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Interior of the Great Hall, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1841. Artist: Joseph Nash
Interior of the Great Hall, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1841. Lithograph print taken from Nash's Mansions of England. It shows the hammer-beamed ceiling and gallery in the Great Hall. The picture was drawn in 1841 and depicts the hall at an earlier date with people in Stuart/Civil War costumes. Sir Francis Willoughby began to build his new hall at Wollaton in 1580, and it was eight years before it was completed. Much of the money for its construction derived from the wealth acquired by the Willoughbys from early coal mining in the area. The stone was brought from Ancaster in exchange for coal, and the total cost of the building reached about ?8000. The Willoughby family did not recover from the expense for two generations. Robert Smythson, who had previously worked at Longleat and ten years later was to design Hardwick Hall, was the 'architector and surveyor'. The Hall was designed for show rather than comfort. The Elizabethans were fascinated by pattern and symmetry and the design shows both of these, reflecting ideals of the late Renaissance period.
Unique Identifier
AR929890
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
3385px × 5229px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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16TH CENTURY
17th century
19th century
Architectural Feature
Architecture
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
building
BUILDINGS
Ceiling
Costume
COUNTRY HOUSE
Dress
ELIZABETHAN
England
GREAT HALL
hammerbeam
INDOORS
INSIDE
interior
JOSEPH
Joseph Nash
Lithograph
Monochrome
Nash
NEMPR Picture the Past
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Nottingham
nottinghamshire
Picture the Past
robert
Robert Smythson
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Smythson
STATELY HOME
Stewart
STUART
TGN
Tudor
Wollaton Hall