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Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire

A delightful, quirky Tudor house, with tapestries, wall-paintings, fine plasterwork, and a civil war legend.

The owners' original dining room was superseded by a grander version, leaving the original dining room to be used by the servants. Unbeknownst to them, underneath the whitewash were these marvellous decorative emblems, later revealed.

Parliamentary soldiers were besieged in the church, which was attacked by mortar fire, burning the roof. There is a legend that a shepherd boy had attempted to warn the soldiers of the danger from the royalists by playing on his flute, but was killed by the royalists. He is represented by a statue in the garden.

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Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire.

All that remains of the west end of the nave of the Augustinian Priory founded around 1150, and destroyed by Henry VIII

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Canons Ashby Priory by Tony Via Flickr: The Priory was founded on a site to the south of the present church between 1147 and 1151 in the reign of Henry II. Part of the building survives: the Church of England parish church of St Mary dates from about 1250 and this, together with Canons Ashby House, is now owned by the National Trust.

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Gates to Canons Ashby Manor

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The old kitchen at Canons Ashby Manor

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Canons Ashby Manor, former home of the Dryden family.

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Canons Ashby II: all that remains of the west end of the nave of the Augustinian Priory founded around 1150, and destroyed by Henry VIII

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Life is like a...... by Tony