The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Hotel, formerly private house
Hotel, formerly private house
The single feature in this report is a late 12thc round-headed doorway, reset in a boundary wall at Owston Hall which is today a hotel and a club house. The area outside the wall is rough woodland with a public footpath leading from Owston to Skellow.
The boundary wall is on the N side of the grounds of the Hall and the 12thc doorway's former exterior faces the private grounds, while its interior faces the woodland.
Hotel, formerly private house
The bailiff of the abbey of Séez in Normandy once lived at Bailiffscourt, explaining the presence of a small 13thc. chapel on the site. The present house and outbuildings were erected by Lord Moyne in 1935, to a design by Aymas Phillips. The main house has a courtyard plan on an intimate scale, and is built in a late medieval style, incorporating many imported medieval features. The doorway of the thatched guest-house nearby incorporates several carved 12thc. stones, reportedly retrieved from the walls of a Georgian farmhouse on the Bailiffscourt site. The implication is that the stones had been reused in the walls of that building.