Inside English Manor Clandon Park’s Restoration
Photo: John Millar, courtesy of the National Trust1/13The west front of Clandon Park, located in Surrey.
Photo: Anthony Parkinson, courtesy of the National Trust2/13The Speakers’ Parlour, or family dining room, before the fire. Three members of the Onslow family were speakers for the House of Commons. Their portraits, which hung in this room, survived the blaze.
Photo: Anthony Parkinson, courtesy of the National Trust3/13The Marble Hall, pictured here, is “a 40-foot cube with a white marble floor,” explains Chessum. “[Its] monumental marble fireplaces [have] exquisite white Carrara marble overmantels with scenes of emblematic hospitality by Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack.”
Photo: Anthony Parkinson, courtesy of the National Trust4/13“A team of Italian-Swiss stuccadores sculpted the six significant 18th-century decorative plaster ceilings,” Chessum says. Pictured here, the plasterwork ceiling of the Entrance Hall.
Photo: Anthony Parkinson, courtesy of the National Trust5/13The Palladio Room was, of course, named for Andrea Palladio, the father of Palladian architecture. Chessum cites this room as an example of complete destruction in the fire, describing it as having been “vaporized.”
