Pencarrow
| Pencarrow | ||
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 Pencarrow House |
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| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Conservation status: | receive | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 30 '19 " N , 4 ° 45' 56.7" W | |
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Pencarrow ( cornish Penn Karow ) is a Georgian style built mansion in the county of Cornwall in the UK . The mansion, classified as a Grade II * cultural monument, is located in the midst of a 20-hectare park five kilometers southeast of Wadebridge and five kilometers northeast of Bodmin . The manor house is still inhabited by the Molesworth- St Aubyn family, but eleven rooms of the house and the park can be visited.
history
Pencarrow has been the seat of the Molesworth-St Aubyn family for nearly 500 years since John Molesworth entered the service of the Duchy of Cornwall in the 16th century. The 5th Baron Molesworth, Sir John Molesworth , was a co-founder of the Molesworth & Company banking house , which eventually merged with Lloyds banking house . The current mansion was built in place of an older complex from 1765 to 1771 by the architect Robert Allanson for the 5th Baron Molesworth.
investment
The two-storey mansion consists of a group of buildings whose courtyard and garden fronts have a uniformly designed classicist facade. Inside, it is richly decorated with paintings, furniture, plasterwork and other furnishings from the late 18th century. Some of the farm buildings date from the 17th century.
park
The landscaped park surrounding the manor was mainly designed between 1831 and 1835 by the 10th Baron William Molesworth . He laid out a sunken garden in the style of the Italian Renaissance south of the house . In the adjoining park, a tour leads to a rock garden, a lake with a stream and a wide, south-facing valley with pastures flanked by forests. Sir William Molesworth was a great plant collector who planted numerous conifers in the park. The park today contains over 700 species of rhododendrons , 160 different species of conifers and 60 species of camellia . The manor house is accessed via a 1.5 kilometer long road through the park.
Trivia
The English composer Arthur Sullivan composed his opera Lolanthe in 1886 when he was guest of Lady Andalusia Molesworth in Pencarrow . The piano on which he rehearsed his compositions is still in the Drawing Room today. Pencarrow has served as a film set several times, including for the Rosamunde Pilcher films Cliffs of Love (1999), English Wine (2011) and A Question of Honor (2012). The Chilean araucaria got its English name Monkey Puzzle Tree in the Park of Pencarrow, when the English lawyer Charles Austin observed the tree in the park in 1834: "That tree would puzzle a monkey" (in German something like: "Climbing this tree is yourself a difficult task for a monkey ”).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ English Heritage: Pencarrow. Retrieved November 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Patrick Taylor: English Gardens: Landscape Parks and Cottage Gardens in Great Britain and Ireland. Dorling Kindersley, Starnberg 2005, ISBN 3-8310-0781-0 , pp. 55f.
- ↑ Pencarrow. Retrieved September 28, 2011 .
- ^ Pencarrow and the films. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 11, 2013 ; Retrieved March 8, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher filming locations: Pencarrow. Retrieved March 8, 2013 .
- ^ Cornwall Tour - Pencarrow House and Gardens. Retrieved September 28, 2011 .
