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The tastemaker

NEW HAVEN - He was, according to one 19th-century reviewer, “the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious, of men.’’ By others he was described as arrogant, tetchy, jealous, and snobbish. But Horace Walpole was also, despite the many pejoratives pinged his way, one of the most important and transforming figures in British culture.

Sebastian Smee

Ring in Halloween with “gloomth”

A recent front-page article in the News informs us that the Yale Center for British Art suffers from a lack of visibility: Many undergraduates, apparently, do not know it exists. There will be some who turn their nose up at the very idea of pre-twentieth century British art, dismissing it as derivative, dull, second-rate. That said, I encourage everyone, teeming undergraduate masses, skeptics and veterans of the British Art Center alike, to investigate “Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill,” a new exhibition that will be running in New Haven through Jan. 3; it may or may not make you a regular visitor to the museum, but it should leave you with a renewed appreciation for the eccentricities of our cousins across the pond.

Yale gets a taste of Strawberry Hill

'Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill' At Yale Center for British Art

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"I'm tempted to say, 'Welcome to Strawberry Hill,'" says curator Michael Snodin of the Victoria and Albert Museum, where the exhibit will travel next spring. Opening the exhibit to the media earlier this week in New Haven, he said the Louis Kahn-designed museum was a perfect setting for the Walpole items because its low ceilings make it seem so domestic.

The new show dovetails nicely with the other major exhibit at the Center for British Art, "Mrs. Delany and her Circle," as it was Walpole who designed the fanciful frame depicting portrait of the botanical artist that opens that show.

"Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill" continues through Jan. 3 at the Yale Center for British Art; "Mrs. Delany and her Circle" through Jan. 3.

Architect Peter Inskip speaks on "Revealing Strawberry Hill House" Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at the museum.

£9m Gothic restoration reveals grand splendour

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Yale Center for British Art Reassembles Horace Walpole's Pioneering Collection

The exhibition, which will travel to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in the spring of 2010, is timed at a critical moment in the history of Strawberry Hill. In 2004, the house was included in the World Monuments Fund (WMF) Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites. The WMF and the Strawberry Hill Trust, together with the Friends of Strawberry Hill, are in the midst of a campaign to conserve the structure and interiors, a project to which the UK Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage, and the WMF have awarded substantial grants. At present, the house is scheduled to open to the general public in late summer 2010. Special behind-the-scenes tours will be arranged from September 2010 onward.
 

New landmark in gothic restoration

The restoration of an endangered l8th century Twickenham building has moved into the next phase.

An £8.2m restoration of Strawberry Hill a villa transformed by art historian Horace Walpole, between 1747 and his death in 1790, into a celebrated Gothic masterpiece - is at its midway point. To celebrate the landmark, last Thursday a gilded, strawberry-leaved, weathervane was re-installed high on the Beauclerk Tower.

Helmshore expert weaving a way through history

£8.9mn to be spent on Strawberry Hill revival

London: Strawberry Hill, the mock Gothic home built for the son of Britain’s first prime minister, has been saved from dereliction.

The Strawberry Hill Trust, which has been raising money to restore Horace Walpole’s London home for seven years, is close to its £8.9mn target, and work has begun.
 

Maev Kennedy

Lots of Strawberry Hill images including many of the making of the Shell Bench.

Five success stories for recessionary times

The last member of my bunch of five is a builder, included to show that Hope has not yet expired on the ruins of the UK construction industry. E. Bowman is the repair business to call if you run a stately home and a Grinling Gibbons cherub has just splashed down in your lobster bisque. The company is helping to renovate Chatsworth House and Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's Gothic pile. Sales are up £2m to £11m in the year to March. "I have to keep pinching myself," says ex-joiner Trevor Jackson, who now runs the business.

Original features

Strawberry Hill: I am going to build a little Gothic Castle', declared Horace Walpole as he began work on Strawberry Hill. Marion Harney considers the history of the house and its garden, one of the greatest Picturesque ensembles.

As below, but more detail.

Strawberry Hill

The design of house and naturalistic landscape setting was one of the earliest Picturesque ensembles in England, and in Walpole's time, Strawberry Hill received many visitors.
... the Strawberry Hill Trust has commissioned the Landscape Agency and Inskip + Jenkins Architects to prepare a conservation plan to restore the house and what remains of the garden, reinstating a context for Walpole's Gothic villa; the project will restore the Prior's Garden, recreate the 'theatrical' border and replant The Grove.

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY ACQUIRES TUDOR DOUBLE PORTRAIT

Previous owners of the portrait include the famous collector and gothic novelist Horace Walpole who displayed it at his London mansion, Strawberry Hill.

