Wynyard Hall

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Wynyard Hall about 1880

Wynyard Hall , also known as Wynyard Park , is a large country house in County Durham, England . The house was the seat of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family , the Marquesses of Londonderry , an Anglo-Irish noble dynasty, but was sold in the 1980s.

The House

Wynyard Hall was designed by Philip Wyatt and built between 1822 and 1828. The entrance facade has 13 bays and a gigantic Corinthian portico with six columns. The entrance hall resembled that of Mount Stewart , the family home in Northern Ireland . She has a with cassettes provided, segmented tunnel vault with apses at both ends and in the middle. There was a large crystal chandelier that hung from the ceiling. The octagonal main hall in the middle extends to the full height of the building and has a dome supported by caryatids with a skylight. There is also a mirror parlor with a gilded and painted ceiling and a sprawling ballroom similar to that in the family residence in London, Londonderry House .

The family wing of the manor house was called the Dukes Wing after the Duke of Wellington visited and stayed there. This part of the house also housed Duke's Gallery , where the family housed their famous art collection when they were not in London.

Gardens

Many statues adorn the large entrance courtyard in front of the house and the wide path that leads to an obelisk . This, 39 meters high, commemorates the arranged visit of the national hero Duke of Wellington in 1827 when he was Prime Minister. At its peak in the 19th century, Wynyard Park estate covered an area of ​​28 square kilometers in Teesside .

Today there is a 6.1 hectare lake, an enclosed garden, two entrance loggias, three farms, a former racing farm and cultivated farmland on the property.

history

Construction of the mansion was started by Benjamin Wyatt and completed by Philip Wyatt . They worked on behalf of the third Marquess of Londonderry, a well-known coal magnate and founder of the port of Seaham . The Marquess invested £ 130,000 (equivalent to £ 10,483,000 in 2015) in the construction and furnishing of the house, and a fire broke out and spread to the house in 1841, just as the mansion was being completed. It was later restored and redesigned by Ignatius Bonomi .

There had been a house on this site since the Middle Ages and the 3rd Marquess had parts of an older building from the 18th century built into his house.

In the 19th century, George Vane-Tempest , who was elevated to Earl Vane in 1854 and 5th Marquess of Londonderry in 1872, owned extensive lands: 110 km² in Ireland and 93 km² in England and Wales . He also held a seat in the House of Commons for 26 years .

After the 5th Marquess died in 1884, his eldest son, Charles, became the 6th Marquess. The wife of the 6th Marquess, Lady Londonderry, was the model for the famous Lady Roehampton in Vita Sackville-West's The Edwardians (1930). The property remained in the hands of the Londonderry family until 1987, even though it was rented to a teacher training institute from 1945–1960 and during this time most of the original furniture was lost to sales and destruction.

The property was sold to businessman Sir John Hall in 1987 along with 20 km² of land. Hall invested £ 4 million in the restoration of the house, which was overseen by Robert Lord . He later made Wynyard Hall his private home and company headquarters. The estate with the house and 320 acres of parkland was up for sale in July 2002 for £ 8 million. Today it is a four-star hotel, with the Hall family still owning a small part of the property.

Royal visits

The Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra ) were frequent visitors to Wynyard Hall. As king, Edward VII headed a Privy Council there in 1903 - the first time since 1625 that such an advisory committee of the king met in the house of a subject.

Life in Wynyard Park

There are three new housing developments - about 800 homes altogether - in the former Wynyard Park area: Wynyard Village , Wynyard Woods, and Wynyard Park , all south of the A689.

There is a golf club on Wellington Drive.

Chris Musgrave , a Hartlepool businessman , bought land north of the A689. For a while, Wynyard Park was used as a commercial building by Samsung . Plans to build environmentally friendly houses have been approved by the local government. 2000 residential buildings, a three-star hotel and a modern five-star hotel for business travelers are to be built in the new development area. Previous plans to build a £ 464m hospital on the site have been abandoned.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anita Singh: Sale of the century as aristocrats auction heirlooms . March 30, 2014. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ Sir Almeric Fitzroy: Memoirs . Volume I. London and New York, 1925. p. 161.
  3. ↑ Welcome | The Wynyard Club . Wynyardgolfclub.co.uk. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ Green dream becoming reality at Wynyard Park - Wynyard Park . Wynyardpark.com. Archived from the original on December 4, 2008. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  5. ↑ BBC - Where next for the scrapped £ 460m Wynyard hospital? . BBC News. June 18, 2010. Retrieved September 29, 2015.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 37 '30.7 "  N , 1 ° 21' 1.1"  W.