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- Oct 19, 2017, 8:51pm · 🌧 13 °C Altitude: 85 m
  England Wraxall 51.441757, -2.71841551°26’30” N 2°43’6” W
Day 55
Tyntesfield
October 19, 2017 in England ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Mein dritter Stopp war bei Tyntesfield, einem National Trust Haus. Ich liebe britische Häuser und das hier war keine Ausnahme. Überall waren unzählige Bücher und wunderschöne Gegenstände und die Architektur war einfach wunderschön. Ich liebe solche Häuser einfach! Auf den Bildern sieht man das Haus von außen, die Bücherei, ein Schlafzimmer, wo vielleicht Queen Victoria (?!) übernachtet hat, eine Kapelle, die nach Vorbild einer französischen Kapelle in Paris gebaut wurde, die Kapelle von außen und mein Tee. Ich hatte nicht unglaublich viel Zeit in dem Park, was sehr schade war, aber ich hab es geschafft Tee zu trinken, was richtig toll ist, wenn einem dafür gedankt wird.
Wieder Zuhause hab ich die Kinder reingelassen, sie zum Tennis geschickt, sofort abgeholt, weil mir mitgeteilt wurde, dass es ausfällt. Dann hab ich mit Callum Monopoly gespielt und dann Alex zu einem Treffen gebracht. Jetzt hatte ich Abendessen und gucke ‚Friends‘. Vielleicht geh ich bald schlafen. Morgen mach ich etwas mit Callum und Alex und ich fahr wieder nach Hause zu meiner britischen Familie.
Drei Footprints für einen relativ ereignislosen Tag. Danke, dass ihr dabei wart bei der Reise (in meine Erinnerung). Jetzt aber gute Nacht!Read more
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- Mar 13, 2023, 12:00pm · 🌬 13 °C Altitude: 295 ft
  England Wraxall 51.441125, -2.71148651°26’28” N 2°42’41” W
Day 40
Tyntesfield Estate
March 13 in England ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
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
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- Mar 13, 2023, 2:00pm · ☁️ 12 °C Altitude: 276 ft
  England Wraxall 51.441104, -2.71339351°26’28” N 2°42’48” W
Day 40
The chapel at Tyntesfield
March 13 in England ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
The chapel is the architectural climax of the house. It was not unusual for a Victorian country house to have a chapel, but this is one of the finest - a superb gothic creation that has survived virtually unchanged since it was completed in 1875.

It was designed by Arthur Blomfield, the son of a Bishop of London, who initiated a programme of church building in the capital. Blomfield was inspired by the medieval Sainte Chapelle in Paris. The chapel is accessed from the house through a covered bridge which was based on the Bridge of Sighs in Venice.Read more
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