New Wardour Castle
New Wardour Castle | |
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Palladian | |
Town or city | Tisbury, Wiltshire |
Country | England |
Coordinates | 51°02′16″N 2°05′38″W / 51.0378°N 2.0940°W |
Construction started | 1769 |
Completed | 1776 |
Client | Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | James Paine |
New Wardour Castle is a Grade I listed
The building of the house was begun in 1769 and completed in 1776, with additional buildings being added in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1961 to 1990, it was the home of
New Wardour Castle is approximately 0.75 miles (1.2 km) from
House
The building is constructed from
The house is described by
Rotunda
The ground floor of the rotunda is in limestone with black insets and a central black and white marble decoration. There are entrances from the north and south with double sweeping staircases on either side. The rotunda staircase was designed by James Paine and is 144 feet (44 m) round; the balustrade is fitted with glass candle lamps.
The first floor has a wooden floor and has
All Saints' Chapel
The
Ownership of the chapel was transferred to the Wardour Chapel Trust[5] in the late 1890s, and the running costs and maintenance of this Grade I listed[2] chapel are now funded entirely through voluntary donations.
Parkland and garden
A Camellia house, with walled gardens, was built northeast of the house in 1769 by Richard Woods for the 8th Baron.[6]
Plans for the grounds were suggested by Woods in 1764,[7] but these proved too expensive and in 1773 were revised by George Ingham. Capability Brown was then brought in and undertook extensive earth-moving and tree planting between 1775 and 1783.[citation needed]
The current garden includes a
There is also a temple, built as a folly, in a distinct area of the grounds referred to as the Temple Garden.[9]
Recent history
After the death in 1944 of
In 1951, the house was designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building,[1] with its grounds later being Grade II* listed.[7]
In 1961 New Wardour Castle became the home of Cranborne Chase School, which built new classrooms, studio dormitories, and a dining-room extension on the south-eastern side of the main house, along with three staff houses to the west. The school eventually closed in 1990.
In 1992 the house – along with five cottages, six tennis courts, and a swimming pool in the walled garden – was sold for under £1 million to Nigel Tuersley, and was converted into ten apartments by designer John Pawson. The two main floors of the central block, incorporating the rotunda and the original state rooms, form the principal apartment. It has eight reception rooms arranged in a circle around a piano nobile at the top of a 60ft rotunda that rises to a magnificent glazed dome supported by eight composite columns.[14] Extensions and ancillary accommodation added by the school were mostly demolished.
The house was used in the filming of the television mini-series
In 2010 Jasper Conran bought apartment 1, planning to live between there and Ven House. He sold the apartment in 2020 for £4 million and auctioned the contents via Christie's in 2021. He has called the main staircase "possibly the best staircase in England, if not the world".[14]
Gallery
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Dairy in Temple Garden
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West wing
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School building in the grounds, now residential
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The front of the building
References
- ^ a b c Historic England. "Wardour Castle (1146004)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ a b c Historic England. "Wardour Castle Chapel (1300093)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
- ^ "The Parish of The Sacred Heart, Tisbury, and All Saints, Wardour". Clifton Diocese. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ ISBN 0-14-0710-26-4.
- ^ "Wardour Chapel Trust". Charity Commission. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ Historic England. "Camellia House and garden walls, at Wardour Castle (1146006)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ a b Historic England. "Wardour Castle and Old Wardour Castle (Park and Garden) (1000507)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ Historic England. "Hexagonal annexe to west of Wardour Castle (1184577)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ Historic England. "Dairy in Temple Gardens (1146005)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
- ^ Morris, Richard (2000). Cheshire: The Biography of Leonard Cheshire, VC, OM. London: Penguin Books. p. 327.
- ^ "Editorial". The Cheshire Smile. 1 (6): 2. 1955.
- ^ Ffrench-Mullen, Mia (1956). "Wardour Castle Tisbury Wilts". The Cheshire Smile. 2 (4): 14. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ "Wardour Castle". The Cheshire Smile. 3 (1): 20. March 1957. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ a b Sampson, Annabel (14 September 2021). "Jasper Conran to auction entire contents of New Wardour Castle today". Tatler.