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Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.
The National Trust.
Grade l listed.
The Dining Room.
This is one of two rooms in the house that have been restored to their historic decoration. The colour scheme dates to 1794, with Italianate wall cameos featuring classical scenes.
Created from four smaller rooms, this space is elegantly proportioned with intricate ceiling. Mouldings. The pillars are made to imitate marble, a technique known as scagliola.
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With peeling paintwork and overgrown courtyards, Calke Abbey tells the story of the dramatic decline of a country house estate. The house and stables are little restored, with many abandoned areas vividly portraying a period in the 20th century when numerous country houses did not survive to tell their story.
The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. The present building, named Calke Abbey in 1808, was never actually an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704.
The house was owned by the Harpur family for nearly 300 years until it was passed to the National Trust in 1985 in lieu of death duties. Today, the house is open to the public and many of its rooms are deliberately displayed in the state of decline in which the house was handed to the Trust.
Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire.
The National Trust.
The Temple of British Worthies, 1734-35.
By William Kent (1685-1748).
For Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749).
Grade l listed.
Mercury.
The Temple of British Worthies is built of stone, it is a curving roofless exedra with a large stone pier in the centre surmounted by a stepped pyramid containing an oval niche that contains a bust of Mercury, a copy of the original. The curving wall contains 6 niches either side of the central pier. With further niches on the two ends of the wall and two more behind. These are filled by busts, half carved by John Michael Rysbrack these are Milton, Shakespeare, Locke, Newton, Bacon, Elizabeth I, William III and Inigo Jones the other eight are by Peter Scheemakers these are Pope, Gresham, King Alfred, The Black Prince, Raleigh, Drake, Hampden and Barnard. There is a small pediment above each niche that breaks forward slightly from the wall. There are three broad steps following the curving wall. The choice of who was considered a 'British Worthy' was very much influenced by the Whig politics of the family, the chosen individuals falling into two groups, eight known for their actions and eight known for their thoughts and ideas.