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Hatfield House
The home of the 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury and their family.
The Estate has been in the Cecil family for 400 years.
In 1611, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and the son of Lord Burghley, the chief minister of Elizabeth I built this fine Jacobean House adjoining the site of the Old Palace of Hatfield.
The deer park surrounding the house, and the older building of the Old Palace, had been owned Henry VIII who had used it as a home for his children, Edward, Elizabeth and Mary. It was while she was living in the Old Palace, in 1558, that Elizabeth learned of her accession to the throne.
The House was splendidly decorated for entertaining the Royal Court, with State Rooms rich in paintings, fine furniture and tapestries.
Superb examples of Jacobean craftsmanship, such as the Grand Staircase with its fine carving, and the rare stained glass window in the private chapel can be seen throughout the house .
www.hatfield-house.co.uk/house-park-garden/history
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_House
The Armoury
The Armoury began as an open loggia in the Italian Renaissance style, with a door at the top of the steps at each end.
Such an arrangement proved inconvenient, as it meant that there was no interior passage on the ground floor between the two wings. The 2nd Marquess filled in the windows in 1834 and laid the marble floor.
The 3rd Marquess completed the alterations by putting up the panelling.
Most of the armour on the walls was purchased by the 2nd Marquess from the Tower of London in the middle of the 19th century.
At the west end of the Armoury there are two standing figures in armour, the faces of which are replicas of the death mask of Charles I.
The Armoury houses a fine domestic organ supplied in 1609 by John Haan, a Dutchman. The case retains its original decoration by Rowland Bucket, an extraordinarily versatile artist whose painting and gilding on ceilings, walls and furniture did much to brighten the interior of the House when it was first built. He even decorated the salads and meat dishes at Robert Cecil’s funeral. The organ is in regular use and is played to entertain visitors.
www.hatfield-house.co.uk/house-park-garden/the-house/the-...
Elizabeth was the second wife of Sir John Brockett of Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire who was an English politician (he d.1598).
The two ladies recline in the rather uncomfortable pose, propping themselves up on their left arm, which is typical for the period. [They seem to be a little surprised to find themselves in this position].
Church of St. Etheldreda, Hatfield (old town), Hertfordshire, UK
Passengers at Hatfield & Stainforth prepare to board 2C43, the 1123 Hull – Doncaster. 10 March 2017.
Another trip up to Stainforth on Sunday, this time with a bit of exploring around the footpath around the pit tip. Not a great place to get photo’s as the south side of the footpath is overgrown with trees. We decided to back to the station after getting rubbish photos of an empty steel working and a coal train bound for the Aire Valley. Traffic on Sunday seems to alter from week to week as only two of the several freight workings we saw ran at the same time (empty steel train and GBRF Sheds)
66549 slows to stop in platform 1 of Stainforth & Hatfield Station with a laden coal train as a non-stopping service with 158791 passes through
Hatfield House
Old Palace
The Old Palace was built in about 1485 by the Bishop of Ely, John Morton. It is one of the foremost examples of medieval brickwork in the country and originally formed a quadrangle around a central courtyard.
The remaining wing contains the Banqueting Hall, with most of its original roof timbers. Many of them are peppered with gunshot, apparently because sparrows flew in and were shot at when the building was later used as stables!
Henry VIII acquired the Palace from the Bishop of Ely in 1538 and used it as a nursery for his three children. It is with Elizabeth that the Palace is most closely associated. She had a happy childhood here, sharing in her brother Edward’s education. Circumstances changed for Elizabeth when Queen Mary came to the throne in 1553, for Mary feared that her enemies might plot to place her protestant sister on the throne. Effectively Elizabeth was kept under house arrest at Hatfield.
In 1558 Elizabeth was sitting under an oak tree in the Park when she learnt of her succession to the throne. One of her first acts was to call her trusted advisers, including William Cecil, later Lord Burghley, together for her first Council of State which was held in the Banqueting Hall of the Palace.
In 1607 King James I exchanged the Palace at Hatfield for Theobalds, the home of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury. Robert Cecil demolished three-quarters of the original building. The remaining wing survived as the stables for Hatfield House for the next three centuries, until it was restored by the 4th Marquess in 1915.
Hatfield Colliery is busy supplying coal to Drax power station with a contract for 45,000 tonnes per week. It is also planned to open a 900MW clean coal power plant adjacent to the pit. Information on new developments can be found here.
When this photograph was taken, maintenance work was underway with one of the ropes slack on the nearer headgear.
An Elizabethan park with a famous Jacobean house which had a great Jacobean garden, designed by Thomas Chaundler, Salomon de Caus and John Tradescant. The layout has changed many times since then but now has a 'seventeenth century character' with terraces and garden enclosures, including a knot garden, herb garden and privy garden. The East Garden adjoining the Jacobean house is more formally planted with its parterre, topiary, herbaceous borders and vegetable garden. The park is well-wooded has an ancient avenue of oak trees.
History
Dating from the 17th century, the gardens at Hatfield House have evolved into a gardeners’ paradise. Visitors can enjoy the peace of the West Garden with its scented garden and fountains, and view the famous knot garden adjoining the Tudor Old Palace where Elizabeth I spent much of her childhood. The East garden bordering the Jacobean house, home of the Cecil family for 400 years, is more formally planted with its parterre, topiary, herbaceous borders and vegetable garden.
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The West Garden is a fairly traditional English flower garden contained within a graceful, slightly curving square of yew hedges with monumental doorways.
Aerial lighthouse used to guide planes after dark, originally installed (on top of the squash court) in 1934, now parked at the entrance to the university of Hatfield's de Havilland campus.
Hatfield House
The home of the 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury and their family.
The Estate has been in the Cecil family for 400 years.
In 1611, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and the son of Lord Burghley, the chief minister of Elizabeth I built this fine Jacobean House adjoining the site of the Old Palace of Hatfield.
The deer park surrounding the house, and the older building of the Old Palace, had been owned Henry VIII who had used it as a home for his children, Edward, Elizabeth and Mary. It was while she was living in the Old Palace, in 1558, that Elizabeth learned of her accession to the throne.
The House was splendidly decorated for entertaining the Royal Court, with State Rooms rich in paintings, fine furniture and tapestries.
Superb examples of Jacobean craftsmanship, such as the Grand Staircase with its fine carving, and the rare stained glass window in the private chapel can be seen throughout the house .
www.hatfield-house.co.uk/house-park-garden/history
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_House
The Marble Hall
With its wonderfully extravagant oak carving, by John Bucke, the Marble Hall remains much as Robert Cecil, the 1st Earl of Salisbury, built it in 1611.
Sometimes used as a dining room, it is the place where the Salisburys would have entertained their guests with lavish banquets, dances and masques.
The room takes its name from the chequered black and white marble floor.
The ceiling’s woodwork and plasterwork are original but colour was added by the 3rd Marquess in 1878, when Jacobean reliefs of the Caesars were replaced with panels featuring classical themes painted by the Italian artist, Giulio Taldini.
Robert Cecil’s coat of arms is carved at the centre of the Gallery with the family motto: Sero Sed Serio, meaning ‘late but in earnest’.
The paintings on the curved panels underneath the Gallery are also by Giulio Taldini.
The embroidered banners hanging from the Gallery were made just before the Battle of Waterloo. After the battle they were given to the 2nd Marquess by the Duke of Wellington, who was a great friend of the family and a frequent visitor to Hatfield House.
www.hatfield-house.co.uk/house-park-garden/the-house/the-...
Hatfield House
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
The United Kingdom
(May 8, 2019)
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