Wollaton Hall From the North-East
Wollaton Hall was designed by Robert Smythson and completed in the 1588. It has been described as the first English house to abandon the traditional central courtyard; instead it had a high-ceilinged [...] [more...]
[$]Plate 260 - Bourchier’s Gate-house.
The home of the Sackvilles since 1603; it was first built in and around 1457 by Archbishop Bourchier.
[$]335.—The Great Chamber, Looking North.
“It will be noticed that the ceiling is a reproduction of that in the ballroom at Knole (Fig. 294). The panelling is similar to that in the dining-room below, and all came out of the Quenby attics. It forms a beautiful and subdued background for the interesting pictures and [...]