Date:1588 - 1590 (c.)
Description:The Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire is in the collection of the Warwickshire Museum Service. It measures 5.1 x 3.9 metres and is usually on display at the Market Hall Museum in Warwick. It is the only surviving complete tapestry map from a set commissioned by Ralph Sheldon in the 1580s. The other three maps show Worcestershire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, and they would all have hung together to create a wonderful panorama of the English Midlands. They were probably woven at the Sheldon tapestry workshop at Barcheston in South Warwickshire. Parts of the other three tapestry maps are in the collection of the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
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Bond in £1,000 from William Barnes to John Throckmorton for indemnifying him certain ...
Release from John Alderford to Ralph Sheldon of an annuity of £66 on Barcheston. [Date ...
Exemplification of a recovery of premises, by Ralph Sheldon against Richard Parsons ...
Postcard of Barcheston Manor from the rear, near the River Stour.
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The Sheldons were an ancient family who came originally from Sheldon, a parish on the western outskirts ...
Ralph Sheldon (1537 - 1613) was a rich landowner in Warwickshire and Worcestershire. He was also a courtier ...
William Sheldon (c.1500-1570) married the heiress of William Willington of Barcheston Manor. Shortly ...
Award of Sir John Throckmorton and others between William and Ralph Sheldon and John Throckmorton whereby ...
This coat of arms at the bottom left corner of the Brailes Map displays the arms of the Sheldon family ...
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Source: Warwickshire Museums , Warwickshire County Record Office
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