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Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick , it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson , an exponent of the Renaissance style .
Hardwick Hall Hotel. Hardwick Hall in Sedgefield, County Durham is a building of historical significance and is a Grade II listed building on the English Heritage Register. [1] A major part of it was built in the late 1700s but it is possible that some of it dates from about 1634. It was the residence for many notable people for two centuries.
Hardwick Hall was also the site of a one-day music event, Hardwick Live, until 2015. [2] Hardwick Live was replaced by a larger two-day event, Down To The Woods, in 2016. [3] The new festival, which had been set to feature headline sets from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Chase and Status, was later cancelled due to the "financial climate". [4]
The facade of the town hall was completely refaced in 1754. [4] John Fenwick, a leading abolitionist, spoke at an emancipation meeting held in the hall in 1826. [5] The complex was extended to the west, i.e. the rear of the guildhall, to create a town hall, which was designed by Philip Charles Hardwick in the Perpendicular style, in 1851. [1]
The Eglantine Table is a large inlaid table located on the first floor at Hardwick Hall. The inlay depicts an almost complete Morley consort, including inlay depictions of sheet music, a violin with frets, sets of recorders and wind instruments. The table is oak, with walnut and other woods used for the inlays.
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The assembly hall was set to the southeast of the main building and featured an unusual hammerbeam roof with the beams connected by wrought iron rods. [ 2 ] The building became the headquarters of the new Penge Urban District formed in 1900, [ 7 ] and was significantly extended by the creation of three extra bays to the northwest at a cost of ...