Sudeley Castle

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Aerial view from the north-west
Overflight image (north is up)

Sudeley Castle in England Gloucestershire is a country castle ( English country house ) in the Tudor style back with its roots in the 10th century. The property is about one kilometer southeast of the town of Winchcombe and about eight kilometers northeast of Cheltenham , on the western edge of the Cotswolds Hills about 140 km west-northwest of London and 65 km south of Birmingham .

In the middle of the 15th century, Ralph Boteler, de iure 7th Baron Sudeley laid the foundation stone for the property that Richard III. expanded in the late 15th century. Further changes and additions were made in the second half of the 16th century by Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos and his son Giles. In the English Civil War during the 17th century severely damaged the building fell to ruin . Two rich Glover from Worcester bought the run-down property and left it from 1837 restoredand rebuild. Gardens that were lost were also re-established. The later lady of the castle, Emma Dent, completed the work and also had some new gardens laid out. When she died in 1900, the property was by and large what it is today: a Victorian -style multi-wing main building surrounded by an English landscaped park and nine gardens. Emma Dent bequeathed the property to her nephew Henry Dent-Brocklehurst, whose family is still the owner and lives in the castle. Even so, it has been open to visitors since the early 1970s. In addition to the palace park and gardens, some interiors and the church of St. Mary's with the grave of Catherine Parr , the sixth wife of Henry VIII , belonging to the complex can be visited. Sudeley Castle is the only privately owned English castle to have an English queen buried on the grounds. The main building as well as gardens, church and various outbuildings are listed .

history

middle Ages

Sudeley was mentioned in writing in the 10th century, but already in Roman times there were several country estates ( Villae rusticae ) on today's castle grounds. Two of them were excavated in the late 19th century , and their remains are now a reminder of the site's Roman past. At the time it was first mentioned, Sudeley belonged to a larger estate in Hawling . Later it came to the English king Æthelred . At that time, the property included large forests and a deer park, the remains of which are still preserved today. There was also a stately home from the Saxon times , but nothing is left of it today. Historians assume that it stood east of today's castle on an area known today as Hopyard Field . The king gave this mansion together with the associated land (Sudeleagh) to his daughter Goda (also Godgifu), who married Drogo von Mantes . Their son, Ralph the Scary , Earl of Hereford , inherited the property and left it to his son Harold when he died in 1057. This was allowed to keep Sudeley after the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror , because he was a distant relative of the Duke of Normandy . Harold's son John took over the property from his father and had the existing house fortified in 1139 because he sided with Matilda of England and against King Stephen in the battle for the English throne . Stephan then occupied Sudeley and temporarily stationed royal troops there. Over several generations Sudeley passed on through male family members, who meanwhile called themselves "de Sudeley" after their property. After all, it was owned by John, 3rd Baron Sudeley, who bequeathed it to his two sisters when he died in 1367. One of them, Joan de Sudeley, was married to William (le) Boteler of Wem. Their son Thomas followed in 1380 as lord of the castle and 4th Baron Sudeley.

New building under Ralph Boteler

In 1417 Sudeley Castle came to Ralph Boteler , Thomas' third son, after his two older brothers had previously inherited titles and property but had died without descendants. Ralph was under Henry VI. Commander of the English fleet and was promoted to Baron Sudeley by him in 1441 . Appointed Lord High Treasurer of England in July 1443 , he built a new, more comfortable country estate between 1441 and 1458, but without having obtained the necessary fortification permit. The money for the new building came in part from English booty from the Hundred Years War . When the construction work was finished, Sudeley Castle consisted of a reinforced building complex , the wings of which were grouped around an inner courtyard. The necessary permit for the building secured by moats was granted to him in May 1458 retrospectively. In the early 1460s, Boteler finally had a chapel built east of the new building. Together with half a dozen other properties, the now 73-year-old Ralph Boteler sold the property to King Edward IV in 1469. The reasons for this have not yet been clarified. As a supporter of the Lancaster Party, which was initially defeated in the Wars of the Roses, he may have been forced to sell by the Yorkist Edward IV. Another plausible explanation would be that Boteler's only son died before him and he was thus without an heir. What is certain, however, is that Ralph Boteler's nephews fought for the return of the property after Henry VII's accession to the throne , but were unsuccessful.

