ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This website has been compiled by a few FAM volunteers. The information provided is a summary version of many histories regarding Ashton Court. The info and story we have given to date was our best at that time but we are learning new information and making changes all the time. - just as predicted and expected in the 1987 report on the development of Ashton Court Mansion!

We are keen to share our interest with others and welcome new information however conflicting it may seem - there’s a lot like that, written about Ashton Court.

Do check out Anton Bantock 1000 Years of Ashton Court and the drawings and history collated by Anton aka 'Mr Ashton Court' in his books 1000 Years of Ashton Court and his series of books on the Smyth's of Ashton Court.

Thank you to the following for permission to use images:

Andre Patten for Futur Ville; Tish O Connor; Kathryn Chiswell Jones; Amy Hutchings; Anthony Elliot; Jimmy Galvin; Jamie Carstairs (for The People's Mansion) and Chris Woods. Please request permission before reproducing any of these photos.

Other images used on this site are photos in the public domain with creative common licenses.

Drawing of monumental brasses of Sir Giles Daubeney and his first wife Joan Darcy, South Petherton Church, Somerset by Roscoe Gibbs (fl.1888), an illustrator who frequently worked with the antiquarian William Hamilton Rogers.
Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, by W. H. H. Rogers, published in 1888.
Thomas Arundel served twice as Lord Chancellor (1399 & 1407–1410) under Henry IV. British (English) School - http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/gallery.php/5001/archbishop-of-canterbury-portraits From the album Smyths Ballycallan by Tom Conway.
Thomas and Florence Smyth of Ashton Court, about 1627- Acknowledgement: The Weiss Gallery.
Sir Hugh Smyth (1575-1627) of Ashton Court, Long Ashton © Sherborne School Collections, Sherborne School, Abbey Road, Sherborne, Dorset, UK, DT9 3AP oldshirburnian.org.uk/school-archives/
Sir Hugh Smyth 1575-1627 Creator: Photographer: David Emeney The Red Lodge Museum© Copyright: Bristol's Museums, Galleries and Archives.
Sir Hugh Smyth (1772–1824) unknown artist acknowledgment North Somerset Council, Somerset Heritage Centre.
Dame Emily Frances Smyth (oil on canvas) by Sant, James (1820-1916); Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK; Given by Mrs Esme Smyth, 1930. Currently in archives.
Hon. Esmé Smyth by Bassano Ltd whole-plate glass negative, 9 April 1920. Given by Bassano & Vandyk Studios, 1974 acknowledgment National Portrait Gallery Photographs collection.
Engraving by T Bonner
1000 years of Ashton Court collated by Anton Bantock.
Creative Commons License credit Jay Hulme South Lawn showing windows, buttress, and parapet.
Sir Richard & Lady Choke carved in Dundry stone. Long Ashton parish church Photo Credit jmc4 church explorer on Flickr.
South Front of Ashton Court credit Bristol Civic Society Purcell Report announcement.
Sir Greville Smyth and his son-in-law, Gilbert Irby photo digitised by Jamie Carstairs from the University of Bristol for The People's Mansion.
John Wilkinson (hallboy) & Maids - Kitchen c. 1912 photo digitised by Jamie Carstairs from the University of Bristol for The People's Mansion
Example hierarchy for a large household late nineteenth century. Courtesy of BBC Images https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19544309.
Bristol Archives. Images photographed by Peter Poland.

We are grateful to ongoing support from the City of Bristol Museum. Bristol City Council, and past help from Bristol City Archives looking at numerous maps plans, images and documents and reports of which there must be many hundreds if not thousands.