Wedding Photographer Voewood — Edward Prior’s Arts and Crafts House, the Norfolk Coast AONB and the North Norfolk Heathland
Voewood near Holt in North Norfolk is one of England’s most architecturally remarkable and most rarely photographed Arts and Crafts houses — a large private house of 1903 designed by Edward S. Prior, the most radical architect of the Arts and Crafts movement, in the butterfly-plan form using local Norfolk carr-stone, pebble-flint and red brick in a complex patterned coursing of extraordinary material richness and completely unlike any other house in England. Voewood stands in North Norfolk’s heathland above the Glaven valley, surrounded by the Norfolk Coast AONB and within easy reach of the Blakeney Point’s shingle spit and the North Norfolk coastal marshes. For Voewood wedding photography, the house’s extraordinary exterior wall patterning, the Arts and Crafts interior detailing and the North Norfolk heathland and coastal landscape provide portrait environments of architectural uniqueness combined with coastal AONB landscape.
Prior’s Butterfly Plan, the Patterned Flint Walls and the Arts and Crafts Interior
Voewood’s exterior walls — Prior’s unique application of local carr-stone, Norfolk pebble-flint and red brick in the coursed random flint and brick patterning that creates a visual pixelation of the wall surface unlike any other Arts and Crafts building in England — provide architectural portrait backdrops of material richness and textural complexity of a quite specific Arts and Crafts character. The butterfly plan’s curved wings radiating from the central hall provide exterior portrait compositions of the extended building elevation from the forecourt. The Arts and Crafts interior — the great hall, the inglenook fireplaces and the casement detailing — provide ceremony and reception portrait settings of detailed Arts and Crafts craftsmanship.
The Norfolk Coast AONB, Blakeney Point and the Glaven Valley
The Norfolk Coast AONB — accessible from Voewood in fifteen minutes north to the coast, with Blakeney’s tidal quay, the Blakeney Point’s four-mile shingle spit (accessible by RHIB from Morston quay), the Cley-next-the-Sea Nature Reserve’s open reed-bed marshes and the Salthouse beach’s open shingle strand — provides a coastal AONB portrait landscape of North Norfolk coast of extraordinary flatness, openness and the big-sky character for which Norfolk’s coast is specifically celebrated. Holkham Hall’s Palladian park seven miles west provides a further landscape portrait destination. The Glaven valley’s water meadows provide riverside portrait settings adjacent to Voewood.