St Botolphs
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St Botolphs
Image: © Deborah Tilley Taken: 21 Jul 2008
Once the home of the prominent Stokes family and until recently the home of businessman Ralph Beer who died in 2007 and his lovely partner Cecile Lacroix, a talented artist who died in 2002.I believe it stands on or near the site of a Middle Age priory. The mansion passed to Ralph's nephew on his death. It is a place of faded grandeur that still has the power to take your breath away. The ballroom in later years became Cecile's studio and was the host of many a good party. It is quite a haunting place despite being fully lived in by tenants and will probably never see its glory days again.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.728248
Longitude
-5.055127