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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
Decoration in the main ground floor room. The fireplace dates from the building's original construction; the plasterwork is modern including original fragments; and the painted decoration (Flora as a character from a sixteenth-century masque) was done in 1989.
Red Sandstone Interior Squinch of Dome, Carved Lotus-Buds and Elephant Trunk Brackets (Gaja Lakshmi) and Plasterwork in the Jahangiri Mahal Palace of Agra Fort (Qila-i-Akbari) (Actually Built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, designed by Qasim Khan Mir Barr-wa-Bahr, 1565AD-1573AD)
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The Jahangiri Mahal is actually built of lakhauri brick faced with red sandstone. The brick is only visible where the facing has been destroyed.
Taken at Latitude/Longitude:27.177649/78.023029. 0.89 km South-East Belanganj Uttar Pradesh India (Map link)
September 2015.
Various visits to properties on London Open House weekend.
The House of St Barnabas is a Grade One listed Georgian building with one of the finest Rococo plasterwork interiors in London. Soho Square was developed in 1679, but the house was substantially rebuilt in 1746. The rococo decorative scheme dates from 1754.
It currently operates as a private members club that generates revenue for its charitable projects.
The house is currently being monitored by Crossrail for subsidence and cracks as the tunnelling is taking place nearby.
This photograph shows sections of a plasterwork ceiling. It seems that the image was put together from a series of photographs. We would love to know more about it and where the plasterwork came from. The photograph was taken around 1900 but the photographer is unknown.
Pretty amazing reconstructed plasterwork decoration in this church in Germany, which was mostly destroyed/damaged during WW2, and rebuilt from 1945 onwards.
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
On the main staircase of Royal Fort House in Bristol. The light was poor and I shall have to go back on a better day.
Pargetting, or decorated plasterwork, is common in neighbouring East Anglia. Houses in this part of England were often timber framed and faced in plaster as there was little stone available for building.
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
The Marble Hall
Entering the house through the great north portico on the piano nobile, one arrives at the marble hall designed to suggest the open courtyard or atrium of a Roman villa.
Twenty fluted alabaster columns with Corinthian capitals support the heavily decorated, high-coved cornice. The alabaster was from a local quarry and the columns were not fluted until a decade after they were installed.
Niches in the walls contain classical statuary - plaster copies of statues of gods and heroes that Curzon acquired in 1757. Above the niches are grisaille panels. In front of the statues are a set of painted benches designed by Robert Adam and made by John Linnell, customised with the Curzon arms.
The floor is of inlaid Italian Carrera marble and Hopton Stone and was laid in 1763.
Matthew Paine's original designs for this room intended it to be lit by conventional windows at the northern end, but Robert Adam, warming to the Roman theme, lit the whole from the roof through innovative glass skylights.
The decoration of the Hall was not completed until 1776/7. A palette of soft pinks and greens was devised for the ceiling incorporating plasterwork by Joseph Rose containing panels of classical military trophies. Paintings on the wall show scenes from the Iliad and other classical sources.
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
Plasterwork ceiling showing the four seasons, with putti holding symbols of the classical elements.
In the Drawing Room, the House of St Barnabas
1 Greek Street
Originally a mansion house of the late 1670s; remodelled in the mid-1740s, it was bought in 1754 for £2,500 and then fitted out for Richard Beckford, MP, younger brother of Alderman William Beckford who lived at 22 Soho Square. The unobtrusive exterior is little decorated apart from obelisks each side of the door. The rococo interior has been described as the finest in Soho (where a surprising number of 18th-century houses remain) and is characteristic of the taste of the period. The staircase has a fine wrought-iron handrail in a cantilevered flight, and richly stuccoed wall panels and ceiling. There is similar decoration in the ground floor room and in the sequence of three major rooms on the first floor. The first of these has a fine fireplace and richly carved surrounds to the doors and windows. The second has an elaborate rococo plasterwork ceiling and, in the third, an oval panel has putti representing the four elements and heads of older men representing the four seasons in medallion busts.Beckford died early in 1756 and the house was sold for £6,300. In 1811 it served as the administrative offices of the Commissioners of Sewers, and then of the Metropolitan Board of Works. Joseph Bazalgette became the MBW’s Engineer in 1855 when the house was extended.It was sold to the House of Charity for £6,400. When the charity moved to No 1 Greek Street in 1862, Catherine Gladstone laid the foundation stone of a remarkable Gothic revival chapel by Joseph Clarke with five apses and particularly fine stained glass, early work, 1957/8, by John Hayward.The charity, set up in 1846 by Dr Henry Monro and others, had two principal objects: "to afford temporary relief to deserving persons specially recommended or selected" and "to enable persons whose time is much occupied by professions or other active duties, as well as those who have leisure, to co-operate in works of charity under fixed regulation". The House of St Barnabas continues to sustain its founders' objectives. The charity's current model, an integrated Employment Academy and social business "a not-for-profit private members' club" operates at the heart of the Grade l listed building, and supports those affected by homelessness and social exclusion back into lasting work.
