Castle Howard

Castle Howard is a residence in the Yorkshire in England with 40  km of York. It is one of the largest castles of the country, built between 1699 and 1712 for Charles Howard, Count de Carlisle by John Vanbrugh.

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Charles Howard, the third count de Carlisle, general Treasurer of the kingdom, approaches William Talman first of all but commissions then John Vanbrugh, a fellow of political sound club, for the construction of his country residence. It is very first realization of Vanbrugh, a Gentleman Dilettante, in architecture and to conclude its project, it makes calls with Nicholas Hawksmoor.

The plan includes two symmetrical wings of share of other of the North-South axis, the central dome was added in the final stage of the project, after the building work was started. The construction was spread out in time, starting with the wing is (1701-1703), the body of building is giving on the garden follows between 1701 and 1706, the central part (including the dome who surmounts a Great Hall 24 height m ) between 1703 and 1706, and the body of western building giving on the garden between 1707 and 1709. The whole in a style completely baroque with doric pilasters, chérubins, vases, etc interior decoration is, in a great part, entrusted to the care of Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini.

The architecture of Vanbrugh for Castle howard is clearly historicist. Christian Norberg-Schulz describes it thus The main entrance is designed like a tower medieval, but treated with a vocabulary traditional and surrounded by four Obélisque S Egyptians. The side entries are attached at the same time to the Roman Triumphal arch and to the Turkish Kiosque. The Main courtyard has a French origin obviously, but it is covered with a doric door ordinance which perhaps derives from buildings mannerists like the Palais of Te of Jules Romain in Mantoue. The central main building is surmounted by a Roman dome and the courses side flanked of high medieval towers. The succession of the immense pilasters of the frontage on the garden returns to Palladio.

The count turns then his energy towards the gardens. Publication, in 1725, in the Vitruvius Britannicus of Colen Campbell, watch a complete castle although that is not yet the case at the time. The western wing, in spite of the remonstrances of Vanbrugh, is not finished with died of this one in 1726, pas more than with not died of the count Charles Howard in 1738. Its construction starts under the fourth count de Carlisle who changes the initial plans and prefers the palladien project of Sir Thomas Robinson, son-in-law of the count. It is always incomplete (it then misses the roof and the second stage) in 1758 when the fourth count dies. The roof is completed in 1777 when Robinson dies and the whole is completely decorated only in 1811.

The castle is largely destroyed (including the central dome) by a fire in 1940 and will be restored only in the following decades. It is opened with the public since 1952.

Gardens

Castle Howard is surrounded by a traditional garden baroque “to the Frenchwoman” and of a park “with English the”.

Two factories, decorate the gardens: the Temple of the Four-Winds at the end of the traditional garden and Mausoleum in the English park.

A Arboretum was added to the 20th century.

Castle Howard with the cinema

Castle Howard was used as decoration for films or televised series:

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