A Cream Tea afternoon at Stokesay Court – under Covid-19 rules… Stokesay Cour is a Grade II* listed mansion set in landscaped ground near the village of Onibury, Craven Arms.
Built in 1892 for John Derby Allcroft, a glove maker and church building philanthropist, the house was one of England’s first to have integral electric light and was described by John Newman, in the Shropshire volume of Pevsner’s Buildings of England, as:
the most grandiloquent Victorian mansion in the county
During the First World War the house served as an Auxiliary Military Hospital for convalescent soldiers, and in the Second World War as a temporary home for the evacuated students of and as a Western Command Junior Leaders’ School.
The house is also well known for being the main location for the filming of the 2007 movie Atonement – staring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.
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These images form part of a mini-series called ‘staycation’.
Staycation is a mini Covid-19 series that features trips to local tourist attractions, often National Trust properties, that represent an alternative to holidays away – as these have been curtailed by Covid-19 restrictions.
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All images © W N BISHOP