Nuthall Temple

Nuthall Temple was a country house in the English county of Nottinghamshire . The house, built in the 1750s, was one of five houses in the United Kingdom that were influenced by Palladio's Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Vicenza .

Only two examples from the 18th century still survive today: Mereworth Castle and Chiswick House . Both houses are now listed by English Heritage as First Grade Historic Buildings. The fourth, Foots Cray Place , was demolished in 1950 after a fire in 1949, while the fifth, Henbury Hall , was not built until the 1980s.

history

Former gate pillar of the entrance

Nuthall Temple was completed in 1757, towards the end of Palladian architectural fashions in England. The house is not so much an exact copy of “La Rotonda” as the earlier ones, although the homage to Palladio's concepts was strongly emphasized. In fact, Nuthall Temple looked more like the Rocca Pisana (1578) by Palladio's pupil Vincenzo Scamozzi . This similarity makes Nuthall's architecture particularly interesting, as Scamozzi's buildings like Nuthall have a recessed portico instead of columns set in front of the facade. This was to become a typical detail of classical architecture that followed Palladianism in England. This makes Nuthall Temple an avant-garde building.

The plan is attributed to Thomas Wright ; his client was a landowner, Charles Sedley . The house was built around a 17.5 meter high hall under a central dome. This central hall was decorated with Rococo stucco , the artistic standard of which is slightly similar to that of Claydon House . In 1778 Sedley commissioned James Wyatt to carry out some modifications. On the outside, this included the installation of Venetian windows on the garden facade and the lowering of the balustrades. Inside, the redesign of the music room revealed how tastes had changed in a very short time.

The last owner to live at Nuthall Temple was Reverend Robert Holden , rector of the ward, whose family has owned the property since his ancestor Robert Holden bought it for his second son at auction in 1819. The Holdens were an established Derbyshire family who invested heavily in land purchase themselves and had established ties to many other neighboring landowning families through marriage. A young branch of the Holden family lived in Nuthall Temple in the early 19th century and the house was temporarily rented out from 1844 to 1853. During this time it was always in good condition and a number of improvements were made both inside and out.

When the Reverend Robert Holden died in 1926, his son Robert Millington Holden succeeded him as the owner of the property. Due to falling agricultural yields and unusually high property taxes, he was forced to sell. At the auction on November 2, 1927, the house and parkland could not initially be sold. During the interwar period, high taxation, the decline of agriculture and the declining social and political importance of landowners meant that they now increasingly focused on their financial survival and not on social splendor. Nuthall Temple and the remaining land were subsequently sold privately. Furniture was again auctioned off on May 23 and 24, 1929 in 529 lots.

demolition

The remaining shell of the building was sold for £ 800 to JH Brough and Co. in Beeston , which later that summer oversaw the public demolition.

On July 31, 1929, the west wing was fitted with detonators and paraffin poured over it. It was then set on fire in the presence of the expectant crowd. The weakened structure was then torn down wall by wall.

The ruins of Nuthall Temple remained after all salable assets were removed from it and most of the building materials were removed. The remains were only demolished in 1966 to make way for the extension of the M1 motorway. One of the feeder roads to junction 26 of the motorway runs over the property of the former house between the remains of the former landscape park.

Some of the house's furnishings were installed in Temple Wood House in Frogshall , a district of Northrepps .

Individual references and comments

1. ↑ Both Holden and Broxtowe posit this.
2. ↑ Chiswick House, one of the most notable Palladian houses in England, was partially demolished in the 20th century. Only the Corps de Logis has survived to this day.
3. ^ Foots Cray Place . Lost Heritage. ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Henbury Rotunda, Cheshire . Julian Bicknell & Associates. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
5. ↑ The names of many British country houses had nothing to do with their use. Often they referred - in the case of abbeys or castles - to previous buildings on the property. In the case of the Nuthall Temple, the name probably referred to the "temple-like" appearance.
6. ↑ This villa in Lonigo near Vicenza, also called La Rocca or Vettor Pisani Villa , should not be confused with other villas of the Pisani family , such as B. the Villa Pisani in Stra .
7. ^ Adalbert dal Lago: Villas and Palaces of Europe . Paul Hamlyn, 1969. ISBN 978-0-600-01235-1 , illustration no. 30, shows the main facade of Villa Pisani, which is almost identical to that of Nuthall Temple.
   

   Villa Pisani , also La Rocca Pisana
8. ^ Adalbert dal Lago: Villas and Palaces of Europe . Paul Hamlyn, 1969. ISBN 978-0-600-01235-1 . P. 74.
9. ↑ Vitruvius Britannicus (1767 edition): The architect, Thomas Wright, drew plans for Charles Sedley, but he had a clear idea of ​​what such a mansion should look like, since around the same time he was designing a mansion for himself in County Durham .
10. ↑ Mrs. Holden: Nuthall Temple . Nottinghamshire History. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
11. ↑ Jacks. 1881.
12. ^ Nuthall Parish . Broxtowe Borough Council. ( Memento of the original from June 9, 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 November 12, 2015. 
13. ^ Nottingham Evening News (July 31, 1929).
14. ^ Matthew Kempson, BSc, MA: The State and the Country House in Nottinghamshire, 1937-1967 . 2006.

Sources and web links

• Adalbert dal Lago: Villas and Palaces of Europe . Paul Hamlyn, 1969. ISBN 978-0-600-01235-1
• Nuthall Parish . Broxtowe Borough Council.
• Mrs. Holden: Nuthall Temple . Nottinghamshire History.
• Nuthall Temple and Aspley Hall . Nottinghamshire History. With photo of Nuthall Temple from 1906.

Coordinates: 52 ° 59 ′ 42.7 "  N , 1 ° 13 ′ 59.4"  W.