Friends of Strawberry Hill

 

Home
In the news
Restoration News
Patrons
Committee
Contact us
Join the Friends
Donating
Tours of the House
Directions
The House
The Rooms
The Glass
Iain McKillop's paintings
Links
Future Events
Recent events

The Strawberry Hill Trust

Technical Support

Hire of  Rooms

It is still possible to hire some of the rooms for parties and functions.

Send your requirements to Housekeeper
who can tell you what is available on the dates you specify.

Strawberry Hill House

Registered Charity No. 1089660

Horace Walpole's 'little Gothic castle' urgently needs your support.

Thursday 19th July 2007

 Bishop George Stack, Chairman of the Governors of St Mary’s University College, and Dr Arthur Naylor, Principal of St Mary’s University College, handed over the keys of Horace Walpole’s Villa to
Michael Snodin, Chairman of the Strawberry Hill Trust

Click here to see the full copy of the press release

Press Release 21st June 2007

Heritage Lottery Fund announces Stage Two pass
for £4.6 million for restoration of Strawberry Hill

Click here to see the full copy of the press release

 

The Strawberry Hill Trust and the Friends of Strawberry Hill are pleased to announce that they have reached the final hurdle in matching the funds offered by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Many people have been extremely generous: English Heritage, The Architectural Heritage Fund, The Wolfson Foundation, The Weston Family Foundation, The Foyle Foundation, The City Bridge Trust and the Robert W Wilson Challenge Fund in New York through the World Monuments Fund Britain have all supported the project. Local societies, US patrons and individuals have also contributed and out of a £4 million funding challenge we now need only £500,000 in donations or pledges to allow the project to go ahead We are very pleased with this progress and enormously grateful to all our donors but we do need a final push to keep the programme on target!

 Over the last two years a massive amount of research has been carried out by Inskip and Jenkins, the conservation architects, with the help of many of the Friends and Guides. Strawberry Hill is now probably one of the best documented houses in the country. We are all aware of its unique importance to the history of architecture and of literature and its significance as a local treasure.

Once the funds are in place some more detailed research needs to be carried out on the interior fabric of the house. If all goes well, work will begin in 2008 and the house will open to the public in spring 2010 to coincide with an important exhibition about Horace Walpole and his collections at the V&A, curated by Michael Snodin, Chairman of the SHT.

Judith Lovelace

Chair Friends of Strawberry Hill

The Friends of Strawberry Hill gratefully acknowledge the generous support of:

The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, Yale University, the Provost and Fellows of Eton College
and the Librarian and Staff of Eton College Library.

Order your copy
of Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle by Judith Viscardi and Anna Chalcraft

Read the 'Country Life' review

Frances Lincoln Publishers
-------------


Roy Hattersley

The great Gothic castle that's just a house of cards

-------------

Order your copy of:
VISITING STRAWBERRY HILL

An Analysis of the Eton Copy of 'The DESCRIPTION of the VILLA'

-------------

Click here to view BBC Restoration programme featuring Strawberry Hill

-------------

Click here to read Jonathan Glancey's 'Reviving a Gothic wonder'

Last Updated: Monday 31st, March, 2008