Lambay Castle
| Lambay Castle | ||
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 Driveway to Lanbay Castle |
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| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | restored and rebuilt | |
| Standing position : | Irish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Lambay Island | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 29 '30.7 " N , 6 ° 1' 36.2" W | |
| Height: | 21 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Lambay Castle ( Irish Caisleán Reach Rann ) is a castle on lambay Iceland off the coast of the Irish County Dublin .
history
The small 16th century fort with crenellated gables may contain a 15th century log cabin and was converted into a romantic castle by Sir Edwin Lutyens on behalf of the Hon. Cecil Baring , later 3rd Lord Revelstoke . Baring had worked in the United States and fell in love with the wife of one of his co-directors. She got divorced and married Baring. In 1904 Baring bought Lambay Island for £ 5,250 as a retreat for himself and his beautiful young wife Maude Louise , nee. Lorillard , the daughter of Pierre Lorillard , the first American to win the Derby Stakes . The story of the first years of their life together on the island inspired Julian Slade to write his musical Free as Air .
description
Lutyens made the old fort habitable and added a square with kitchens, bathrooms and additional bedrooms, which is covered with gray, Dutch hollow pans . The roofs swing almost to the ground. He also built a round curtain wall or curtain wall that surrounds the castle and its garden and has an impressive bastion gate. This wall serves as a wind protection, so that trees and other plants can grow inside that would not grow outside. Everything is made of silver-gray stone. The castle rooms have vaulted ceilings and stone fireplaces. There is a stone staircase with many bends and an underground gallery in the new square, which Piranesi may have devised. According to the Revelstokes' records, Michael Powell also wrote his play The Black Narcissus here in 1947 .
Driveway
Lutyens also designed the path from the harbor up to the castle with curved, step-like terraces as a reminiscence of the missing Porto di Ripetta in Rome and a series of ellipses, because circles have always been a symbol of welcome and also of wholeness. Characteristically, when one has climbed these baroque steps, one has to cross an open field to get to the curtain wall; the gate entrance cannot be seen at first, although a feeling of expectation arises.
White House
Near the harbor is the White House , a largely horseshoe-shaped house with high roofs and whitewashed walls that Lutyens designed in the 1930s for Lord Revelstoke's daughters Daphne and Calypso and their families, while the castle and the Island was left to the lord's only son, Rupert Baring .
chapel
On a small cliff near the White House is an old Catholic chapel with a portico with pointed stone pillars (also added by Lutyens) and a barrel-vaulted ceiling . Inside are various religious symbols and artifacts created by family members, e.g. B. a small stained glass window.
swell
- G. Cooney: Lambay: an island on the horizon in Archeology Ireland , 7 (4) 1993. pp. 24-8.
- RAS MacAlister: (1929). On some antiquities discovered upon Lambay island in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy , 38c (1929). Pp. 240-246.
Web links
- Frank McDonald: Family at odds over future of Lambay Island . The Irish Times Online. August 9, 2013. Retrieved November 5, 2018.