inside
Compton
Verney
Spring 2015
Heritage Lottery Fund Success
Compton Verney’s Women’s Library
The SAS Return to Compton Verney
News Bites
Bernard Sunley Funds Dipping
Pond
We are delighted to announce that The Bernard
Sunley Charitable Foundation has granted us
£13,000 to build a dipping pond near our Forest
School site. Encouraging visitors young and old
alike to experience and appreciate the many
natural habitats on Compton Verney’s 120 acres
is a primary goal for the landscape restoration
project. This pond will facilitate that for visitors
and Forest School participants.
Reviews
We’ve been delighted with the media’s response
to our spring exhibitions. Here are just a few
samples:
“It’s well worth a visit.” “…the whole
effect is intriguing and… decidedly appealing.”
The Times
“The show provides a new insight into Canaletto,
an artist who spent a big chunk of his artistic life in
Britain and clearly loved it.”
The Guardian
“The Venetian artist’s ability to see London as a
theatrical performance defined his landscapes,
mixing naturalism and glorious artifice.”
The Financial Times
Andrew Lloyd-Webber visits his
Painting
The generous loaning of artwork is critical to
mounting quality exhibitions and the Canaletto:
Celebrating Britain exhibition is no exception.
With works from the Royal Collection,
Manchester City Gallery and Tate amongst
others, we are able to shed fresh light on familiar
as well as sometimes little-known works. We
were delighted that Baron Lloyd-Webber (seen
above with Dr Steven Parissien) was able to visit
recently to see how his painting, The Old Horse
Guards, looked in the Compton Verney Galleries.
Contents
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Chapel Blessings
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News Bites
Despite its unrestored state, the Chapel is already
a popular location for blessings. Five brides have
chosen to have a service in the Grade I-listed
building and seem to value it for its unique and
“undiscovered” properties. While it currently
seats 100, this will rise to 140 once restoration is
complete at the end of 2016. Concerts and
dinners have also been held in the building to
great acclaim.
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Heritage Lottery Fund Success
Compton Verney Women’s Library
The SAS Returns to Compton Verney
Page 8 Oh What a Busy Closed Season
Page 10 Achieving your Corporate Goals
with Compton Verney
Page 12 Min Willoughby de Broke
Page 13 Rachel Davies
(Cover photo): Persicaria amphibia and photos pages 3, 4-5, and 8-9 by Stuart Thomas
Heritage Lottery
Fund Success
We are delighted to report that Compton Verney
has received £2.5 million from the Heritage
Lottery Fund (HLF) for the Compton Verney
Landscape Restoration Project.
The project aims to preserve, restore and
celebrate an outstanding ‘Capability’ Brown park,
which includes a rare, Brown-designed and Grade
I-listed Chapel. The project will:

restore the
‘Capability’
Brown Chapel of
1776-9 as a
venue for music
and events

build a new
Visitor Centre to
provide
information
about the site’s
landscape,
history and
ecology as well
as much-needed visitor facilities

expand learning, engagement and
volunteering opportunities

use Brown’s landscape as a platform to bring
together a range of interests – art, architecture,
landscape design, health and wellbeing,
music, history, and ecology – which will
enable us engage with new audiences in
totally new ways
Dr Steven Parissien,
Director of
Compton Verney,
says: “We’re
delighted that the
Heritage Lottery
Fund has given us
this support.
Compton Verney
has enriched the
regional cultural
landscape for the
past ten years, and
this grant will
enable us to fully
exploit and harness the astonishing potential of
create two visionary eyecatchers, a footbridge
our historic context, thus benefiting both the
and a wetland boardwalk, drawing attention
to the history of the site in refreshing new
local community and visitors from further afield.”
ways and enabling a circular walk of the park


