Wells, William.

Temple Newsam House.

Leeds, E.J. Arnold and Son Ltd, 1951. 22cm x 28.5cm. 140 pages with 97 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Small dampstain to lower corner of both boards. Interior excellent and bright.

Includes for example: History and Architecture of the House/ Early History of Temple Newsam/ The Knights Templars/ The Countess of Pembroke/ The Darcys/ Lord Darnley/ Sir Arthur Ingram and His successors/ The Nine Viscounts Irwin/ Lady Hertford and the Meynell Ingrams/ Exterior of the House and the Park/ From Tudor To Jacobean/ 18th Century alterations/ The Park and Gardens/ Interior of the House/ The House in Tudor and Jacobean times/ The 7th Viscounts remodelling/ the Remodelling of 1796/ Late 19th and Early 20th Century changes/ changes since 1922/ The House as a Museum of Art/ Furniture/ Tudor and early Stuart/ Late Stuart to Queen Anne/ Georgian Period/ Paintings/ Foreign schools (1500-1800)/ English Portraits (1600-1800)/ English Landscape, Genre etc (1750-1820)/ French and English Paintings (after 1820)/ Sculpture/ Ceramics/ Ancient Greek and Persian/ Early Chinese wares/ Later Chinese Porcelain: Corean Pottery/ English Earthenware/ English Porclain/ Tapestries/ Gold Boxes/ Jade Carvings/

Temple Newsam (historically Temple Newsham, in legend Templestowe) (grid reference SE357322) is a Tudor-Jacobean house with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The estate lies to the east of the city, just south of Halton Moor, Halton, Whitkirk and Colton.
In the Domesday Book the property is known as Neuhusam and was owned by Ilbert de Lacy. Before that it had been owned by Dunstan and Glunier, Anglo-Saxon thanes. Around 1155 it was given to the Knights Templar. In 1307 the Templars were suppressed and in 1377 by royal decree the estate reverted to Sir Philip Darcy. Between 1500 and 1520 a Tudor country house, Temple Newsam House, was built on the site.[1] It has been described by some as “the Hampton Court of the North”.[2] It has also been spelled “Newsham” in the past.[3]

In 1537 Darcy was executed for the part he played in the Pilgrimage of Grace and the property was seized by the Crown. In 1544 Henry VIII gave it to his niece Margaret, Countess of Lennox and her husband Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox. Their son Henry, Lord Darnley was born in the house in 1545. Darnley married Mary, Queen of Scots, and Temple Newsam was again seized by the Crown in 1565. In 1603 James I granted it to his relative Ludovic, Duke of Lennox. In 1622 the estate was bought by Sir Arthur Ingram for £12,000. During the next 20 years the mansion was rebuilt, incorporating some of the previous house in the west wing.

In 1661 Sir Arthur’s grandson Henry Ingram was created Viscount of Irvine and he married Lady Essex Montagu, the daughter of the Earl of Manchester. Between 1736 and 1746 Henry, 7th Viscount of Irvine, remodelled the west and north wings of the house, creating new bedrooms and dressing rooms and the picture gallery. In the 1760s Charles, 9th Viscount, employed Capability Brown to re-landscape the park. His eldest daughter Isabella, Marchioness of Hertford was for a time mistress of the Prince of Wales (later George IV), and in 1806 he visited Temple Newsam and presented her with Chinese wallpaper and the Moses tapestries. Lady Hertford inherited the house in 1807. In 1841 the estate was inherited by Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram. Following his death in 1871 his wife inherited the estate and considerably developed it until her own death in 1904 when it was left to her nephew Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax.
In 1909 610 acres (2.5 km2) of the estate were compulsorily purchased by Leeds Corporation at Knostrop to build a sewage plant and coal mining commenced at the edge of the park. In 1922 Edward Wood sold the park and house to Leeds Corporation for a nominal sum, placing covenants over them to ensure their preservation for the future. (Wikipedia)

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 905BB

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