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Visit the Sinai Park image Gallery
On Saturday 7th May LANDshapes held the second of its Timeframe photography workshops, taking twelve people on a visit to Sinai Park where they followed an imaginative hands-on programme devised by Roger Brown, Senior Lecturer in Photography at Staffordshire University. The workshop included a visit to a location with a fascinating history, Sinai House. Roger encouraged participants to investigate their individual photographic interests during the day through activities aimed at learning the skills of working with light, the weather, colour, viewpoints and composition.
Sinai Park House
Sited off Shobnall Road, Sinai Park House is a large, multi period and predominantly timber framed Tudor Manor house whose origins date from the 15th – 17th centuries. Sitting on a moated site overlooking Burton, Sinai is thought to have been built as a hunting lodge and rest home for the monks and Abbot of Burton Abbey. Until the 1950s the house had comprised six dwellings but was declared unsafe, forcing the owners to move out. The house then passed through several owners until the present owner took charge of the property in 1994.
Sinai Park house and the land upon which it is sited have a long and interesting history, dating back to the 14th century when a house standing on the moated site is said to have been used by monks when they had their ‘blood let’ – a practice thought necessary for promoting good health in the Middle Ages. At that time the house was known as ‘manor of Seyne’, a French word which means ‘blood’. The house has had a number of names throughout its long history including, ‘Seney Hall’, ‘Seaney Lodge’, ‘Seaney Park’, ‘Seaney Park House’, and eventually ‘Sinai’. The present Sinai Park House is partly derelict, although in the cellar of the north wing a fragment of wall survives which dates back to the 13th or early 14th centuries.
The medieval moat is thought to have been ‘L’ shaped, encompassing the north and west sides of the house. After the 16th century these ‘arms’ were no longer filled with water but complementary south and east arms were added in the 17th or 18th centuries. A wooden bridge was added to the west side during the medieval period whilst the single arch, brick bridge which crosses the moat on the east side probably dates from the mid 18th century.
To read more about the history of Sinai Park House please visit British History Online

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