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HARDWICK HALL
Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, is one
of the most significant Elizabethan
country houses in England. In
common with architect Robert
Smythson's other works at both
Longleat House and Wollaton Hall,
Hardwick Hall is one of the earliest
examples of the English
interpretation of the Renaissance
style of architecture, which came
into fashion when it was no longer
thought necessary to fortify one's
home
Hardwick Hall is situated on a hilltop between Chesterfield and
Mansfield, overlooking the Derbyshire countryside. The
house was designed for Bess of Hardwick, Countess of
Shrewsbury and ancestress of the Dukes of Devonshire, by
Robert Smythson in the late 16th century and remained in that
family until it was handed over to HM Treasury in lieu of Estate
Duty in 1956. The Treasury transferred the house to the
National Trust in 1959
Hardwick is a conspicuous
statement of the wealth and
power of Bess of Hardwick,
who was the richest woman in
England after Queen Elizabeth
I herself. It was one of the first
English houses where the great
hall was built on an axis
through the centre of the house
rather than at right angles to
the entrance
Nicholas Hawksmoor Nicholas Hawksmoor
(probably 1661 – 25
March 1736) was a
British architect born in
Nottinghamshire,
probably in East
Drayton or Ragnall.[
Nicholas Hawksmoor's St
George-in-the-East, built
1714-29
The West Towers,
Westminster Abbey Hawksmoor was born in
Nottinghamshire in 1661,
into a yeoman farming
family, almost certainly in
East Drayton or Ragnall,
Nottinghamshire. On his
death he was to leave
property at nearby Ragnall,
Dunham and a house and
land at Great Drayton St Alfege Greenwich
03 the Royal Hospital,
London, 1702