The Stables, Kelly House
The former stable block, with its distinctive bellcote and weathered stonework, is one of the most characterful parts of the Kelly House estate.
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The Poison Garden at Kelly House
A secluded garden beside the house, planted with a varied collection of medicinal, poisonous and historically significant plants.
Kelly House
The house presents an attractive mixture of architectural periods, with rendered walls, slate roofs, tall chimneys and a sheltered garden court.
Bradford Manor
An impressive fortified entrance tower gives access to the manor beyond, its pinnacles and stonework creating a strikingly medieval appearance.
During the nineteenth century, Kelly Church shared in the widespread Victorian church restoration movement, itself part of the Gothic Revival. Encouraged by the Oxford and Ecclesiological movements, clergy, architects and patrons sought to recover what they regarded as the medieval character and sacramental purpose of the parish church. Across Britain, chancels, towers, roofs and porches were rebuilt, interiors rearranged and new stained-glass windows installed, frequently as memorials. The work preserved many ancient churches, although Victorian restorers sometimes replaced surviving features with their own interpretation of the Middle Ages.
St Mary’s Church, Kelly
The medieval parish church beside Kelly House contains work from several periods. Its chancel was partly rebuilt in 1710, when Richard Edgcombe provided three new windows, and the church underwent further restoration during the nineteenth century.
The medieval parish church beside Kelly House contains work from several periods. Its chancel was partly rebuilt in 1710, when Richard Edgcombe provided three new windows, and the church underwent further restoration during the nineteenth century.
The 1710 chancel plaque
This Latin inscription records that Richard Edgcombe, rector of the church, rebuilt the walls of the chancel from the foundations and adorned it anew with three windows in 1710.
This Latin inscription records that Richard Edgcombe, rector of the church, rebuilt the walls of the chancel from the foundations and adorned it anew with three windows in 1710.
East window and altar
The five main lights present a sequence of scenes from the life of Christ, showing figures gathered around him in teaching, worship, suffering and resurrection. Smaller scenes beneath continue the narrative, while saints and angels appear in the tracery above.
Scenes from the life of Christ
The left light shows the Visitation above the Lamentation; the centre shows the Resurrection above the Adoration of the Magi; and the right shows the Agony in the Garden above the Sermon on the Mount.
Saints and the Crucifixion
Four figures occupy the principal lights: a bishop or churchman, a female saint carrying a vessel, Christ on the Cross, and a male saint holding a chalice or book. Heraldic shields beneath them commemorate the families associated with the window.
Resurrection window
The central light shows the risen Christ in glory, with worshipping figures below. The outer lights contain further scenes connected with his Passion and Resurrection, including sleeping or astonished witnesses and figures kneeling in devotion.
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