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Marske Hall and Avenue, Swaledale - HLS05860
Slide 4: Facing it is a fine lime tree avenue, a portion of which we shew. The situation of Marske is strikingly picturesque at any season, but especially so when the glorious summer sunshine floods the verdant slopes, towering scars, and…
The Entrance Gates, Marske Hall, Swale Dale
Slide 5: At the end of the avenue are the entrance gates facing the carriage drive leading to the Hall. It consists of a centre carriage way with an arched gateway on each side.
Marske Hall, Swaledale, from the South East - HLS05862
Slide 6: The hall is a plain well built stone mansion in the Grecian style, occupying the site of a former house, pulled down in the early part of the 18th century. The mansion is admirably situated on a sheltered slope, amid the most romantic…
The Gardens, Marske Hall, Swaledale - HLS05863
Slide 7: The gardens adjoining the Hall are beautifully kept and contain many choice varieties of trees, among which is a fine specimen of silver fir of great size and luxuriance. A stream called Marske beck passes through the grounds. This has…
Marske Hall, Swaledale, from West - HLS05864
Slide 8: Here is another view of the Hall facing west. In appearance, the edifice is of a plain and substantial character and does not call for any special remarks thereon. We will now enter this ancestral dwelling and are first conducted into the…
The Dining Room, Marske Hall, Swaledale - HLS05865
Slide 9: It is a fine apartment, and very characteristic of the period at which it was built, namely the early part of the 18th century. The furniture in the room has a substantial and homely character about it. Over the mantle-piece are the arms…
The Dining Room, Marske Hall, Swaledale - HLS05866
Slide 10: The house is rich in family portraits, one of which is seen over the sideboard at the end of the Dining room, and is a portrait of John Hutton, died 1782. Note also the peculiar weight clock in an upright oak case, standing on three claw…
The Library, Marske Hall, Swaledale - HLS05867
Slide 11: Marske owes its splendid library of books to Mr John Hutton, who died in 1863, aged 84. A view of the room in which the books are stored is now shown. Over the mantle-piece hangs a portrait of Matthew Hutton, who formed the destinies of…
Tomb of Archbishop Hutton in York Minster - HLS05868
Slide 12: He died at York, January 16th 1605, and was buried in the south choir aisle of the Minster, where a handsome monument commemorates his extraordinary and fruitful life.
Marske Hall, portrait of Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury
Slide 13: The next Hutton who figures in history was another with the Christian prefix Matthew, who was born at Marske, January 8th 1692, and who entered the Church, and became successively Bishop of Bangor in 1743, Archbishop of York in 1747, and…
Mantelpiece in drawing room, Marske Hall, Swaledale - HLS05870
Slide 14 - In the Drawing Room, which we now enter, is a somewhat florid example of an 18th century mantelpiece in various coloured marbles. Over this is a painting which according to an accompanying tablet states it is a portrait of the Honourable…
Newburgh Priory, The South Front form the top of the Park
Slide 1 - The Priory is sheltered by the Hambleton hills and is situated a short distance from Coxwold village. The building displays the architectural tastes of successive periods.
Newburgh Priory, South Front - HLS05872
Slide 2 - Newburgh was an Augustinian Foundation until the Dissolution of the monasteries when Henry V111 granted the property to Anthony Belsayse, his Chaplain and so the Priory became a Baronial residence. He soon after gave the estates to his…
Newburgh Priory - HLS05873
Slide 3 - Thomas Viscount Fauconberg. Thomas, his grandson, succeeded as Viscount Fauconberg, who nmarried first, Mildred, daughter of Viscount Castleton, and second, in 1657, Mary, third daughter of Oliver Cromwwell.
There were great national…
There were great national…
Newburgh Priory - HLS05874
Slide 4 - Portrait of Mary, Countess Fauconberg. In the long gallery at Newburgh is a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller of Mary, Countess of Fauconberg and daughter of Oliver Cromwell.
After seeing all hopes of the sovereignty continuing in her own…
After seeing all hopes of the sovereignty continuing in her own…
Cromwell's Vault, Newburgh Priory - HLS05875
Slide 5 - It is said that at the Restoration, fearing the body of her father would be maltreated, she caused the corpse to be removed from Westminster Abbey, and brought to Newburgh, and interred in a vault within the housed. This vault is situated…
Portrait of sir George Wombwell, Newburgh Priory - HLS05876
Slide 6 - In the same name and family through a succession of Viscounts, these estates continued till1825, when Lady Anne, second daughter and eventual heiress of Henry, last Earl of Fauconberg, married Sir George Wombwell, second Baronet and thus…
Newburgh Priory roadway, looking up the road - HLS05877
Slide 7 - Probably nowhere in England can be found a better-kept estate than at Newburgh.
As we approach from Coxwold we become aware that unusual care is bestowed on the surroundings. Broad grass borders all well shorn, flank the highway, and there…
As we approach from Coxwold we become aware that unusual care is bestowed on the surroundings. Broad grass borders all well shorn, flank the highway, and there…
Newburgh Priory, Lodges and Gates - HLS05878
Slide 8 - The fine avenue, the two lodges, the noble iron gateway, the well trimmed lawns, the finely clipped yews and, indeed all the details, are evidence of the care and skill devoted to the place.
How many times did Laurence Sterne walk along…
How many times did Laurence Sterne walk along…
Entrance court on North side, Newburgh Priory - HLS05879
Slide 9 - On the North side facing the Lake, is seen the back of the 17th Century structure with an entrance porch in the centre of the facade.
On the left is the long gallery wing and to the right is the grand old kitchen which has windows almost…
On the left is the long gallery wing and to the right is the grand old kitchen which has windows almost…
Newburgh Priory, South Front - HLS05880
Slide 10 - What could be more beautiful than the rare and radiant floral display of the south front, where multitudes of flowers gleam in their splendor, grouped with the well clipped yew, the noble ornamental bay-trees in tubs and boxes, the fine…
Newburgh Priory, South Front - HLS05881
Slide 11 - Upon such a garden all will look with satisfaction, but let them reflect that the tireless hand maintains it in its perfection. All is controlled and directed by skillful and experienced hands. The great rounded structural bays to the…
King James' Porch, Newburgh Priory - HLS05882
Slide 12 - The principal frontage faces south, for the advantage of the sun and the older portion of the structure is recessed with the beautiful porch in the angle, with it's triple staging, it's Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns, and it's…
Elm Tree and Avenue in the woods, Newburgh Priory
- HLS05883
Slide 13 - There is a strange legend that all the oaks at Newburgh were to be decapitated or shorn of their spreading boughs by order of Thomas Cromwell, and that only by this sacrifice could Fauconberg gain his daughter's hand, but at present the…
Woodland Glade, Newburgh Priory - HLS05884
Slide 14 - The waving woods and fair glades of the park are there in glorious contrast to the more artificial parts of the park.