Manleigh Hall, which sits on 10,000 unspoiled acres in East Anglophilia, is the seat of Terence Carlisle, 1st Marquess of Manleigh, KQHB, DC, GCA and has been home to the Carlisle family for over two hundred years. Commissioned in 1791 by Ethelred Carlisle, 10th Viscount Manleigh, and designed by Sir Pericles Gobsmack, it is built in the...
more »Manleigh Hall, which sits on 10,000 unspoiled acres in East Anglophilia, is the seat of Terence Carlisle, 1st Marquess of Manleigh, KQHB, DC, GCA and has been home to the Carlisle family for over two hundred years. Commissioned in 1791 by Ethelred Carlisle, 10th Viscount Manleigh, and designed by Sir Pericles Gobsmack, it is built in the so-called Gothibethan style and is considered one of the most vulgar English houses in existence. The parkland, designed by the infamous “Incompetency” Brown, contains a primate zoo, a maze, a prison tower, a Gothic chapel (built in 1962), a divinity school (Studleigh Seminary), a private psychiatric hospital (Saint Indigestia's Lunatic Asylum), and a flock of the most blood-thirsty swans in Great Britain. The house oozes fine art, fine books, fine furniture, fine food, youthful clergy and the occasional tittlebat. The house is open to the public on Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Visitors to the Hall should not miss a trip to the nearby village of Manleigh-Under-Dureth, which boasts a particularly insignificant Norman-era church, Saint Indigestia's, and an Elizabethan inn, The Cock and Tittlebat, where uncomfortable room and unappetising board may be found at exhorbitant prices.
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