secure and develop the biodiversity of the
parkland and recreate original Georgian
pathways so visitors can view forest, wetland
and meadow habitats while enjoying Brown’s
Reyahn King, Head of the Heritage Lottery Fund
West Midlands says: “This project will restore the
appearance and enhance our appreciation of
Capability Brown’s landscape. It will also help to
conserve the rich biodiversity to be found in the
grounds of this magnificent mansion.”
original sightlines
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Compton Verney Women’s Library
Despite being in a very poor state of
repair when it was rescued in 1993,
Compton Verney was hugely fortunate
that the last room of the south wing’s
ground floor retained its original furniture, in
the form of a large chimney surround, three
corner bookcases with painted parchment
panels, and a door case into which has been set
panels of faux book spines. (Two out of the
original eight panels have been lost, but the
rest are in good condition.)
The room was evidently the personal Withdrawing
Room of Lady Willoughby de Broke, a judgement
based on surviving Victorian plans of the house and
the fact that all the authors cited in the book spine
panels are female. The painted panels in the
bookcases, too, with their elaborate cartouches and
views, appear to be the sort of high-quality amateur
work which could have been executed by Lady
Willoughby de Broke and her friends.
Judging from the dates of the works represented by
the book spines, together with the architectural
style of the bookcases, the room was refurbished in
around1860 – and was thus the work of either
Georgiana, the wife of the reclusive Robert Verney,
17th Baron Willoughby de Broke (d.1862), or, more
realistically, Geraldine, wife of Henry Verney, 18th
Baron (d.1902), who commissioned architect John
Gibson to add elements to the house and grounds
after 1863 and who added the impressive avenue of
Wellingtonia redwoods to the park. Geraldine’s son
Richard, 19th Baron, did indeed comment in later
life on his mother’s strength of character and
enthusiasm for literature.
The room is currently empty and equipped with
inappropriate lighting and finishes. Recently,
however, academics from the English departments
at both Oxford University and The Open University
have alerted us to its rarity and value. Women’s
Libraries were once not uncommon in larger
houses, but almost none survive today. Thus
Compton Verney’s Morning Room is of great
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significance. Moreover, our academic advisers
have also noted how the authors represented in
the panels of book spines effectively summarise
the canon of women’s literature in c.1860.
In November 2014 Oxford University held (and
funded) a seminar at St Peter’s College solely on
the subject of the Compton Verney Morning
Room, chaired by Abigail Williams, Professor of
Eighteenth-Century Literature, Lord White Fellow
and Knowledge Exchange Champion for the
Humanities Division at Oxford.
The seminar’s participants concluded that the
book spine titles read as a fantasy list of books
Lady Willoughby de Broke might have wanted to
have read - or be seen reading – and have some
coherence and meaning, showing a clear leaning
towards a secular, European tradition which
reaches back into the 17the century. Many
of these names would not have been
familiar to the general public by the 1860s,
but are names which might have figured in
the increasingly popular biographical dictionaries
of prominent women appearing around this time.
Lady Willoughby de Broke might have culled her
book-spine titles from the works cited in Rev
Alexander Dyce’s Specimens of British Poetesses
of 1825 and/or the ‘Dream’ from The Lady’s
Magazine of 1778. The works cited in the spines
are neither scandalous nor proto-feminist. (There
is, for example, no Mary Wollestonecraft.)
However, they are wilfully antiquarian in places.
For example, there are no famous 19th century
female novelists here, such as Jane Austen or
Elizabeth Gaskell.
They also thought that the spine shelves were
intended as a statement of identity rather than
any representation of either the actual authors or
of Lady Willoughby de Broke's actual reading Lady Willoughby de Broke was possibly trying to
create a vision of an 18th century Enlightenment
female salon here – an excellent example of the
19th century imagining the 18th.
Oxford University’s English department are keen
to work with us to restore the library back to
something resembling its mid-Victorian state, as a
unique survival of this important but hitherto
neglected feature, and in order to explain the role
that Women’s Libraries played in the great
houses of today. To that end, we are seeking, in
conjunction with the University, £15,000 to
enable us to
(Left): faux book
spine panels;
(Right): handpainted cartouche
from the entry door
that has, until
recently, been in
storage awaiting
repair. Below: the

commission research to (i) estimate what book
titles are missing from the door architrave, and
(ii) to find out more about Lady Willoughby de
Broke’s circle: who she was sitting there with,
and who she was trying to impress with her
female canon

