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Hardwick Hall

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Hardwick Hall

House in Derbyshire, England, given to the National Trust by the Treasury in 1959, with over 7,200 ha/17,783 acres, including the 6,500-ha/16,055-acre Hope Woodlands Estate. Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick), commissioned the Hall in 1591, and many of her furnishings remain in the house. Hardwick has an unusually large expanse of window, and is built entirely of local materials.



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Wherever one looked in Knole or Burton Agnes or Hardwick Hall (their ostensibly iconophobic, Protestant milieu notwithstanding), the eye was likely to fall on lavish and intricate objects.
Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Influence ... by Gilman, Ernest B. / Renaissance Quarterly
It includes a chapter on gardens, another on the decorative arts, and two architectural case-studies, the town of Shrewsbury and Hardwick Hall, which allow Eric Mercer and Malcolm Airs to operate at a level of richly concrete detail which compensates for the inevitable vagueness of a general account of the sixteenth century in some three hundred pages.
Sixteenth-Century Britain by Burke, Peter / Renaissance Quarterly
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