One of my favourite houses in West Sussex, England,
Is St. Mary’s: a timbered house from around 1470.
The house is still lived in today,
(And open to the public on certain afternoons)
And boasts many beautiful gardens.
Here is a peek at the back!
I love this summer reflection
In the leaded window of the house.
Next door, is a secret garden
Where children play music
And leafy stars abound.
For more star stories, please visit: Our World.
Lady Fi 
looks like a super cool place 🙂
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England looks like a very magical place…. great photos today!
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Magic.
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Beautiful captures and perspective! Absolutely wonderful light and reflection
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Americans have few, if any, artifacts dating from the the 1400s. I love how you link celestial with earthly beauty here. I agree with Bob, Magical!
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ha!…I recently took a very similar shot as your first photo 🙂
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WOW, beautiful house. Reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.
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What a delightful place to visit! Full of charm and inspiration.
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What a beautiful and charming place Fiona!
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How wonderful to realize that this garden is rooted in the same garden that people from the past admired and strolled through. I am glad this magical place survived the centuries.
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oh that is awesome to sneak a peek of those gardens .. thank you
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I knew there still were enchanted houses:-) it is so beautiful, I love your pictures, you are so talented, thanks for sharing
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What an enchanted looking place…history flowing in layers among the flowers and bricks 🙂
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Ah, and enchanted house indeed!! Superb captures as always and these took my breath away!! And, thank you as always, for sharing the beauty of your world!! Have a wonderful new week!!
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Golly – the things that house has seen! Beautiful.
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How lovely…
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Hello, what a lovely peak into the gardens. The reflection in the window is lovely. I love the cute statue and the flowers/stars quote! Beautiful images, have a happy week ahead!
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Lovely – and what glorious sunshine you had for your visit!
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Your photos are such fun, love the stroll through time.
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Lovely shots from my home country! My favourite is the third one with the wonderful reflections in the latticed windows!
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Certainly a lovely garden and a lovely house. It’s what we always think England should be.
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Oh my goodness…what a beautiful place!!!
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So nice to see this beautiful place! Great photos!
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Oh, that is a beautiful place !!
Great pictures, greetings !
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Oh my.
Love that sign too.
Thank you.
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Great photos and the old house is very beautiful. I like the sign too!
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I’m in love with this beautiful place.
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Looks and sounds like a wonderful place to explore!
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A truly lovely and charming estate!
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These are great places. Created by people with visions that last. I’m always pleased to see them recorded and shown. 🙂 🐻
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A beautiful series of photos! A wonderful place!
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Looks like a lovely place to explore. I would love to walk in the big garden.
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beautiful and so old!
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Beautiful!
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Looks like a lovely place to visit, Fi. 🙂
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Thank you for sharing your visit with us! What a wonderful old house and garden!
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I love the snap of the window pane. It’s just so clear
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Oh, what an awesome place and so much history!!! I would love to visit there, Fiona!! Your captures are superb as always and the next best thing to being there to see it!! Thank you so much for sharing!! Hope you have a great week and thank you for all you do for Our World!! Have a great week!!
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isn’t england beautiful – such a nice place !!!
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The garden of course is the most inviting for me. It’s a very interesting old house and it’s good that visits are allowed.
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I liked the window picture!
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such a special house and beautiful garden!
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This old house has beautiful garden.
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Very beautiful captures.
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You always manage to bring out the best from the places you visit. Your photos are stunning.
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A gorgeous old house. Somehow we’ve lost the knack of building such beautiful structures.
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My goodness….to live in the part of the world with such rich history and beauty is beyond our imagination here in America. What a beautiful post filled with wonderful photos.
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They don’t build them like that anymore – and when they try, it looks shocking! Shame on me though, I assumed it was a Pub when I first saw the post!
Cheers – Stewart M – Melbourne
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Easy to see why it’s a favorite of yours! Lovely!!
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What an amazing house and garden!
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What a wonderful old house, I can’t imagine a house over 500 years old.
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Wonderful images Fiona, I’ve just had a lovely time going back to see posts I’ve missed. I hope all is well with your parents.
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I’d love to see the inside of that house! Beautiful!
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I love the style of the house
and what a gorgeous garden outback
its like a maze i would love to walk
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My imagination runs riot with these beautiful photos. It is magical!
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lovely
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Ahhhhhhhh, I love these gorgeous photos!
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The Garden would empress me also. Yet I like those windows.
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The English sure make nice gardens and you take nice pictures!
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What a fabulous place. Love the house and the garden — beautiful photos!
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A remarkable place shown in your fine pictures. I’d like to visit there!
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I admire the way Europeans keep recycling buildings instead of tearing them down and putting up something new.
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The place looks amazing through your lens!
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I absolutely love that sign and can’t get my mind around a house that has been lived in so long. But then that is what English history taught me when I was there – that we in America are just babies in that respect!
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Very beautiful pictures
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leaded windows – some of my most favorite things!
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Such history you have captured ~ Great shots for OWT ~ Love the sign about the stars and garden ~
Happy week to you,
artmusedog and carol
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Hi Lady Fi, Your pictures make me wish I could see this place in person. Wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
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very pretty.
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What a wonderful old house, definitely from another time!
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Exceptional window and a great snap of the same!
Have a Beautiful Week!
Peace 🙂
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Remarkable age for a house… It’s a beauty!
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Fascinating and beautiful post. Coming from a relatively very young country and the newest part of it to be settled at that, my mind is boggled to think of living in a home that old … Wow.
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What a lovely place and beautiful shots
Mollyxxx
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What a charming place! Great shot of the windows!
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What a beautiful home! The quotes on the sign is wonderful. Hope your parents ae doing well!
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So beautiful photos and place
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Beautiful series, very nice place and photos
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Beautiful series…amazing as always… 🙂
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Lovely!
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Your magical touch of photography made the fascinating house look more dreamy. I love this house, too.
Yoko
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I agree with the flowers and stars. Lovely place.
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What a charming place. I want to drop by for a cup of tea in the garden. 🙂
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Beautiful images – love the sun lighting on the subject. Well done!
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how beautiful! i love secret gardens
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I’d love to spend an afternoon in that back garden! 🙂
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Beautiful shots – what a delightful haven for a photographer!
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Going to try this again. And haven’t clue why am showing up as Anonymous. Perhaps a omen.
Thanks for this, it feeds the ‘garden voyeur’ that resides in me.
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It worked Calvin! Sorry you were having trouble…
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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Love those chimneys
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great place. I like the shadow of the sign in the top image. It seems to show a bird and a hare 🙂
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Oooh, to sit in that garden right now.
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Beautiful pictures !
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amazing photos as always..I would definitely come and visit the house when I’m around, it looks beautiful 🙂
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How wonderful. It reminds me of Tudor House in Southampton although no one lives there.
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What a gorgeous place!
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