First off a bit of little bit of context – our friends Alex (one in every of many brains behind the great – Design Discipline London) and Jamie invited us to have enjoyable their birthday and I’m pretty sure I RSVP’d even sooner than I obtained the invite! Celebration time with these two is on a regular basis sure to be fulfilling. I nonetheless have heaps further photographs from our snowboarding weekend and New 12 months’s Eve celebration (to say nevertheless numerous) to point out that… Plus they’re those that ruined Georgia, Chris, Lloyd and I sooner than our early flight out to Santorini with their great wedding ceremony celebrations nevertheless I digress….
Correct, so the place is that this excellent place? It’s a quaint property set in Warwickshire known as the Lord Leycester Hospital. Undecided why the determine as a result of it’s certainly not actually been a medical hospital (nor does it look like one). It was based mostly as a home for servicemen who had served under Robert Dudley ‘Lord Leycester’ (actually Earl of Leicester and favourite of Elizabeth the primary) nevertheless the buildings pre-dates the Elizabethans as that they had been initially the home of the Guilds of Warwick. It formally dates from the late 14th Century clustered across the Norman gateway into town with its twelfth Century Chantry Chapel above it and continues to be a home to outdated service males and they also perform ‘the Brethren’ whereas Jamie’s dad, Gerald (or as Jamie likes to call him “Geraldo” *in full Spanish accent*) is ‘The Grasp’.
The Lord Leycester Hospital is unquestionably obtainable to rent as they do weddings, civil ceremonies and totally different events so that you probably can actually immerse your self on this quaint little bit of England! The Grasp moreover does excursions throughout the property and is accessible for speaking engagements if you happen to want to take a deep dive into the historic previous and heritage of the property!The Lord Leycester Hospital survives solely on public friends to the buildings and gardens with no totally different assist and is a fairly distinctive and great technique to spend some time when you go to England (or actually in case you already reside in England!).
Anyway, listed below are the photographs as promised – along with a number of of us all dressed up and capable of do what comes sooner than Half-B… (Half-Aaaay!) 🙂 🙂 🙂 Hehehe!!!
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