News from Athelhampton House & Gardens.

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

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