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Colonnaded Courtyard with Elephant-Trunk (Gaja Lakshmi) and Lotus-Bud Relief Brackets, Geometric Relief Plasterwork , Carpet Relief Alcove and Wooden Relief Door of the Red Sandstone Jahangiri Mahal Palace of Agra Fort (Qila-i-Akbari) (Actually Built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, designed by Qasim Khan Mir Barr-wa-Bahr, 1565AD-1573AD)
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The Jahangiri Mahal is mostly built of lakhauri brick faced with red sandstone. The brick is only visible where the facing has been destroyed.
Taken at Latitude/Longitude:27.177699/78.023219. 0.90 km South-East Belanganj Uttar Pradesh India (Map link)
markings on hentley farm's cellar door walls from the time the pug stone house was used as a shearing shed.
Estuques e Gessos Decorativos . Estucadores . Restauro e Conservação de Estuques e Gessos Decorativos . Sancas de Gesso . Restauro de Tectos Antigos. Candeeiros de Gesso. Apliques de Gesso. Sancas de Luz Indirecta. Florões para tectos. Aros em Gesso
J and A G Johnston Ltd of Oakbank presented the hall committee with a half acre block of land suitable for a public hall. Six guarantors pledged the sum of £600 towards the hall cost. A Plowman, a mason, did the foundation work free of cost, while H Coppin gave the necessary stone from his paddock near Littlehampton. This was quarried and carted by voluntary labour.
Monday 27 January 1919 saw residents and many visitors assembling to witness the laying of the foundation stone. The name of the hall to be “Littlehampton Peace Memorial Institute”.
James Legg JP, of Blakiston laid the stone. The ceremony was followed by a long program of sports, stalls, luncheon and afternoon tea.
The dimensions of the new hall are length 55 feet, of which is to be allowed 15 feet for a stage; width 30 feet; height of walls 14 feet.
The Mount Barker Brass Band enlivened the proceedings during the afternoon with a liberal program of musical items, and the committee appreciate the valuable assistance of the bandsmen.
Saturday 29 August 1936 saw the laying of a Foundation stone of the additions to the Institute and a South Australia Centenary tablet at the front of the hall.
The Foundation tablet was laid by Mrs W Nitschke, of Littlehampton, who, with her family, has been a consistent supporter of the hall, and still takes an active interest in anything for the benefit of that institution.
The Centenary tablet was laid by Mr J A Coppin, one of the oldest residents of the town, living there for over 80 years. Mr. Coppin is one of the original trustees and guarantors of the hall, and he has always taken an interest in anything for the welfare of the town.
On 29 May 1954 hundreds gathered for the laying of the foundation stone of the War Memorial supper room and kitchen. The stone was laid by the Hon A G Cameron, MHR, in honour of those who served in World War Two.
Secretary of the appeal committee, Mr. M. J. O'Malley, briefly outlined the history of the appeal. He said that although the War Memorial supper room and kitchen was mooted in 1945 building restrictions had for a period of years prevented commencement of the project. Progress since work commenced has been good and the walls have been completed ready for roofing. Overall measurements of the two rooms when finished will be 60 feet long by 25 feet wide. Anticipated total cost is £2000.
"This stone was laid by Hon. A. G. Cameron, M.H.R. on Saturday, 29th May, 1954,
in honour of those who served in World War II."
Ref: Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser 31-1-1919, 3-9-1936, 2-6-1954.
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
Curious decorative plasterwork in what would would have been a bedroom. The fleur de lys motif is almost disturbingly fleshy.
Detail of the plaster cast of the Portico de la Gloria from the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
It is really hard to believe this is just a fragile plaster replica and not real stone - it looks so substantial.
Crammed full of Medieval and Tudor period buildings, one of historic Saffron Walden’s oldest buildings is the Old Sun Inn. Built in the 14th century, it is rumoured that Oliver Cromwell and General Fairfax stayed here when they passed through Saffron Walden during the Civil War in the reign of Charles I. Samual Peyps is also rumoured to have stayed here. The outside of the building features elaborate (pargetry) plasterwork of the legendary Tom Hickathrift and Wishbech Giant. The building is still in use today as an antique shop.
Taken with my Canon 450d.
Part of a plasterwork frieze (probably sixteenth or seventeenth-century) running all the way round the room, showing various hunting scenes in which almost every imaginable type of creature is about to meet a violent end.
Here, an ostrich hunt.
Seventeenth century decoratie plasterwork ceiling in one of the major rooms of Wroxton Abbey School, Oxfordshire.
Part of a plasterwork frieze (probably sixteenth or seventeenth-century) running all the way round the room, showing various hunting scenes in which almost every imaginable type of creature is about to meet a violent end.
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