Belton House

Exploring and making use of the National Trust membership! Belton House was well worth the visit - lovely house and grounds.

The stables block and the archway to the house itself.

Who is this lurking in the ivy?

Monarch of all I survey?

A splendid ceiling in one of the rooms

Stairway and hall with gilt patterns and a portrait by Leighton.

One of several stone urns in the formal gardens

Statue in the formal gardens

Belton church where there are the remains of many of the Cust family who owned Belton House

The lion exedra - so we're told

Small statue in the Orangery glimpsed through the window

and another

Flowers and small tortoiseshell butterfly in the walled garden

Pillar in Belton Church

and the font.

The boathouse and small lake

A modest, or a cheeky statue near the maze.