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Updated: May 9, 2025
Two years before the passing of this Act, the magnificent Hengrave Hall, in Suffolk, had been completed by Sir Thomas Kitson, "mercer of London," and Sir Thomas Kitson was but one of many of the rising merchants who were now able to root themselves on the land by the side of the Norman nobility, first to rival, and then slowly to displace them.
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It soon became one of the wealthiest English monasteries, and was the chief religious centre of that section. Only ruins remain, the chief being the abbey-gate, now the property of the Marquis of Bristol, and the Norman tower and church, which have recently been restored. In the suburbs of Bury is Hengrave Hall, one of the most interesting Tudor mansions remaining in the kingdom.
THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND: Influence of Foreign Artists in the time of Henry VIII. End of Feudalism Hampton Court Palace Linen pattern Panels Woodwork in the Henry VII. Chapel at Westminster Abbey Livery Cupboards at Hengrave Harrison quoted the "parler," alteration in English customs Chairs of the sixteenth century Coverings and Cushions of the time, extract from old Inventory South Kensington Cabinet Elizabethan Mirror at Goodrich Court Shaw's "Ancient Furniture" the Glastonbury Chair Introduction of Frames into England Characteristics of Native Woodwork Famous Country Mansions, alteration in design of Woodwork and Furniture Panelled Rooms at South Kensington The Charterhouse Gray's Inn Hall and Middle Temple The Hall of the Carpenter's Company The Great Bed of Ware Shakespeare's Chair Penshurst Place.
There are in the British Museum some interesting records of contracts made in the ninth year of Henry VIII.'s reign for joyner's work at Hengrave, in which the making of 'livery' or service cupboards is specified. "Ye cobards they be made ye facyon of livery y is w'thout doors."
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