commission two new spine panels featuring
these ‘missing’ titles to replace those since lost
and restore the bookcases and fill them with
books appropriate to a Women’s Library of
c.1860

redecorate the room to an approximation of
its appearance in c.1860, following expert paint
research on all surfaces

create pages on our website that tell the story
of the room and trace its importance to engage
the public with this subject

help fund a one-day conference on the subject
of Women’s Libraries as a whole, using Compton
Verney’s as a starting-point.
Owing to the lack of evidence and surviving
fabric, no other space at Compton Verney is
interpreted as it was before 1993. Yet our
visitors consistently ask for more information
on the history of the house – and, especially,
its owners – before it became an art gallery.
With this special room, we will be able to tell
visitors more about the house’s past, and
about the lives of Victorian women.
Dr Steven Parissien
(Below from left): detail from a tapestry chair (1755) that is
original to Compton Verney and sits in this room; painting
of Compton Verney in door panel; and detail from door
above.
THE SAS RETURN TO COMPTON VERNEY
Like any historic house Compton Verney has
an interesting past. Over the years it has
hosted a diverse range of visitors from all
across the world. Some of these visits are well
documented, others are simply fleeting and
soon forgotten.
In August 2014, the house was visited by a group
of historic military vehicles and their owners from
the Military Vehicle Trust (MVT). The MVT is a
charity set up to preserve historic military vehicles
the owners of which take them to events across the
country. As is recorded in the entrance hall, the
house was used by the British Army as a
camouflage school during the war and the
grounds would once have been very active with
military vehicles. Approximately 40 vehicles
(ranging from the ubiquitous World War II Jeep,
through to a 1960s Russian BRDM armoured car)
were lined up along the drive to the enjoyment of
visitors. After a brief talk and some photographs,
the MVT left on the next leg of their journey
adding another group name to Compton Verney’s
list of visitors.
In the autumn of 2014, a chance encounter in the
grounds reopened another unusual chapter in the
history of Compton Verney. A group of elderly
gentlemen were attempting to identify the location
of black-and-white photographs taken in the
grounds many years ago. When asked what they
were doing, they revealed that they were members
of the Belgian SAS who had trained here during the
war. Any possible doubt to such a surprising
answer was quickly removed when they showed a
clip of film taken in the grounds during the war.
Prior to D-Day they had been billeted at Friz Hill
house in Wellesbourne and marched up to
Compton Verney to train in the grounds.
The 5th SAS was formed during World War II
entirely from Belgian volunteers with the objective
of undertaking sabotage and gathering
intelligence. The volunteers had either escaped
from occupied Europe or had travelled from
America to join up. The men came from all walks
of life and included a former world cycling
champion, lawyers, farmers, labourers,
lumberjacks, a circus acrobat, a professional
wrestler and even three barons. The commanding
officer himself was both a qualified engineer and
dentist. These differences of upbringing, class,
One remarkable coincidence is that Friz Hill House,
which was occupied by the Belgian SAS during
their training, had once been the family home of
one of the members of the MVT, who had no idea
lifestyle and even language might have seemed
problematic, but a real esprit de corps developed
quickly within the unit.
about the former occupants of the house.
The men of the Belgian SAS saw their first action
towards the end of July 1944 in France. During the
Ardennes offensive in 1944 the unit was regrouped
and equipped with armoured jeeps and, as a
reconnaissance squadron, they executed security
and reconnaissance missions in order to support
the 6th British Airborne Division. In 1945 they were
used for counter-intelligence work which involved
the location and arrest of top-ranking Nazis and
war criminals.
At the end of the war the Belgian SAS Regiment
had much to be proud of. They had been the first
Allied unit to set foot in Belgium and Germany,
and the only Belgian unit permanently on active
deployment between July 1944 and May 1945.
They had also been responsible for the capture of
Admiral Doenitz's government in Flensburg and
German Foreign minister Ribbentrop.
Tim Gosling
If you have a wartime or other personal story of
Compton Verney’s history, why not share it on the
Memories of Compton Verney website?
(Photos page 6): The Lake proves an effective training tool.
(Note Compton Verney’s mansion and bridge in the
background.) (Below): MVT vehicles on their visit in 2014.
Oh What a Busy
Closed Season!
Even though we were closed to the public over
the winter, there was plenty going on behind
the scenes at Compton Verney. It started soon
after the doors closed in December with the
installation of wi-fi, and carried on until the
morning of our Press Private View on 13
March. During that time, these are just a few of
the projects coordinated by our small team:
