{"id":159,"date":"2011-09-12T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=159"},"modified":"2014-09-25T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T11:53:01","slug":"tyntesfield-somerset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Tyntesfield, Somerset"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"House<\/a>
\nNational Trust<\/em>
\nAn impressive Victorian estate and one of the NT\u2019s more high-profile acquisitions, Tyntesfield is deep in the Somerset countryside. Besides the house and chapel there are gardens and miscellaneous out-buildings, with the inevitable restaurant, shop, caf\u00e9 and visitor centre. When acquired, the house was a time-warp and stuffed with period objects. When I visited, the formal rooms were quite impressive, and the service and other rooms that were opened were full of miscellaneous stuff. The Chapel is next to the house but had a separate entrance, which was also used to give access to some rooms in the upper part of the house. <\/p>\n

Update: Sept 2014.<\/strong>
\nSince my last visit, the NT visitor’s entrance has been moved to the service yard, a few more formal and service rooms have been opened on the ground floor, and the upper floor has been opened for visitors. The tour now exits via the Chapel. (My old guidebook shows the Billiard Room, Mrs Gibbs’ Room, and the Old Servants’ Hall as accessible, but they are not on the 2014 tour.)
\nThe central hall, Library, Dining room and Drawing Room are impressively decorated in Victorian style and fully furnished.
\nUpstairs, approx ten rooms can be visited. These are less impressive than the downstairs rooms, but still interesting, and some are still filled with undisplayed stuff.
\nThe Chapel is the size of a smaller church, and an impressive and colourful example of Victoriana.
\nIn the house, it’s amusing to note that an analog Mitsubishi TV belonging to the last owner has become a NT exhibit. \ud83d\ude42
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\"Dining<\/a>
Dining Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Upstairs<\/a>
Upstairs store-room<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Trust An impressive Victorian estate and one of the NT\u2019s more high-profile acquisitions, Tyntesfield is deep in the Somerset countryside. Besides the house and chapel there are gardens and miscellaneous out-buildings, with the inevitable restaurant, shop, caf\u00e9 and visitor centre. When acquired, the house was a time-warp and stuffed with period objects. When I … Continue reading “Tyntesfield, Somerset”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3,16,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}