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Baddesley Clinton: Architectural: Responses to Social Circumstances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Nathaniel W Alcock  and
Robert A Meeson
Nathaniel W Alcock
Affiliation:
18 Portland Place, Leamington Spa CV32 5EU, UK. E-mail: .
Robert A Meeson
Affiliation:
16 Falna Crescent, Tamworth B79 8JS, UK. E-mail: .
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Abstract

In 2002, the National Trust commissioned a detailed survey of the timberwork of the moated manor house at Baddesley Clinton, coupled with an extensive dendrochronology programme. The results have radically revised our understanding of the house and of the way that its complex development reflects the changing circumstances and social expectations of its occupiers from the medieval period to the nineteenth century. The integration of documentary sources, structural analysis and tree-ring dating has enabled the house to be portrayed as the product of a quest for greater comfort and privacy, of social responses to changing family circumstances and of the exercise of dower rights by widows, resulting in several periods of joint occupancy.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 87 , September 2007 , pp. 295 - 345
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2007

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