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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.
One of Christopher Wren's most innovative and beautiful churches, St Stephen Walbrook remains one of the most enjoyable, having survived wartime damage with many of its original Baroque furnishings and undergoing sensitive restoration in the decades since.
The outstanding feature here however is the domed interior, the central space opened out in dramatic fashion to create a focus for worship which rises to climax in the beautiful ceiling dome above, making this one of Wren's most important and memorable interiors.
The church underwent an extensive reordering in the 1980s which saw a new floor laid along with the removal of postwar glass (some of which is now in Norwich) and the installation of Henry Moore's monolithic central altar, which at the time caused some controversy but works well in the present arrangement.
The church is usually open to visitors during the weekdays.
View back towards town from in front of the sqaure house with the decorative plasterwork (pargetting).
The beautiful plaster barrel ceiling was completed in 1642. It is divided into 24 panels depicting old testament history from the creation to the burial of Isaac.
March 2016.
Central London Outdoor Group (CLOG) walk from Falconwood to Dartford.
Hall Place dates back to around 1540 when wealthy merchant Sir John Champneys, Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1534, used stone recycled from a nearby former monastery, Lesnes Abbey to build the house. Alterations were made to the house after Sir Robert Austen, another wealthy City merchant, bought the house in 1649.
The country home of the Lords Vernon, a 17th-century craftsmanship, featuring exquisite plasterwork, wood carvings. With a amazing Great Staircase and Long Gallery.
Hardwick Old Hall, Derbyshire, early C16 & 1587-90.
For Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury - Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608).
Grade l listed.
The house had two full scale great chambers and there are substantial remains of decorative plasterwork by Abraham Smith.
Hill Great Chamber.
Hardwick was home to Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), one of the most formidable women of Elizabethan England. She was the matriarch of the Cavendish family, building Chatsworth with her second husband and returning to build the two great halls at Hardwick after her separation from her fourth husband the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
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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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.
The animals entering the Ark two by two together with Noah his wife , his sons and their wives.
Lanhydrock
National Trust
near Bodmin, Cornwall
St Mary Aldermary church in the City Of London on Queen Victoria Street has this incredible gothic ceiling designed by Wren - his only gothic church in the City
Allegory of Painting ((oil on canvas backed onto plasterwork, 1860-1867) - attributed to Jean Vandoren, Museum Leuven
The plasterwork and carving on the ceiling of St Botolph without Aldgate, London, is the work of John Francis Bentley (1839 - 1902), done during his restoration of the church interior during the late 19th century. Bentley is probably better known as the architect and designer of Westminster cathedral.