Snowshill Manor
Snowshill Manor is a National Trust property located in the village of Snowshill in the Cotswolds. It is a sixteenth-century country house, best known for its twentieth-century owner, Charles Paget Wade, an eccentric who amassed an enormous collection of objects that interested him.
Snowshill is no ordinary manor, as Charles Paget Wade was no ordinary Edwardian gentleman. He embodied his family motto ‘Let nothing perish’, spending his life and inherited wealth amassing a spectacular collection of everyday and extraordinary objects. He bought each object because of its colour, craftsmanship and design, restoring the ancient Cotswold manor house to display them.
Laid out theatrically, the Manor is literally packed to the rafters with 22,000 or so unusual objects – from tiny toys to splendid suits of Samurai armour. The Manor is surrounded by an intriguing terraced hillside garden designed in the Arts & Crafts style.
