Longleat

Longleat House is a mansion in Warminster in Wiltshire in the UK. This classified as a cultural monument is a fine Grade I manor house is located about 40 km south of Bath and is since the 16th century seat of the Thynne family, the title Marquess of Bath leads since 1789. The mansion is known for its safari park and is one of the five most visited stately homes in Britain.

History

John Thynne, adjutant of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, purchased in 1540 for £ 53 a dissolved Augustinian monastery. According to plans by Robert Smythson he had built from 1568 to 1580 the manor house, which applies in the style of the early Renaissance in England as the oldest mansion and groundbreaking for the architecture of the Elizabethan age was. 1949, the mansion was released as the first mansion in the UK to visit. Opened in 1966 in the park of the safari park, the first safari park outside Africa.

Plant

The three-storey mansion from Bath Stone is a rectangular area with two patios. The corners of the building are emphasized by Erkervorbauten, the facades are decorated uniformly with repetitive elements: horizontal ribbon strips, large windows and pilasters in classical ranking Doric - Ionic- Corinthian.

Interior decoration

The lobby still has a more than ten meters high hammer-beam vaulted from the building time. The other state rooms of the large house of 118 rooms were remodeled in the 19th century by Jeffry Wyattville in the style of the Italian Renaissance. Among the painting collection include large-scale hunting scenes by John Wootton and pictures by Jacopo Tintoretto and Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael. The library is 40,000 volumes as one of the largest private libraries in Britain. Some rooms are equipped with modern murals of the 7th Marquess of Bath.

Park

The 3.6 km ² landscaped garden with a serpentine lake was laid out from 1757 by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. After 1945 a part of the castle garden was restored in the Elizabethan style of Russell Page.

The park includes the safari park and a theme park with rides, mini-railway, a large and several small hedge mazes. On the other, over 32 square kilometers of land is a Center Parcs system with 600 bungalows.

Trivia

The gambling in the Gurukul School scenes of Bollywood Films For my love is immortal shot in Longleat. Home and Garden 2009 served as a filming location, the Rosamunde Pilcher film four seasons.