[101405] Hardwick Hall : Long Gallery

Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, 1590-97.

Probably by Robert Smythson (1535-1614).

For Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury - Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608).

Grade l listed.

The Long Gallery.

 

Hardwick was home to Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), one of the most formidable women of Elizabethan England. She was the matriarch of the Cavendish family, building Chatsworth with her second husband and returning to build the two great halls at Hardwick after her separation from her fourth husband the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.

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