Madresfield

by Jane Mulvagh

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Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home surrounded by a perfect medieval moat, in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned and lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book, and, unusually, remains in the family's hands to this day.… (more)

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There is nothing as unique in English architecture as the house...no nation is more committed to its development, because of nation has identified twelfth more with the house.

Hermann Muthesius

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To Constance and Margot
and in loving memory of Peter Paul Mulvagh

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Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain

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Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home surrounded by a perfect medieval moat, in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned and lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book, and, unusually, remains in the family's hands to this day.

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