Post was not sent - check your email addresses! As a child I was taken to Warwickshire, and had a vague recollection of my Mum telling me how important her family history was, but of course, memories are hazy as I was only 5. I was very pleased with it and it’s survived not only a house move, but several acrobatic and mountaineering cats.I visited several times as a child in the early 50s. I knew it was somewhere around the late 60s or 70s but now we have a date of 1979. Hope you find lots more to enjoy here. 4 Make for a stile a few paces ahead and then follow the path over the high ground, keeping to the right of the windmill. Access to the house is prohibited by the family, unless it is a special occasion. Today, set in its topiary gardens and green lawns, its appearance of idealized English country life contrasts sharply with the story of the family that has lived there for over five hundred years… You must be one of the last ones to see it. A few years ago I recreated it as a ceramic plaque, working from a photograph in a lovely coffee table book called ‘Ancient Houses’. Thanks so much for sharing yours.
By the mid-19th century the site was in ruins until restorations began in about 1835. Let’s hope maybe one day we will be able to get in there again.My dad exercised racehorses at Compton Wynyates around 1951-52. Description English: View of the interior of the room with wooden panelling in the background, a man standing to right and a couple looking at him from outside the room, a dog seated at centre; plate LXXV. Just down the road from me, so I might have to go check it out. Top recommendation. I linked to this post. Thanks!Most of the interiors are filmed on a set, or the house has changed a enormous amount since i was lucky enough to vist the house in the 1990s and when it was filmed.I grew up nearby and my dad knew the area very well. Now doing loads of research into this gorgeous house. Surely they could manage one day a year?
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A depiction of the Battle of Spurs at Tournai, where William Compton was afterwards knighted on the steps of the cathedral there.A view down the main drive towards the entrance to Compton Wynyates.The Interior of Compton Wynyates; the Hall (low end with carved panel in the centre of the screen depicting the battle for Tournai), the high end with its bay window, and the fine linenfold panelling of the screen’s passageA view of the church at Compton Wynyates, site of the tomb of Sir William Compton A drawing by Wencenlaus Hollar of the image Sir William, with his wife and children, captured in stained glass in the chapel at Compton Wynyates.Then look no further! Researching my family history I found that my ancestors were born, married and baptised at Compton Wynyates as they were servants, dating right back to the time of the Civil War. There is no access through to the public road a short distance further on. 1930s. In later years Compton Wynyates became uninhabited. Welcome!
Thanks for posting. Such a pity that it isn’t open. Sorry you will have to change your plans but hopefully this has saved you unexpected disappointment. Compton Wynyates: The Most Perfect & Secret Tudor House in England? Of course I still have my plaque!
Thanks for dropping by and reading my blog.Remember coming upon this beautiful house by accident in 1979 and it was open remember the secret priests hole ,much beautiful linenfold panelling and the topiary garden ,Hi Suzanne, lovely t hear your story of Compton Wynyates. The 'best garden', designed as a topiary garden, was laid out in 1895, and at the same time a water garden was established in the vicinity of the existing moat. I love the fact that it felt like a home. What a fascinating life they must have lived! The front of the house is shown twice in two episodes of the TV drama "The Tudors" which aired several years ago. In 1955 the splendid view of the manor from the drive opened the The facade of Compton Wynyates was used briefly at the beginning of the 1978 film Compton Wynyates was also used in the opening sequence of the 1980s television show Compton Wynyates also plays a central role in the second narrative of Compton Wynyates is also featured at the beginning of the Compton Wynyates featured as 'Nettleford', a fictional country house in "Country House Sale", a 1995 episode of The façade of Compton Wynyates appears in two episodes of the first series of the television series This article is about the house.
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