Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire
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 ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire
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 ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire - Barcheston
This detail of the Sheldon Tapestry shows the area around Barcheston. Brailes, one of the Sheldon's other estates, is also shown. Notice the post fencing round the park at 'Compton'. This is now known ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire - Description
This is a detail of the description panel.
Transcript in original spelling:
Warwikshear so namid as wel by the Saxons as of us at this
daye it is devided in two parts by the river avon ronninge
through ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire - Feldon and Arden
As described in the original description panel, Warwickshire is divided in to two distinct areas by the River Avon. The northern part (on the left) is known as the Arden. It was far more heavily wooded ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire - Warwick
This detail shows Warwick and the surrounding villages.
In the town can be seen St Mary's church as it was before the Fire of Warwick in 1694, when it was badly damaged. The south front of the castle ...
Sheldon Tapestry Map of Warwickshire - Weston
On the left (north) of this detail is the house of Weston, (just above the windmill at Wolford). It was in this house, built by Ralph Sheldon, that the tapestries were originally made to hang.
Stockton. C. Gardner with watermill model
Watermill model being built by Mr C Gardner of Stockton. 19 August 1957
Stockton. Watermill model
Model watermill being built by Mr C Gardner of Stockton. 1957
Swan floating decoy
This is a decoy model of a swan make of cork, wood and lead. It would have been purely decorative, as swans were protected by the time this model was made. It is signed, R. Madison Mitchell and dated ...
Swan floating decoy
This is a decoy model of a swan make of cork, wood and lead. It would have been purely decorative, as swans were protected by the time this model was made. It is signed, R. Madison Mitchell and dated ...
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Tapestry
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