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Levens Hall is a magnificent Elizabethan mansion that was built around 1350 by the Redman family as a pele (or peel) tower and was later expanded and rebuilt towards the end of the 16th Century. It is the family home of the Bagots, and contains a collection of Jacobean furniture, fine paintings, the earliest English patchwork and many other beautiful objects. (No photos from inside the house as photography is not allowed)
The world-famous award winning gardens were laid out in 1694. The topiary beech hedges and colourful seasonal beds create a stunning visual impact. The topiary garden has huge abstract shapes, pyramids and columns reminiscent of monstrous chess men.
These photographs remind me of my many days visiting stately homes during the summer months, hope you enjoy.
The Picturedrome in Macclesfield has now been converted into offices, but most of the auditorium plasterwork survives. June 2008.
Ganjali Bazaar - Square - Malek Mosque
The bazaar is located in southern part of Ganjali Square. Inside, the bazaar is decorated with exquisite plasterwork and wall paintings and although they are 400 years old, they are still well-preserved. The bazaar is 93 meters long and is connected to Ganjali square through 16 iwans and vaults.
Ganjali Caravanserai and Mosque
The caravanserai is located on the east side of the Ganjali Square. Its portal bears a foundation inscription from 1598 composed by calligrapher Alireza Abbasi. The plan of the caravanserai is based on the four-iwan typology, with double-story halls centered on tall iwans enveloping four sides of an open courtyard. There is an octagonal fountain at the center of the courtyard which is chamfered at the corners. The caravanserai measures thirty-one and a half by twenty-three meters. It has a small domed mosque at one corner that measures five and a half by five meters
This mosque is a construction of the 5th century AH. (the Saljuqi period). Various portions of this mosque, specially the main platform was constructed in the times of Vakil-ol-Molk (1285 AH.), and the eastern porch was repaired in the last century by the late Deylamqani which is a remnant of the Saljuqi period. There is the brick tower in the north eastern section, which was formerly in a state of ruin, but has since then been repaired. Besides which there are three altars worked in plaster.
Heavy rain during my visit - you can see the streaks of raindrops against the dark topiary yews
Levens Hall & Topiary Gardens
The core of this delightful Elizabethan manor is a pele tower built in 1350 as a defense against Scottish raiders. The later Elizabethan home was built around the tower by the Bellingham family, who created a comfortable home with paneled rooms decorated with fine plasterwork ceilings. The dining room is worthy of special note; it has unusual embossed leather wall coverings from Cordova.
The house was expanded in 1694 by Col. James Grahme, former Privy Purse to James II. Rooms feature the family collections of paintings and memorabilia, including the earliest known example of English patchwork. Among the various items on display are Beau Brummel's snuff box, paintings by Van Dyck, Brueghel the Elder, and Rubens, and items associated with the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Nelson.
Levens Hall is home to several resident ghosts; a Grey Lady is known to appear in front of cars on the driveway, a woman in a print dres and cap appears before children, and a small black dog wanders the hall.
THE TOPIARY GARDENS
The gardens were laid out in 1694 by Guillaume Beaumont, who trained under Andre Le Notre at Versailles. Beaumont had only recently finished laying out gardens at Hampton Court Palace. Very little has been altered since that time, which is all to the good, as Beaumont created a wonderful experience with his imaginative use of topiary and garden walks. The gardens also feature the earliest known example in England of a "ha-ha", or sunken ditch.
The topiary of clipped yew and box hedges is underplanted with bedding plants in spring and summer, making for excellent colour. A rose garden, herbaceous borders, and a nuttery complete a most enjoyable garden. The most recent addition at Levens Hall is a fountain, approached by an avenue of pleached lime planted to celebrate 300 years of the gardens. Best viewed in: summer.
Ganjali Bazaar - Square - Malek Mosque
The bazaar is located in southern part of Ganjali Square. Inside, the bazaar is decorated with exquisite plasterwork and wall paintings and although they are 400 years old, they are still well-preserved. The bazaar is 93 meters long and is connected to Ganjali square through 16 iwans and vaults.
