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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 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]
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's long gallery, 1811, David Cox the Elder Later, long galleries were built, sometimes in a revivalist spirit, as at Harlaxton Manor , an extravagant early-Victorian house in Jacobean style, and sometimes to house a large art collection, as at Buckingham Palace , which has a long interior space lit from above, called the Picture ...
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]
Following the initial news of Hardwick's death, the co-creator of King of the Hill, Mike Judge, spoke out to tell the tabloid he was "deeply saddened" by Hardwick's passing.
The seismic activity rattling Santorini and other Greek islands is not over and the biggest quake yet could be still to come, a seismologist has warned.
NBC’s 50th anniversary special for “Saturday Night Live” hit a very strong 14.8 million viewers on average across NBC and Peacock on Sunday night. That number is 202% above the average ...