|
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
|
Montacute House
|
|
(37km/23m SE of Taunton) Imposing Elizabethan mansion, built in the 1590s for Sir Edward Phelips (later speaker of the House of Commons) in honey-coloured stone and to a strictly symmetrical design. The architect is believed to have been a Somerset mason, William Arnold. The house has survived virtually unaltered except for the addition in 1786 of a beautiful west front, very much in keeping because decorated with Tudor stonework and carvings from a nearby house, Clifton Maybank, which was then being demolished. The Long Gallery contains a display of Tudor portraits on loan from the National Portrait Gallery.
|
|
|
|