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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.
Mr Reason's & Mr Digby's Chambers.
Two of Bess's gentlemen servants.
An overmantle in their bedroom on an upper floor.
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.
These plaques are now on the back side of the bicycle shed of the Kings' College library. They seem completely wasted in their current location. They stand around 8 feet tall by 4 feet and are completely ignored by the students who mainly lean against them while talking on their mobile phones
They are apparently "fine examples of late 19th century decorative plasterwork" and came from an office building in Fetter Lane close to their current location (according to the Department of the Environment descriptive plaque that accompanies them).
Behind the portico is the main room, located inside the tower known as Las Damas.
The wall decoration typically consists of a tile socle and wide stretches of plasterwork that originally were polychromatic friezes with wooden frameworks. Its decorative style suggests that it was built during the reign of sultan Muhammad III (1302-1309), making it the oldest—if only partially standing—palace in the Alhambra.
One of the reasons why the Palace of the Partal stands out from its neighbouring Comares and the Lions, which have maintained their overall structure since the days of the Nasrid, is that the Partal was only included in the Alhambra a little more than a century ago.
On 12 March 1891, its owner, Arthur Von Gwinner, handed ownership over to the State. At that time the building was little more than a simple house with a few plants. Its interior walls were covered over so that much of the structure and its original decoration were hidden from view.
Another detail of note is the fact that the wooden ceiling of the upper balcony in the Tower of the Ladies was dismantled by its last owner, turning up early last century in Berlin. It is currently one of the most prominent objects to be found in the Museum für Islamische Kunst del Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz.
House of Dun, Dun, Montrose, Angus,Scotland. (National Trust for Scotland). Saloon decorated by the Dutch plasterer Joseph Enzer over period of four years to 1742. This is an interpretation of the Earl of Mar – a great Jacobite – depicted as Mars, the God of War, standing on the crown.
King Charles the Martyr, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1676-90.
Grade l listed.
Looking East.
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.
ABC Decorative Plasterwork Studios in Oxford Mews, Oxford Lane, Roath, Cardiff.
I took this photo because the buildings seemed pretty old & fairly unusual for the area. Upon consulting a 1914 Cardiff Directory I could find no mention of 'Oxford Mews' but there was a place named 'Celtic Corridor' which intersected Oxford Lane. I suspect that this may have been the 'S.Andrews & Son Coach Works'.
17th century plasterwork
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A panel of plasterwork in one of the tunnels leading into the theatre. The relief has mostly fallen away, revealing the artist's original guiding bonding grooves
Wentworth Woodhouse, Wentworth, South Yorkshire.
Grade l listed.
Whistlejacket Room with plasterwork by Joseph Rose Snr (c1723-1780), c1750-60.
The room takes it name from the painting of the racehorse, Whistlejacket, by George Stubbs (1724-1806). Whistlejacket was bought by the Marquess of Rockingham in the mid 1750s. Rockingham invited Stubbs to his home at Wentworth Woodhouse in 1762 and the painting is a result of that visit. It hung in this room until 1974 but is now in the National Gallery. The picture you see today is a copy.
Wentworth Woodhouse was built for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham (1693-1750) from circa 1725, the work continuing over four decades, and then passed to the Fitzwilliam family. The house is now owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust whose sole purpose is regeneration of the site for the benefit of South Yorkshire.
The east front was commenced by Ralph Tunnicliffe (d1736). His scheme was revised and completed by Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) who continued on the interiors for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782).
John Carr worked for the 2nd Marquess prior to heightening the service wings for William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833).
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
Library
The Joseph Rose white plasterwork ceiling was inspired by the antique pavements Robert Adam had seen in Rome.
The ceiling plasterwork.
"A brief history of Fairfax House...
Fairfax House was purchased by Charles Gregory, the 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley, for £2000 in 1759. He employed master architect John Carr of York to transform the existing building into a magnificent and fashionable townhouse for use during the winter season. Lord Fairfax gifted the house to his sole surviving daughter Anne, making her a property-owning woman in her own right. On thriving Castlegate, the main thoroughfare to York Castle, and sitting on the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss, the house was at the very centre of York’s polite society and perfectly positioned as a base from which to enjoy York’s burgeoning city-life and social scene.
