Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639SE CASTLE ROAD 646-1/22/136 (West side (off)) 11/08/52 Castle Museum and Art Gallery

GV I

Ducal palace, now museum and art gallery. 1674-79. By Samuel Marsh of Lincoln for William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle. Interior refitted 1719, by Sir John Vanbrugh. Burnt down 1831 during Reform Bill riots. Extensively remodelled as museum and art gallery 1876-78 by TC Hine of Nottingham for Nottingham Corporation. Restored 1908 and later C20. Provincial Baroque style. Ashlar, with hipped roofs, glazed and slated. EXTERIOR: basement windows are mostly 2-light plain sashes with stone mullions. First floor windows are stone mullioned cross casements. Second floor dummy windows are mainly C19, square, with round-arched stone tracery. The original east elevation has basement, piano nobile and attics, remodelled internally as 2 storeys. U-plan, 9 x 3 bays, with rear wings flanking a central courtyard. The main entrance was transposed from east to west by Hine. East front, fully rusticated, has modillion main cornice and C19 pierced balustrade. Slightly projecting centre, 5 bays, divided by Corinthian half-columns, the side bays divided by pilasters. Basement has reglazed windows and a central door, C19, all with double keystones. Central window, with columns and cornice, flanked by 4 pedimented windows, all with balustrades. Over the centre, an equestrian statue. Attic has original 2-light windows with strapwork surrounds. Entrance front, to west, has a curved Tuscan colonnade, C19, covering a triple niche, with doors at each end. Above, former doorcase with columns and segmental pediment, flanked by single windows. Returns have recessed bays above the colonnade, and 2 windows on each floor. Outer facades, to west, have 3 windows. South front has a rusticated basement with round-arched rusticated porch and balcony, flanked by 3 round-arched French windows. Above, 3 corniced windows with rusticated surrounds. Attic has C19 windows. North front, 4 windows, has regular C19 fenestration. Sub-basement service range, 9 windows, with balustrade and arcaded sunken courtyard. INTERIOR has ashlar doorcases with segmental broken pediments. 2 painted ashlar open well stairs and landings with cast-iron balustrades, coved ceiling and cross beamed skylight to stair wells. Ground floor gallery to south has moulded cross beams on shaped corbels. Ground floor rooms on the east side have jack-arched fireproof ceilings. First floor galleries have coved ceilings with moulded cornices and cross beamed skylights. Long gallery is divided by a round-arched ashlar screen with pierced pedestals. This building was the first municipal museum and art gallery in England. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 225-228; Get to know Nottingham: Hamilton A: Nottingham's Royal Castle: Nottingham: 1980-; Transactions of the Thoroton Society: Drage C: Nottingham Castle: Nottingham: 1991-).

Listing NGR: SK5691439447

External Links

• Nottingham Castle Ducal Mansion at Wikipedia
• Nottingham Castle Ducal Mansion official website
• Wikidata Q1799649

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings