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Little-known treasure revealed at study day
Posted on 27/08/09
University of Leicester
The next in the highly popular series of study days at Lamport Hall, run by the University of Leicester Centre for the Study of the Country House, takes place on Tuesday 22nd September with a study of Clarendon in Wiltshire, a Palladian mansion hardly known, even to the experts.
In a day of talks and discussion entitled, 'Royal Palace and Tory Mansion: country life and landscape at Clarendon, Wiltshire' the distinguished scholar and expert on Clarendon, Professor Tom Beaumont James, will be looking at the continuity of the landscape and the succession of houses - Clarendon Palace and its successors.
The three topics to be covered include: The Clarendon Landscape, Royal Palace and Park 1066-1640 and Exploring the Palladian Mansion and its Successors.
Dr Phillip Lindley, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Country House, commented: The extent of the modern Clarendon estate has hardly changed since the medieval deerpark (the largest in Europe), which makes it possible to compare and contrast the successive major buildings at Clarendon in a way hardly ever possible elsewhere.
In the three lectures, Professor James will examine the Clarendon landscape, the celebrated royal palace and park and then the Palladian mansion and its successors. Little is known about Clarendon Park: it has been kept secret from Country Life and until today has been the one that got away.
Professor Tom Beaumont James has worked at Clarendon, Wiltshire, for over 30 years. His involvement began in 1977, Jubilee Year, when correspondence in The Times drew attention to the overgrown and abandoned ruins of the medieval palace in the woods there.
This dereliction of the most westerly of the great royal palaces of medieval England was compounded by various previous unpublished excavations going back to the early 1930s. These were published in 1988 by the Society of Antiquaries of London in their Research Report series, co-authored with Annie Robinson and with a host of up-to-date specialist reports.
Since then the focus has expanded with a study of the medieval deer park from the prehistoric to the present, published as Clarendon: Landscape of Kings in 2007, with Christopher Gerrard.
Most recently a detailed study has been undertaken of the mansion house dating from the late 17th and 18th centuries. Together this work provides an unrivalled view of a unique piece of English buildings and landscape history.
Professor James is the author of a number of other books including The palaces of Medieval England (1989); Winchester: Prehistory to the Present (2nd edition 2007), and The Story of England (2004, matching his father's Story of France (1916)).
He has a number of tv credits, and wrote a History of Britain 55BC to 1901 to accompany the outstanding This Scepter'd Isle (1996) for BBC Worldwide. He has lectured in the Australia, continental Europe, the UK and the USA.
The lectures will take place in the Print Room, Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.
For more information and to find out about other study days by the Centre for the Study of the Country House see the website: http://www.le.ac.uk/ha/countryhouse/news.html or contact Carol Charles on tel 0116 252 2866, e-mail cec7@le.ac.uk, or fill in the online booking form.
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