The Vyne
The Vyne is a Tudor mansion near the town of Basingstoke in the English county of Hampshire. This classified as a cultural monument is a fine Grade I mansion is considered one of the most important houses of Hampshire and is especially known for the portico, the staircase and the chapel.
Location
The Vyne is located about 2.5 kilometers north of the town of Basingstoke close to the village of Sherborne St John. From there, it is accessible via the Vyne Road towards Bramley.
History and Architectural History
The Vyne is 1362 as a manor house of the family called Fyffhide 1386 it came into the possession of the Sandys family, who established a deer park in the northeast of the present park. The present mansion was built about 1518-1527 in the Tudor style, as construction period is also stated in 1520. The owner was William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, who was raised in 1523 to Baron and was from 1526 Lord Chamberlain of the Household of King Henry VIII. One of his descendants, the sixth Lord Sandys, sold the property in 1653 to Chaloner Chute. Chute was born on January 27, 1659 Speaker of the House of Commons, but died on 15 April 1659th He is buried in the chapel. Chute demolished large parts of the Tudor building and installing the portico on the north- west facade. One of his descendants, John Chaloner Chute († 1776 ), the house in the 18th century, partly re-design, as well as William Lyde Wiggett Chute ( 1827-1879 ) in the 19th century. The Last Baron Chute of the Vyne, Sir Charles Lennard Chute (1879-1956), and Lady Chute bequeathed the estate to the National Trust in 1956.
Physical and portico
The two-storey building with two wings and two three-storey corner towers is made of unrendered brickwork with blue diamond pattern, the projections with Eckquaderung. The building is a triptych created in e- form, to the north wing is the chapel adjoins. Model for the system was probably Barrington Court in Somerset. It was originally even larger, the visible components are today, with the exception of the portico, nor the original walls from the Tudor period. The portico on the park side, it consists of two pillars in the middle and pillars on the outer sides, all performed according to the Corinthian order, is an ingredient of the 17th century, about 1655 built. Architect of the portico was John Webb, a pupil of Inigo Jones. Model for the portico was the Villa Barbaro by Andrea Palladio. The portico was the first at a private house in England at all. It is brick and plastered, the final architrave and the entablature of the triangular pediment are made of wood. The Palladian portico stands in contrast to the construction in the Tudor style.
Affairs
The actual entrance to the building is located in the south wing on the west side. After the vestibule follows the so-called Stone Gallery, it contains a medallion with the image of the Roman emperor Probus, without doubt a work of Giovanni da Maianos, created by about 1521. Since Maiano made to similar work for Hampton Court Palace.
The other three rooms of the basement, including the Drawing Room in the North Wing, have rococo ceilings from the 18th century. Of particular interest is the staircase, it is considered fully Georgian elegance and sensational. It is a design to a pillared gallery under a coffered ceiling. The architect was John Chaloner Chute home owner himself, he was a friend of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford. This, Walpole, called the staircase - in the best sense - " theatrical ". This effect was created by the chiaroscuro style of chiaroscuro by spatial constriction and light sources cause a perspective impression. John Chute 's architecture became the model for part of Walpole 's Strawberry Hill. The space used in Walpole The Vyne for his stays, called Strawberry Parlour.
The ground floor contains the Print Room and the Dining Room.
Upstairs are the more than 20 m long Long Gallery draws on the entire west side, which should be according to the architectural historian Mark Girouard, the oldest of its kind in England. It still contains the Originaltäfelung with over four hundred carved panels of oak. Dated it may be because of two characteristics 1522-1528. The carvings include the London Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall's coat of arms, he was the 1522, so the paneling not be older. On the other hand, is still Cardinal Thomas Wolsey illustration of coat of arms available, he fell out of favor with Henry VIII in 1528, then nobody would have dared to bring an emblem of him, so that in 1528 the terminus ante quem is.
Contains the first floor, adjacent to the former private rooms, the library and the Tapestry Room.
Chapel
The chapel on the north wing is one of the best-equipped private chapels in England. It is created polygonal, the windows contain stained glass Flemish provenance from the Renaissance. The attached neo-Gothic chapel contains the tomb of Chaloner Chute, a work by Thomas Carter, performed 1775-1781. Chute is shown in official costume of the speakers, the figure is one of the best of its kind in England in the 18th century.
Outside, gardens and park
The property includes more than 450 hectares of land, which consist largely of agricultural land. The park and the gardens were redesigned several times. The medieval deer park was later used as agricultural, created in the 16th and 17th century formal gardens were transformed into a landscape park in the 18th century.
The main entrance to the mansion takes place today on the southeast side. North-east of the manor house are the stables, some of which date from the 16th and 17th centuries, and received its present form in the 19th century.
Garden
The approximately 10 -acre garden extends to the west, north and northeast of the house. Off the north west facade extends to the long lake, a grassy area. One built on the foundations of an older bridge in the 19th century iron bridge over the lake was destroyed by a storm in 1986 and not yet restored. To the west of the house are 1960 scale perennial borders, it is a circa 1910 by Charles Chute according to the principles of natural plantation of William Robinson -scale wild garden adjoins. Northwest of the house extends an enclosed by yew hedges flower garden, which again received its shape with cut yew hedges, boxwood borders and perennial beds from the period around 1910 in 1997-98. In the 17th century, two summer houses built of brick were built here, one of which is preserved. The two-story, domed building on cross-shaped floor plan was designed by John Webb and was originally decorated with stucco and paintings. It served as a summer house, but was later used as a dovecote. In addition to the summer house is probably over 600 years old Hundred Guinea Oak, for their wood according to tradition, the family a timber merchant William John Chute 100 guineas to have offered. From a summer house about 100 meters long leading to 1880 planted avenue of lime trees to the already mentioned in the 18th century, walled kitchen garden with fruit trees and an elaborately restored historic glasshouse.
Park
Referred to in the 14th century Deer Park was converted to cropland in the 17th century, just west of the house remained a park. Today, 35 -acre landscaped park created in the 18th century and extends to the south and northwest of the house. Many old trees have been uprooted by storms in 1987 and 1991, but the park contains some exotic trees.
To the west of the house, the park goes to the 55 -acre Morgaston Wood, lead by the several ways.