Red Lodge Museum, Bristol
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Red Lodge
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 Location within Bristol
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| Town or city | Park Row, Bristol BS1 5LJ |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 51°27′20″N 2°35′58″W / 51.455556°N 2.599583°W |
| Completed | 1580 |
| Client | John Yonge |
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| The Red Lodge Museum | |
The Red Lodge Museum (grid reference ST582731) is a historic house museum in Bristol, England. The original building was Tudor/Elizabethan, and construction began in 1579-1580, possibly to the design of Serlio. The main additional building phases are from the 1730s and the early 19th century.
The Red Lodge is a free museum, managed as a branch of Bristol City Council.
The museum is open from 1 April to 31 December on Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, 11am-4pm.
The Red Lodge was originally built at the top of the gardens of "ye Great House of St. Augustine's Back". The Great House was built in 1568 on the site of an old Carmelite Priory by John Young/Yonge, the descendant of a merchant family and courtier to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, now the site of Colston Hall.
The Red Lodge would have originally been used as a guest house and entertainment pavilion, so that the Young family could promenade their guests through their eight ornamental gardens and orchards to wine and dine them.
Sir John Young died in 1589, and the Red Lodge was completed in 1590 by his widow Dame Joan. Dame Joan, from an old Somerset and Devon family, was a sister and co-heiress of Nicholas Wadham co-founder with his wife Dorothy Wadham of Wadham College, Oxford, and is buried in a beautiful altar tomb which bears her painted and carved effigy at the entrance to Bristol Cathedral, and which commemorates her, her children by both her marriages, and both her husbands. She was married firstly to Sir Giles Strangways (1528-1562) of Melbury Sampford and then in 1546 to John Young (16th-century MP), who was knighted in 1574 by Queen Elizabeth I when she stayed with the Youngs at The Great House on her visit to Bristol, and the arms of Young impaling Wadham are carved above the porch entrance to the Great Oak Room at the Red Lodge.
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