Guidebook highlights London attractions 'at risk'

Frommer's "500 Places to See Before They Disappear" lists sites such as the Tower of London, the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich , the Battersea power station and the Strawberry Hill folly in Twickenham on its roster of 'endangered' attractions.

500 places to see before they die

Those keen to stay closer to home, however, could visit some of Britain's ancient architectural treasures which, she says, risk falling into dereliction because of a lack of funding. Strawberry Hill, Sir Horace Walpole's folly in Twickenham, west London, which sparked the Gothic revival in the early 19th century, is struggling to raise £8m.

Saving Grace

'WMF helped save Walpole's wonderful Strawberry Hill'

October 3-9 2008

Cash grant for Gothic castle work

A Gothic castle in Strawberry Hill - listed as an endangered world monument - has been awarded a £400,000 grant and taken a step closer to the £8.2m needed for complete restoration. Strawberry Hill House, once the home of politician, writer and architectural innovator Horace Walpole, was given the cash injection by English Heritage to help with the extensive rebuilding of the south-east tower.

The house has been on English Heritage's buildings at risk register since 1996 and in 2004 was included on the world monuments watch list of 100 most endangered sites. Rare finds and discoveries have already been made during the repair and restoration project, including some original wallpaper from Walpole's time ,found when experts removed decorations.

Chairman of the Strawberry Hill Trust Michael Snodin said: "We are very grateful for the continuing support of English Heritage for this ambitious restoration project. "We hope that this will invigorate our fundraising efforts and help us reach our target of £8m."

The preservation organisation also granted £100,000 to the trust earlier this year to fund restoration work to the elevations, drainage, and parapets.

£9m restoration of Walpole's Gothic palace to start next month

Danny Brierley

An £8.9 million restoration of one of London's most architecturally important buildings is to begin next month after years of fundraising.

HORACE WALPOLE'S STAWBERRY HILL HOUSE RECEIVES FUNDING BOOST
By Adam Bambury

A crumbling 18th-century castle once owned by gothic fiction writer Horace Walpole has come one step closer to complete restoration after receiving a £400,000 grant from English Heritage.

It is the second piece of funding this year for Strawberry Hill House, in Richmond Upon Thames, London. The building is currently undergoing an extensive program of repair, with this money being allocated towards the re-building of the South-East Tower.

STATELY GARDENER

The painted-oak Shell Seat from Architectural Heritage (TR9) is the baronial show-stealer. It is a copy of a rococo design inspired by Botticelli's Birth of Venus and made for Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Grandiose in scale, the seat stands 8ft tall and wide, and there will be a limited edition of 101. The Shell Seat costs a stately £18,800, part of which goes to the Strawberry Hill Trust.

Grants will help save Gothic masterpiece

- English Heritage Grant Will Help Fund Essential Restoration of Grade I Listed Mansion -

Horace Walpole's 18th Century Strawberry Hill House in Kingston Upon Thames, London, will be saved from disrepair in 2008 as work gets underway following a £100,000 grant from English Heritage.

English Heritage gives £100k to Horace Walpole mansion
By Eleanor Goodman

Money goes towards £8m restoration fund for Strawberry Hill House in west London.

A gothic revival mansion in Twickenham has received a £100,000 grant for essential work to protect it from further damage.

GRANTS WILL HELP SAVE HORACE WALPOLE'S GOTHIC STRAWBERRY HILL HOUSE
By Narelle Doe

A Gothic 18th century mansion, which once belonged to author Horace Walpole, will be saved from disrepair in 2008 with a £100,000 grant from English Heritage.

Walpole's Gothic villa to be restored

Rashid Razaq, Evening Standard

One of the most important examples of Gothic revival architecture is set for an £8 million renovation to restore the Grade I-listed building to its former glory.

Trust: £1m to stop sale of Strawberry Hill

One million pounds is still needed to secure the future of an endangered 18th century Twickenham building, according to the trust overseeing its restoration.
 

Agreement has now been reached between St Mary's University College, Twickenham, London, and the Strawberry Hill Trust enabling the project involving the restoration of Walpole House to go ahead.

Walpole’s Strawberry Hill faces funding threat

A 14-year struggle to rescue a prime monument of the Gothic Revival is in doubt after the trust set up to save it has run into trouble over the lease of an education room required by the Heritage Lottery Fund as a condition of its £4.8 million grant.

Richmond and Twickenham Times - 29th June 2007

Historic building gets £4.6m boost

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Valerie Humphrey, trustee, Strawberry Hill Trust

Valerie Humphrey, former director of communications and development at the Italian National Trust, has been appointed to the board of the Strawberry Hill Trust.

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