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This site uses cookies. Robert Cecil, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth’s chief minister. Of course the plaster friezes were never intended to be exposed to the elements. What’s in a name? Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Minnesota isn't the laughing stock, Mr President. Formal gardens lie to the south (since the house was built on a north-south axis) with the expanses of glass windows on the west and east sides. Climbing a broad stone staircase to the second floor ( ground, first and second), you enter the High Great Chamber with its ‘throne’, and unbelievable painted frieze high up on the wall. Hardwick Old Hall is now essentially a shell. Hardwick Hall proclaims the status of the owner to all and sundry. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Details The monument includes the ruins and below ground remains of Hardwick Old Hall, a great house situated on the crest of a hill 14.4km south east of Chesterfield and 200m south west of Hardwick New Hall. I had visited Hardwick once before, at least 50 years ago when my father organized an outing for the Leek Camera Club. Neither Elizabeth (and subsequently James) need or want any more possible aspirants to the English throne.

But that’s precisely the situation at Hardwick Old Hall and Hardwick ‘New’ Hall in Derbyshire. Service wing 1860 by S. Rollinson of Chesterfield. I doubt Arbella appreciated the grandeur of Hardwick.

The main stone staircase, looking up to the second floor. Zipp it! Arbella, Bess’ granddaughter, was effectively kept under house arrest at Hardwick for years and not permitted to marry.

Octagonal leaded lantern of bottle glass c.1600, one of a set at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

For £20.75, you can get a combined ticket for both Hardwick Hall and Old Hardwick Hall next door, which is run by English Heritage. Hardwick Hall was built by the indomitable Bess of Hardwick, just metres from the original Hardwick Hall where she was born. Arbella was a cousin to Elizabeth I and James VI of Scotland (who would become James I of England in 1603 on Elizabeth’s death). Coronavirus (COVID-19) While museums are closed, the National Trust Prints site is … and yellows, oranges, reds – even some vivid greens. Hardwick Old Hall is now essentially a shell. You are! Wolfson History Prize 2020 Blog Tour – A History of The Bible.

Now, as we speed along the motorway and see ‘ES’ peeping over the trees we will remember our interesting and enjoyable visit and a glimpse into Tudor life 400 years ago.

Their daughter, Arbella, was thus of royal blood (since Lennox was also descended from Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, through her second marriage). Hardwick Hall was built in the late 16th century for Bess of Hardwick. Looking down six floors in the Old Hall. It’s unusual to find properties managed or owned by English Heritage and the National Trust side-by-side. The hall has a very pleasing symmetry to it, and as I mentioned earlier, there’s no doubt whose house this was. And the magnificent plasterwork on the walls. A view through the bed hangings in the Blue Room at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. After Bess moved to the ‘new hall’, and for centuries after, the house fell into disrepair, and during the 18th centuries, the building was reduced on purpose by the Dukes of Devonshire. If ever I see a double entendre, I whip it out." In 1574, her sixth child, Elizabeth Cavendish married Henry Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox, younger brother of Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Painted plaster frieze in the Great Chamber. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. In the Green Velvet Bedroom on the second floor. Change ). Passing through an adjoining door, you are in the Long Gallery, one of the longest (but the highest) in any stately home in this country.

National Trust. Arbella Stuart, granddaughter of Bess of Hardwick. What a feast for the eyes. One of two fireplaces in the Long Gallery. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Log in. a stunning English treasure, Hidcote: an Arts and Crafts-inspired garden, "I'm all for censorship. Kenneth Horne, Standen House: where Arts and Crafts meets West Sussex. By contrast, ‘the north front is of nine closely spaced bays,’ 3 seemingly a classically unconventional scheme to enable a five-bay saloon (behind a square entrance hall) and workable spaces either side. The Future of Historical Sources – The Meme?

She eventually did secretly marry the Earl of Somerset, but was captured before she could escape to Holland. 2015 is the 400th anniversary of her death and Hardwick is housing a special exhibition now to commemorate her death. ( Log Out / 

Fireplace in the Green Velvet Bedroom, made from various Derbyshire stones. The Gideon Tapestries at the north end of the Long Gallery. She had eight children, two of whom died in infancy.

The Old Hall from the entrance to Hardwick Hall. One whole quarter of the hall, which housed the great hall I believe has disappeared altogether.

In 1568, Bess married George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1590), her fourth marriage, and one that brought her close to the royal court. Staircase to upper floors at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. One whole quarter of the hall, which housed the great hall I believe has disappeared altogether. Ordered by Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury and ancestress of the Dukes of Devonshire, it remained in the ownership of her descendants until the mid-twentieth century. .

She rose from being the daughter of a country squire to the second wealthiest women in the land after Elizabeth I. Not for nothing is her monogram ‘ES’ displayed proudly on at least three sides of each of the six ‘towers’ of the hall. Up on this second floor are Hardwick's two principal spaces, the High Great Chamber and the Long Gallery. And I am SO GLAD to see you back at work on Hardwick Hall! The views from the top of the building are stunning—these aristocrats knew where to build. Tapestries high on the wall in the main entrance hall. A combined House and Garden ticket for one adult is £15.40 with Gift Aid.

If you can, visit on a weekday. If Bess was alive now, the Daily Mail would have a field day. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Friend and confidante of Queen Elizabeth, Bess, Countess of Shrewsbury was originally from quite lowly stock, but through four and prestigious marriages (at least two of them in any case), she gained status and accumulated incredible wealth. And it’s popular, if the full car park was anything to go by. - F7RC79 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

But just cross the lawn to the new hall, and you these in all their glory.

Building record MDR6067 - Hardwick Old Hall, Ault Hucknall. Your plans for the cupola sound Fantastic and what a view they would get from way up there!

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