Saturday, October 24, 2015

Woodchester, England



 
A very unusual day today visiting a mansion started but abandoned before it was finished.
 
 
Woodchester Mansion is a Grade I listed house in the Victorian Gothic style. It is absolutely unique because it is unfinished, so offers visitors the opportunity to see how a house of this period was constructed. The architect was a young local man called Benjamin Bucknall, and both he and his patron, the wealthy William Leigh, were admirers of the important French architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc. There is a strong French influence in the style of the house which also makes Woodchester slightly different from other buildings of its type and time. In addition, Leigh was a perfectionist who exerted a strong and active influence on all the work he undertook, so the quality of the craftsmanship in the house is very high. In a way it is a shame he never completed the house but in another way it is good because it is the only mansion in England that gives you a view of how it looked during the construction. If you want to see more of the house and the views we saw today you will have to look at the slideshow on the right.
 
I especially liked seeing this mansion because it shows you how one of these types of mansions was built and the kind of work that went into it. We spent about two hours there seeing everything we could inside and then we went outside for a short walk around the estate before we headed for a point with a good view normally, of Wales, in the distance. Unfortunately, the weather was not kind and the view was clouded but it was still a good place to be to see how the English countryside is divided up in patchwork style, each section divided by stone walls or hedges.
 
 
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