#Brontes #Fieldhead

A site visit this morning at Oakwell Hall, Birstall - a place I have blipped a couple of times before.

The hall features as "Fieldhead" in the novel Shirley.

" If Fieldhead had few other merits as a building, it might at least be termed picturesque: its irregular architecture, and the grey and mossy colouring communicated by time, gave it a just claim to this epithet. The old latticed windows, the stone porch, the walls, the roof, the chimney-stacks, were rich in crayon touches and sepia lights and shades. The trees behind were fine, bold, and spreading; the cedar on the lawn in front was grand, and the granite urns on the garden wall, the fretted arch of the gateway, were, for an artist, as the very desire of the eye."


Charlotte Bronte; Shirley (1849)