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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.
The Musée Picasso is housed the Hôtel Salé, rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris, a beautiful 17th century building that was once home to Pierre Aubert. The architect was Jean Boullier from Bourges. The chandeliers are the work of Diego Giacometti
A detail of the staircase and plasterwork ceiling
Work carried out by CS Interiors www.cs-interiors.co.uk leading plaster mouldings supplier. Large Pineapple Cornice
The painted Mudejar coffered ceiling gives this room its name. Part of the Comares Palace, it was built by Mohammed V. It is on the north side of the Patio of the Gilded Room opposite of the Facade of the Comares (Fachada de Comares).
Kibby was born at Winlaton, County Durham, England. In early 1914, the family emigrated to Adelaide, where Bill attended Mitcham Public School. After leaving school he was employed at a plasterworks in Edwardstown, where he designed and fixed plaster decorations. In 1926, he married Mabel Sarah Bidmead Morgan; they lived at Helmsdale and had two daughters.
Although he was diminutive (168 cm (5 ft 6 in)), Kibby was a strong man and loved outdoor activities. In 1936, he joined the Militia, and was assigned to the 48 Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery.
Second World War
Kibby joined the Australian Imperial Force during Second World War. In 1942, he was a Sergeant in the 2/48th Infantry Battalion (South Australia), during the North African campaign.
At the Battle of El Alamein, during the period of 23–31 October 1942, Kibby distinguished himself through his skill in leading a platoon, after his commander had been killed, during the initial attack at Miteiriya Ridge. On 23 October, he charged a machine gun position, firing at it with his Thompson submachinegun; Kibby killed three enemy soldiers, captured 12 others and took the position. His company commander intended to recommend him for the Distinguished Conduct Medal after this action, but was killed. During the following days, Kibby moved among his men directing fire and cheering them on. He mended his platoon's telephone line several times under intense fire. On 30–31 October, the platoon came under intense machine gun and mortar fire. Most of them were killed or wounded. In order to achieve his company's objective, Kibby moved forward alone, to within a few metres of the enemy, throwing grenades to destroy them. Just as his success in this endeavour appeared certain, he was killed.
His Victoria Cross was awarded posthumously and is displayed at the Australian War Memorial. He is buried at the Commonwealth War Grave at El Alamein.
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.
Wall Painting:
Aurora riding her Chariot (from the Arch of Constantine)
The plaster barrel vaulted ceiling in the Long Gallery was completed just before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642, probably
by a Devonshire family of plasterers, the Abbots of Frithelstock near Bideford.
It has 24 panels showing scenes from the Old Testament separated by a pattern of smaller panels showing birds, beasts and heraldic symbols.
Jacob with Leah and Rachel and Jacob putting his children and wives on camels
Lanhydrock
National Trust
near Bodmin, Cornwall
Abingdon Guildhall is a collection of buildings originally associated with the town's abbey (which was suppressed and demolished at the Reformation) but much rebuilt and adapted since then. The Roysse Room began as the hall of the Hospital of St John, which looked after the sick and other visitors to the abbey. In the 1560s it was taken over by John Roysse's grammar school, eventually being bought by the town in the 1870s. The ceiling plasterwork in seventeenth-century style apparently dates from a restoration of 1911.
I visited the Guildhall as part of the Heritage Open Days 2010.
Detail of the magnificent plasterwork ceiling
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Listed Grade 1 "TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREEK STREET, W1 58/23 No. 1 (House of St. 24.2.58 Barnabas) - I Corner terrace house with Soho Square. c.1744-46 by Joseph Pearce, the interior fitted out with very fine plasterwork etc. for Richard Beckford, brother of the Alderman in 1754. Stock brick, slate roof. Plain rather old fashioned elevations in keeping with Soho Square. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide and 4 window return to Soho Square. Entrance in 2nd bay from right has stone architrave with consoles carrying cornice. Recessed glazing bar sashes in stucco reveals under flat gauged arches, blind in chimney breast bay and to left on 2nd floor to Greek Street. Brick plat bands and sill bands, the 1st floor sill band of stone, brick parapet with coping. Wrought iron urn finialed area railings and stone obelisks flanking the steps to doorway. The interior finished in carved wood and moulded plaster is one of the best surviving examples in London of mid C18 Rococo decoration with pedimented ornamental chimneypieces, carved pedimented doorcases, stone staircase with wrought iron openwork balusters and plasterwork panels to 1st floor level of compartment, etc. ceilings, cornices etc. A chapel was added in the former stable yard and to Manette Street for the House of Charity by Joseph Clarke in 1862, stone built in a bold c.1300 Burges related style of Gothic, 2 bays with an east apse and pairs of apsed chapels off each side of the lofty narrow nave; marble facings and mosaic work; large rose window in west wall. Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII. Listing NGR: TQ2976481213" Historic England
"No. 1 Greek Street is the House of St Barnabas, built in 1746. It became the offices of the Westminster Commissioner for Works for Sewers in 1811. This is where Chief Engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette started to work on the construction of the London sewerage system. By 1862 the house had been taken over by The House of Charity, which was established in 1846 to provide temporary accommodation for homeless people. Charles Dickens used the house and gardens as a model for the London lodgings of Dr Manette and Lucy in A Tale of Two Cities." wikipedia
This is the Palace of the Lions in the Alhambra, Granada. Fabulous place, but hard to avoid catching other tourists in photos! Had to aim upwards, to avoid including a big wooden shed over the Fountain of the Lions, which was being renovated. Taken on a humble 3.2MP compact. Very slight crop and sharpen, but otherwise as taken. My first upload to Flickr, so please be kind!
