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Taken on a day trip on 10th October 2014. For more information about Mottisfont, Visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/mottisfont/
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, 1758-65.
The National Trust.
By Matthew Brettingham (1699-1769), James Paine (1717-1789) & Robert Adam (1728-1792).
Interiors complete by the 1780s.
For Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804).
Grade l listed.
State Bedroom.
The Kedleston State Bed.
James Gravenor (fl.1741-1768).
A mahogany and giltwood carved tester bedstead, completed in 1768. The bed posts formed as palm trees with gilt roots forming the feet. Large gilt foliage sprays support the canopy, which is surmounted by large foliage sprays, the corners with plumes of grey ostrich feathers. The underside of the canopy applied with giltwood foliate designs on a ground of pale blue flowered silk brocade, the back of the bed with foliage sprays, a coronet and monogram on similar brocade.
Kedleston Hall is an extravagant temple to the arts. Commissioned in the 1750s by Nathaniel Curzon whose ancestors had resided at Kedleston since the 12th century. The house is framed by historic parkland and boasts opulent interiors intended to impress.
Designed for lavish entertaining, Kedleston Hall displays an extensive collection of paintings, sculpture and original furnishings, reflecting both the tastes of its creators and their fascination with the classical world of the Roman Empire.
Inherited by George Nathaniel Curzon, Viceroy of India between 1899 and 1905, the hall also houses the many objects he amassed during his travels in South Asia and the Middle East, and in his role leading British rule in India.
Ankerwycke (or Ankerwick) is on the opposite side of the Thames from Runnymede.
Once the site of a Benedictine priory, the water meadows are now in the hands of the National Trust.
St Mary Magdalene Church in the centre distance. The corner of Croome Court can be seen on the right of the photo.
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
cragside national trust northurmbria glass
Wonderful iconic hose and magnificent estate - spend a day there.
The trees which have to be felled at Calke Abbey, a National Trust property, are left to decay thereby providing a home and food for a wide range of insects. The end of this log attracted me by its texture and the process of decay has already begun.
Erddig, Wrexham - 252.06ha (622.85acres) A late 17th century house, containing much of the furniture and textiles supplied for it in the 1720s, with an early 18th century formal garden. The magnificent state bedroom is decorated in the Chinese taste. An unusually rich history of master/servant relations includes a servants' hall with 18th century portraits of estate and household staff and there is a complete range of outbuildings with smithy, joiner's shop and bakery still in operation. The property was extensively restored in 1973-77 following severe mining subsidence. Given in 1973 with an extensive area of land, by Mr P.S.Yorke.
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
Images from the two night dinner event for Trust America with Jeb Bush. Joel Silverman Photography, serving the Denver Metro area.
Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent.
The National Trust.
The Orangery.
The Orangery, which now forms the south range of Green Court, was created in 1823 at the direction of Arabella Cope, widow of the 3rd Duke of Dorset, and her second husband, Lord Whitworth. It was converted from a much earlier space in an effort to bring an element of the Gothic Revival style, so popular at the beginning of the 19th century, to Knole.
The Orangery may have been planned as a gallery for the display of Classical sculptures as well as plants. An extensive collection of bas-reliefs, inscriptions and sculpture, both antique marble pieces and much later plaster casts, is fixed to the interior walls of the Orangery and may have been part of Cope and Whitworth’s original presentation of the building. They are mentioned in John Brady’s 1839 The Visitors Guide to Knole and may have been sourced from the Continent specifically for display here. Photographs reveal that by the mid-20th century the Orangery was used for the storage of other kinds of objects too. A black and white photo from 1945 shows the three-tiered Buzaglo stove, which dates to 1774 and previously stood in the Great Hall, had been moved to the Orangery. Before it was opened to the public in 2010, the Orangery was used for garden storage.