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Then and Now Take Two One More Time – Killerton Chapel

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

I visited Killerton back in June 2023 and made a return visit in May 2025, I also went in February 2026.

This photograph of the chapel was taken in February 2026 using an iPhone 13.

Killerton Chapel

When I made my return visit in May 2025 I took a photograph of the chapel, this was taken with a Canon EOS R100.

When I visited in 2023 it was covered in scaffolding. I took this photograph with an iPhone 13.

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Killerton once more

It was lovely dry and sunny day, so I headed down to Devon to visit a couple of National Trust properties. I headed down the M5 first to Knightshayes and after visiting there I drove down to Killterton.

I have visited Killerton twice before, once in June 2023 and then again in May 2025.

It’s a lovely house which is dressed as a 1920s house, though the first floor is an exhibition area for the National Trust’s fashion collection.

Killerton

A family home and a great estate. Glorious landscape garden surrounded by parkland with fine 18th-century house.

Current saving £74.50
One adult £17.00
Parking £4.80
Total saving £21.80
Cumulative saving £192.30
Membership cost £96
Net cumulative saving £96.30

Upon arrival I headed to the Killerton Kitchen Cafe for some lunch.

After lunch I went into the house itself and enjoyed exploring the different rooms and chatting with the volunteers.

I did have a look at the fashion exhibition upstairs, mainly I think to walk up and down the staircase. I then did another tour of the house.

After enjoying my walk around the house, I went for a walk in the grounds.

This year I have planned to visit fifty places (as I did last year). Each time I visit a place I will post a blog post and some photographs. I can’t repeat places, and in an extra twist I can’t use the fifty places I visited in 2025 in the list as well which is why Killerton is not my on my #50places26 list.

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Then and Now Take Two Again – Killerton Chapel

This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester. I always thought I should give then and now photographs a go. However what I have started to notice is that I have been doing Then and Now photographs unintentionally over the years and have been taking photographs of the same thing or place from the same view or perspective years apart. Now this has come to my attention I have started to intentionally take photographs of the same place.

I visited Killerton back in June 2023 and recently made a return visit in May 2025.

In the grounds is a chapel, when I visited in 2023 it was covered in scaffolding. I took this photograph with an iPhone 13.

So when I made my return visit in May 2025 I took a photograph of the chapel without the scaffolding. This was taken with a Canon EOS R100.

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Killerton #50places2025

After enjoying my National Trust membership in 2023, I decided I would rejoin the Trust for 2025. 

Killerton

A family home and a great estate. Glorious landscape garden surrounded by parkland with fine 18th-century house.

Current saving £142.10
One adult £17.00
Parking £4.80
Total saving £21.80
Cumulative saving £255.10
Membership cost £91.20
Net cumulative saving £163.90

I visited Killerton back in June 2023. Having just visited Knighthayes down the road, it was a short drive to Killerton for a return visit. 

I was pleased to see they had EV chargers in the car park, so I put the Funky Cat on charge.

They had dressed the house as a 1920s summer party with music and “dancing”. It was a lovely house and lots of rooms to explore. The first floor is more of a museum to a collection of dresses and clothes that were left to the National Trust.

The grounds and gardens are really nice as well.

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Killerton

For Christmas I got a National Trust membership. It’s being a few years since I was last a member, but now looking forward to visiting new places and going back to places we have been to before.

Back in 2016 I did start to keep a note of how much we saved with the membership, but looking back over the blog, I never kept up to date with that, but with this membership I am intending to blog about the visits we do this year and the savings we made.

Killerton

A family home and a great estate. Glorious landscape garden surrounded by parkland with fine 18th-century house.

Current saving £188.85

Family ticket £38.50

Parking £4.00

Total saving £42.50

Cumulative saving £365.15

Membership cost £133.80

Net cumulative saving £231.35

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