Property of the royal family

Catherine Parr was buried in the palace chapel (anonymous portrait from the 16th century)

Edward IV gave Sudeley to his 17-year-old brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester , in November 1469 as a reward for supporting the king against his initial confidante and later adversary Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick . In 1478 Richard Sudeley traded Castle with his royal nephew Edward V for Richmond Castle in Yorkshire . However, with his own accession to the throne in 1483, he regained ownership of the property. During his time as lord of the castle, he had an east wing built into the existing building complex in the south, which was intended for residential use, and had it luxuriously furnished according to his royal origins. In a south wing that he built in 1484, Richard accommodated a large hall , the Banqueting Hall ( German  banquet hall ). After the Wars of the Roses, Henry VII gave the property to his uncle Jasper Tudor , the Duke of Bedford . But because he died childless in 1495, it fell back to the crown. In July 1535, Henry VIII visited the property with his then wife Anne Boleyn . Heinrich's son and successor as king, Edward VI. , gave the property to his uncle Thomas Seymour in 1547 on the occasion of his marriage to the widow of Henry VIII, Catherine Parr. At the same time he raised him to Baron Seymour of Sudeley . Thomas had minor changes made to Sudeley Castle to suit his wife's status. The couple moved into Sudeley in 1548, and the former queen brought a large court with her. After her death in September of the same year, she was buried in the Sudeley Chapel, as requested .

Baron Chandos

Thomas Seymour was arrested and beheaded for high treason in 1549. The crown withdrew his possessions and gave them to Catherine's brother William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton , in 1552 . William, however, was involved in a plot that was aimed Lady Jane Gray to establish on the throne, and therefore fell at Queen Mary I of favor. He had to return title and property. The Queen then awarded Sudeley to Sir John Brydges in 1554 and at the same time awarded him the title of Baron Chandos of Sudeley. His family remained the owners for the next 100 years. John Brydges died in 1557, leaving Sudeley Castle to his son Edmund. He had extensive changes made to the complex around 1572 and redesigned it into a castle. In particular, he had the buildings around the northern courtyard modified, taking into account existing structures. When the work was finished, this area now had two floors and served as the new living area of ​​the complex. However, Edmund did not live to see the end of the renovations because he died in 1573. His son and heir Giles continued the work started by his father. During his time as lord of the castle, Queen Elizabeth I of England paid three visits to Sudeley: 1574, 1575 and 1592.

During the English Civil War, Sudeley Castle served as a base for the royalists , because the then castle owner George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos , supported King Charles I. In January 1643 - in the absence of the lord of the castle - after a three-day siege to Edward Massie and his Passing roundheads . A little later, however, royalist troops under Karl's nephew Ruprecht Sudeley recaptured , so that from April 1643 the palace complex was again permanently occupied by royalist soldiers. However, the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell desecrated the castle chapel before they left by using it as a stable and butchery. In 1644, parliamentary troops again besieged Sudeley and bombed it until the occupation handed over the facility. The attack had seriously damaged the lock. In the Octagon Tower you can still see the spot where he was hit by a cannonball that year. In the following years Sudeley Castle served as a parliamentary garrison and was razed by the occupiers in 1648 - even though the previous owner Baron Chandos had meanwhile switched to the Roundheads side. Although he received compensation of £ 1,000, he never returned to Sudeley, but withdrew to his estates in Middlesex and died there in 1655. The castle sank into insignificance. George Brydges' second wife, Lady Jane Savage, married George Pitt of Stratfield Saye for the third time after his death and brought him the property.

Reconstruction under the Dent family

Engraving depicting Sudeley Castle from 1726

Sudeley Castle was neglected for the next 130 years. Only part of the northern palace buildings had a roof after the demolition, the rest of the large complex gradually fell into ruin. The Banqueting Hall as well as the north and west wings disappeared . The owners changed several times without paying special attention to the property. The residents of the area stole stones to use as building material for other structures. In the 18th century the castle ruins became a much-visited attraction and at times still housed an inn. King George III. paid a visit to the facility. In 1812 Lord Rivers of Stratfield Saye Sudeley Castle and 60  acres (around 24  hectares ) of land sold to Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville , the future Duke of Buckingham and Chandos . He sold the castle in 1837 to the brothers John and William Dent, wealthy glove makers from Worcester. They had already bought up a large part of the property belonging to the castle in 1829. The new owners began restoring and rebuilding the castle in the Tudor style. The plans for it came from the Worcester architect Harvey Eginton . From around 1840 the buildings around Sudeley's northern courtyard could be inhabited again; the brothers left some other parts of the complex as ruins and only structurally secured. The Dents also furnished the interiors in a neo-Gothic style. Many of the furnishings from the Tudor period came from the sale of the household effects of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill mansion in 1842.

Emma Dent continued her husband's work (portrait photo, 19th century)

After the death of the two castle owners, their nephew John Coucher Dent took over the inheritance in 1855 or 1856. Together with his wife Emma, ​​née Brocklehurst, whom he married in 1847, he continued the reconstruction of the castle and the restoration or new planting of the gardens. The couple also collected art and everything related to Sudeley's story, including paintings, memorabilia of the Civil War, Tudor period miniatures, and Jacobean embroidery. The castle chapel was also restored under the two and consecrated again in 1863 . Sir George Gilbert Scott , who also took care of the reconstruction of the stables , was responsible for the work, which ran from 1854/1855 or 1859 . His assistant, John Drayton Wyatt, was responsible for the new construction of the North Tower (German North Tower ). After John's death in 1885, the property came to his widow, who completed work on the buildings and gardens by 1890. When Emma died in 1900, the property passed to her nephew Henry Dent-Brocklehurst by will of her late husband. He left Sudeley Castle to his son John Henry in 1927, who had to sell a large part of the property in order to pay the high inheritance taxes. For this reason, only around 10 percent of the 12,000 acres at the time belong to the property today. In the period from 1930 to 1936, John Henry had the interior of the castle building repaired and modified under the direction of the architect Walter H. Godfrey.

Development since the Second World War

During the Second World War , a camp was set up on the castle grounds for Italian prisoners of war who had to work on the property's agricultural and forestry areas. The castle itself housed a large part of the painting collection of the Tate Gallery in London at that time . When John Henry died in July 1949, his son Mark inherited the property. His mother Mary lived in the castle until 1969, which on July 4, 1960, together with the castle chapel and the ruins of a tithe barn, was listed as a Category I (Grade I) listed building . After Mary's departure, her son Mark and his wife Elizabeth moved into the property after the two of them had renovated and repaired it for two years . They opened Sudeley Castle to visitors to ensure the economic survival of the facility. Mark Dent-Brocklehurst died just a few months after opening in 1972, leaving Sudeley to his widow and their two children, Henry and Mollie. They are still the owners today and live in the castle. Nevertheless, some of the rooms can be visited, which more than 90,000 visitors per year. In addition, part of the gardens and rooms can be rented for events, including the library and the chapel for weddings. The resulting income could not cover the annual maintenance costs of the property of 1.5 million pounds until 2009.

description

Schematic site plan of the property (central part)

The 1,200 acres (almost 486 hectares) property includes the main building and the castle chapel (today church), an English landscape garden and several ornamental gardens as well as various outbuildings on the castle grounds.

architecture

main building

The castle building is a multi-wing construction made of locally occurring yellow sandstone , the so-called Cotswolds stone. The former shape of the complex, whose tracts surrounded two closed inner courtyards, can still be read from the current floor plan. With the exception of the narrow central wing, all of the wings that are still preserved today have two floors and are closed off by low, slate-covered hip roofs . All wings also have a crenellated wreath . The core of the current building dates from the Tudor period (15th century), but it was heavily reshaped and changed in the Victorian period. The castle was given its current appearance and most of its furnishings in the 19th century by the brothers John and William Dent and Emma Brocklehurst, married Dent.

