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Just as it sounds, A Tour & A Tea is a guided tour of the Hall by one of our highly knowledgeable guides, followed by a delicious Afternoon Tea lovingly prepared by Elizabeth Dennison of The Dusty Miller.
The tour will begin at 2:00pm, and will be followed by Afternoon Tea at 3:30pm.
We can happily cater for vegetarian diets, but apologise that we cannot cater for food allergies (eg nuts). Please telephone 01765 692303 to discuss individual requirements.
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Just as it sounds, A Tour & A Tea is a guided tour of the Hall by one of our highly knowledgeable guides, followed by a delicious Afternoon Tea lovingly prepared by Elizabeth Dennison of The Dusty Miller.
The tour will begin at 2:00pm, and will be followed by Afternoon Tea at 3:30pm.
We can happily cater for vegetarian diets, but apologise that we cannot cater for food allergies (eg nuts). Please telephone 01765 692303 to discuss individual requirements.
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Just as it sounds, A Tour & A Tea is a guided tour of the Hall by one of our highly knowledgeable guides, followed by a delicious Afternoon Tea lovingly prepared by Elizabeth Dennison of The Dusty Miller.
The tour will begin at 2:00pm, and will be followed by Afternoon Tea at 3:30pm.
We can happily cater for vegetarian diets, but apologise that we cannot cater for food allergies (eg nuts). Please telephone 01765 692303 to discuss individual requirements.
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Prince Albert is perhaps one of the least known royals - famous for the Great Exhibition and popularising the Christmas tree - yet he quietly revolutionised the royal family. At a time when royalty was perceived as “a distant gilded viper’s nest of dissoluteness”, he was fundamental in creating a royal family that put scandal-free family life at its centre. He understood that, to be liked, the royal family must appear accessible and with the same pastimes and moral code as their subjects. This illusion of propriety - still on show to this day - made the monarchy aspirational for the first time.
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Although the Markenfields had a beautiful domestic Chapel in the heart of the house – which is still very active, and to which all are welcome – at an early stage they established their own chantry chapel dedicated to St Andrew on the East side of the North transept of Ripon Cathedral, where two mediaeval monuments to two notable members of the family remain: both Sir Thomas Markenfields, one (d. 1398) the great-great-grandfather of the other (d.1497). They are all that is left of what must have been, before the reformation, a very fine place of worship and family. mausoleum.
Mass would have been said here daily for the souls of the family departed, by the resident chantry priest. It is probable that this was the same priest who also said Mass daily in the Chapel at Markenfield itself and that he commuted between his two Chapels every day. Those familiar with Yorkshire weather and muddy tracks will know this would not always have been a pleasure...
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The Parish of Markenfield Hall is a most unusual parish, partly
on account of its unique 14th century moated hall and also
because, over the centuries, the parish has remained small, its
boundaries almost identical with those of the estate. Unlike
surrounding parishes, no hamlet or village has grown up around
the hall. Through the ages the name has changed from
Merchefeld to Markenfield with the main variants being
Merchingfeld, Merkingfeld, Markynfeld, Merkyngefelde,
Markinfeild and Markingefeild. In addition, it has been a
manor, parke, mannor, hall and today it is the Parish of
Markenfield Hall.
The parish has at present only five registered adult residents, in
a total of five dwellings with a potential of perhaps ten voters.
Needless to say it does not have the population for a Parish
Council but does have Parish Meetings twice a year. It might
have been so different had the Reformation not dissolved the
adjoining Fountains Abbey or had the nearby mediaeval village
of Aismunderby not been deserted, possibly due to the plague...
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"Six years ago, the then Chairman of the Friends of Markenfield, asked if someone would do a write-up of the Grantley window. Both Bill Forster and Diana Balmforth, had already written about it, in their booklets about the Cathedral windows. – I said, if it was to be done again, it should be done in depth. I didn’t realise, what I was letting myself in for..." Dr Brian Crosse.
Many of the Markenfields were buried in the north transept of Ripon Minster. Members of the Norton family, have been buried in many places around Ripon, and family members are commemorated at five places in the Cathedral. In the north aisle, the second window from the east (near the pulpit) is a fine heraldic window. This dates from 1840, and was commissioned by another Fletcher Norton, the third Lord Grantley of Markenfield.
The window’s artist was Thomas Willement, who was heraldic artist to George IV, and artist in stained glass to Queen Victoria. His monogram, TW, can be seen in the bottom right-hand corner of the window.
Almost uniquely within the Cathedral, this window has no religious content. Instead, it is ‘a celebration of dynastic splendour’. Such windows were quite the norm in the 18th century, when almost all the windows here, were heraldic. Willement was also responsible, for some of the heraldic glass, displayed in the east window of the Cathedral Library...
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Wordsworth wrote “The White Doe of Rylstone” as a long lament for the fate of the Nortons, a proud Yorkshire family ruined by involvement in the Catholic ‘Rising of the North’ of 1569. The poem is seldom read today, perhaps because of its excessive length and its verse reminiscent of the Christmas cracker:
“The monumental power of age
Was with this goodly personage;
A stature undepressed in size
Unbent, which rather seemed to rise…”
Old Sir Richard, a devout Catholic, was one of the leaders of The Rising; when the muster took place in the courtyard at Markenfield, it was he who carried the Banner of the Five Wounds of Christ. The troops rode out to total defeat. Imprisonment and execution followed. Sir Richard was attainted as a traitor, his son Christopher and his brother Thomas died on the scaffold, and the family, evicted from their home, Norton Conyers, were left in penury. The property had been confiscated by the Crown, and Elizabeth Markenfield, the last of the family, is recorded as dying a pauper.
The family motto expresses, in Latin, the Nortons’ pride in their ancient lineage:
AVI NUMERATUR AVORUM
I come from a long line of ancestors
At least fifteen of the 3rd Lord Grantley’s direct lineal ancestors have the distinction of being included in the Dictionary of National Biography (and that is not counting Royal ancestors). Discover the Lords - from one to eight...
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