Ganjali Caravanserai and Mosque
The caravanserai is located on the east side of the Ganjali Square. Its portal bears a foundation inscription from 1598 composed by calligrapher Alireza Abbasi. The plan of the caravanserai is based on the four-iwan typology, with double-story halls centered on tall iwans enveloping four sides of an open courtyard. There is an octagonal fountain at the center of the courtyard which is chamfered at the corners. The caravanserai measures thirty-one and a half by twenty-three meters. It has a small domed mosque at one corner that measures five and a half by five meters
This mosque is a construction of the 5th century AH. (the Saljuqi period). Various portions of this mosque, specially the main platform was constructed in the times of Vakil-ol-Molk (1285 AH.), and the eastern porch was repaired in the last century by the late Deylamqani which is a remnant of the Saljuqi period. There is the brick tower in the north eastern section, which was formerly in a state of ruin, but has since then been repaired. Besides which there are three altars worked in plaster.
Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
Design in 1731 by William Adam; built 1732-43. This ornamental hunting lodge and "Dug Kennel" was built as an eyecatcher to terminate the grand south avenue of the grounds of Hamilton Palace. Only one room deep with a fantastic long baroque symmetrical façade that gave a strong silhouette that could be seen from the distant Palace. It became a roofless ruin after the Dukes of Hamilton abandoned Hamilton and demolished the massive Palace 1929. The family also oversaw the extraction of sand from under the Hunting Lodge which caused its remaining walls near collapse and one end of the building to subside some 15 feet below the original level. It was restored by the Scottish people (Historic Scotland, Buildings Division in conjunction with Hamilton District Council) from 1978 to 1987 at a cost of over £9million. The interior details of rich baroque plasterwork by Thomas Clayton were recreated from a few surviving fragments and photographs.
This plasterwork surmounts the opera boxes.
Photographed inside the vacant Lyric Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama during a tour led by Birmingham Landmarks, Inc. on June 30, 2011.
The Hall of the Abencerrajes (Sala de los Abencerrajes) is located in front of the Hall of the Two Sisters (Sala de Dos Hermanas). The walls have plasterwork covers and a tile skirting board from the 16th century, of Renaissance style. A wonderful dome of mocarabes rests on eight pendentives of mocarabes. The windows that are where the dome starts let a faint light filter through and illuminate the mocarabes creating a magic atmosphere.
The Alhambra is an ancient palace, fortress and citadel located in Granada, Spain. It was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1984.
The eighth-century-old site was named for the reddish walls and towers that surrounded the citadel — al-qal’a al-hamra in Arabic means red fort or castle. It is the only surviving palatine city of the Islamic Golden Age and a remnant of the Nasrid Dynasty, the last Islamic kingdom in Western Europe.
The Alhambra is located on the Sabika hill — a strategic vantage point that provides views of the city and plain of Granada. The Alhambra complex had three main sections: The Alcazaba, a military base that housed guards and their families; the palatial zone, which contained several palaces for the sultan and his kin; and the Medina, a quarter where court officials lived and worked.
The house was designed by the architect Francis Smith from 1724. The ruin encases an earlier house that stood on the site.
Edward Poynton of Nottingham carved the exterior stonework. The house contained some very fine stucco plasterwork made by two Italian master craftsmen Arturi and Vasalli. It is thought that Grinling Gibbons contributed some of the interior wood carvings.
In 1919 the estate was broken up and the house sold. The buyers sold the internal features as architectural salvage. The house was quickly reduced to being a shell. Some rooms still exist in the United States. Three interiors are displayed at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia. It is also possible to see a pine-panelled room from this house at the Huntington Library, California.
The details of the rooms that are locally said to have gone to Philadelphia can be seen here www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/42068.html?mulR...|1 . Although I note that the Museum is less certain than the information boards on site and local knowledge.
The house was saved by the writer Sir Osbert Sitwell in the 1940's. When Sir Osbert died in 1969 the ruins were given to the Ministry of Works and are now in the care of English Heritage. When I first visited here in the 1980's you could not get this close to the ruins. The interior of the ruin was littered with fallen masonry, beams and lumps of plaster and general debris. The debris was cleared out and the ruin made safe so that it has been possible to walk through the interior since the late 1990's.
Design in 1731 by William Adam; built 1732-43. This ornamental hunting lodge and "Dug Kennel" was built as an eyecatcher to terminate the grand south avenue of the grounds of Hamilton Palace. Only one room deep with a fantastic long baroque symmetrical façade that gave a strong silhouette that could be seen from the distant Palace. It became a roofless ruin after the Dukes of Hamilton abandoned Hamilton and demolished the massive Palace 1929. The family also oversaw the extraction of sand from under the Hunting Lodge which caused its remaining walls near collapse and one end of the building to subside some 15 feet below the original level. It was restored by the Scottish people (Historic Scotland, Buildings Division in conjunction with Hamilton District Council) from 1978 to 1987 at a cost of over £9million. The interior details of rich baroque plasterwork by Thomas Clayton were recreated from a few surviving fragments and photographs.
