Hovingham Hall, photograph by Gordon Hatton `
Three days visiting Castle Howard, Sir John Vanbrugh’s first masterpiece, the delightful mid-eighteenth century Hovingham Hall and Sutton Park, and Brockfield Hall, a charming Regency house, recently restored by the family and Sir Laurence Sterne’s Shandy Hall.
Details
Event Organisers
Sarah Bowles and Philippa Barton
This three-day tour will include special visits to -
Castle Howard, a masterpiece of Baroque architecture, was Vanbrugh’s first country house, commissioned by the 3rd Earl of Carlisle and built in collaboration with Nicolas Hawksmoor. The state apartments, which were partly destroyed in the fire of 1940, have been the focus of a remarkable project of restoration and conservation.
Sutton Park. The original house, home to the Barwick and Hartland families, was pulled down in c.1750 and rebuilt, it is thought, by Thomas Atkinson, one of the leading Yorkshire architects, and completed by c. 1755. The entrance hall and library have fine plasterwork by Joseph Cortese an Italian stuccodore who was working in Yorkshire between 1745-1788.
Hovingham Hall. The manor of Hovingham has been owned by Thomas Worsley since 1563. The present house was designed and built by Thomas Worsley between 1751 and 1776 and combines his two great passions, architecture and horses. The splendid interiors were only finally completed by William Worsley in the 1803 and have remained little altered.
Brockfield Hall was built between 1804-7 by Benjamin Agar to a design of Peter Atkinson, a junior partner of John Carr. It is in a restrained Regency style with a remarkable oval hall. The present family took over the house in 2020 and have carried out a programme of restoration and redecoration.
Other visits will include Shandy Hall and Ampleforth Abbey
Accommodation: The Pheasant Hotel, Mill Street, Harome, York YO62 5JG
The cost of the three-day visit is £1345.00
There is a supplement of £200 for single occupancy
The cost includes:-
Travel by rail and coach.
Hotel bed and breakfast accommodation, dinners and lunches (drinks not included)
All entrances and guided tours
Background notes
Background online lectures on Tuesday June 11th at 4.15 pm.
One room still available for double or single occupancy
Please email for full details and application form: info@dilettanti-art.co.uk