Arbury Hall : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Arbury Hall / ell brown
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| 説明 | A bank holiday weekend visit to Arbury Hall, near Nuneaton in Warwickshire. It is only open to the public on the four bank holiday weekends (8 days a year).It is a private lived in house. While you can have tours of the house, you are not allowed to take photos inside, so grounds and exteriors only.A Grade I listed buildingArbury HallListing TextNUNEATON AND BEDWORTH ARBURY PARKSP38NW4/7 Arbury Hall06/12/47GV ICountry house. Late C16 for Sir Edmund Anderson. Chapel remodelled 1678.Completely remodelled and Gothicised 1749-1803 for Sir Roger Newdigate. Designsby William Hiorn, mason-architect 1748-1755, Henry Keene 1761-1776 and HenryCouchman, clerk of works 1776-1789, and probably also by Sir Roger himself;Sanderson Miller may also have been involved. Grey Attleborough and Wilnecotesandstone ashlar. Roofs hidden by parapets. Ashlar external and other stacks.Courtyard plan. Gothic Revival style, with late Perpendicular details. 3storeys. Moulded plinth and string courses, and moulded and embattled parapetswith crocketed pinnacles throughout. Moulded and chamfered 4-centred openingsthroughout. Sashes and casements have Gothick glazing bars. South garden front:western bay window 1752, eastern bay 1761, central Dining Room range 1769-1779.Symmetrical. 1-1-3-1-1 bays. Projecting wings have polygonal clasping buttressesto outer corners, with blind quatrefoil and lancet panelling, rising intopanelled and crocketed pinnacles. 2-storey polygonal bays have windows to 3sides, leaf carving and blind arches. Elaborately moulded quatrefoil panel withcoat of arms below first floor windows. Second floor has straight-headed windowsof 2 arched lights with hood moulds throughout. Large one-storey 3-bay centralprojection has polygonal clasping buttresses rising into panelled and crocketedturrets with niches. Elaborate decoration throughout, with blind arcading andquatrefoil frieze, and arcaded parapet with panelled and crocketed pinnaclesbetween bays. Large 4-light windows have panel tracery and ogee outer archeswith finials. Lower single-storey bays to left and right have moulded doorwayswith hood moulds, and double-leaf sash doors with painted wood tracery and blindtracery panels. Openwork embattled parapets. First floor has sashes. Northentrance front, probably designed 1783 but built 1792-1796, of 1-3-1 bays. Largeexternal stacks between centre and blank outer bays. Angles have buttresses withturrets similar to garden front. Central 3-bay porte-cochere has angle and otherbuttresses rising into panelled crocketed pinnacles. Moulded cornice and parapetwith finials. Interior is vaulted, with moulded piers. Central double-leaf sashdoor has fanlight with painted wood tracery. Flanking bays have small quatrefoilwindow in square panel. Windows to left and right of porte-cochere on each floorare mostly blind. First floor has more elaborately treated windows; centraltripartite window has simple intersecting tracery. Second floor has central2-light window, similar to garden front. East front of c.1786. Two storeys;1-3-2-1 bays. 3 large external stacks. Detailing largely similar to entrancefront. 3-bay section has large polygonal one-storey bay window, of 7 mullionedand transomed lights with elaborate Gothick glazing. Central sash door. Blindfret frieze, moulded cornice and vine leaf frieze. Crocketed pinnacles andfleur-de-lys cresting. West front of 1789-1803 is irregular. Some rubble wallingand remains of blocked mullioned and transomed windows may be a survival fromthe earlier house. 3 large external stacks. Interior: Entrance Hall and theCloisters of 1783-1785 have plaster quadripartite vaulting with moulded ribs andshafts. Semi-circular apse has stone geometrical staircase with re-used openworkbalusters, scrollwork, newel posts and finials of c.1580. Old armorial glass insome windows. Chapel has plaster ceiling of 1678 by Edward Martin. Centralshaped panel has inner wreath and deep coving with festoons, and richlydecorated outer border of flowers, fruit and foliage. Small similarly decoratedshaped panels. Acanthus cornice. Contemporary panelling of bolection-mouldedlower panels; upper moulded panels have shouldered and indented architraves, andare separated by carved drops suspended from winged cherubs' heads. Arched organrecess at west end has fluted Tuscan pilasters, more elaborate drops between thepanels, and a late C18 ceiling. Panelled pulpit. Library of 1754-1761 by Hiornhas Gothick panelling with shafts, cornice and ogee-gabled bookcases, and openfretwork arches to bay window and recess. Chimney-piece has panelling and canopyof 3 ornamented ogee arches. Segmental plaster ceiling with 'Etruscan' motifsand medallions from a design of 1791 by Sir Roger. Dining Room by Keene1769-1773 on the site of the hall. Plaster fan vaulting with wall shafts.Windows are treated as an aisle with Gothick-panelled arches. Very largefireplace has polygonal turrets with crocketed buttresses, moulded arch and arow of triangular canopied niches with cresting. Tall elaborate canopied nichesabove fireplace and in walls have casts of Roman statues. East wall hasGothic-panelled recess with Classical relief. Gothic-panelled doors anddoorcases with triple canopies and pinnacles. Drawing Room by Keene 1762-1763has Gothick plaster panelling with inset portraits. Segmental Gothic plasterworkvault, and fan vault in bay window. Chimneypiece, inspired by the monument ofAymer de Vallance in Westminster Abbey, carved 1764 by Richard Hayward of WestonHall (q.v.). Saloon, Little Sitting Room and School Room (Chaplain's Room), alldecorated under direction of Couchman. Saloon of 1786-1794, probably fromdesigns by Keene, has vaulting and pendants inspired by Henry VII's chapel;scagliola columns and Gothic capitals were supplied by Joseph Alcott 1797.Little Sitting Room has marble fireplace of c.1740 with eared architrave. SchoolRoom has Gothick fireplace with ogee arch, inset with Classical medallionsprobably carved by Hayward. Long Gallery on first floor has stone fireplace ofc.1580. Panelling, and possibly the painted wooden overmantel with columns andobelisks, of c.1606. Shallow Gothic plaster vault and large moulded arch tolobby of 1787. 'Arbury Hall is one of the finest examples of the early GothicRevival in England' (Buildings of England, p67). The house was built on the siteof a monestery.(VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, p173-174; Buildings of England: Warwickshire:p67-71; Gordon Nares: Arbury Hall, Country Life 8 October 1953, pp1126-1129; 15October 1953, p1210-1213; 29 October 1953, pp1414-1417; G.C. Tyack: CountryHouse Building in Warwickshire 1500-1914, ppl98-206; Arbury Hall guidebook)Listing NGR: SP3351989255This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-04-30 13:53:06 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | DMC-FZ72 , Panasonic |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/800) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |