The Earl of Shaftesbury’s Stunning Estate
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.St. Giles House, seat of the Earls of Shaftesbury, in East Dorset, England.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.The restored Great Dining Room, with ancestral portraits.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, with their son, Anthony, in the library of St. Giles House with a portrait of the first Earl of Shaftesbury by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.Family photos, including a shot of Nicholas with his half-brother, Fred, and a portrait of his father, left.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.The Victorian-era servants’ bell board.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.The earl’s office, with a portrait of his father over the door.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.Lord and Lady Shaftesbury at lunch in the family dining room.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.A view from the South Drawing Room of the formal garden, with the statue of Anteros.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.Signs from the estate’s yew trees (planted by the future King George V in 1908).
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.The Castellated Arch.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.The grounds’ three-quartermile-long avenue of beech trees.
