Longleat
Longleat House | |
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Type | Prodigy house |
Location | Wiltshire, England |
Coordinates | 51°11′09″N 2°16′27″W / 51.1857°N 2.2743°W |
Built | 1568–1580 |
Architect | Robert Smythson |
Architectural style(s) | Elizabethan |
Owner | Marquess of Bath |
Website | longleat.co.uk/longleat-house |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name | Longleat House |
Designated | 11 September 1968 |
Reference no. | 1364361 |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name | Stables at Longleat House |
Designated | 11 September 1968 |
Reference no. | 1200342 |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name | Orangery With Walled Garden to Rear at Longleat House |
Designated | 11 September 1968 |
Reference no. | 1036392 |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name | Boathouse and Covered Bridge at Longleat House |
Designated | 11 September 1968 |
Reference no. | 1200450 |
National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens | |
Official name | Longleat |
Designated | 1 September 1987 |
Reference no. | 1000439 |
Longleat is a
Longleat is set in 1,000 acres (400 ha) of parkland
The house was built by Sir John Thynne and designed mainly by Robert Smythson, after Longleat Priory was destroyed by fire in 1567. It took 12 years to complete and is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of Elizabethan architecture in Britain. It continues to be the seat of the Thynn family, who have held the title of Marquess of Bath since 1789; the eighth and present Marquess is Ceawlin Thynn.
History
Longleat was previously an Augustinian priory. The name comes from "leat", an artificial waterway or channel such as that which supplies a watermill.
Sir Charles Appleton (1515–1580) purchased Longleat for
Sir John's immediate descendants were
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Media appearances
The house has been much used as a film location, including:
Architecture
The tour of the house comprises: the Elizabethan Great Hall, with a minstrels' gallery; The lower east corridor, a wide room originally used as servant access to the main rooms. This now holds fine furniture and paintings. Also on display are two visitor books, one showing the signatures of Elizabeth II and Philip, the other Albert (George VI) and Elizabeth (the Queen Mother); the ante-library, with a magnificent Venetian painting on the ceiling; the Red Library, which displays many of the 40,000 books in the house; the Breakfast Room, with a ceiling to match the ante-library; the Lower Dining Room; the bathroom and bath-bedroom: the bath is a lead-lined tub of coopered construction, originally filled by hand from buckets and drained the same way; taps and drains are now provided. The lead lining was replaced in 2005. The room holds the first plumbed-in flush lavatory in the house; the State Dining Room, with a Meissen porcelain table centrepiece; the Saloon; the State Drawing Room, designed by Crace; the Robes Corridor; the Chinese Bedroom; the Music Room, with instruments including a barrel organ; the Prince of Wales Bedroom, so named because of a large painting of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the brother of Charles I; the upper west corridor; the Grand Staircase; and the banqueting suite on the top floor: the furniture and interiors designed by Claire Rendall,[9] the dining table commissioned from John Makepeace[10] and the chandelier from Jocelyn Burton.[11]
Historic listing designations
The house was designated as a Grade I
Gallery
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A View of Longleat by Jan Siberechts, 1675
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Drawing of Longleat from the early 18th century byLeonard Knyff
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View towards Longleat House
Visitor attractions
Longleat House was built in the sixteenth century by Sir John Thynn on the site of a dissolved priory, and in 1949 became the first stately home in Britain to be opened to the public on a commercial basis.[22][23] The house, park and attractions are open from mid-February to the start of November each year.[24] The 9,800-acre estate, of which the park occupies 900 acres, has long been one of the top British tourist attractions, and has motivated other large landowners to generate income from their heritage in response to rising maintenance costs.[25][26] Longleat leases 400 acres of land to Center Parcs for the operation of the Longleat Forest holiday village.[27]
The Longleat
Longleat Woods
Longleat Forest is also home to
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Footnotes
- ^ The family name was Thynn or Thynne in the 16th century, later consistently Thynne, until the 7th Marquess reverted to the spelling Thynn in the 1980s
References
- ^ "Spend a day at Longleat". BBC. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
- ^ Hartley 2013, p. ?.
- ^ "Stolen £5m Titian found in carrier bag after seven-year hunt". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ Say ‘Allo’ to new Longleat feature, Wiltshire Times, 16 December 2005. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
- ^ "Dr Who Exhibition, Longleat". The Doctor Who Exhibitions Archive. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ "5 Times Bollywood Tried Hard To Make Us Believe These Locations Were In India". iDiva. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ "Mohabbatein Movie Shooting Locations". Filmapia. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ How to Improve Your Memory, shown 9 August 2006, BBC One. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
- ^ "Longleat House Interiors". Claire Rendall. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ Mann, Jean (13 August 1981). "Craftsman makes antiques of the future". New York Times. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ "Longleat Lion Chandelier". Jocelyn Burton. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ Historic England. "Longleat House (Grade I) (1364361)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ Historic England. "Longleat: Park and gardens (Grade I) (1000439)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ Historic England. "Stables at Longleat House (Grade I) (1200342)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ Historic England. "Orangery with Walled Garden to Rear at Longleat House (Grade I) (1036392)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ Historic England. "Boathouse and Covered Bridge at Longleat House (Grade I) (1200450)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ "The lions and loins of Longleat". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ^ New Scientist, 2 December 1982, p. 554, at Google Books. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
- ^ "Longleat Safari Park, Wiltshire". Tourist Information UK. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
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- ^ Lancaster, Henry; Thrush, Andrew. "Thynne, Charles (c.1568–1652), of Cheddar, So". History of Parliament. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ^ Pugh, R. B.; Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1957). "Parliamentary history: 1529–1629". A History of the County of Wiltshire. Vol. 5. London: Victoria County History – via British History Online.
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- ^ Thorne, Roland. "Carteret [formerly Thynne], Henry Frederick". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
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Sources
- Hartley, Cathy (2013). A Historical Dictionary of British Women. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-35533-3.
External links
Media related to Longleat at Wikimedia Commons