Mantelpiece (Thoresby Hall): Difference between revisions
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
rh>Henryfunk mNo edit summary |
m (1 revision imported) |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 00:40, 16 May 2020
Thoresby Hall.
[[File:|thumb|500px|right|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, 2020-05-16.
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. Template:PnItemQry
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)'.
Thoresby Hall, by E.W. Haslehust / Gilchrist, R. Murray. The Dukeries (London, Glasgow and Bombay, 1913), plate facing p. 42.