Mantelpiece (Thoresby Hall): Difference between revisions

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

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

Nottinghamshire place-names

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