Cotehele
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thumb|Cotehele and its Italian garden terrace thumb|upright|Arms of Edgcumbe, Earls of Mount Edgcumbe: ''Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent'' Cotehele is a medieval house with Tudor additions, situated in the parish of Calstock in the east of Cornwall, England, and now belonging to the National Trust. It is a rambling granite and slate-stone manor house on the banks of the River Tamar that has been little changed over five centuries. It was built by the Edgecumbe family in 1485 after the original Manor House was pulled down. Sir Richard Edgecumbe came into the
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- history museum
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Calstock
- Official website
- www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele
- Image
- Cotehele House - geograph.org.uk - 422557.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cotehele
- maintained by
- National Trust
- described at URL
- www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele
- OS grid reference
- SX4224068618
- street address
- St Dominick, Saltash PL12 6TA
- associated electoral district
- South East Cornwall
- P13249
- Cotehele
- postal code
- PL12 6TA
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- The site
- Nicholas Condy
- Cotehele's chapels
- Cotehele House Chapel
- Cotehele Woodland Chapel
- The Edgcumbe Chapel
- Film location
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Cotehele and its Italian garden terrace thumb|upright|Arms of Edgcumbe, Earls of Mount Edgcumbe: ''Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent Cotehele is a medieval house with Tudor additions, situated in the parish of Calstock in the east of Cornwall, England, and now belonging to the National Trust. It is a rambling granite and slate-stone manor house on the banks of the River Tamar that has been little changed over five centuries. It was built by the Edgecumbe family in 1485 after the original Manor House was pulled down. Sir Richard Edgecumbe came into the property after fighting for Henry Tudor in the Battle of Bosworth. He was gifted with money and the original Manor House and estate and then proceeded to build Cotehele.
==History== The house was acquired by William Edgcumbe through his marriage to Hilaria, heiress of Cotehele. The house is one of the least altered of the Tudor houses in the United Kingdom. The outbuildings include a stone dovecote in a remarkable state of preservation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cotehele” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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