Banqueting Hall ruins

Of the castle wings around the southern courtyard, Inner Court (German Inner courtyard ), is just get more of the west wing today, where once economies were staying. Today there is a café and the castle shop there. These two facilities also use the 50-meter-long gravel-strewn terrace on the western side . In its southwest corner there is a floor mosaic that is a copy of a mosaic in a Roman villa on Sudeley land. At the southern end of the west wing stands the three-storey Dungeon Tower from around 1442, whose name translates into German as leaning tower . However, he never had a prison function. Its name is probably derived from the French term donjon , which indicates that it was initially used as a residential tower . He has restored the ground floor and first floor. Its access was originally from the now un-preserved south wing of the Inner Court . The northern end of the west wing is marked by the Portmare Tower (German: Portmare Tower ) built under Ralph Boteler with its five storeys. It is said to have got its name from a captured French admiral, whose ransom supposedly contributed a good deal to the financing of the new palace in the 15th century. While the north and west sides of the tower are still original from the 15th century, the south and east sides were heavily restored in 1857 and 1887. All floors are each occupied by a single space, of which the ground floor loopholes has.

East side of the Outer Court , view from the south

Opposite the west wing are the ruins of the Banqueting Hall from the late 15th century. Despite its name, it was more the reception hall of the royal suite than a place for festivities and thus the most important room in the former east wing. Their storeys could be reached via the spiral staircase in an octagonal stair tower , the Octagon Tower , on the eastern outer side. The outer courtyard is separated from the inner courtyard by a narrow 18 foot (5.5 meter) wide corridor that connects the east wing with the west wing. It dates from 1889 and replaced the low walls that were still there at that time. These may have been from 1614 and were the remainder of the middle wing that was once there. At the east end of this connecting building is the cloakroom tower with a bay window from 1572. Its west side dates from the mid-15th century, while the east side is more recent. Half of its ground floor is loggia-like .

The building wings around the northern Outer Court (German Outside court courtyard called) originate in parts still in the 15th century, but received its present appearance mostly in Victorian times. The gate in the middle of the north wing, which was built around 1442, is one of the oldest structures . In the past, a drawbridge spanning the upstream moat led to its pointed arched gate . The east wing of the northern courtyard used to serve as a utility wing with kitchens, stables and a coach house, today it is used by the castle owners for living, just like the west wing opposite.

Castle Church

To the east of the castle building is St. Mary's Church, built around 1460 as a castle chapel, which was once connected to the castle by a covered corridor and was located outside the moat. The church has been under monument protection as a Grade I Listed Building since July 4, 1960 and also serves as a parish church where services are regularly held. Its restored outer facade is in the 15th century style with a crenellated wreath, gargoyles and pinnacles studded with crabs on pillars . At the west end of the five-axis nave is a square bell tower, which is crowned by a weather vane . The interior of the church dates from the Victorian era and has a black and white marble floor . The most important piece of equipment in terms of history and art is the tomb of Catherine Parr, designed by John Birnie Philip in 1859 . It is made of white marble and was built in the choir on the site of the Queen's tomb, rediscovered in 1782.

  • View of the castle church from the southwest

  • Entrance facade of the castle church

  • inside view

  • Catherine Parrs grave

Outbuildings

North side of the North Lodge

There is a three-storey gate building 150 meters north of the castle . He is North Lodge called and is a building of Hausteinquadern , which was built in 1886 by John Drayton Wyatt for Emma Dent. Its gate passage can be closed with a double-leaf gate. The individual floors of the building are separated from one another by cornices and closed off by a crenellated wreath. The North Lodge has been a listed building (Grade II) since September 7, 1987 . The same applies to the West Lodge, located about 680 meters northwest of the castle building . It is also called Almsbury Lodge and was built in 1893. The castle entrance from the west used to run through it, today it leads past it to the west.

Ruins of the tithe barn, view from the southeast

About 100 meters northwest of the main building is the former tithe barn of Winchcombe Abbey . Destroyed by Cromwell's troops during the Civil War, it was rebuilt and used as a residence in the 18th century. After it burned down in a fire, it is a ruin. The building originally dates from the second half of the 15th century and has been a listed building (Grade I) since July 4, 1960 . Its long sides were divided into 13 axes by ogival openings, with massive pillars in between. In the past, the building was divided into two areas inside by a wooden wall: a living area with three axes and a separate entrance and the eight-axis barn area. Both triangular gables on the short sides are still fully preserved. In front of the ruin is a rectangular, almost 50 meter long carp pond on its east side, which is filled with large Koi . It was only created around 1930, before a hedge labyrinth had been created under Emma Dent .

