Life And Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton (2016)
“In this chest there lay, among title deeds, letters, estate maps, and other family relics accumulated throughout several centuries, detailed plans for the complete rebuilding of Maryiot Cells. These plans were drawn out in 1781 by Mr Josias Wedgeworth, an architect of no little repute at that period.2 It is evident from the bundle of letters which accompany the plans that, though his patron was nominally Sir Charles Skelton, who had succeeded to his father’s title and estates the previous year,... it was in fact Sir Charles’s wife, Lady Sophia Skelton, who was the prime instigator and director of this ambitious architectural scheme. ‘Her ladyship desires me most particularly …’ ‘With regard to the Folly, her Ladyship is most earnest in her wish …’ ‘It is her Ladyship’s intention …’ These and similar phrases appear frequently in the letters which Sir Charles addressed to the (doubtless) harassed architect.
The scheme may be fairly described as ‘ambitious’, for it embraced a reconstruction of the ancient manor house of Maryiot Cells so drastic as to entail, for all intents and purposes its demolition (though it seems that the beautiful Long Gallery was to be partially spared).MoreLess
The scheme may be fairly described as ‘ambitious’, for it embraced a reconstruction of the ancient manor house of Maryiot Cells so drastic as to entail, for all intents and purposes its demolition (though it seems that the beautiful Long Gallery was to be partially spared).MoreLess
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