Kedleston Hall 2

Can't top that

And now for something completely different department:
a really nice oil portrait, very prominently placed, of one
of the 18th century head housekeepers of Kedleston

Now in one of the two curved galleries, this one the picture
gallery

Detail; note that the floor planks curve perfectly with the walls

And now in the other curved gallery, this one stuffed with curios and specimens

Including this siege mortar found on the estate in the 1750s; left behind by
the retreating Jacobites

View of the frontal grounds and Culpability Brown lakes with bridge, etc.

Back porch view of grounds

The beautiful little 13th century parish church is nestled among the buildings
at Kedleston; it was the only part of the medieval village that wasn't cleared away
to make room for the great house (villages are such eyesores)

Inside it are some marvels of family history...here an Elizabethan tomb

The tomb of the Viceroy and Vicereine

And this the tomb of Richard Curzon, 5th Lord of Kedleston, and wife, died 1275

Interior view