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Inverted Star 

ELLYS MANOR HOUSE (EMH)

COMPLETION OR PERFECTION

The number 7 is quite significant in the Bible, appearing over 700 times throughout both the Old and New Testaments. In biblical numerology, 7 symbolizes completion or perfection. It is said that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th.

The Eye of Providence                                                     Hyroglifics from the unfinished Northern Pyramid

Detailed section  of the wall painting at EMH c. 1500

1 Solar (or Sun) Cross. 2 Fleur de lys. 3 Calvary (Golgotha). 4 Crenalated wall of Jerusalem. 5 The three date palm trees on top of Calvary, where the three heads are one. The Godhead. 

God bless,

CM Taylor (Clive) 

From left to right: - 

1 The Tourelle, sadly, the upper section (two windows) is no longer on the building.

2  Turnpike stair window in full. The upper section is in the form of an unfinished northern Pyramid.

3 We trust you will now be able to appreciate the pyramid with two sets of triglyphs, with one bar at the top, totalling seven. What is the significance of the number seven in the bible, which appears over seven hundred times? It symbolises Completion or perfection. It is not said that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7^th.

4 Hieroglyphs in an Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan, Egypt. Note the Inverted star.   

5 Number 5 speaks for itself.

Understanding Ellys Manor House

To understand Ellys Manor House (EMH), is to understand the architectural language of northern Europe.

The Art of Recognition - Ellys Manor House Petition

Ellys Manor House (pronounced Ellis, affectionately referred to as EMH), is without doubt one of the United Kingdom’s most significant historic buildings. Historic notes credit Anthony Ellys, a rich English wool merchant of the Staple of Calais, as builder of the house and the adjacent church tower in the late medieval/early Tudor period.

A Hidden Gem

BBC's East Midlands Today realises this hidden gem within one of the countries most significant historic houses

Ellys Manor House (EMH) is without doubt, one of our most significant historic homes in the United Kingdom. EMH is not about bombast or bling, this is about integrity. The architectural language of the building perfectly encapsulates early modern European, British and Hanseatic League history, thus we are a testament to the Northern Renaissance. The house and the adjacent church tower were built by a member of the Ellys family, an English wool merchant of the Staple of Calais.

The Hanseatic League was an economic alliance of trading cities and their merchant guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe. It stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages

At Ellys Manor House, we would like to say a huge thank you to everybody who has visited the house thus far (in the last seven years), and contributed to our wall paintings appeal. Due to your kindness we have managed to have a section of these important works conserved by Bianca Madden and Claudia Fiocchetti, two of our very finenest conservators in this field of work.

For anyone who does not know of Ellys Manor House and the important late medieval/renaissance domestic wall paintings in the upper rooms, I urge you strongly to visit.

The Hanseatic merchants also carried architectural ideas in their luggage

Clive Taylor lives in an architectural jewel, whose origins can be traced back to the 16th century: Ellys Manor House, originally built by wealthy wool merchants in Lincolnshire, east of Nottingham. The house‘s style reflects the Northern Renaissance, the Renaissance version that spread throughout northern Europe, following the trail of the Hanseatic merchants. Clive Taylor on an otherwise little-known Renaissance style and its history.