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Stoneleigh Abbey : the house, its owners, its lands / edited by Robert Bearman.

  • Accession number

    83388613

  • Class

    Reading Room - 87.2 Stoneleigh/

  • ISBN

    0904201058

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    290 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., plan ; 25 cm.

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General note: Folded plan attached to back cover. Formatted contents note: From monastry to country house: an architectural history of Stoneleigh Abbey, 1156-c.1660 / Richard K. Morris -- An archaeology of hospitality: the Stoneleigh Abbey gatehouse / Rochelle I. Ramey -- Abbey into palace: a lesser Wilton? / Andor Gomme -- Stoneleigh Abbey into the nineteenth century / Geoffrey Tyack. 'Not unmarked by some eccentricities', the Leigh family of Stoneleigh Abbey / Mairi Macdonald -- The Jane Austen connection / Gaye King -- The poet and the paternalist / Norma Hampson. The medieval abbey: its lands and tenants / Andrew Watkins -- From hermitage to hunting lodge: Stoneleigh deerpark - a landscape history / George Demidowicz -- The park and gardens at Stoneleigh Abbey / Hazel Fryer.