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The ‘Long Gallery’: Its origins, development use and decoration

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’But first I shall discourse somewhat of that noble accomplishment to an house, a gallery’. Roger North

In the public eye the long gallery is a popular, often spectacular feature of Elizabethan and Jacobean houses and as such has been exclaimed at, described, measured, praised or criticized by generations of visitors. Considering this, and the obvious importance of the room in its period — noted and discussed by Gotch as long ago as 1901 — it is surprising that until Howard Colvin wrote his introductory chapter to Volume IV of the History of the King’s Works almost no enquiry had been made into its architectural or social origins and development. In his recent book, Renaissance Paris, David Thompson remarks that ‘the evolution of the gallery in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is a favourite matter for argument among architectural historians’, a comment which may apply to continental galleries and historians but not, generally, to their English counterparts. So that, whilst continental galleries of the Renaissance and seventeenth century have often been discussed and analysed, especially in terms of their classical prototypes and their sophisticated, frequently highly programmatic decorations, the English gallery has been neglected. Yet the English had a particular genius for galleries of varied design which, in response to practical architectural considerations, they incorporated into their house-plans with an originality and ingenuity seldom matched abroad (Figs 1–3).

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19 David Calvert in his pamphlet The History of Herslmonceux (Herstmonceux n.d.) publishes drawings of these and other parts of the castle now demolished, made by the John Lamberts, uncle and nephew, in 1776. See also CL, 7 December 1935, 608, pls 4 and 5.

20 See plan in Faulkner, P., ‘Some Mediaeval Archiepiscopal Palaces’, Archaeological Journal, CXXVII (1970), 140 ffGoogle Scholar. The convincing evidence for the later date of the stone galleries is structural and comes from Mr Cyril Heysom, for many years Master Mason at Knole, to whom I am most grateful for much valuable information about the house. In the light of this Mr Faulkner points out that the plan of the ranges of Bourchier’s (’Stone’) Court necessitated galleries from the first and timber ones are suggested.

21 Anthony D. Stoyel, ‘The Lost Buildings of Otford Palace’, Archaeologia Cantiana, c, 259-80. The plan of Otford I have used (Fig. 4) was kindly provided by Mr Stoyel and supersedes that published in Arch. Cant., c. NB beyond the inner court lay a base-court, not on the plan. I am most grateful to Mr Stoyel for his help with the problems of Otford.

22 At the château of Saumur (1370-80) and elsewhere. See Whiteley, M., ‘“La Grande Vis”, its Development in France from the Mid-Fourteeneth to the Mid-Fifteenth Centuries’, in L’escalier dans l’architecture de la renaissance (Series De Architectural ed. Chastel, A. and Guillaume, J., Picard, 1985), 17 Google Scholar.

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27 The dating and attribution of the Croydon Gallery is Mr Faulkner’s, which he has confirmed to me. He points out the closeness of the partially surviving timber oriel of the Croydon gallery to those in Bourchier’s apartments at Knole. I am grateful to him also for providing me with relevant plans and drawings.

28 The gallery at Croydon was 60 ft × 10 ft, the Brown Gallery at Knole is 90 ft × 11 ft. Structural evidence suggests that this gallery at Knole, built by Bourchier or his immediate successors, was originally only 60 ft long and was lengthened later to give access to the new east wing added by Thomas Sackville.

29 Commissioners’ Surveys of 1649 for Richmond, Wimbledon and Nonsuch, published by Hart, W. H., Surrey Archeological Collections, v (1871)Google Scholar. For this structure see History of the King’s Works, IV, pls 18 and 19.

30 King’s Works, IV, 17, 18, 227 and 228.

31 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Dept of Western Art.

32 FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge.

33 As depicted in the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (Musée Conde, Chantilly). The château appears in the background of the miniature illustrating ‘September’, probably painted c. 1411-15.

34 Description of Richmond in 1501; see Grose, F., Antiquarian Repertory, ii (1808), 314-16Google Scholar and King’s Works, IV, 224.

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36 ’galeries d’ébattement’. Hoffmann, V., Architectura, 1/71, 109, 110Google Scholar and Hindley, G., England in the Age of Caxton (1979), 235 Google Scholar.

37 King’s Works, iv, 224.

38 Ibid., 17.

39 The original survey is in the Gloucestershire County Record Office and its date is 1583. It was quoted by Britton, J., The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain (1802-26), IV, 157-58Google Scholar and by Leland, J., Collectanea, 11, 658 Google Scholar, but both give its date incorrectly. See also Hawkyard, A. D. K., ‘Thornbury Castle’, Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeol. Soc. Trans., 95 (1977), 5158 Google Scholar.

40 King’s Works, IV, 18 and 165.

41 See below p. 48.

42 Reproduced by Cave-Brown, J. in ‘Shurland House’, Arch. Cant., XXIII, 86 Google Scholar. The original is in the PRO (Maps & Plans) and belonged originally to the Crown Survey of 1572 (in the State Papers, Elizabeth).

