A growing selection of published material, both historical and contemporary documents relating to the house and estate, and published research conducted by KWAG and others.
Some of these files are quite large. Please be patient while trying to download them.
Primary historical sources
Will of Sir Robert Southwell, 1702
Correspondence on gardening between Sir Robert Southwell and John Evelyn 1684-5
List of Pictures at Kingsweston – 1695
Inventory of Kings Weston House contents 1777
1833 auction of all Kings Weston’s furniture, held at Kings Weston Inn (Bristol Record Office)
1833 auction of all the books of prints sold from Kings Weston (Bristol Record Office)
1834 auction of the library of Kings Weston House (Bristol Record Office)
1833 estate agent’s particulars
Kings Weston description by P. Egan 1819
Country Life – Gardens old & new 1889
1905 Kings Weston Estate marketing brochure for Avonmouth
Kings Weston Red Cross fund-raiser 1916
Architectural drawings of Penpole Lodge
Drawings of the brewhouse and loggia
Newspaper articles charting the post-war changes at Kings Weston
Published Research
Descriptions of Kings Weston in the Georgian Era (translated by Professor Richard Coates
First World War exhibition posters 2014
Avon Gardens Trust Journal 2014 – New insights on old views
Avon Gardens Trust Journal. The Great Court & Penpole Lodge, Russel J
Avon Gardens Trust Bulletin, Summer 2014 – New documentary discoveries
Kings Weston Geophysics report Jan 2012
Sir Godfrey Kneller and the Southwell and Cromwell families. Paintings relating to Kings Weston
Geophysics resistivity survey results, march 2017
Ground Penetrating Radar geophysics report, Great Court, March 2017
Ground penetrating radar results, Grid 1 (29Mb)
Results of Ground Penetrating Radar, Grid 2, (15Mb)
Kings Weston Estate Farms, Richard Coates, 2018 (currently unavailable)
Katherine Farm, Avonmouth – Desk-based Assessment