Astley Hall (Chorley)
Astley Hall is a country house in the market Chorley in the English county of Lancashire . Today the house belongs to the Borough of Chorley , which has housed the Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery there. The extensive landscaped park around the house is now called Astley Park .
history
In the 15th century the Charnock family bought the property from the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem . The Charnocks had the original half-timbered house built around a small courtyard in 1575–1600. In 1665 Margaret Charnock married the son of Sir Peter Brooke , a member of Parliament, Richard Brooke of Mere , Cheshire. They had the current building, with its magnificent but asymmetrical front facade, built from masonry bricks with a series of wide double-windowed oriels . This front facade has an entrance of special, rustic Ionic columns, at least remarkable in this late period.
The interior of the house shows great stucco work from the 17th century on the ceilings of the great hall and the salon with heavy flower arrangements and supporting cherubins. The excesses of the ceiling depictions are barbaric and the figures are relatively clumsy, even if the scenes are breathtaking. Not all figurative representations are made of stucco; there are also elements made of lead or leather. The staircase is from the same period and has a balustrade adorned with coarse but heavily carved colonnade and square pillars with flower vases on top.
The lower parts of the walls are clad in wood. Paintings from an interesting collection of what were then modern sizes have been inserted into the panels. B. of Protestants like Queen Elizabeth I and King Wilhelm the Silent , Catholics like King Philip II of Spain and Ambrosio Spinola , the discoverers Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan and Muslims like Bajezid I and Mehmed II , sultans of Turkey. It is thought that these works are earlier than the rest of the furnishings and date from the time of the MP Thomas Charnock, who died in 1648. On the upper floor, the long gallery extends across the entire width of the house and contains the most beautiful shuffleboard table ever, which is 7.2 meters long.
In the house there is a bird's eye view of the house from around 1710, on which the small tower salettl are depicted at the corners of its forecourt. As a result, Brookes without male offspring and the house remained fell to Robert Townley Parker from Cuerden , the 1825 Fit the south wing and the interior with stucco, probably designed by Lewis Wyatt , the Parker at Cuerden Hall had worked embellish, let . The dining room in the wing from the beginning of the 19th century has inlaid wood paneling from the 16th century, which was bought from elsewhere.
In 1864, in the last will of the alkali manufacturer John Hutchinson from Widnes, one of the estate administrators is referred to as "Thomas Part of Astley Hall in Chorley", even if Thomas Part was probably not the owner of the house at the time.
1922 appropriated Reginald Tatton the house and its contents to the Chorley Corporation as a memorial to the men of the market, in the First World War had fallen. Astley Hall has been a museum ever since. The house has beautiful oak furniture, Flemish picture knitting and wood paneling. It is said that Oliver Cromwell stayed at the mansion during the Battle of Preston in the 17th century and is said to have left his boots there. The latest investigations show, however, that these were probably not his own boots, even if that does not mean that he was not in this country house. A long line of contemporary exhibitions can be seen in the art gallery throughout the season, and events are organized throughout the year.
The simple, classic stables in brick construction with an ornamental gable in the middle were built around 1800.
The landscape park with a small lake was designed by John Webb and shows a picturesque, meandering stream that runs through a wooded ravine.
The park, coach house and enclosed garden have recently been renovated with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the local government. An extensive project was the restoration of the Ha-Ha from the 17th century, the silting of the lake, the felling of trees, the renovation of the coach house and the enclosed garden. The remise now houses a new art gallery and a conference room on the upper floor. There is a café and a classroom on the ground floor.
Previous owners
- until 1616 : Robert Charnock († 1616)
- 1616–1648 or 1653 : Richard Charnock (Member of Parliament) († 1648 or 1653)
- 1648 or 1653–1715 : Margaret Charnock, wife of Richard Brooke, (1640–1715)
- 1715–1721 : Peter Brooke, son of the two, (1673–1721)
- 1721–1734 : Thomas Brooke, brother of Peter Brooke, (1684–1734)
- 1734–1748 : Richard Brooke, son of Thomas Brooke, (1717–1748)
- 1748–1786 : Peter Brooke, brother of Richard Brooke, († 1786)
- 1786–1787 : Peter Brooke, son of Peter Brooke, (1764–1787)
- 1787–? : Susannah Brooke, sister of Peter Brooke, (1762–1852), wife of Thomas Townley Parker (1760–1794)
- ? –1879 : Robert Townley Parker, son of the two, (1793–1879)
- 1879–1906 : Thomas Townley Parker, son of Robert Townley Parker, (1822–1906)
- 1906–1922 : Reginald Arthur Tatton, nephew of Thomas Townley Parker, (1857–1926)
- 1922-present : Chorley Town Hall
today
The country house is owned and managed by the Chorley Local Government. It serves as a museum, but it can also be rented for events and is open to the public on weekends. There is no entrance fee.
Opened in 2013, the Chorley Remembers Experience is a 46 square meter exhibition divided into three zones - memory, conflict, and activity - and focuses on Chorley's role and history in the military conflict. The exhibition is operated by Trustees of the Chorley Pals Memorial .
The permanent exhibition in the Remise of Astley Hall was built and furnished by Heckford .
Grants for this project came from the Heritage Lottery Fund .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Astley Hall . Borough of Chorley. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
- ^ Chorley Remembers Experience . Borough of Chorley ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 13, 2016.
- ↑ Interactive exhibition in Chorley brings to life untold stories of war . Newsquest. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
- ↑ Rear Ford Exhibitions commemorates Chorley had heroes . Haymarket. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
swell
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- Country Life . Issue 51 (1922). P. 284.
- Country Life . Issue 52 (1922). Pp. 14, 50, 127.
- Country Life . Issue 56 (1924). Pp. 336, 491.
- Country Life . No. 118 (1955). P. 1214.
- N. Cooper: Houses of the Gentry, 1480-1680 . 1999. p. 321.
- J. Harris: The artist and the country house . 1985. pp. 97, 143.
- Timothy Mowl, Brian Earnshaw: Architecture without Kings . 1995, p. 174.
- JM Robinson: The Country Houses of the North-West . 1991. pp. 154-155.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 34.2 " N , 2 ° 38 ′ 43.1" W.