Charlie Fenton’s Reviews > Great Houses of the National Trust > Status Update

‘In about 1745 the gallery was converted into a library to accommodate the books inherited from Sir Richard Ellys, a distinguished theologian and antiquity who, with an eye for the rare, curious, old and beautiful, assembled an outstanding collection of works. The 12,000 volumes housed at Blickling, which form one of the most remarkable country-house libraries in England’