Madresfield Court, Malvern

Name: Madresfield Court
Address: Malvern, United Kingdom

#15 among attractions in Malvern

Museum, History museum, Vernacular architecture

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Madresfield Court is a country house in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. The home of the Lygon family for nearly six centuries, it has never been sold and has passed only by inheritance since the 12th century; a line of unbroken family ownership reputedly exceeded in length in England only by homes owned by the British Royal Family. The present building is largely a Victorian reconstruction, although the origins of the present house are from the 16th century, and the site has been occupied since Anglo-Saxon times. The novelist Evelyn Waugh was a frequent visitor to the house and based the family of Marchmain, who are central to his novel Brideshead Revisited, on the Lygons. Surrounded by a moat, the Court is a Grade I listed building. ()

Coordinates: 52°7'32"N, 2°16'51"W

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Madresfield Court – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Worcestershire Beacon, Great Malvern Priory, Malvern Museum, Sugarloaf Hill.

2.9 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Worcestershire Beacon, Malvern
73 min walk • Worcestershire Beacon, also popularly known as Worcester Beacon, or locally simply as The Beacon, is a hill whose summit at 425 metres is the highest point in Worcestershire.
2.3 miSW
Sacred and religious sites, Church, Monastery
Great Malvern Priory, Malvern
59 min walk • Great Malvern Priory in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, was a Benedictine monastery and is now an Anglican parish church. In 1949 it was designated a Grade I listed building. It is a dominant building in the Great Malvern Conservation area.
2.3 miSW
Museum, History museum
Malvern Museum, Malvern
60 min walk • The Malvern Museum in Great Malvern, the town centre of Malvern, Worcestershire, England, is located in the Priory Gatehouse, the former gateway to the Great Malvern Priory.
2.8 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Sugarloaf Hill, Malvern
72 min walk • Sugarloaf Hill lies between the Worcestershire Beacon and North Hill in the range of Malvern Hills that runs about 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border.
2.6 miW
Hill
End Hill, Malvern
68 min walk • End Hill is the northernmost top of the Malvern Hills that runs approximately 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. It lies north of Table Hill and north-northwest of North Hill. It has an elevation of 329 metres.
2.2 miSW
Concerts and shows, Cinema, Theater
Malvern Theatres, Malvern
57 min walk • The Festival Theatre, now known as Malvern Theatres, is a theatre complex on Grange Road in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. Malvern Theatres, housed in the Winter Gardens complex in the town centre of Great Malvern, has been a provincial centre for the arts since 1885.
2.5 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
North Hill, Malvern
65 min walk • North Hill is the second highest point of the range of Malvern Hills that runs about 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, although North Hill lies entirely within Worcestershire.
2.3 miSW
Concerts and shows, Theater
The Theatre of Small Convenience, Malvern
59 min walk • The Theatre of Small Convenience was a theatre in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. In 2002 it entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's smallest commercial theatre, seating up to 12 people.
2.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Table Hill, Malvern
69 min walk • Table Hill is situated in the range of Malvern Hills that runs about 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. It lies between North Hill and Sugarloaf Hill and has an elevation of 373 metres.
2.2 miNE
Monastery
Stanbrook Abbey
57 min walk • Stanbrook Abbey is a Roman Catholic contemplative Benedictine women's monastery with the status of an abbey, now located at Wass, North Yorkshire, England. The community was founded in 1625 at Cambrai in Flanders, under the auspices of the English Benedictine Congregation.
2.1 miW
Church
Church of the Ascension, Malvern
55 min walk • The first completed work by the renowned architect Sir Walter Tapper, this is a Grade II listed church in the parish of Malvern Link and Cowleigh. The church was the gift of Louisa Vavasour Livingstone in memory of her husband Arthur Guinness Livingstone, the former Archdeacon of Sudbury.