inside rooms

Most of the architectural interior fittings of the castle date from the 19th century, but the Dent family's rooms were also furnished with furniture and fixtures from the Tudor period. Much of the furniture and stained glass are by William Morris , while numerous paintings belong to the Walter Morrison collection. She came to Sudeley through Mark Dent-Brocklehurst's widow Mary, Walter Morrison's daughter. It includes works by old masters such as Rubens , van Dyck , Nicolas Poussin , Claude Lorrain , Jacob van Ruisdael , William Turner and John Constable . Another masterpiece that can be viewed at Sudeley Castle is Lucas de Heere's painting An Allegory of the Tudor Succession , which was acquired by the Dent brothers in 1842. Like many older pieces of furniture, it came from Strawberry Hill. There is also an exhibition in the main building on the history of the castle and family during the First World War . It consists of exhibits and memorabilia belonging to the Dent-Brocklehurst family, such as diary entries and photographs from that time.

Baptism gown of Elizabeth I

Among the castle rooms, which are open to visitors, who belongs Chandos Room (German Chandoszimmer ) with a four-poster bed , the king from the possession of Charles I came from. Another poster bed is in the Queen's Bedroom (German queen bedroom shown). His covers and curtains are from a tapestry - factory in Aubusson and are once Marie Antoinette heard. Elizabeth I's christening gown is also on display in this room . The Tudor Document Room houses books and original documents from the Tudor period, including love letters from Catherine Parr to Thomas Seymore and rare copies of books written by the Queen. The sewing room serves as an exhibition space for textiles from a period of 400 years, all of which were once part of the palace furnishings, while the palace library presents a tapestry from the late 16th century. The wall hanging with a floral pattern shows the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise and hangs over richly decorated paneling . The room is equipped with a large fireplace, which, in addition to the initials of the second Baron Chandos (EC) on the mantelpiece, also shows his family's motto: “MAINETEINE LE DROIT” (German “Keep the right”). The fireplace dates from around 1572 and used to be in another room of the castle.

Castle park and gardens

Sudeley Castle's park and gardens have been under protection (Grade II *) since February 28, 1986 and are open to visitors every day from spring to October. Garden tours take place from late spring to late summer. The garden maintenance is based on the goal of offering as many wild animals as possible a habitat on the property. Particular attention is paid to wild bees .

The main building is located in the middle of an English landscape garden in which mostly linden trees grow. But there are also oaks , beeches , atlas cedars and horse chestnuts . Most of the trees growing there today were planted by the two Dent brothers and Emma Dent in the 19th century. This also includes some solitary trees such as an old, around 200-year-old walnut tree around 30 meters north of the castle building, a large Lebanon cedar northeast of the castle church and a mulberry tree planted in 1885 on the south side of the Dungeon Tower , which gave the small mulberry garden its name.

The Queen's Garden ; in the background the White Garden and the Castle Church

Oldest castle garden is the east of the castle lies Queen's Garden (German Queen's Garden ), a formal garden of the long on its northern and southern long side of 50 meters, double, yew hedges is limited. At this point there was already a garden parterre in Tudor times , the remains of which were rediscovered during the extensive reconstruction and restoration work in the 19th century. Emma Dent had this rectangular garden reconstructed according to old designs. It is surrounded all around by box hedges about one meter high and divided into four parts by two straight, crossing paths. The entrances on the west and east side of the garden are each flanked by two large yew trees cut into shape . A fountain from the mid-19th century, which is surrounded by a stone balustrade , stands at the crossroads in the middle . Its fountain was installed later and dates from between 1909 and 1940. It has been under protection as an individual monument since September 7, 1987. Many of the current plants in Queen's Garden , including over 70 different types of roses, no longer date from the 19th century, but from a new planting in the 1990s based on designs by the English landscape architect Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall .

North of the garden of the Queen is located on the castle church bordering the White Garden (German White Garden ) from the late 20th century. It is also formally designed and, like three other gardens, was laid out by the current owner of the castle, Lady Ashcombe. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and, as a sign of her purity, has been planted with white-blooming flowers and shrubs such as peonies , clematis , tobacco and tulips . The topiarys in this section are covered with ivy and roses.