In Cobham Hall. In a dressing room next to a very grand bed chamber. This room also had gorgeous painted chinese wallpaper, with exotic birds and plants including peacocks and birds of paradise. I dont think the same bird was repeated all round the walls.
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.
Mocárabe is the ornamental, stalactite work used in Islamic architecture and seen in many parts of the Alhambra (in domes and arches, mainly).
Lanhydrock is an impressive historic house in Cornwall. Built of local grey slate and granite around an inner courtyard, the house dates to 1640, though most of the current building was the result of rebuilding after a fire in 1881. Survivors from the earlier house are the impressive gatehouse, the 2-story porch, and north range, with a 116 foot long gallery.
Within the gallery is a superb 17th century plasterwork ceiling, illustrating scenes from the Old Testament mixed with depictions of unusual beasts.
Lanhydrock was the property of the Robartes family from 1620 to 1969, when the estate passed to the National Trust. The house is huge, and 50 rooms are open to visitors. The Trust has recreated the atmosphere of an Edwardian country house at Lanhydrock, and the restored kitchen and servant's quarters make a distinctive contrast with the glittering family rooms. A further contrast is provided by the children's nursery rooms.
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
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
Dining Room
Ceiling
The Four Seasons:
Spring - Triumph of Venus
Summer - Triumph of Apollo
Autumn - Triumph of Silenus, Bacchus and Ariadne
Winter (top)
- King Aeolus with the Winds
attributed to William Hamilton RA (Chelsea 1751 – London 1801)
Centre:
Love embracing Fortune
Henry Robert Morland (1712/19 – London 1797)
King Charles the Martyr, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1676-90.
Looking East.
Grade l listed.
The interior has a segmental-headed 1882 chancel arch supported on classical columns flanked by narrow bays with matching pilasters and an entablature.
Plasterwork Ceiling, c1681.
Plasterwork of the highest quality by craftsmen who had worked for Sir Christopher Wren.
The eastern half of the nave is by John Wetherell, c1681.
Shallow domes and roundels are enriched with husk ornament, festoons of fruit, cherubs' heads and palms.
The church was originally built as a chapel to serve the people gathering at Tunbridge Wells to drink the water, and as such was one of the first permanent buildings constructed on the site. Thomas Neale, who began the commercial development of the town was also involved in the construction of the church. As the town grew up around it, the church was extended to cope with the growing numbers of town dwellers and spa visitors. It became a parish church in 1889.
This shows a remnant of painted plasterwork inside the Exchequer of Abingdon Abbey.
Apart from the Abbey Gatehouse this is another remnant of the Benedictine Abingdon Abbey dissolved at the reformation. The abbey was the same size as Wells Cathedral in Somerset.
Do not be fooled by the 'ruins' of the abbey in Abbey Park - they are simply a 1920's folly constructed from some of the random stones of the abbey.
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 Reales Alcázares de Sevilla, a monumental complex that retains seven hectares of gardens and seventeen thousand square meters of buildings.
Interior dates from after 1902 fire, rebuilt using photographs of pre-fire interior, plasterwork by Agostini of Bristol, staircase redesigned with two arms instead of one, fireplaces in Saloon and Italian Room brought from Wavendon 1912. Library of c1800 survived fire and retains Colt-Hoare's fittings; shallow-barrel vaulted ceiling, stained glass in west lunette by F. Eginton, painted lunette to east by S. Woodforde, fireplace from Wavendon, oval niches over doors with Rysbrack busts. Picture gallery also intact: white marble fireplace with classical frieze, modillioned ceiling cornice, woodwork and fine contemporary furnishings here and in library specially designed by Chippendale. Other fittings include mahogany doors c1905. EH Listing
Croome Court and Gardens, inside the house. The plasterwork was decorated by a Hare Krishna group in the early 80's. It was decided the keep the bright colours as removing them would harm the plasterwork.
"The chapel was soon turned into a temple room, a printing press was moved to the site and a novice training programme and a school were established. In Croome Courtâs Red Wing, the devotees installed a television editing studio, with sand bags in the ceiling to provide soundproofing.
There was a primary school for the children of the devotees and Croome became a worldwide centre for the training of students in Krishna consiousness.
About 150 devotees lived on the premises at Croome including monks, nuns and some married couples.
From 1982, a split in the movement and consequent lack of manpower meant that the college was becoming too expensive to maintain and, in June 1984, the movement withdrew from the property.
With the closure of their school, some operations were moved to other parts of the country with some families returning to the previous headquarters near Watford.
Traces of their residence at Croome can still be seen in some decoration around the house, especially in the Dining Room. It was repainted in vibrant colours which can still be seen today and are complimented by our new exhibit showing some of Croome's porcelain collection."
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
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
The Marble Hall
Fireplace designed by Richardson in 1775 containing steel and brass fire baskets made in Birmingham.
The circular painting above show classical story of:
Diana and Arethusa (in water)
William Hamilton RA (Chelsea 1751 – London 1801)
Gledhow Grove was built in the 1830's. By the early years of the twentieth century, it became part of Chapel Allerton hospital, which played an important role in the fitting of artificial limbs to soldiers returning from the first world war battle fields. Apart from the stables, this is all that remains. The Greek revival style is clear to see on the outside, and yet inside, the once beautiful features are slowly disappearing. Ceilings are down, and thieves have made off with around $150,000 of lead and slates from the roof. Work is currently underway to fit a temporary corrugated steel roof. Too little too late? I hope not.