Harlaxton Manor
Harlaxton Manor is a manor house in Harlaxton in Lincolnshire in England . The architecture of the house, which was completed in 1837, combines elements of the Jacobean and Elizabethan styles with symmetrical baroque masses, making the manor house unique among the Jacobean-style buildings that still exist today.
The mansion is a popular movie set. Scenes filmed outside and inside can be found in the films The Ruling Class , The Last Days of Patton , The Lady and the Highwayman , Das Geisterschloss and The Young Visitors . The building was later used as a backdrop for the reality TV series Australian Princess . The long driveway and the wide gate serve as a backdrop in the film The Little Lord, as Belvoir Castle does not have its own driveway.
Today the mansion serves as the UK campus of the University of Evansville .
history
Harlaxton is first mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Harleston".
The current mansion is the second of this name. The first was built elsewhere in the 14th century and served as a hunting lodge for John of Gaunt . In 1619 Sir Daniel de Ligne bought the house. This first house was uninhabited from 1780. Gregory Gregory inherited it and had it demolished in 1857.
The second house was built by Gregory from 1837 to 1845, the first to usher in a rebirth of Elizabethan architecture in England. The first architect, Anthony Salvin , was then replaced by William Burn , who was responsible for detailing the interior. After Gregory's death, the mansion passed to his cousin George Gregory and then in 1860 to a distant relative, John Sherwin-Gregory . After the death of Sherwin-Gregory's wife in 1892, his baptized Thomas Pearson-Gregory inherited the house and let it fall into disrepair.
The mansion passed through many different hands in the 20th century. It was abandoned in 1935 and bought two years later by Violet Van der Elst , a businesswoman and inventor who made her fortune developing the first brushless shaving cream and making a name for herself with the campaign against the death penalty . She had the house renovated and provided with electrical lighting. During the Second World War it was requisitioned by the Royal Air Force as an officers mess for the nearby RAF base in Harlaxton and later as quarters for the 1st Airborne Division . In 1948 the Jesuits bought Harlaxton Manor and used it as accommodation for their novices . In 1965 the Jesuits sold it back to Stanford University , but retained rights to use parts of the property. The University of Evansville has served the mansion as its UK campus since 1971, but it belonged to William Ridgway , a trustee of the university, until 1986 . Soon after the purchase, the University of Evansville renovated the entire property.
today
Since 1984, Harlaxton Manor has hosted the annual Harlaxton Symposium , an interdisciplinary symposium on medieval art, literature and architecture.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pearson-Gregory: Archivists' Report 12 . Lincolnshire Archives Committee (March 24, 1960 - March 20, 1961).
Web links
- Harlaxton Manor website
- Harlaxton College website
- Film sequences over Harlaxton Manor 1939
- Photos from Harlaxton Manor by Flickr
- Photos of Harlaxton Manor and the surrounding area at geograph
- History of Harlaxton College
Coordinates: 52 ° 52 ′ 50.6 " N , 0 ° 40 ′ 16.7" W.