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Wigborough Manor House

Grade I listed buildings in South SomersetHouses completed in 1585Polo in the United Kingdom
Wigborough Manor
Wigborough Manor

Wigborough Manor House is a manor house in South Petherton, Somerset, England. It was partly built in 1585, although it was never completed to the original designs and was subsequently modified. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.The estate was shared by members of the Brome Family from 1581 to 1615, when it passed to the family of Hele of Flete, who held it for most of the 17th century.The house is built of local hamstone with Welsh slate roofs. The core the house consists of a screens passage with a gallery above it. When the house was built, there was a projecting garderobe turret; however, this has since been removed. Dendochronology of the wood forming the tie-beam and collar-beam trusses of the roof has shown that a construction date of 1585 is more likely than the previous estimates, which suggested an earlier date.A two-storey house in the grounds was originally a brewhouse or dairy. It was built in the 19th century. There is also a former coach house from the 18th century. The cider house includes cellars and a loft. There are also various barns and stables, part of which dates from 1765. The boundary wall has sections which date from the 16th century; however, much of it was rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries.The Vaux Park Polo Club has its headquarters at Wigborough Manor.

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Lopen Roman Mosaic
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The Lopen Roman Mosaic is a Roman mosaic, probably from a Roman villa, in the village of Lopen, Somerset, England.It was discovered in 2001 by George Caton, who was operating a mechanical digger and noticed small cubes of coloured stone, which turned out to be part of the floor of an eight-roomed Roman villa and is the largest Roman mosaic so far discovered in Britain. Photogrammetry by English Heritage was followed by excavation led by the Somerset County Council archaeologist. They exposed and documented the mosaic in three weeks. It was then covered with sand and soil to preserve it. The work was recognised with the award of the Tarmac Finders Award (for non professionals) at the British Archaeological Awards in 2002. The stones used for the mosaic are Blue Lias from the surrounding hills. The fragments which were discovered in the surrounding soil were used to create a new mosaic, including a picture of a dolphin, using methods which would have been available in Roman times. It is now displayed in All Saints Church.A further mosaic was found in an adjoining room, which probably extended beyond the area excavated, which was about 4.5 metres square. The main mosaic is almost 7 metres square and has a complicated geometrical design, including some stylized figurative elements such as leaves, cups and dolphins. It was probably laid by a putative specialist workshop based at Cirencester, known as the "Saltire school" for their fondness for saltires in designs, which is seen here. The walls of these rooms were probably also painted on plaster, but no traces survive here. The suite probably functioned as a dining room