Antony House
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| Creation time : | 1711-1721 |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 23 '7.1 " N , 4 ° 13' 37.9" W |
Antony House is a manor house on the Rame Peninsula in Cornwall in Great Britain . Classified as a Grade I Heritage Site , the mansion is located northeast of the village of Antony , 3 km northwest of Torpoint and 9 km west of Plymouth .
history
Antony House has been the seat of the Carew family since 1432 . From 1711 to 1721 Sir William Carew, 5th Baronet , had the current baroque manor built in place of an older house . The architect is unknown, the design is attributed to James Gibbs . In 1839 the portico was added to the courtyard side, further modifications were removed during restorations after the Second World War. In 1961, John Carew Pole gave the house and garden to the National Trust . The house is still the residence of the Pole Carew family, but the house and garden can be viewed from Tuesday to Thursday from April to October.
investment
The mansion is located on a hill on a peninsula above the Hamoaze at the confluence of the Lynher River in the Tamar River .
The manor house forms a courtyard of honor with two brick farm buildings, to which it is connected by colonnades . The rectangular, two-story mansion is also made of bricks, but clad with Pentewan granite and has a slate hipped roof.
Interior
The splendid interior is largely from the time it was built. The hall, library and salon on the ground floor are paneled with Dutch oak. Features include marble fireplaces, numerous paintings, including several portraits of Reynolds , embroidery, and other family collections.
Garden and park
The formal, walled baroque garden with cut trees and avenues that went with the house was redesigned in the 1790s according to plans by Humphry Repton . Today's 10 hectare garden slopes down on the north side with wide lawns and sight lines framed by holm oaks to the Lynher River.
On the west side there is a formal garden with an octagonal pond, a knot garden framed by yew hedges and flower beds as well as a wide lawn path framed by yew pinnacles. In the garden there are stone sculptures from northern India, collected by General Reginald Carew Pole in the 19th century, as well as a Burmese temple bell and modern sculptures, including a bronze fountain designed by William Pye , which takes the form of a 10 m high, cone-shaped yew tree. In the garden there are numerous ornamental shrubs, exotic trees such as a mighty cork oak on the south side and a black walnut tree on the north side of the manor house as well as a "National Collection" of over 600 types of daylily .
While the garden is owned by the National Trust, the 40-acre Antony Woodlands that follows is owned by the Carew Pole Garden Trust . After Reginald Carew Pole had rhododendrons laid there, his son John Carew Pole transformed the forest into a landscape park after the Second World War. Located in a sheltered valley forest of old stalk and holm oaks and Scots pines was to Japanese maples , Himalayan birch , ginkgo trees and walnut trees added. Ornamental shrubs such as magnolias and rhododendrons as well as over 300 camellia varieties add colorful accents. Paths lead to viewpoints over the Lynher River, to a bathhouse built in 1789 and fed with salt water from the Lynher, and to modern sculptures, including a rock carved by Peter Randall-Page .
Antony House in the film
The house and garden served as the filming location for the Disney film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland as well as for the Rosamunde Pilcher film In Doubt for Love (2010).
Web links
- National Trust: Antony
Individual evidence
- ^ The National Heritage List: Antony House. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 5, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, Enid Radcliffe: The Buildings of England: Cornwall. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1970, ISBN 0-14-071001-9 , p. 37.
- ^ Antony Cone: William Pye Water Sculpture. Retrieved January 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Patrick Taylor: English Gardens: Landscape Parks and Cottage Gardens in Great Britain and Ireland. Dorling Kindersley, Starnberg 2005, ISBN 3-8310-0781-0 , p. 14ff.
- ↑ Pilcher Locations: Antony House. Retrieved February 23, 2013 .
