Latest news with #GardenHall
BBC News
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Castle Howard rooms damaged in 1940 fire reopen to public
Rooms damaged by a fire 80 years ago at a country estate have been restored and reopened to the Howard in North Yorkshire unveiled the revamped Tapestry Drawing Room, Gallery and Grand Staircase as part of its 21st Century Renaissance rooms were damaged in 1940 during a suspected chimney fire, which swept through nearly a whole wing of the Howard, who runs the estate with his wife Victoria, said that rebuilding the Tapestry Drawing Room around the pieces that were woven to hang there was like "making a suit to match the buttons". Stately home Castle Howard is a private residence and has been home to the Howard family for more than 300 fire destroyed the building's dome and more than 20 rooms in the house while it was being used as a school for girls during the Second World dome was restored in 1962 and the filming of Brideshead Revisited at the site helped pay for the reconstruction of the the Garden Hall and New the latest work was carried out, the tapestry room was a shell with a hole in the wall where the fireplace had four tapestries which were woven for the room in 1706 by John Vanderbank and depict the four seasons have now been returned to their original positions. Eleanor Brooke-Peat, curator of collections and archives, said the tapestries revealed information about the original home."This would have been a house filled with colour," she said."We know from some very early visitor accounts to the house in the early 18th Century that people were really blown away by that." Speaking about the newly reopened rooms, Victoria Howard said: "Ironically, we're hoping that people who've never been to the house before will just see them as part of the house because we want it to look as though it has always been here." Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Times
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Brideshead revisited: first pictures inside new-look Castle Howard
There is nowhere on Earth like Castle Howard. There's the dome and the fountain, and the anticipation of that great long driveway. 'It's a world within itself,' says its custodian, Nick Howard. This great North Yorkshire Whig palace, built for the earls of Carlisle by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is still best known as Brideshead, the stately home at the centre of Granada's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited. Its starring role paid for work to be done in the Garden Hall, but the restoration of Castle Howard has been a story 85 years in the making. In 1940, a fire ripped through the house, leaving a third of the building roofless. The heat caused its famous dome to collapse
