Property News · May 27, 2018

A mash-up in a brewery – the home that’s a marriage of opposites


A former chapel once owned by the Worthington brewery is now a family home filled with contrasting tastesBachelorhood is usually associated with excess rather than restraint: the takeaway-strewn coffee table, the generously filled laundry basket. But when Sophie Worthington met her husband-to-be, Greville, he was, she recalls, “wafting around like a lone monk, living a life of ascetic minimalism”. A four-poster draped in muslin floated in the middle of the bedroom. Meals were taken at a refectory table, and the bath, designed by the architect John Pawson, was carved from cedar wood for Japanese-style, pre-shower wallowing.Everything suited the singular setting: an 18th-century chapel which was once part of the sprawling Worthington family estate in Yorkshire. “Greville’s family sold off the main house in the 1980s. The roof was leaking terminally and it was a struggle to maintain the 20-bedroom existence,” says Sophie. “His parents moved into a smaller house in the garden, while Greville decamped to London. A few years later he persuaded the bishop to sell him the presbytery and chapel – for £50.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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