Dyrham Park
Dyrham Park in South Gloucester is a baroque country house built on the site of an existing Elizabethan manor house. The current house was built […]
Dyrham Park in South Gloucester is a baroque country house built on the site of an existing Elizabethan manor house. The current house was built […]
Boughton, the Northamptonshire home of the Duke of Buccleuch, is known as the English Versailles. It is home to a stunning array of Huguenot paintings, […]
By the 1680s the Faversham gunpowder industry was well established but the arrival of skilled Huguenot refugees from France gave it fresh impetus. In 1759 […]
In addition to discovering the Tudor court of Henry VIII, his wives and children, the spectacular baroque palace built for William III and Mary II […]
One of London’s last remaining Tudor houses, Sutton House was originally built in 1535 by Sir Ralph Sadleir. By 1540 he was Secretary of State […]
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) believes old buildings have a future. From cottages to castles and from churches to cathedrals we […]
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Built in 1719, 19 Princelet Street became the home of the Ogier family, who had escaped from persecution in France. They entered the silk weaving […]
The Huguenot Museum in Rochester focuses on history of the Huguenots through paintings, crafts, silks & other artefacts.
In 1685, 200,000 French Protestants fled to England to escape persecution in Catholic France. Many settled in Canterbury where there was already a French community […]
The French Protestant Church of London in Soho Square is the only remaining Huguenot church in London.