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[26503] Wentworth Castle : Great Staircase - Plasterwork
Wentworth Castle, Stainborough, South Yorkshire.
The Great Staircase at the north end of the east front.
The Italian Staircase, as it has come to be known, has a wrought-iron balustrade to the cantilevered stone staircase. The rich plasterwork panels are by Atari and Bagutti with medallions of Fame and Perseus and of the 1st Earl of Strafford.
In 1709, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (of the 2nd creation) (1682-1739) began to create an estate on a grand scale to surpass, in splendour and taste, the estate of his cousin and rival at Wentworth Woodhouse, just six miles distant.
[26503] Wentworth Castle : Great Staircase - Plasterwork
Wentworth Castle, Stainborough, South Yorkshire.
The Great Staircase at the north end of the east front.
The Italian Staircase, as it has come to be known, has a wrought-iron balustrade to the cantilevered stone staircase. The rich plasterwork panels are by Atari and Bagutti with medallions of Fame and Perseus and of the 1st Earl of Strafford.
In 1709, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (of the 2nd creation) (1682-1739) began to create an estate on a grand scale to surpass, in splendour and taste, the estate of his cousin and rival at Wentworth Woodhouse, just six miles distant.