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2 unusual facts about Jacobean


Chateau Impney

Chateau Impney has 106 bedrooms, including boutique-styled rooms in the main building, and houses the Impney Restaurant and Bar and the Grand Bar, which features an oak-carved Jacobean staircase that extends upwards throughout the building and views that incorporate the Malvern Hills.

The function rooms have been carefully restored, maintaining the original ceiling mouldings and panels, and original features such as the oak-carved Jacobean staircase and stained glass windows in the Grand Bar have been sympathetically cared for and renewed.


Abingdon Lock

Beyond the island the river is flanked by Nuneham Park, belonging to Nuneham House with the Jacobean Carfax Water Tower on a hill in the grounds ahead of the Palladian house itself.

Bank Hall Action Group

The Friends of Bank Hall is the new charitable name for the former Bank Hall Action Group who are a voluntary group which aims to raise public awareness and secure the future restoration of Bank Hall, a Jacobean mansion house and gardens, near the banks of the River Douglas, in Bretherton, Lancashire.

Birdingbury

Birdingbury today consists mostly of 20th century developments, but Birdingbury Hall dates back to the early 17th century, and was rebuilt in Jacobean style in 1859 following a major fire.

Blackfriars Theatre

Together with its competitor, Paul's Children, the Blackfriars company produced plays by a number of the most talented young dramatists of Jacobean literature, among them Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston.

Charles William Wallace

They also discovered Shakespeare's 1612 deposition in the Bellott v. Mountjoy lawsuit, and records of the suits Keysar v. Burbage (1610), Ostler v. Heminges (1615), and Witter v. Heminges and Condell (1619), among a range of other documents, yielding important new knowledge in the study of Jacobean drama.

Cheveley

There are two Jacobean chairs, and a richly inlaid one of cypress wood, the seat opening to form a chest; it is thought to be the throne of a Venetian Doge of the 14th century.

Daniel G. Reid

In 1918, Reid built for his daughter the Jacobean-style mansion Dunnellen Hall.

Delaval

This was extended in Tudor and Jacobean times to form a rambling manor house of considerable size.

Duke of Gordon

Aubigny is in the defunct Peerage of France and the central arms of the Duke are based on the original Jacobean ones for the Union of the Crowns, with the inherited but inactive English claims to the French throne also represented prominently.

Eastleach House

Designed by Walter Cave, architect, stylistically the house is Cotswold manor house, Jacobean Revival.

Edward Hoby

Cooper, Tarnya, A Guide to Tudor & Jacobean Portraits, London, National Portrait Gallery, 2008, ISBN 978-1-85514-393-7

Eynsham Hall

Built in 1780 as a Georgian house, it was demolished in 1904 and rebuilt as a Jacobean style mansion in 1906-8 by Ernest George for the Masons family who took up residence in 1866.

Fitzwilliam

Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, source of keyboard music in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in England

Fulshaw Hall

In 1886 major additions were made by Richard Lingard Monk in Accrington brick; these were in Jacobean style.

Joyce Grove

Shortly after purchasing Joyce Grove, Robert Fleming tore down the older manor house and in its place he authorized noted landscape architect Charles Edward Mallows (1864-1915) of Bedford and London to build a large Jacobean style house with 44 bedrooms and gardens.

Joyce Grove Mansion is a large Jacobean style building designed by famous landscape architect Charles Edward Mallows (1864-1915) for Robert Fleming (1845-1933), founder of Robert Fleming and Co. merchant bank.

Julian, Count of Ceuta

The Jacobean playwright William Rowley recounts Julian's story in his play All's Lost by Lust (c. 1619).

Lady Mary Wroth

Penshurst Place was one of the great country houses in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period.

Lodowick Carlell

, The Later Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1978.

Lucy Russell

Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (1580–1627), patron of the arts in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras

Marks Hall

Marks Hall was a Jacobean country house some 3 km (2 miles) north of Coggeshall in Essex, England.

Opera in the Park

It is held in the grounds of the Jacobean mansion Temple Newsam, and is followed the next day by Party in the Park, a pop concert, thus making double use of the work and expense involved in setting up the venue.

Pope Paul IV

He also appears as a character in John Webster's Jacobean revenge drama The White Devil (1612).

Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church

The roof is hipped over the sanctuary and has a Jacobean or Dutch gable at the entrance.

Restoration comedy

They stole freely from the contemporary French and Spanish stage, from English Jacobean and Caroline plays, and even from Greek and Roman classical comedies, and combined the looted plotlines in adventurous ways.

Ringwood State Park

Skylands Manor, a forty-four-room English Jacobean mansion, was designed in the 1920s by John Russell Pope for Clarence McKensie Lewis, a wealthy stockbroker and civil engineer.

Shakespeare's religion

Literary editor Bishop Warburton declared that in the mind of Jacobean playgoers the policy of equivocation, adopted as an official doctrine of the Jesuits, would have been a direct reminder of Catholic treason in the "Gunpowder plot".

Siege of Rhodes

The set was designed by John Webb, a pupil of Inigo Jones, an important designer of theatre masques for the Jacobean and Caroline courts.

South Lodge Hotel

In 1883, Frederick DuCane Godman began development on the original South Lodge modest dwelling in the same neo-Jacobean style as many other Sussex country houses of the period.

Swarkestone

Nearby is the Jacobean grandstand called Swarkestone Hall Pavilion and walled area, formerly connected with Harpur Hall, where (it is believed, see Pevsner, loc. cit.), they used to bait bulls.

The Witch of Edmonton

The Witch of Edmonton is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621.

Thomas Holte

Sir Thomas Holte, 1st Baronet (c. 1571 – 14 December 1654) was the original owner of Aston Hall (a Jacobean country house in Birmingham), the man after whom the Holte End stand of Villa Park is named, and the possessor of quite a legendary temper.

Thomas Middleton

Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period.

Translation and Literature

Articles and notes have included: Surrey and Marot, Livy and Jacobean drama, Virgil in Paradise Lost, Pope’s Horace, Fielding on translation, Browning’s Agamemnon, and Brecht in English.

When You See Me You Know Me

When You See Me You Know Me is an early Jacobean history play about Henry VIII, written by Samuel Rowley and first published in 1605.

Winslow Crocker House

Thacher's collection of furniture, accented by colorful hooked rugs, ceramics, and pewter, presents a thorough survey of early American styles, from Jacobean, William and Mary, and Queen Anne to Chippendale.


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