News from Athelhampton House & Gardens.

An exterior view of Athelhampton's Great Hall, with Oriel Window and Tudor Porch The gentle crackle of an open fire in the Great Hall, the sound of pots and pans clattering in the nearby Elizabethan kitchen and the distant echoing of footsteps hurrying up and down narrow winding staircases - it is easy to imagine what daily life may have been like for our Tudor forebearers at Athelhampton House. One of England’s finest Tudor historic houses if you prefer, Athelhampton boasts

Most visitors to the Little Library at Athelhampton House & Gardens these days haven’t heard of Percy F. Westerman, and don't know why so many of his books sit on the shelves in this room. A prolific writer of boys adventure stories through the first half of the 20th Century, Westerman averaged 3.6 books a year over the course of 50 years. He spent much of his life living in a houseboat in Wareham, not far from Athelhampton. Percy F. Westerman, from a British Pathe film His w

There's plenty of stained glass at Athelhampton House & Gardens, and much of it is originally medieval, or 16th Century. It's possible with almost all of it to identify the family it's connected to, and how they were connected to Athelhampton and the Martyn family, thanks to the coats of arms or crests shown. The Kelway coat of arms in the window in the Great Chamber at Athelhampton House In the Green Dining Room, though, we have a bit of a mystery. A fragment of stained glas