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9 Responses to “Away Days”

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   Anton Garrett Says:
   November 30, 2015 at 6:58 pm

   St Andrews?

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     telescoper Says:
     December 1, 2015 at 7:31 am

     It does rather look like it might be in Scotland, but it’s actually in Sussex…

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   gaele Says:
   December 1, 2015 at 8:34 am

   Cole’s Castle (2 days only)

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   Colin Says:
   December 1, 2015 at 1:39 pm

   Wiston House. Recently there for a party; maybe you can fit one in between your away days.

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   ian smail Says:
   December 2, 2015 at 8:53 am

   somewhere built on a site which had been high status since at least ~C12-13 – given the proximity of the (ex?) parish church.

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     telescoper Says:
     December 2, 2015 at 8:56 am

     Actually an entire village was destroyed in order to build the house, but that was in the 16th century…

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       ian smail Says:
       December 2, 2015 at 8:27 pm

       Pevsner claims the church walls are C13/C14, but with a style which in this area could be C11 [later ruined by the victorians] with the house being c1575, almost all rebuilt in c1830… but surely it sits on a site of something before C16?
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       telescoper Says:
       December 2, 2015 at 8:58 pm

       Yes, the manor church dates back to the Domestic book. There was a small village on the site until the inhabitants were turfed off their land and the big house built in the 16th century.
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   Wiston House, Wilton Park and Chatham House Rules | In the Dark Says:
   December 2, 2015 at 1:17 pm

   […] Colin correctly spotted, the venue was Wiston House which is near Steyning, North of Shoreham, in West Sussex. The house […]

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