Ganjali Bazaar - Square - Malek Mosque
The bazaar is located in southern part of Ganjali Square. Inside, the bazaar is decorated with exquisite plasterwork and wall paintings and although they are 400 years old, they are still well-preserved. The bazaar is 93 meters long and is connected to Ganjali square through 16 iwans and vaults.
Ganjali Caravanserai and Mosque
The caravanserai is located on the east side of the Ganjali Square. Its portal bears a foundation inscription from 1598 composed by calligrapher Alireza Abbasi. The plan of the caravanserai is based on the four-iwan typology, with double-story halls centered on tall iwans enveloping four sides of an open courtyard. There is an octagonal fountain at the center of the courtyard which is chamfered at the corners. The caravanserai measures thirty-one and a half by twenty-three meters. It has a small domed mosque at one corner that measures five and a half by five meters
This mosque is a construction of the 5th century AH. (the Saljuqi period). Various portions of this mosque, specially the main platform was constructed in the times of Vakil-ol-Molk (1285 AH.), and the eastern porch was repaired in the last century by the late Deylamqani which is a remnant of the Saljuqi period. There is the brick tower in the north eastern section, which was formerly in a state of ruin, but has since then been repaired. Besides which there are three altars worked in plaster.
Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
The Casino is considered to be one of the finest 18th century neo-classical buildings in Europe.
Designed by Sir William Chambers as a pleasure house for James Caulfield, 1st Earl of Charlemont, The Casino meaning 'small house', surprisingly contains 16 rooms spread over 3 levels, some of which are finely decorated with ornate plasterwork and richly patterned marquetry floors.
It is a box of tricks, full of illusions and architectural devices.
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Casa de Pilatos ★ Seville
tiles installed in the 1530s
yeserias (plasterwork) from a generation earlier
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Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
This plasterwork surmounts the opera boxes.
Photographed inside the vacant Lyric Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama during a tour led by Birmingham Landmarks, Inc. on June 30, 2011.
Jacobean plasterwork. It is thought that the image of a lady's head might be a representation of Pocahontas (c. 1595-1617) who was a court favourite at the time the ceiling was put up.
In Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, 19 July 2015
Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
Decorative plasterwork, with chandelier in the background, in the National Museum of Women in the Arts (1908, Waddy Wood), originally a Masonic Temple, located at 1250 New York Avenue NW, in Washington, DC.
Has been described as the 'finest Elizabethan town house in Britain'. Built by Robert Wynn,1576-85. Family Parlour - plasterwork detail
Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
Cusworth Hall, C18 mansion near Doncaster.
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Lanhydrock is the perfect country house and estate, with the feel of a wealthy but unpretentious family home. Follow in the footsteps of generations of the Robartes family, walking in the 17th-century Long Gallery among the rare book collection under the remarkable plasterwork ceiling. After a devastating fire in 1881 the house was refurbished in the high-Victorian style, with the latest mod cons. Boasting the best in country-house design and planning, the kitchens, nurseries and servants' quarters offer a thrilling glimpse into life 'below stairs', while the spacious dining room and bedrooms are truly and deeply elegant
This plasterwork surmounts the opera boxes.
Photographed inside the vacant Lyric Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama during a tour led by Birmingham Landmarks, Inc. on June 30, 2011.
Design in 1731 by William Adam; built 1732-43. This ornamental hunting lodge and "Dug Kennel" was built as an eyecatcher to terminate the grand south avenue of the grounds of Hamilton Palace. Only one room deep with a fantastic long baroque symmetrical façade that gave a strong silhouette that could be seen from the distant Palace. It became a roofless ruin after the Dukes of Hamilton abandoned Hamilton and demolished the massive Palace 1929. The family also oversaw the extraction of sand from under the Hunting Lodge which caused its remaining walls near collapse and one end of the building to subside some 15 feet below the original level. It was restored by the Scottish people (Historic Scotland, Buildings Division in conjunction with Hamilton District Council) from 1978 to 1987 at a cost of over £9million. The interior details of rich baroque plasterwork by Thomas Clayton were recreated from a few surviving fragments and photographs.