Tyntesfield Estate

We packed up and left Lemonford by 10am. It was another wet morning! We were driving to Malvern but decided to break our journey with a visit to Tyntesfield, a National Trust property near Clevedon, Bristol.

Tyntesfield was created by the wealthy businessman William Gibbs, who bought the original late Georgian house in 1844 and 20 years later hired John Norton to remodel it as a family home. He doubled its size, creating a splendid country house in the High Victorian Gothic style.

The house was occupied by four generations of the Gibbs family. When the last occupant, Richard, died in 2001, the property came into the possession of the National Trust. Tyntesfield today is fascinating - the Victorian house, chapel, servants' quarters and most of their original contents, as well as the formal and kitchen gardens, Home Farm, estate buildings, farmland, and plantations have survived largely intact. The family chapel is the largest and most elaborate I've ever seen, reflecting the fact that the Gibbs were the wealthiest non-noble family in England.

Heavy rain prevented us from exploring the gardens fully, but we really enjoyed the house. We will have to return on a drier day 😀Read more