Located on Park Row, The Red Lodge Museum explores four centuries of history, from the "royal party house" of the 16th Century to a Victorian reform school for girls.
The building was constructed in 1580 on the site of The Great House on St. Augustine's Back, which is now home to Bristol Beacon and was possibly designed by Sebastiano Serlio, an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau.
The house was first owned by Sir John Young, a merchant and decedent of a merchant family and courtier to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, and the Red Lodge would have originally been used as an additional guest house and entertainment pavilion.
The Great House hosted Queen Elizabeth I during her visit to Bristol in 1574, who later knighted Sir John Young.
He died in 1589, and his son, Robert Young, inherited the entire estate, who had to convey the Red Lodge to his half-brother Nicholas Strangways to avoid seizure after he had quickly spent his inheritance. The Red Lodge was rented out to various tenants as residence separate from The Great House by 1595, and eventually, the Great House was sold to Sir Hugh Smyth of Ashton Court.
During the 1730s, the house was bought by John and Mary Henley who carried out major extension works on the Red Lodge.
By 1854, the Red Lodge was bought by Lady Byron and transformed into the first-ever Girls' Reformatory by Mary Carpenter until 1917.
The building is now owned by the Bristol City Council which turned it into a free museum. The Red Lodge Museum is open from 11am to 4pm, Saturday to Tuesday.
The building was constructed in 1580 on the site of The Great House on St. Augustine's Back, which is now home to Bristol Beacon and was possibly designed by Sebastiano Serlio, an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau.
The house was first owned by Sir John Young, a merchant and decedent of a merchant family and courtier to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, and the Red Lodge would have originally been used as an additional guest house and entertainment pavilion.
The Great House hosted Queen Elizabeth I during her visit to Bristol in 1574, who later knighted Sir John Young.
He died in 1589, and his son, Robert Young, inherited the entire estate, who had to convey the Red Lodge to his half-brother Nicholas Strangways to avoid seizure after he had quickly spent his inheritance. The Red Lodge was rented out to various tenants as residence separate from The Great House by 1595, and eventually, the Great House was sold to Sir Hugh Smyth of Ashton Court.
During the 1730s, the house was bought by John and Mary Henley who carried out major extension works on the Red Lodge.
By 1854, the Red Lodge was bought by Lady Byron and transformed into the first-ever Girls' Reformatory by Mary Carpenter until 1917.
The building is now owned by the Bristol City Council which turned it into a free museum. The Red Lodge Museum is open from 11am to 4pm, Saturday to Tuesday.
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