In 1919 the house was converted into St George's cinema, with the first floor knocked through to make a dancehall. Dr Arthur Evelyn, an early York conservationist and recorder of York’s heritage, wrote to the cinema company asking them to ‘please take care of the interiors’ and as a result they boxed in and painted over the ceiling and woodwork in dark gloss paint. In a curious way, this helped to protect the decorative details from damage. By the 1960s the cinema company was in financial trouble and sold the building to the City Council. The dancehall on the first floor continued running and was closed in 1980.
Noel Terry, chairman of the famous chocolate firm, was also a founding member and long-serving honorary treasurer of the York Civic Trust. As a keen collector, he had spent a lifetime amassing Georgian furniture, clocks and artwork. He had always intended to leave this to the York Civic Trust in the expectation that the furniture would remain at Goddards, the family home at Dringhouses. However, he left the final decision to the trustees of the Noel Terry Charitable Trust. When Fairfax House came on the market shortly after Noel’s death in 1980, his trustees felt that he would agree that this would be a far more appropriate location in the city centre for the collection than Goddards, an Arts and Crafts style house built in 1926 by Walter Brierley. The resulting bequest to the York Civic Trust was made with Noel Terry’s strict condition that the collection should stay as an entity within the city of York."
Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire, 1724.
By Francis Smith of Warwick (1672-1738).
For Nicholas Leke, 4th Earl of Scarsdale (1682-1736).
Roofless since 1919, when its interiors were dismantled and some exported to America.
Grade l listed.
Stucco plasterwork by Italian craftsmen. A number of these panels remain. They were located above fireplaces long since removed.
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
Colourful restored ceiling of the Church of San Nicolas (Parroquia de San Nicolas), Ciutat Vella, Valencia, Spain. The interior of the Church of San Nicolas has been restored and colorful plasterwork and paintings ('baroque frescos' depicting the lives of San Nicolas and San Peter Matyr of Valencia ) adorn the walls and ceilings. The artworks are said to be designed by Antonio Palomino and painted by painter Dionis Vidal in the 17th Century. The church is sometimes referred to as the 'Valencian Sistine Chapel'.
I did some paint stripping on the skirting board today, and not much other than that.
I think I've done pretty well t go 10 weeks before getting bored here. I just want to get back to Canterbury now.
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
he current palace was built between 1845 and 1857, a fire destroyed about a third of the palace in December 1913. Only the exterior reconstruction had been completed when the revolution in 1918 resulted in the abdication of the Grand Duke. Since then it was many things; a museum, in 1948 the seat of the state parliament, a college for kindergarten teachers from 1952 to 1981, before a museum again. Since late 1990, it is once again a seat of government, when a massive preservation and renovation progamme took place, most of which were completed in 2014.
In 1881 Lanhydrock House suffered from a major fire. The house was rebuilt with the latest in Victorian comforts. The wing in which the Long Gallery is situated survived the fire. This plasterwork dates from just before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642.
This is a detail from the ceiling. The ceiling is decorated with scenes from the Old Testament together with animals, birds and plants. According to the Guidebook they can be divided into the following Old Testament subjects: - Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, Abraham and Isaac, and The Life of Jacob.
The Palais Garnier is the thirteenth theatre to house the Paris Opera since it was founded by Louis XIV in 1669. A supremely beautiful building, the Paris Opera House was designed by the architect Charles Garnier and built between 1860 and 1875.
Chastleton House, Chastleton near Moreton-in-Marsh, Oxfordshire
Great Chamber
A frieze incorporates a total of 24 painted roundels representing 12 Old Testament prophets and their pagan female counterparts, the 12 sibyls of antiquity (who also had the gift of prophecy).
left to right:
The Cumaean Sibyl
The Erythraean Sibyl holding a Lamb
The Samian Sibyl holding a Crown of Thorns