 LED lights were installed
in the galleries and public
spaces, significantly
enhancing energy
efficiency and the
appearance of art work.
 Floors were repaired or
replaced in the Naples
and largest exhibition
galleries, as well as the
restaurant ,in response to
concerns about noise and
to enhance safety.
 Wi-fi was installed throughout the building to
help visitors access information, provide us with
feedback during their visit and enhance the
appeal to potential corporate hire clients.
 Local company New Folium were appointed to
manage all catering; and the menus, uniforms
and restaurant, now to be known as The Lawn
Restaurant, given a makeover.
 New air handling units were installed to care
for our collections and work loaned to us for
exhibitions.
 Planning permission was received for the new
buildings, bridge and restoration plans
funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and
others.
 The courtyard was dug up for new drainage
to prevent flooding.
 The condition of works
in the permanent
collection was assessed
and, where necessary,
conserved.
 The Learning Team
discovered how to make
straw crafts and planned
for a busy year ahead.
 Our new Activity
Manger was appointed
to oversee a five-year plan of learning,
outreach and enrichment based on our
heritage landscape.
 The spring exhibitions; Canaletto: Celebrating
Britain and The Non-Conformists: Photographs
by Martin Parr exhibitions were installed and
extensive positive press coverage for them
was secured.
 Plans got underway for the fourth annual gala
fundraiser to take place on 26 September
 2015.
The concert, dinner and auction is run by
a team of volunteers and will raise funds for our
Learning Programme.
 Shop staff bought lots of lovely things and put in
place an evocative new ’Canaletto-inspired’ look
to the shop itself.
 Interior and interpretation planning and site
clearance for the new Welcome Centre began.
 Extensive new printed materials were produced,
including What’s On, the promotional leaflet, and
site map, and on-site signage updated.
 The Chinese galleries were completely renovated
to enhance visitor enjoyment of this extraordinary
and world-class collection.
 A regional photography competition was
initiated that will be featured in The Photography
Hub adjacent to the Entrance Hall.
 Artist Faye Claridge installed Kern Baby in the
grounds and involved local schools in the
associated photography shoot.
 Amongst endless other tasks,
growth around the Forest
School site was pruned back to
allow more light, and a
temporary fence was installed
along the yew hedge at the
front of the site to mark where
some of the many miles worth
of new estate railing will be
installed.
Just some comments about
the new Chinese display:
“I LOVE the re-display of the
Chinese collection. The lighting
is wonderful and it all appears
much more vibrant and less like
a museum.”
“Absolutely loved the ‘new look’
(Upper left and lower photo above): newly renovated
Chinese exhibition. Normally I
would have passed it by but the
artefacts previously kept in storage that are now on
layout and explanation was
terrific! Well done!”
Chinese galleries. (Left centre): one of several Chinese
display. Immediate left some of the hundreds of lights
installed and colour now more visible in paintings lit by
them. (Above top): skills to put to use with schools and
“Excellent improvement to
family visitors. (Centre above): Head of Operations
Chinese displays aids focus and
understanding.”
Cranmer Webb expressing the staff’s joy at a now silent
gallery floor.
Achieving your
Corporate Goals
with Compton Verney
Compton Verney is a unique cultural
resource and event venue that can
provide businesses with outstanding
opportunities for:
About Compton Verney
Comprised of an award-winning art gallery in a
Grade I-listed Georgian mansion, set in 120 acres
of 'Capability' Brown landscape, we attract
visitors from all over Warwickshire, Oxfordshire
and the surrounding region. Broadly speaking,
our visitors are professionals and business people
(some retired) over 50, and families with
children. The gallery’s marketing and
promotional campaigns focus on specialist
magazine and regional radio advertising, emarketing and print.
•Reputation enhancement:
With a strong brand that reflects artistic and
architectural excellence, a tradition of innovative
creative and environmental learning programmes,
and a bespoke range of sponsorship and group
volunteering opportunities, we can help companies
position themselves as high-end luxury brands, an
organisation that supports programmes of benefit
to their communities, and/or a collaborative and
engaged local partner.
•Employee engagement:
Employee engagement activities that illustrate an
organisation’s goals and values, as well as
commitment to the wider community, can lead to
higher productivity and reduced staff turnover. We
can provide companies with an unusual and
distinctive venue for away days, a wide variety of
team building projects and an opportunity to
develop staff skills and camaraderie.
•Network expansion:
Whether it is enhancing its relationship with current
clients by inviting them to enjoy an event or day
here, or meeting potential new customers,
Compton Verney can help strengthen a company’s
client base.
We send our ‘What’s On’ guide to a warm
