Mantelpiece (Thoresby Hall)

Locality
Coordinate	53.233596, -1.045206
Adm. div.	Nottinghamshire
Vicinity	In Thoresby Hall, Perlethorpe
Type	Artifact
Interest	Artifacts
Status	Extant
First Record	1864-75

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Thoresby Hall.

The fireplace / Brentnall, Margaret. 'Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest', [Unknown British travel and tourism magazine] (1963-12), pp. 15-17, 58; see p. 16.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-01. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Thoresby Hall, which was rebuilt in the period 1864-75, has a wooden mantelpiece in the library with carvings of a scene from Sherwood Forest, dominated by the Major Oak, and with statues of Robin Hood and Little John on either side of the fireplace.

Gazetteers

• No separate entry in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), but see p. 303 s.n. '(Thoresby)'.

Also see

• Thoresby Hall place-name cluster
• Perlethorpe place-name cluster
• Unique artifacts.

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  The mantelpiece / Brentnall, Margaret. 'Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest', [Unknown British travel and tourism magazine] (1963-12), pp. 15-17, 58; see p. 16.

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  Thoresby Hall, by E.W. Haslehust / Gilchrist, R. Murray. The Dukeries (London, Glasgow and Bombay, 1913), plate facing p. 42.

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