My Tweets. The discoveries were made in the grounds of the much later built Wolf Hall Manor that remains today in Burbage.Off the back of Mantel's award-winning books and the hugely popular TV adaptation, the owners of Wolf Hall, who are direct descendants of the Seymours, have allowed archaeologists to explore the site for the first time.The team of up to 20 volunteers have spent 20 months on the project. Six of these locations were made available for use by the National Trust. 'We want to reconstruct what it would have looked like in Tudor times but we've still got a long way to go - we're probably some years away from completing that.
'The intention must have been to make it attractive for the King to visit and garner more favour.
I was completely oblivious what was beneath our feet for so long and I never could have imagined what was hidden in the garden. A Grade II Listed Building in Burbage, Wiltshire. 'Sir John Seymour, Jane's father, was warden of the royal hunting forest of Savernake, and the Tudor Wolf Hall was built as his family's seat in the early 1530s. Our office hours are between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday only. OS Northings: 162107. 'There had been buildings at Wolf Hall since Saxon times, but it was radically upgraded in the years preceding Henry's visit in 1535.
Take a trip back in time on a cultural holiday and visit Lacock Abbey and Great Chalfield Manor, two National Trust properties that both featured in the filming of the Wolf Hall series, based on the book by Hilary Mantel. We have records of the menus from Henry's visits so we have an idea of what they ate.The Binney family's minature paintings of King Henry VIII (left) and Anne Boleyn (right), who was executed in May 1536A Binney family print of Edward Seymour, Jane's brother and the Duke of Somerset (left) and a print of Jane Seymour (right) Ornate Tudor glass has been found during the excavations of the site where the historic 16th century property once stoodThe Seymours' elaborate coat of arms with the motto in French, 'Faith For Duty' (left), and a Seymour window taken from Wolf Hall and re-installed at Great Bedwyn Church in 1905 (right)Mark Rylance plays Thomas Cromwell in the hugely popular historical TV drama Wolf Hall, which was filmed in summer 2014The tomb of Sir John Seymour, Jane's father, at Great Bedwyn Church, near the village of Burbage where Wolf Hall is located'And we found a room that would have been tiled throughout, we've found bits of tiles that almost certainly would have been the tiles the royals walked on. OS Grid: SU241621. 'I thought the likelihood was that the Tudor house would be on top of the hill and we had this extensive set of tunnels, which we have now identified as Tudor sewers, to guide us a bit and then it was trial and error - making exploratory trenches and seeing what we had in those.
After the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.
'We would like to know as much as everyone else about the old Wolf Hall. Dominic Binney, who with his siblings inherited the manor in 2013, said as a child he was told various theories about where the original building was.Mr Binney, 34, said: 'It still hasn't quite sunk in yet but it's remarkable. Donate to the Wolfhall Project via PayPal . Large Map » Coordinates. Embarked on a love affair with his daughter-in-law, Catherine Fillol.
The real Wolf Hall made famous by Hilary Mantel's books on Henry VIII has finally been unearthed nearly three centuries after it was razed to the ground.The magnificent 16th century home of the Seymour family, where the Tudor King first showed an interest in his third wife Jane Seymour, fell into ruin within 40 years of being built in the Wiltshire village of Burbage.It was eventually lost and nobody today is sure of exactly its location or appearance - but Dominic Binney, occupant and a descendant of Jane Seymour's family, in the rediscovered Tudor sewers under Wolf Hall The Binney family's minature paintings of Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, with unearthed Tudor tiles The present house at Wolf Hall is far smaller than the grand Tudor pile built by Sir John Seymour in the 16th centuryRobin Holley and Graham Bathe hold fascinating Tudor tiles in the rediscovered foundations of Wolf Hall in WiltshireOriginal features of the property have now been uncovered by archaeologists and historians who have proven its locationThe remarkable findings include the network of Tudor brick-built sewers and some of the foundations of two towers and several large rooms of the palatial home.Ornate tiles that are likely to have been walked on by Henry VIII were also dug up.