mailing list of 20,000 twice annually and have
5,000 members. Our visitor attendance for 2014
was 65,000.
Compton Verney was established with the
support of the Peter Moores Foundation (now
closed) who purchased and restored the
property, acquired the permanent collections
and established an endowment to cover basic
running costs. Fundraising is vital, however, to
ensure that we continue to stage internationalstandard exhibitions (which in turn drive our
visitor footfall), to undertake major capital
projects like the restoration of our Grade I-listed
Chapel, and to stage and develop our widelyadmired learning programmes.
Benefits to your business can include tickets;
tours and events for staff and clients; discounted
event hire; and recognition in our galleries,
grounds and publications.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Gala Event 26 September 2015
Learning
Following on from the success of the 2012 and
2013 Gala Dinners, and our 2014 fundraising
Opera, we are planning to hold another high-profile
event in 2015 to raise vital funds for Compton
Verney. These events are typically attended by 130
well-connected and influential people from the
local area and London, and are a fantastic way for
businesses to extend their profile, build client
relationships and realise philanthropic goals.
Sponsorship opportunities for this event start at
£750 + VAT, and include benefits such as tickets to
the event, free advertising in the programme, one
year’s Compton Verney Corporate Membership,
acknowledgement on the invitations and much
more. There are also plenty of advertising
opportunities available in the event programme
from £150 + VAT.
The most powerful and memorable learning
happens through experience. It is not just about
what we learn but how and where we learn. A
recent study from Oxford University researchers
found that “The chances of gaining good A-level
results are significantly improved when students
experience academic enrichment
activities….including going to museums, galleries
and reading for pleasure.”
Transformational Projects
Our financial sustainability relies on our ability to
continue developing new audiences and income
streams, as well as accomplishing our desire to be
an active resource for our community. Projects that
would truly help to transform our ability to achieve
these goals include a new, Google-friendly website
(£15,000) and accessible visitor shuttle.
For more information about these and other
opportunities, as well as the benefits of supporting
us, please contact Jess Brown, Development Officer,
on 01926 645 562 or
[email protected].
Compton Verney provides a safe, stimulating
environment outside the classroom for learning
that supports the development of thinking skills
and the confidence to express individual
opinions and ideas.
“Our association with Compton Verney has been a very
positive experience. The activity has helped position our
brand locally, raise the level of awareness of our development
with the right target audience and provide our clients with an
excellent cultural experience”
Our grounds, house and galleries combine the
adventure and fun of a day out, with the
opportunity to engage with visual art, landscape
design and wildlife. A learning team of
experienced arts education professionals
conducts a range of programmes that are highly
subsidised and help schools to deliver the
National Curriculum. We also run a varied and
rewarding educational programme for families
and cross-generational groups at weekends and
during school holidays.
Audley Binswood Hall
© John Cleary Photography
Sponsorship opportunities include supporting
our popular Forest School (£5,000 + VAT pa),
funding holiday or weekend activities (£2,00012,000 +VAT) and helping us to create an
exhibition resource room (£2,000 + VAT).
Nick Archer, Local Marketing Manager
Green Shoots
I didn’t originally volunteer to become the
Chairman of the Benefactors, Patrons and
Supporters but was “volunteered” by David
Burbidge, the outgoing Chairman. He did it
with such grace and a lovely smile, How could
I say “no”?
My job is to ensure that we look after the people
who support Compton Verney though their
Benefactor, Parton or Supporter membership, and
I do my best to keep them on board once they’ve
signed up. I’m proud to say that over the six years
I’ve been Chairman, we’ve only lost two Patrons,
and all the Supporters who’ve left have not only
been replaced but numbers are still growing.
I feel the help I give the gallery is by making an
effort to know as may members as possible and to
make them feel they are an important part of our
Compton Verney family. I love being involved, it’s
great to see something grow from green shoots
and to be witness to all the wonderful things that
go on here and to see so many people enjoy to.
A Day in the Life of a
Duty Manager
No one day at Compton Verney is quite like the
next: in addition to visitors, we might have
school groups, a wedding, a life drawing class,
an art lecture, a Forest school pixie party... and
it’s part of my job to ensure they all go well.
I’m one of three Duty Managers responsible for the
day to day running of the gallery. It can be a
challenge, so I’m lucky to have such a great team of
gallery staff and volunteers to work with.
