Here is a short film about Felbrigg Hall. Please take some time to watch this because it highlights the lovely Jacobean, Georgian and Victorian interior, the wonderful library with 5000 books including a Doctor Johnson dictionary and art treasures brought back from a Grand Tour by William Windham in 1740. In my view the interior looks a lot better than the exterior! This Jacobean house was built in 1620 by Thomas Windham but what famous Norwich church do the stained glass windows come from? Why was mad Windham taken to court and what was the outcome? There are also some lovely pictures of the lake and the gardens. To find out more and to answer these questions, please select the following link and press play, you may need to move the red bar back to the start and you can always give it a thumbs up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNDSazJDMps
Here is a written article to supplement the above film. The Domesday book traces the village of Felbrigg to the ownership of the Bigod family but what does Felbrigg mean? When did the Windham family take ownership of the hall? And when did the spelling of Wyndham change to Windham? Why was William Windham III known as “fighting Windham” and as an MP why did he vote against the abolition of slavery? How and when did the association between the Windhams and Felbrigg end? Please select the following link and work your way through the history of Felbrigg Hall:
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