43 Cavendish, George, The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey, ed. Sylvester, R. S. for The Early English Text Society (Oxford, 1959), 4464 Google Scholar.

44 See below p. 48.

45 For the whole southern complex see A. D. Stoyel, Arch. Cant., c, 268-77 and, for the Great Gallery, 272.

46 Ibid., 261 and 272 and conjectural reconstruction of the palace from the north-west, 278.

47 Especially George Cavendish, op. cit. (n. 43).

48 Report by Venetian visitors, 1531. R. Coope, Architectural History, 27, 446 and n. 5.

49 Marius, R., Sir Thomas More (1985), 209 and his bibliog, p. 524 Google Scholar.

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51 Op. cit., n. 43, p. 164.

52 Winder, Thomas, ‘Notes on Sheffield Manor House’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, New Series, x, 4348 Google Scholar; Leader, J. D., ‘Sheffield Castle and Manor Lodge in 1582’, Arch. Soc. Report & Papers, XI (1871-72)Google Scholar. Excavations on the site have taken place recently and a plan made of the site is exhibited there but there is as yet no published report.

53 King’s Works, IV, 133, 136 and 137.

54 Ibid., 120.

55 Ibid., plan, fig. 13, p. 131, axonometric reconstruction fig. 14, and drawing (Magdalene College, Cambridge), pl. 10.

56 Ibid., 20.

57 For all of which see King’s Works, IV.

58 For the Nonsuch gallery see King’s Works, IV, 199. It should also be noted that the position of the gallery gave it a view of the most important parts of the stucco decoration of the Inner Court with its Tudor-propagandist iconography.

59 At Allington in Kent a gallery survives which was earlier than the Vyne but its function is problematic. On the one hand it only linked ‘lodgings’ and servants’ quarters, on the other it had bay windows (now dismantled and stored) suggesting some splendour see SirConway, M., ‘Allington Castle’, Arch. Cant., 28 (1909), 337-62Google Scholar (particularly 355-56 and 359).

60 Scamozzi, Taccuino di Viaggio, p. 59 and figs 7 and 8.

61 And at Beauregard, for which and for Ecouen see below pp. 58 and n. 153.

62 Hautecoeur, L., Histoire de l’architecture classique en France (1965), I, ii, 433 Google Scholar.

63 Prof. Jean Guillaume of the University of Tours tells me that though the gallery now gives access to the chapel this connection may not date from the inception of the château. Structurally, the evidence suggests that the decision to build this wing as a gallery was an afterthought, but one taken early, for the whole building programme was short.

64 J. Guillaume, ‘Oiron, le décor renaissance’, Monuments Historiques, Revue No. 101.

65 Gébelin, F., Les Châteaux de la Renaissance (Paris, 1927), 6768 Google Scholar and M. Dumolin, Bussy-Rabutin, in the series Petites monographies sur grands monuments de France — Paris (n.d.)

66 The galerie François 1er is a closed gallery over a loggia, but its south side was modified soon after it was built.

67 Robertet’s château may have influenced Sutton Place. See Maurice Howard,’Sutton Place . . .’,31.

68 Ibid.

69 Chute, Chaloner W., A History of The Vyne in Hampshire (Winchester, 1888), 140 and 152Google Scholar.

70 See National Trust guide to The Vyne (1981) (plans pp. 6 and 26), and CL, 20 June 1963.

71 For details and drawings of the panelling and its scheme, see W. R. D. Harrisson and Viscount Chandos, Carvings, Oak Gallery, The Vyne, Hampshire, a pamphlet published in 1979.

72 Correspondence, ed. Lewis, W. S., 35 (Oxford 1973), 641 and 642Google Scholar.

73 Op. cit., 140.

74 Ibid., Appendix 1, pp. 639 and 640, which contains Walpole’s ‘Inventionary [sic] of Alterations to be made at The Vyne’ of 1 July 1755, including ‘the gallery: To be finished at the ends with carved wainscot’, ‘to two more whole lengths’. The panelling of the end-bay must date from the 1820s and it must be noted that two windows on the east side are blocked by the earlier panelling. Sandys’ cypher on the lock of the entrance-door to the gallery, often cited, is of no significance for dating. The door is late and very poor, the lock ‘brought in’.

75 Chaloner Chute, op. cit., 139ff. Despite Chute’s full discussions of the 1541 inventory, reference to the original in the archives at Belvoir Castle might elucidate more of the problems of The Vyne galleries but, unfortunately, it has not been possible to see this. A thorough examination of the fabric of the galleries, not hitherto undertaken, could also grealty help to establish their building history.