We start with a
morning briefing
and then, at 11am,
it’s on with the day.
With the gallery just
opened, the
galleries are
buzzing and today
we also have an Art
Fund group visiting,
so they get a special
tour of the
exhibitions with one
of our Gallery
Interpreters.
Anyone and
everyone can help
Compton Verney
to grow and
increasingly
establish itself as a
gallery of national
importance in the
centre of England.
Just sign up, or, if
you’ve already
signed up, we’d
love to have you
climb to the next
level of membership.
Personally, I think this is one of the great assets of
Warwickshire and I believe that if we want it to
continue, we must all be prepared to support it.
We can all do this, by either joining or bringing
family and friends to visit As you know Compton
Verney is now 10 years old, let’s make sure it is
here for the next 100.
The Lady Willoughby de Broke,
Chairman of Benefactors, Patrons and Supporters
I do my rounds to make sure the galleries are
staffed and the popular public tours are running
smoothly. I ensure the office has milk (we run on
coffee and cake), clear trays in the café to help with
the lunchtime rush and assist the busy retail and
membership teams if needed. I feed also back any
issues to the Front of House Manager and the
curators.
From time to time things go wrong; keys, shoes,
handbags, and husbands get mislaid… so we
reunite them with their owners. We’re first aid
trained, so we tend to bee stings, cut knees etc as
well as the rare complaint.
More often than not visitors want to talk about the
art. This season’s Martin Parr exhibition has stirred
up people’s memories of the 1970s. Hearing their
stories is one of the best parts of our job.
Before we know it five o’clock is upon us and, after
a debrief session with gallery staff, it’s time to close
up the galleries. The videos are turned off, the
children’s crafts are tidied away, the doors are
locked. We wind our way home to rest our tired
feet, ready to do it all again in the morning.
Polly Hawkes,
Duty Manager
We are delighted to announce our new catering partners, New Folium. This Banbury firm
has built a reputation for excellence by providing our clients with exceptional service, good
quality ingredients, personalised menus and eye catching presentations. Presiding over the
newly named Lawn Restaurant, as well as the coffee shop and snack bar in the new Visitor
Centre, Louise, Ben and their team promise to be a proactive part of Compton Verney’s
future.
Sample Menu Choices
Chef’s Special
Light Bites
White Chocolate Crème Brulée
Corn-fed chicken goujons with seasoned potato
wedges and salad
Smoked haddock kedgeree with poached quails
egg and curried mayonnaise
Bubble and squeak with fried hen’s egg and thick
sliced, home cooked ham
Beer battered haddock with triple cooked chips,
pea puree and tartar sauce
Black pudding and Gloucester Old Spot scotch
egg
Mains
Traditional steak, Hook Norton ale and kidney
pudding
Slow roasted chicken leg with chorizo and butter
bean stew
Sage stuffed pork tenderloin
Herb-crusted salmon
Fillet of sea trout
Broad bean, spinach and courgette risotto
Wild mushroom tagliatelle
Homemade Desserts
Chocolate fondant with vanilla ice cream
Spiced plum winter crumble
White chocolate brulée with a honey tuille
Stem ginger and treacle tart
Fresh fruit salad
Local and regional cheese board
Makes four 150ml ramekins. Heat oven to 160°.
568ml double cream
100g white chocolate
1 vanilla pod
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg yolks
2 tablespoon caster sugar
 Over a low heat, melt cream, chocolate, vanilla
pod (split) and vanilla extract together. Take off
heat and allow to infuse for 10 minutes.
 Beat yolks and sugar until pale and stir in the
cool chocolate mixture. Strain into a jug and
pour into ramekins.
 Place in a deep roasting tray into which
you
then pour boiling water half way up the sides.
 Bake for 15-20 minutes until set with a wobbly
centre.
 Chill in fridge for 3-4 hours and dress with fruit
as desired.
Enjoy!
Thank you for your support
Thank you to all our Benefactors, Patrons, Supporters and
Corporate Members for your continued support. Your
membership makes a huge difference to us and contributes
towards all aspects of Compton Verney, from our exhibitions
and collections to our grounds and educational work.
Benefactors
Anonymous
Dr Catherine MS Alexander
Adrian and Jacqui Beecroft
Paul Cooney
Lady Goodhart
Patrons
Anonymous
Mrs Christine Archer
Bridget Barker and Simon Herrtage
Pam Barnes
Janet Bell Smith
Professor Robert Bluglass CBE &
Dr Kerry Bluglass
Mrs Susan Bridgewater
The Brook Family
David and Sandra Burbidge
Nicholas and Marie-France Burton
Roger Cadbury
Dr & Mrs Munchi Choksey
Mr & Mrs Ludovic de Walden
Roy and Margaret Fraser
Wyn Grant
Alex and Mary Robinson
James Robinson
Kirsten Suenson-Taylor
Peter Gregory-Hood
Sir Martin & Lady Jacomb
Mr & Mrs David Loudon
Mrs Michael Markham
Victoria Peers
Mrs Joanne E Perry
David and Jill Pittaway
William and Jane Pusey
Helen Rose and Roger Salmons
P E Shirley
Richard Shore
Sarah Stoten
Peter Thompson
The Lord & Lady Willoughby de
Broke
The Four
Pillars
When you purchase a membership at any
level and/or make a donation, you are
welcome to specify an area of your own
interest which your membership/donation
will contribute towards:

