The rare and unusual Grotesque style paintings feature fantastical beasts and foliage arranged in decorative panels.© Historic England Archive
Posted on 04/14/2025 10:28:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
During renovations at a former Tudor hunting lodge known as The Ashes, which is located in Inglewood Forest, Cumbria, workers exposed rare sixteenth-century wall paintings, according to a statement released by Historic England. The Grotesque-style artworks were brought to light upon removal of sections of more recent plaster work that had been covering up the 450-year-old images. The scenes, which were created using a secco technique in which pigments are applied to dry plaster, feature fantastical beasts and decorative foliage thought to imitate textile designs of the period. "The combination of motifs discovered here is unusual even by national standards," said Historic England's Myra Tolan-Smith. Scientific dating of the building's timbers using dendrochronology confirmed that the roof covering the earliest part of the house was constructed from wood felled around 1561 or 1562, during the reign of Elizabeth I.
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The rare and unusual Grotesque style paintings feature fantastical beasts and foliage arranged in decorative panels.© Historic England Archive
The dining room at The Ashes© Historic England Archive
Very Cool.......
What a cozy, beautiful room. Classical design never goes out of style, even after 450 years.
The UK is museum that people live in...................
That’s true.
Just like France.
The UK is a museum that the globalists and Muslims are both trying to destroy.
That is what i used to like about going over there.
Walk into a public place, or private, and go..its still standing.
Tell you what though. Not for people who have allergies. Some of those places are musty as hell.
That top arch of the fireplace looks a little scary on the right hand side.
But, it is a beautiful room.
Tudor lodges are cozy, but I prefer at least three or four exits in case of fire.
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Reminds me of “the slaughtered lamb”. Watched Condors nest, jenny agutter was in that too.
I went to a small town near York for work. They put me in a hotel built in 1750. Top floor room with sloped roof. Only heater was a small radiant heater in the bathroom. NE england can be very cold in late December. Couple of nights I slept in my clothes to stay warm. North sea air is chilling.
Yet strangely, the Tudors are not remembered for education.
QE-I was the very first English monarch to start schools for the ordinary citizens. She thought everyone should be able to read and work arithmetic.
I’ll bet there have been so many murders there.
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