Blagdon Hall

Description

STABLES. By Wyatt, 1791. A quadrangle with a tall arched entrance below a lantern. In front of the entrance, in the centre of a rond-point by Lutyens, a Coade stone urn on a pedestal. GARDENS. Partly remodelled by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the work being completed in 1938. The principal features are a paved terrace on the s front, extending w through a section with radial brick paving to a pair of obelisks and beyond a circular pond enclosed by three segments of walling each flanked by bronze urns, and a canal, or what Lutyens would have called a ‘sky mirror’, set at right angles to the house, 177 metres (580 ft) long, and ending in a circular basin with a big statue of Milo by Lough at the centre. (Pevsner et al, 1992, p.189)

Painting of the Garden at Blagdon Hall – oil on canvas. The painting is in the style of a conversation piece, showing the Ridley family in the garden at Blagdon. Gertrude Jeykll, two years before her death, planned the garden for Lutyens’ daughter Ursula, Viscountess Ridley, who created a wild Quarry Garden and magnificent new borders. Planting plans are still extant at the University of California. (Amery et al., 1981, cat no.149)

Bibliography

Pevsner N, Grundy J, McCombie G, Ryder P & Welfare H (1992) Northumberland. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G., (1981) Lutyens, the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944): Hayward Gallery London, 18 November 1981 – 31 January 1982. London: Arts Council of Great Britain.

Also Cited In

Richardson, M. (1973) Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: Edwin Lutyens. Farnborough: Gregg International Publishers.

Listing Grade

I, II*, II, II

Listing Reference

1042662 1247870 1001043 1206715

Client

Viscount Ridley