Helmingham Hall

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Helmingham Hall
Helmingham Hall around 1880.

Helmingham Hall is a mansion with a moat in the village Helmingham in the English county of Suffolk . Construction began by John Tollemache in 1480 and the property has been owned by the Tollemache family at all times since then . The house was built around an inner courtyard in the typical Tudor style .

Today's Helmingham Hall was completed around 1510 and stands on the site of an earlier mansion called Creke Hall . Its exterior was changed from 1745 to 1760, then again by John Nash in 1800 and again in 1840. The walls, which were originally partially clad with wood, were clad with brickwork and tiles. The house has two still working drawbridges . They were originally operated with a winch , but this has been replaced by an electric motor in recent years .

The house is not open to the public and Helmingham Hall is best known for its beautiful gardens which are regularly opened to the public. These are semi-formal gardens with extensive border plantings, a rose garden , a knot garden , a parterre and an orchard. Beyond the garden is a 1.6 km² park with red and fallow deer . The Marienkirche on the edge of the park has been associated with the Tollemache family since the Middle Ages.

Treasures of Helmingham

The Tollemaches of Helmingham, who have held the title of Baron Tollemache since 1876 , own one of only two English Orpheoreons . Your instrument dates from 1580 and bears a trade mark from John Rose , an English violin maker from the 16th century. There are only four John Rose violins left today; the only one in private hands belongs to the madmen. It is thought to have been made for Elizabeth I , who she gave to the Tollemaches on one of her visits to Suffolk.

The "Tollemache Lauten Manuscript" was acquired by the Helmingham Hall Collections and sold to Robert Spencer at Sotheby’s in 1965 . It was written by Henry Sampson .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmingham Hall . Pastscape. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  2. ^ The Hall . Helmingham Hall Gardens. ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 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 September 18, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.helmingham.com
  3. ↑ Donald Gill: The orpharion and bandora in The Galpin Society Journal . Issue 13. Galpin Society, July 1960. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  4. ^ Pringle, John (Oct. 1973) John Pringle: The Founder of English Viol-Making . Volume 6. No. 4, pp. 501-511. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ The Lute . Journal of the Lute Society. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  6. ^ Robert Spencer: Early Music periodical journal . Issue 3. No. 2. 1975. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  7. ↑ Robert Spencer currently owns the so-called Tollemache Lute Manuscript . Despite the change of ownership, this manuscript contains the name "Tollemache" in an official context.

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 17.5 ″  N , 1 ° 11 ′ 43.3 ″  E