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AN IMPORTANT AND DOCUMENTED TUDOR HAMSTONE COAT OF ARMS, OF ROBERT MARTYN AND ELIZABETH KELWAY OF ATHELHAMPTON HALL, DORSET, CIRCA 1530-1540. The original Hamstone gatehouse Armorial from Athelhampton Hall in Dorset, bears the arms of Robert Martyn of Athelhamptom and Elizabeth Kelway. Featuring a foliate helm with figure above festooned with scrolling foliage and flanked by the marriage initials RM EM above a cartouche emblazoned with the arms of Martyn quartering Kelway flanked by a pair of tethered monkey supports, 92cm wide 47cm high 30cm deep Robert Martyn and Elizabeth Kelway were married circa 1530, Athelhampton was the Martyn family seat and they undertook the building of the new gatehouse where the armorial sat above the gateway. The gatehouse and adjoined walls were taken down in 1862, sections of which were preserved in the house, including this armorial. Surviving early illustrations of the gatehouse are known from prior to its dismantling. See: Buckler's plan, from a sketch by Benjamin Ferrey dated 1834 (Plate 93), from Nash's engraving (Mansions in the Olden Time,1839, III, pl. ix) and also from J. Pouncy, Dorset Illustrated, c. 1857 Athelhampton is notable as a media location, where the 1972 film Sleuth starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine was set, also later for hosting episodes of Going for a Song and The Antiques Roadshow.

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some cracks and repairs, impressive piece.

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+ Calendar 2025-03-19 11:00:00 2025-03-19 23:59:59 Europe/London The Beedham Collection Part II The Beedham family has been collecting early oak furniture and related works of art for over 70 years, however, the origins of this collection goes even further back. Historically, the Beedham family ran pubs in the South Yorkshire area for over 250 years and in former times it was custom and practice that an incoming pub landlord would take over the whole of the items in the establishment from the previous landlord. It was in this way the Beedham Collection really started. Herbert Beedham, my father, was the first of the family to leave the public house trade and he started up his own Antique business, and brought to the business a wealth of furniture and objects which had been passed down by the family over many years. Herbert had a great passion for early items and would regularly visit the antique and ‘junk’ shops of Sheffield, coming back, much to my mother’s dismay, with yet more antiques and collectables. It was during this time he struck up a friendship with the curator of the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield who introduced Herbert to the, at that time, unknown L S Lowry, from whom he subsequently tried desperately and sadly unsuccessfully to buy a painting. Herbert’s greatest passion was to collect Tudor and Elizabethan Manor House furniture and objects. A Daily Telegraph reporter once visited his shop and wrote an article in the paper emphasising the love that he showed for his items, running his hands over the polished surfaces. Beedham Antiques was established in 1974 and moved to Holme Hall in Bakewell Derbyshire a large Grade I listed 15th/16th Manor House (pictured) where many of the privately owned pieces pieces for sale in this collection were displayed in their authentic surroundings. Paul Beedham, Herbert's son, took over the business in 2012 and has proudly celebrated its 50th year anniversary and is carrying on its tradition of supplying the finest Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture to important Manor Houses and collectors. Since our family were great private collectors, many of the pieces on display in the saleroom have not been seen on the market for a number of decades. Beedham Family Bishop & Miller Auctioneers

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