Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Miss Jessica Jane Maitland • Jessica is a senior account director at Avalere Health and is engaged to Andrew Pottow, whom she will marry at St James’ Church in Louth, Lincolnshire, in September. She is the daughter of Johnny and Jane Maitland of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and follows in the footsteps of her mother (née Bracher) who appeared on the Frontispiece on January 31, 1991.

Pray silence for the liturgical word • As we celebrate Easter, Quentin Letts applauds the quiet solemnity of the ecclesiastical liturgy and suggests that its transcendent language is sufficient without modern embellishment

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Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Anna Clyne

One man’s playground • The refrain that the public needs more countryside access is familiar, but how true is it? And what happens when they get there? Patrick Galbraith investigates

The power and the glory • Developed over the past nine centuries, this great church has developed three individually outstanding interiors and a wealth of furnishing to rival the contents of a cathedral, as John Goodall explains

The legacy • Ralph Vaughan Williams and The English Hymnal

Who doesn’t love a chat? • Once grouped with thrushes, members of the chat family are blessed with long legs, beady eyes and a fondness for lofty perches, which allow them to flutter and pounce on prey, says Mark Cocker

Get me to the church on thyme • Arranging flowers for church isn’t only about elevating the beauty and dignity of worship, it’s a lynchpin of village life, says Flora Watkins

The Editor’s Easter quiz • What better way to mark high days and holidays than by pitting your wits against the COUNTRY LIFE team?

Let’s do the time warp again • The peculiarly English mid-20th-century phenomenon of the model village still has the power to sweep us back to childhood holidays, says Kirsten Tambling

‘No pressure, no diamonds’ • Every diamond has a story to tell and each of us deserves to fall in love with one. Jonathan Self presents all you need to know about these stones of fire and water

Butterme up • What is sunnier than butter yellow, asks Hetty Lintell, for both ladies and gentlemen for spring and beyond

Top tables • Inspired ideas for Easter entertaining, dreamt up by Melanie Johnson

Creative forces • Paints and papers to pep up any interior, selected by Amelia Thorpe

A remarkable Kentish heritage • Prime ministers and paper mills are part of the fascinating history of two great houses in Kent

Property news

Green dreams • Exotic woods, labyrinths of narrow, mossy paths and thousands of tree ferns make this an internationally important garden, writes Charles Quest-Ritson

Hang spring-cleaning!

The not so lonesome pine • You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s not possible to eat Scots pine, but you’d be wrong, assures John Wright, as it makes for a tasty syrup, a pickle and a great marinade, too

Between the sheets • An upwardly mobile spaghetti Bolognese, lasagne al forno, with oozing béchamel and layered meaty...