76 See the unpublished PhD thesis by Howard, Maurice (University of London, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1985) The Domestic Building Patronage of the Courtiers of Henry VIII Google Scholar. For Somerset House see King’s Works, IV, 252-53.

77 Emmison, F. G., Tudor Secretary, Sir William Petre at Court and Home (London, 1961), 2239 Google Scholar.

78 For a full discussion of the monastic conversions of the period see Maurice Howard, PhD thesis cited in n. 76. Neath Abbey in Wales had a striking example of an inserted gallery. RCHM Glamorgan, IV, Part 1 (HMSO, 1981), though there are problems concerning the dating given there.

79 Coope, R., ‘On Newstead Abbey’ in Transactions of The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire (1979), 4654 Google Scholar. (Since this article excavation has confirmed a post-1540 date for the upper galleries of the cloisters).

80 In the inventory of 1575, published in Wilts Arch. Mag., 63 (1968), 72, this is not referred to as a gallery but as ‘the large stone chamber’.

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82 See Henderson, Paula, ‘Life at The Top, 16th and 17th-century Roofscapes’, CL, 3 January 1985, 6 Google Scholar.

83 See Lacock Abbey (N.T. Guide 1984), plans on pp. 6 and 7. Both galleries were a good deal altered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

84 I am extremely grateful to Mr Anthony Burnett-Brown for all his information and help during and since my visit to Lacock.

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87 Gotch, J. A., Early Renaissance Architecture in England (1901), 195 ffGoogle Scholar. but Gotch notes that these two galleries may have been divided into two lengths.

88 M. Girouard, Robert Smythson, 110.

89 King’s Works, IV, 57.

90 J. A. Gotch, op. cit., lists most of these and some other measurements. See also Blomfield, R., History of Renaissance Architecture in England (1896), 7980 Google Scholar.

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93 M. Girouard, Robert Smythson, 110.

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95 References will be given only for galleries no longer existing.

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97 Except for one strip of brickwork forming part of the Old Palace House gardener’s cottage.

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101 Newman, John, ‘Copthall, Essex’, in The Country Seat, ed. Colvin, H. and Harris, J. (1970), 18 ffGoogle Scholar. In his article on Slaugham, Mark Girouard dates Copthall to the 1570s but gives no reason for so doing. As will become clear, the present writer inclines to the later dating. See Girouard, , ‘Renaissance Splendour in Decay, the Ruins of Slaugham, Sussex’, CL (9 January 1964), 7073 Google Scholar.

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104 Thorpe Drawings, T183 and 194, pp. 93-94, pl. 84.

105 Ibid., T39 and 40, p. 55 and pl. 18.

106 H. Walpole. Correspondence, 35, 77 and n. 76.

107 Thorpe Drawings, T164, p. 90, pl. 78.

108 See RCHM Cambridgeshire, 1, West Cambridgeshire (1968), 180-81.

109 The wing opposite, intended to form a court, was never built.

110 M. Girouard, ‘Designs for a Lodge at Ampthill’, in The Country Seat, 13 ff.

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112 And see below, p. 58 for discussion of the Audley End gallery.

113 Cf. Holdenby, Thorpe Drawings, T183 and 184, pp. 94-95, pl. 88.

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117 Divided up in the late seventeenth century.

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120 Much altered within in the nineteenth century.

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122 Ibid., 116-17.

123 Now altered internally, see Girouard, Robert Smythson, 201 and fig. 16.

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132 Though the house has been much restored there is no reason to suppose that the gallery is not part of the original construction.

133 Plans of the house and all information on Lilford have been given to me by John Heward. Before leaving attic galleries and galleries over halls the one French equivalent known to me should be mentioned. It was designed by Philibert de l’Orme to go over the grande salle at the château of Limours. Information from MmeC. Grodecki.

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152 For the subsequent dismantling and re-erection of the gallery see P. Drury in Audley End, Official Handbook, 61.

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177 A. Boutqiue, Châteaux et Manoirs de France . . .

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179 But uniformly framed in the eighteenth century so perhaps actually hung in the gallery then?

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190 In the collection of the Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle. See Treasure Houses of Britain, Five Hundred Years of Patronage and Art Collecting; catalogue of the exhibition held at the Nat. Gall, of Art, Washington, 1985/86 (Washington and Yale, 1985), cat. nos 49 and 50 (cat. entries by O. Millar).

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197 Mme Monique Châtenet, who is preparing a monograph on the château of Madrid, assures me that Du Cerceau’s representations are accurate.

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216 Dent, The Quest for Nonsuch, 57.

217 Ibid., 105.

218 Or, as in the case of the Stone Gallery at Wimbledon, the Cryptoporticus.

219 In particular Frank Büttner, Architectura, 1/72, 75-80.

220 Plutarch’s Lives, ed. A. Clough (NY, n.d.), 621.

221 Bacon, Francis, The Essays, ed. Rhys, E. (1936), 133 Google Scholar.