Plaster portrait medallions sculpted by Christopher Hobbs, Xmas 2002 ( set designer for the films of Derek Jarman and Ken Russell) are the defining elements of a gigantic 'biographical' overmantle trophy above the ground floor reception room fireplace, where there was previously only a gaping hole in the chimney breast. It includes the likenesses of their two dachshunds Tiger and Sponge, garden implements and architectural devices and a human skull (excavated in the early 1970s in the site o...
