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Saving Wotton The remarkable story of a Soane country house

Saving Wotton The remarkable story of a Soane country house

48 pages, paperback, 280 x 210mm, 75 illus.
PRICE: £15.00
ISBN: 9780954228477

 

By Dr Giles Worsley, Donald Insall CBE, Kate Graham, Peter Inskip and William Palin

Wotton has been dealt many blows and survived them all. Today it is a blossoming country house with the mark of Sir John Soane's essential reconstructions after fire struck in 1820. In 1953 after being employed as a boy's boarding school the house was left empty. It was finally Elaine Brunner who brought the house back into it's origional state of grand beauty. Wotton's hardships and reconstructions are described and illustrated in a variety of ways.


Distributed for Sir John Soane's Museum


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