Claydon House

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Claydon House seen from the southwest

Claydon House is a manor house in Aylesbury Vale in the northwestern part of Buckinghamshire in England , surrounded by several small picturesque settlements of Middle Claydon , East Claydon , Botolph Claydon and Steeple Claydon . The mansion and park are under National Trust management . While the structure and the facades of the building tie in with the Palladian style and can be assigned to classicism , the decoration of the individual rooms is inhomogeneous and characterized by different styles. Elements of neopalladianism, rococo , chinoiserie , neo-Gothic and English neoclassicism were used in the design of the rooms .

history

After 1620, Claydon House was the country estate of Sir Edmund Verney's family also (Varney).

The current facility was built between 1757 and 1771 on the site of a previous building. Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney based himself on the nearby Stowe House when building Claydon House . The architect Sir Thomas Robinson was commissioned with the design .

Construction began in 1768 and was directed until 1771 by the stonemason and wood sculptor Luke Lightfoot , known from London . Lightfoot was not an architect, and he likely worked to the specifications of the former architect and his builder. Today only the southern wing of the building complex originally consisting of three structures is preserved. As early as 1792, shortly after Verney's death, the central part and the northern counterpart to the south wing, which still exists today, were demolished. In the second half of the 19th century, the landlady of the Claydon House was Florence Nightingale's older sister Parthenope Nightingale , who had married into the Verney family. Claydon House therefore houses one of the largest collections of correspondence from this British nursing pioneer.

The property was transferred to the National Trust in 1956 by Sir Ralph Verney, 5th Baronet, while maintaining his right of residence.

literature

  • RS Clouston. Claydon House, Bucks, the Seat of Sir Edmund Verney, Bart. Part I. in: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs , Vol. 5, No. 13. (Apr., 1904). The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. 1904.
  • RS Clouston. Claydon House, Bucks, the Seat of Sir Edmund Verney, Bart. Part II- (Conclusion). in: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs , Vol. 5, No. 15. (Jun., 1904). The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. 1904.
  • ED Mackerness. Frances Parthenope, Lady Verney (1819-1890). in: The Journal of Modern History , Vol. 30, No. 2. (Jun., 1958). The University of Chicago Press. 1958.
  • Miriam Slater. Family Life in the Seventeenth Century: The Verneys of Claydon House . London and Boston: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1984.
  • Miriam Slater. The Weightiest Business: Marriage in an Upper-Gentry Family in Seventeenth-Century England. in: Past and Present , No. 72. (Aug. 1976). The Past and Present Society. Published by Oxford University Press. 1976.
  • Tim Knox: Claydon House . National Trust, London: 2004.

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Single receipts

  1. ^ Mark Bostridge: Florence Nightingale , Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-140-26392-3 , p. 5

Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 18.5 ″  N , 0 ° 57 ′ 19.5 ″  W.