The Exhibition Fund for our
exhibitions and collections.

The Adam Fund for our built heritage.

The Inspire Fund for art education.

The Capability Fund for our historic
landscape.
For further information, or if you would like
to support The Four Pillars of Compton
Verney, please call Alexandra Grimes on
01926 645 547 or donate online now via
the Big Give.
Supporters
Clive Barnes
Mrs Michelle Boycott
Mike and Joan Broad
Lady Butler
Graham Greene CBE
Jenny Grimstone-Jones
Sarah Holman
Adrian and Clare Hopkinson
David Howells
Howard and Melanie Jackson
Dr & Mrs Stephen Large
Bob and Sandy Marchant
N Meades
Philip and Lulette Monbiot
Dr James Mooney
Mrs Penny Perriss
Andrew and Julia Pick
Michael Robarts
Christopher Trye
Benjamin Wiggin
And 30 others who wish to
remain anonymous, or have
not yet specified how they
would like to be listed.
Corporate Members
Martinspeed Ltd
Bonhams
Farrow & Ball
Aquarelle Publishing
Blackwall Green
Fred Winter Ltd
Goldcrest Cleaning Ltd
Lightmedia Communications Ltd
Mitchell Gallery
Renaissance Creative
Wright Hassall
Perrywell Computer Systems Ltd
Larch Consulting Ltd
James Butler Ltd
Avidity IP Limited
Healthcare Development Services Ltd
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
Other ways you can help
Consider leaving us a legacy, organising an
event or naming a tree, artwork or room for
yourself or a loved one! Call 01926 645
547 or visit the website for more
information.