The Secret Garden , looking east

A gravel path leads from the White Garden on the south side of the church to a roundabout to the west, which is enclosed by a yew hedge and has a box-tree bed in its center. Directly adjacent to it is the East Garden (German Ostgarten ), whose name results from the fact that it is located directly to the east of the castle. Its design was inspired by Andrew Marvell's poem The Garden .

North of the castle church, visitors will find the Secret Garden (German Secret Garden ), the end of the 1970s replaced a rose garden from the 19th century. It is separated from the church on its south side by a two meter high yew hedge. On its three other sides, it is surrounded by a wall of the same height from the Jacobean period, making it a classic walled garden . In 1979 the castle owner commissioned Rosemary Verey to redesign this garden so that it could serve as a backdrop for her wedding to Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe . In 1998 it was remodeled by Charles Chesshire for the wedding of Lady Ashcombe's son Henry. More than 2500 tulips bloom there in spring.

To the north of the Secret Garden is the pheasantry , where 16 endangered bird species are bred and kept. Directly to the west of it is a pond called The Moat (German Der Wassergraben). Its rectangular basin is about 100 meters long, but despite its name it is probably not a remnant of the former moat, but rather a former fish pond.

The knot garden

In 1995 the lords of the castle had a knot garden laid out in the northern area of ​​the Inner Court . 1200 box trees cut into shape form a pattern, the model of which can be seen in a portrait of Elizabeth I in the palace. The Queen wears a dress with this pattern in the painting. In the middle of the garden is a Moorish-style fountain . In addition to the book, Egyptian papyrus , climbing strawberries , ray pens and American climbing trumpets are also part of the planting.

Around the ruins of the tithe barn, the area was converted into a natural garden , in which wild and climbing roses as well as mallows , hydrangeas , wisteria , wild clematis and ferns grow. To the northeast of the Zehntscheunengarten is the ninth palace garden, which was recently laid out. This is a medicinal garden called the Tudor Physic Garden . There you will find mainly plants that were used during the Tudor period for the manufacture of medicines and medicines. Today the plants are processed into cosmetic products that are sold in the castle's own shop.

To the southwest of the tithe barn, about 140 meters from the castle, there is a large area with an adventure playground for children and a hedge maze made of willows and a small pond.

Sudeley Castle in film and television

The property has repeatedly served as a backdrop for TV productions since the 1970s. Scenes from the 1976 film Beauty and the Beast with Trish Van Devere and George C. Scott played in addition to Knebworth House and Salisbury Hall in Sudeley Castle. The system was also seen in various episodes of television series. For example, scenes from the Victorian series The Pallisers (1974) were shot in Sudeley Castle. The same applies to the film adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Roman Martin Chuzzlewit , which the BBC produced in 1994 and broadcast in several parts. After Sudeley had also served as a backdrop for the mini-series Tess of the D'Urbervilles based on the novel by Thomas Hardy, which was broadcast in 2008, the last filming so far took place on the property in 2016. Its extensive gardens were used as the backdrop for scenes that took place in the garden of Westminster Abbey in The White Princess , a sequel to the 2013 series The White Queen . Previously, the episode The Eye of Apollo from the BBC series Father Brown was filmed there in 2012 .

In addition to TV series, Sudeley Castle can also be seen in various films. Parts of Jack Gold's TV adaptation of the P. G. Wodehouse novel His Lordship and the Pig; His and Pig (Original: Heavy Weather ) filmed there, because the castle served the writer as a model for the Blandings Castle that appears in the novel . Also Diarmuid Lawrence , the director of the published literature in 1996 Emma , for Jane Austen's eponymous novel was the template Sudeley chose as the setting for his film. After all, the castle was featured in the documentary period film Elizabeth in 2000 .

