Studley Castle detail - a photo on Flickriver

            Along with many  locals -  Studley Castle is about 4 miles from where we live - we have been waiting with interest to see what Warners Leisure Hotels would make of its conversion of Studley 'Castle' (castle it never was). Warners specialise in providing comfortable accommodation and entertainment for its  rather specialised customers, mainly elderly and with good solid pensions. It's not that far to Warwick, or Stratford-upon-Avon, or Hidcote Garden, for that matter.

 Warners clearly have a good deal of confidence in their project, having spent £50 million or so on replacing crumbling sandstone, and decorations in the Victorian parts of the hotel which seem to me aimed at looking somewhat like Aubrey Beardsley. If it's someone else's look they're going for I'd be grateful for the correction.

Or as Wikipedia says:-

'Studley Castle is a 19th-century country house at Studley, Warwickshire, England.

The Grade II* listed building is now occupied as a Warner Leisure Hotel but was once owned by the Lyttleton family before being bequeathed by Philip Lyttleton to his niece Dorothy, who married Francis Holyoake.

Their son Francis Lyttleton Holyoake, the High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1834, inherited Ribston Hall in Yorkshire from a business partner in 1833 and changed his name to Holyoake-Goodricke (see Holyoake-Goodricke Baronets). The sale of the Yorkshire property financed the building of a new mansion at Studley. The new house, designed in Gothic Revival style by the architect Samuel Beazley, was completed in 1836.

The building has never actually been used as a castle. The site of the medieval castle at Studley is occupied by the nearby 16th-century house known as Old Studley Castle.

The house was occupied by Studley College between 1903 and the early 1960s and was used as a horticultural training establishment for ladies. It later became training and Marketing Centre for the former automotive brand, Rover.

In more recent times the Castle was converted for use as a hotel. After a £50 million refurbishment it reopened in April 2019 as the 14th hotel in the Warner Leisure Hotels collection.'

Other Gothic Revival building in England include Tower Bridge, St Pancras, Manchester Town Hall......

Taken on: September 6, 2019

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