over the last couple of years National Trust have been preserving this gallery ... Not that you can go up there, but you can now spy it here and there.
Anyway - enjoy
Love the triangular windows ... with their collapsable blinds/curtains
Great at filling up the random odd shaped spaces
This is an 18th century representation of Moses in the Bullrushes .... you see the baby being placed in, then being found, then taken to Pharoah
The central room
Some more of the ladies work ... the feather border
Looking up to the Shell gallery
They have set up a copy of the gallery down in the lower floor
There's not much garden, but Christine & I loved this tree