In addition to television series and feature films, some documentaries and reports also deal with the property. In 1995, English actor Robert Hardy introduced Sudeley Castle and its ghost apparitions in the Discovery Channel production Castle Ghosts of England . In December 2003, an episode of Our House was shown on English television in which the owner gave Lady Ashcombe a look behind the scenes of her castle. Just three months earlier, the BBC had broadcast an episode of its Antiques Roadshow , which was filmed at Sudeley Castle. Another TV report that partly deals with the property is the documentary Richard III: The King in the Car Park, broadcast on Channel 4 in 2013 . The castle was one of seven stations in this production that looked for and found the royal skeleton .

literature

  • Elizabeth Ashcombe: Behind Castle Walls at Sudeley Past and Present. 1st edition. Amberley, Stroud 2009, ISBN 978-1-84868-801-8 ( excerpts ).
  • Jean Bray, Nicholas Hurt: Sudley Castle. A Thousand Years of English History. [O. O. J. (after 2002)].
  • Anthony Emery: Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500. Volume 3: Southern England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-58132-5 , pp. 170-176.
  • Robin Fedden, John Kenworthy-Browne: The Country House Guide. Introducing over 200 privately owned historic houses in England, Wales and Scotland open to the public. Jonathan Cape, London 1979, ISBN 0-224-01359-9 , pp. 325-327.
  • Simon Jenkins: England's thousand best houses. Penguin Books, London 2004, ISBN 0-14-100625-0 , pp. 271-272.
  • Adrian Pettifer: English Castles. A Guide by Counties. 3. Edition. Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2002, ISBN 0-85115-782-3 , pp. 80-81.
  • J. Postance, AE Salmon: Sudeley Castle. An illustrated guide. Sudeley Castle Ltd., Winchcombe 1977, ISBN 0-905476-05-0 .
  • H. Avray Tipping: Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire. The Seat of Mr. Henry Dent Brocklehurst. In: Country Life . Vol. 25, No. 639, April 3, 1909, ISSN  0045-8856 , pp. 486-495.
  • Geoffrey Tyack, Steven Brindle: Country Houses of England. A & C Black, London 1994, ISBN 0-7136-3780-3 , pp. 208-210.
  • David Verey, Alan Brooks: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds (= The Buildings of England. Volume 40). 3. Edition. Penguin, London 1999, ISBN 0-14-071098-1 , pp. 673-680.

Web links

Commons : Sudeley Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Homepage of the castle , accessed on September 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ David Ross: Sudeley Castle on britainexpress.com , accessed September 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Information about the exhibition and exhibits in the castle on the facility's website , accessed on September 20, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b J. Postance, AE Salmon: Sudeley Castle. An illustrated guide. 1977, p. 7.
  5. ^ History of the property from 1000 to 1400 on the castle website , accessed September 14, 2017.
  6. ↑ History of the property from 1400 to 1500 on the castle website , accessed September 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b c Anthony Emery: Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500. Volume 3, Southern England. 2006, p. 175.
  8. ^ A b Anthony Emery: Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500. Volume 3, Southern England. 2006, p. 174.
  9. ^ H. Avray Tipping: Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire. The Seat of Mr. Henry Dent Brocklehurst. 1909, p. 488.
  10. ^ Robin Fedden, John Kenworthy-Browne: The Country House Guide. 1979, p. 326.
  11. ↑ a b c History of the property from 1500 to 1600 on the castle website , accessed September 15, 2017.
  12. ^ A b c d e Geoffrey Tyack, Steven Brindle: Country Houses of England. 1994, p. 209.
  13. ↑ Simon Jenkins: England's thousand best houses. 2004, p. 271.
  14. ↑ David Ross: Owners of Sudeley Castle on britainexpress.com , accessed September 15, 2017.
  15. ^ H. Avray Tipping: Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire. The Seat of Mr. Henry Dent Brocklehurst. 1909, p. 492.
  16. ↑ a b History of the property from 1642 to 1649 on the castle website , accessed September 15, 2017.
  17. ↑ J. Postance, AE Salmon: Sudeley Castle. An illustrated guide. 1977, p. 12.
  18. ^ A b H. Avray Tipping: Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire. The Seat of Mr. Henry Dent Brocklehurst. 1909, p. 494.
  19. ^ History of the property from 1655 to 1837 on the castle website , accessed on September 18, 2017.
  20. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Entry of the castle park as Registered Park and Garden in the database of Historic England , accessed on 19 September 2017.
  21. ↑ a b c History of the property from 1837 to 1900 on the castle website , accessed on 19 September 2017.
  22. ↑ a b History of the property from 1900 to 2000 on the castle website , accessed on September 19, 2017.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′  N , 1 ° 57 ′  W

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