News from Athelhampton House & Gardens.

Regular visitors to Athelhampton may well have noticed a recent change in the Great Chamber. On the right hand side of the fireplace, beneath a cubist painting by Marevna, sits a new wooden chest: a new addition to the collection of 16th Century furniture at Athelhampton House & Gardens. Merman on the carved 16th Century Chest at Athelhampton House & Gardens Intricately carved, it shows a bizarre collection of mythical creatures across its front. Surly mermen look out at the

When you visit Athelhampton House & Gardens, if you explore the house you'll come across linenfold panelling at every turn. To many people, that term means nothing, and it would have meant nothing to the medieval and Tudor craftsmen who created Athelhampton House, despite their familiarity with it as an object. Linenfold panelling imitates folded linen or paper through relieve carving used on wood. While it originated in Flanders in the 1300s, it spread across Northern Europe

Here at Athelhampton House & Gardens, we don't just have the formal gardens laid out for Alfred Carte de Lafontaine by Inigo Thomas. Tucked away to the East is the Edwardian Kitchen Garden at Athelhampton. At an acre in size, it doesn't just contain vegetables: it also contains around 40 apple trees. Some of the heritage apple trees in the Edwardian Kitchen Garden at Athelhampton House & Gardens Many of these trees were planted when the Edwardian Kitchen Garden at Athelhampto