Lovely watercolour of St Audries Park is a Grade II listed 19th‑century manor house and estate at West Quantoxhead in the Quantock Hills, Somerset. Showing the the attached Victorian Orangery, used today as an indoor ceremony space.
 
The estate is actually recorded in Domesday (as Cantocheve), with continuous development over many centuries. The present mansion was largely rebuilt and extended in the mid‑19th century for the Acland‑Hood family, with architect John Norton adding the Great Hall and new fronts.
 
The name “St Audries” is a modernised tribute to the Anglo‑Saxon Saint Audrey (St Etheldreda), adopted by Michael Malet, a descendant of Guillaume Malet, kinsman of William the Conqueror. The family held the home for an amazing five centuries!
 
Not the most unusual name used here. In 1848 the amazingly named 'Sir Peregrine Fuller Palmer Acland' bought St Audries as a sort of dynastic wedding gift for his daughter Isabel. Isabel’s husband,  equally amazingly named Sir Alexander Bateman Periam Acland‑Hood, belonged to a line that produced Alexander Fuller‑Acland‑Hood, 1st Baron St Audries, Conservative Chief Whip and later peer, who took his title directly from the house. wow