Hartland Abbey
Hartland Abbey is a former
Sir Hugh George Copplestone Bampfylde Stucley, 6th Baronet
.
History
Hartland Abbey was built in 1157 and consecrated by
Augustinian Abbey
in 1189.
Dissolution
In 1539 it was
messuage, etc., in Moore alias Moore Town, in Bedyford (i.e. Bideford)parish, Devon, in tenure of Richard Penhorewod" [3] In March 1547 a royal licence was obtained by James Gunter and Henry Wescott, who presumably had been granted them on dissolution, to alienate the "rectory and advowson of the vicarage of Knoweston and Molland, Devon" to Hugh Culme.[4]
Present building
The present house incorporates a few components from
Lord Walpole. Further alterations were commissioned by Sir George Stucley in the mid-1800s. He engaged George Gilbert Scott and the building was remodelled to give a formal entrance through a new porch on the north end. Two bay windows were installed on the east frontage. Internally the drawing room and dining rooms were presented in a style similar to that found in the Palace of Westminster, each having fine wall panelling (Elizabethan in the dining room & entrance, linenfold in the drawing room). both rooms have a series of painted murals by Alfred Beer of Exeter around the walls. These depict events in English and Irish history in which Sir George Stucley felt his ancestors were engaged. Alfred Beer was also commissioned to make the fine painted glass wedding window on the staircase. Sir George had the main passage decorated in a style and colours to represent the Alhambra Palace style which he had recently visited. Gilbert Scott engaged Richard Coad as his supervising architect on these improvements and the contractor was Pulsman of Barnstaple.[5]
(the north-west corner being the work of 'Mr Mathews', according to the author of the Beauties of England and Wales). Further alterations were made in about 1860.[6] The gardens were laid out by Gertrude Jekyll.
Filming location
The Blackpool cottage on the Estate featured as Mrs Dashwood's home in the 2008
Rosamund Pilchers novel The Shell Seekers as well as for the failed game show Hercules, which lasted one series. Numerous other films have been made including a sequence in the BBC Top Gear programme and of the CBBC/Canadian production of children's TV series Malory Towers
broadcast in 2020. The Hartland Quay Hotel is part of the Estate and this location has also hosted many film crews, one of the earliest being the Disney studio for Treasure Island.
Further reading
References
- ^ a b "Hartland Abbey and Gardens" at hartlandabbey.co.uk
- ^ Lysons, Daniel & Samuel, Magna Britannia, vol.6, 1822, pp.326-360, Molland
- ^ From: 'Henry VIII: September 1544, 26-30', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 19 Part 2: August–December 1544 (1905), pp. 158-197 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=80337&strquery=molland
- ^ From: 'Henry VIII: March 1546, 26-31', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 21 Part 1: January–August 1546 (1908), pp. 216-251 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=80843
- ^ Country Life 1983
- ^ Pevsner, N. (1952) North Devon. Penguin Books
- ^ "Austen drama filmed in Devon". BBC. 17 December 2007.
- ^ "Hartland Abbey: Episode 15 of 28, Antiques Roadshow, Series 34" at bbc.co.uk/
- ^ "Filming - The Night Manager - Hartland Abbey & Gardens". Retrieved 27 June 2016.
External links
- Hartland Abbey & Gardens - official site