Qualla: Tyntesfield https://qualla.com/tyntesfield en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/h/tyntesfield-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tyntesfield https://qualla.com/tyntesfield Tyntesfield: Introduction https://qualla.com/tyntesfield/ Photo credit Chilli Head from Weston-super-Mare, UK, CC BY 2.0. When Lord Wraxall died in 2001, the National Trust had a problem. His ancestor William Gibbs had grown rich in the nineteenth century selling Peruvian seabird droppings as fertiliser - guano - and had spent the resulting fortune building Tyntesfield, a Gothic Revival fantasy in the Somerset countryside ten miles south-west of Bristol. The house was full of original Victorian fittings: gas lamps, hand-decorated wallpapers, family portraits, a private chapel. Its contents were about to be auctioned and dispersed. A national fundraising campaign raised £8.2 million in just a hundred days, with the National Heritage Memorial Fund providing a further £17.4 million. The Trust bought the estate in 2002. They have been carefully unpicking it, room by room, ever since.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/h/tyntesfield-wp/gcnh-tyntesfield-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tyntesfield: The orangery https://qualla.com/tyntesfield/ Photo credit Rodw, CC BY-SA 3.0. The kitchen garden complex centres on the Grade II* listed Orangery - once the architectural focal point of the whole working garden. By the time the Trust took possession, the building was in such precarious condition that it sat in Category A of English Heritage's Heritage at R...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/h/tyntesfield-wp/gcnh-tyntesfield-the-orangery.mp3 0:06 2 full Tyntesfield: The sawmill that ran on steam https://qualla.com/tyntesfield/ Photo credit Rodw, CC BY-SA 3.0. Behind the house, on a site that had once been a foreman's office during the estate's quarrying days, the sawmill was completed in 1899. Two enclosed steam engines, housed in what the Trust now calls the Engine Room, generated electricity and pneumatic power for the whole estate....

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/h/tyntesfield-wp/gcnh-tyntesfield-the-sawmill-that-ran-on-steam.mp3 0:06 3 full Tyntesfield: Bats, ten of seventeen species https://qualla.com/tyntesfield/ Photo credit Rodw, CC BY-SA 3.0. Tyntesfield has become one of the most important bat sites in England. Ten of the seventeen British bat species have been recorded on the property, and eight of those species live inside the structure of the house itself. The roost includes the lesser horseshoe bat and the greate...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/h/tyntesfield-wp/gcnh-tyntesfield-bats-ten-of-seventeen-species.mp3 0:06 4 full Tyntesfield: The park and the champion trees https://qualla.com/tyntesfield/ Photo credit Stuart Logan, CC BY-SA 2.0. The estate sits within 150 acres of parkland - kept around the house at auction by the Trust to preserve the building in its setting. A long tree-lined drive runs down to balustraded terraces. Paths wander out to the rose garden, summer houses, the aviary, and the former concrete...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/h/tyntesfield-wp/gcnh-tyntesfield-the-park-and-the-champion-trees.mp3 0:06 5 full Tyntesfield: On screen https://qualla.com/tyntesfield/ Photo credit Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0. Before the public was allowed in, Tyntesfield was filmed in 2002 for the Oxford Films documentary The Lost World of Tyntesfield, hosted by Dan Cruickshank - a kind of architectural treasure-hunting tour through a house frozen in time. Since then, the estate has appeared on screen...

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