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Official website. Listed Building – Grade I. Reference no. 11117804. Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. Owned by the National Trust and managed by the Rothschild Foundation, it is one of the National Trust's most visited properties, with over 463,000 visitors in 2019.
Waddesdon Bequest. The new 2015 display, with Renaissance metalware, most in silver-gilt, and maiolica. Display in 2014, mostly of Renaissance enamel, but including ancient handle mounts and the St Valerie chasse reliquary. Another display in Room 45, mostly of objects in iron or Limoges enamel. In 1898, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bequeathed ...
Rothschild properties in the home counties. Waddesdon Manor, the north entrance facade. In the 19th century members of the English Rothschild family bought and built many country houses in the home counties, furnishing them with the art the family collected. The area of the Vale of Aylesbury, where many of the houses were situated, became known ...
A Rothschild house, Waddesdon Manor in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England, donated to the National Trust by the family in 1957. The Rothschild banking family of England was founded in 1798 by Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), who first settled in Manchester but then moved to London.
Waddesdon Church of England School is a mixed secondary school in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire.In September 2011 the school became an Academy. [1] It takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18 and has approximately 1000 pupils, including a sixth form of approximately 200 students. [2]
Location. Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy is a 1761 painting by the English painter Joshua Reynolds, depicting the actor and playwright David Garrick caught between the Muses of Tragedy and Comedy. It is regarded as one of Reynolds's most studied and well-known paintings, and is now in the collection ...
Waddesdon Manor's three vases, about 1761 One of the Waddesdon vases in a garniture, as they would normally have been displayed. Of the ten surviving ship vases, three can be seen at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. Waddesdon Manor was built in the 1880s by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, a keen collector of French decorative arts. The bleu ...
Eythrope (previously Ethorp) is a hamlet and country house in the parish of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located to the south east of the main village of Waddesdon. It was bought in the 1870s by a branch of the Rothschild family, and belongs to them to this day. Eythrope is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for ...