Brympton d'Evercy
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Brympton d'Evercy is a Grade I listed manor house near Yeovil in the county of Somerset, England. The house has been called the most beautiful of its kind in England; in 1927, Christopher Hussey, near
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Entrance front, c. 1868
Brympton d'Evercy from the south around 1722, by Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff
Brympton d'Evercy, stages of construction. A:Hall 1450; B:1460; C:Nether parlour 1520; D:Church 14th century; E:Priest House 15th century; F:West front 16th century G:Porch 1722 H:Clock tower (original porch); K:Staircase hall, possible site of earlier manor; L:State rooms 1680?; O:Kitchen 16th century; P:Farmhouse
Jane Fane, Countess of Westmorland, formerly Jane Saunders, was the second wife of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland.
Brympton d'Evercy
…became a secondary residence and seemingly left largely empty until the time of John 10th Earl. This amorous adventurer had taken as his second wife Jane Saunders, the surgeon Richard Saunders Huck's daughter, who was so wildly eccentric that Charles Fox described her as "perhaps not mad, but nobody ever approached…
A 1905 print of a painting of Jane, Countess of Westmoreland