Parham Park
Parham Park , also Parham House , is an Elizabethan mansion in Cootham , between Storrington and Pulborough , West Sussex , England .
history
The simple gray stone building was built for Sir Thomas Palmer from 1577. Palmer, who accompanied the privateer Sir Francis Drake on his antics against the Spaniards, sold the house again in 1610. The buyer was the Bysshopp family, whose extensive family lines were to have owned the house for eleven generations. In 1922 Parham Park was acquired by Clive Pearson, who bequeathed the mansion to his daughter. After her death in 1993 it was passed on to her great niece, Lady Emma Barnard, who has lived on the property with her family since 1994. "Parham House and Gardens" is now owned by a "Charitable Trust".
interior
All owners have made an effort to maintain and expand Parham Park while maintaining a clear sense of proportion. Around 1800 the main entrance was moved to the north side and a large entrance hall was built for it.
The magnificent Great Hall has several tall windows and an original stone fireplace. The beautifully decorated ceiling was renewed in the 19th century, but still gives the room the flair of the 16th century. The long gallery still has its original floor and original carved oak paneling. The great drawing room and other rooms have been carefully restored; For example, the plastering, which was renewed in 1935, was modeled by hand as in the old days.
The interior remained unchanged at all, and today's appearance is of carved wall panels and furniture from the times of the Tudors and Jacobean determined. It also includes various paintings and historical portraits, including a famous portrait of Queen Elisabeth that may be by Federico Zuccari .
Garden area
Only a few elements of the original garden have been preserved. These include a lake created in the 18th century and the area of the former walled kitchen garden. Everything else came about in the 20th century after Clive Pearson bought the property. The centerpiece is the wall garden with borders, shrubs and a pretty dovecote: on the south side at the beginning of the middle path there are two wrought iron gates, and on the north side a summer house with a decorative gable leans against the wall. In the southern extension of the complex, some smaller garden rooms, including a. with herb garden and rose garden. Another part of the walled garden is filled with large, beech -lined beds.
wildlife Park
The property belonging to Parham Park has a size of 354 hectares and includes a historic wildlife park. The fallow deer living there today goes back to a herd that was first described in 1628. The area of the wildlife park is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) because of its epiphytic lichen flora, because it is the habitat of two rare beetle species, and because of its large heron population.
literature
- Peter Furtado, Nathaniel Harris, Hazel Harrison, Paul Pettit: The Country Life Book of Castle and Houses in Britain . Newnes Books, 1986, ISBN 0-600-56400-2 , p. 86.
- Patrick Taylor: English Gardens . Dorling Kindersley Verlag GmbH, Starnberg 2005, ISBN 3-8310-0781-0 , p. 161.
- Peter Sager: South England, From Kent to Cornwall - architecture and landscape, literature and history , DuMont art travel guide, 5th edition, DuMont book publisher, Cologne 1981 ISBN 3-7701-0744-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Sager: South England , p. 107.
Web links
- Parham House and Gardens - official site
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 14 " N , 0 ° 28 ′ 53" W.