Red Lodge Museum, Bristol
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| Red Lodge Museum | |
 Red Lodge |
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  Shown within Bristol
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| Town | Bristol |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Client | John Yonge |
| Completion date | 1580 |
The Red Lodge Museum (grid reference ST582731) is a historic building in Bristol, England.
It is open to the public and run by Bristol City Council Museums service.
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[edit] History
It was built in 1580 for John Yonge as a lodge for a Great House, which once stood on the site of the present Colston Hall. It was subsequently added to in Georgian times. It was altered around 1730, and restored in the early 20th century by CFW Dening. It is a grade I listed building.[1]
James Cowles Prichard wrote The Natural History of Man whilst living at The Red Lodge from 1827.
It has had several uses in its past, including the country's first girls' reform school.[2] This was set up in 1854 by Mary Carpenter, with the financial help of the poet Lord Byron's widow,[3] who bought the Red Lodge in 1854.[4]
The site is also the home of the Bristol Savages, who met in a barn-like wigwam, by C.F.W. Dening c.1920a. The Bristol Savages were a society of artists whose history dates back to the late Victorian era, when the concept of the "noble savage" was seen as something to aspire to, the Native American culture still plays a large part in its traditions.[5]
[edit] Rooms
The seven rooms tell the history of the house. The Tudor period is represented by the Great and Small Oak rooms and a bedroom. The print room, parlour and reception room are from the Georgian era, and the Exhibition Room contains a small display on the Red Lodge Girls Reform School, dedicated to the memory of Mary Carpenter.
The New Oak Room contains a fireplace from Ashley Manor and panelling from St. Michael’s rectory nearby.[6]
Below the Lodge, and entered by a door under the stairs, are some of the cells thought to belong to the Carmelite Friary, the house and grounds of which were bought by Bristol Corporation upon the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538.
[edit] Garden
The south-facing, walled garden is an excellent example of a re-created Elizabethan-style knot garden with herbaceous borders. The box hedges design is a replica of the pattern from the lodges bedroom ceiling. All the plants grown here could have been found in English gardens by 1630.
[edit] References
- ^ Red Lodge and attached rubble walls and entrance steps. Images of England. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
- ^ Bristol's Red Lodge. About Britain.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-11.
- ^ The Red Lodge and Savages Wigwam. Bristol Link. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
- ^ Bristol's Red Lodge and Its Elizabethan Knot Garden. Time Travel Britain. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
- ^ The Red Lodge. BBC Bristol Going out. Retrieved on 2007-03-11.
- ^ Red Lodge. Looking at Buildings. Retrieved on 2007-03-11.
