Monday 29 July 2019

Back to Chawton ...

Sunday and back to Chawton to visit an antique/vintage/craft/gift fair - I didn't buy much there except a couple of postcards of Lowestoft and Oulton Broad to send to my cousin Crispin who lives there and is very interested in the local history.

Onwards then to Chawton House, the former home of Edward (Austen) Knight, the brother of Jane Austen. 


St Nichola's Church in the grounds of Chawton House


Magnificent driveway up to the main house


Front of the house - Jane's favourite spot is the window above the main door


Fire place in The Great Room


Witches marks by the fireplace


Note found in a champagne bottle buried under the floor of the Great Room by Montagu G Knight


The Dining Room


Loved this spot looking over the grounds


Jane's favourite spot overlooking the driveway.


Which allowed her to see all the comings and goings of the estate


View from Oak Room across the estate including the ha-ha (sunken fence designed to contain livestock but not spoil views)


Fireplace in the Oak Room


The Writing Room


Long Gallery at the back of the house


Some of the stained glass windows showing the ownership of the house through time


Tea room in the old kitchen


Where an enormous slice of coffee & walnut cake was indulged in


Edward (Austen) Knight's suit, possibly the one he wore to be introduced to the Knight family before they 'adopted' him as their heir


Mary Pennington (Aged 10), 1830


Exquisite over one stitching


Fabulous stag motif


Cat complete with long stitch whiskers


Fanny Kemble, Georgian author and activist, she wrote an anti-slavery piece following a visit to her ex-husband's American plantation


Copy of Frances Burney's Camilla - subscribed to by Miss J Austen, Steventon


Jane's subscription to Camilla


First edition of Northanger Abbey & Persuasion


Lychgate to St. Nicholas church


Statue of Jane in the church grounds


Graves of Cassandra (Jane's mother) and Cassandra Elizabeth (Jane's sister)

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