150-year-old graffiti uncovered
Walter Chapman is thought to have been a groom or stable ladRenovation work on the stables of a 15th century estate in Essex has uncovered graffiti etched onto a wall 150 years ago.
The writing was discovered during work on the Grade II listed coach-house stables and dovecote at the Spains Hall estate in Finchingfield.
Two names - Henry Gillman dated 1851 and Walter Chapman dated 1898 - are written on the walls.
They are thought to have been grooms or stable lads on the estate.
After finding the graffiti, owner of the hall Rosemary Ruggles-Brise asked all the builders and contractors who had worked on the site over the last 12 months to sign their names on a freshly plastered wall nearby.
"Like much of what we're doing here at the stables at Spains Hall, we're putting the new side-by-side with the old," she said.
"It's about different eras in history running alongside each other."
Spains Hall was named after Hervey de Ispania who held the estate after the Norman Conquest.
Walter Chapman is thought to have been a groom or stable ladRenovation work on the stables of a 15th century estate in Essex has uncovered graffiti etched onto a wall 150 years ago.
The writing was discovered during work on the Grade II listed coach-house stables and dovecote at the Spains Hall estate in Finchingfield.
Two names - Henry Gillman dated 1851 and Walter Chapman dated 1898 - are written on the walls.
They are thought to have been grooms or stable lads on the estate.
After finding the graffiti, owner of the hall Rosemary Ruggles-Brise asked all the builders and contractors who had worked on the site over the last 12 months to sign their names on a freshly plastered wall nearby.
"Like much of what we're doing here at the stables at Spains Hall, we're putting the new side-by-side with the old," she said.
"It's about different eras in history running alongside each other."
Spains Hall was named after Hervey de Ispania who held the estate after the Norman Conquest.
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