Canon Frome

[1] Its most notable feature is Canon Frome Court which is a Grade II listed large red brick country house.

During the English Civil War the then moated house contained a Royalist garrison under a Colonel John Barnold with 120 men.

Notably in the former Billiard Room is a late 16th-century carved wood overmantel consisting of two bays with the initials I. H. and female figures representing Prudence, Justice, and Wisdom.

[9] The driveway to the Court is flanked by imposing red brick pillars dated to 1905 which support iron gates.

[10] On top of the pillars are unusual sandstone statues: one is the figure of a griffin's head with a bloody hand in its mouth, the other is a talbot hound, chained and wearing a floral collar, and resting its paw on a saltire.

The parish church of St. James, close by Canon Frome Court House, is the third sacred building to occupy the site.

[12] Colonel John Dutton Hopton (1858–1934) of Canon Frome Court was an Olympic sharpshooter and a director of the Royal Academy of Music.

Canon Frome Court
Parish Church of St. James
Gateway to Canon Frome Court
John Hopton's mausoleum at Meephill