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		<title>The Painted Staircase</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<button class="osc_popover btn  btn-default " data-content="The upper walls of the stairhall are decorated with oil paintings of mythological subjects seen through an illusionistic architectural framework. This was a fashionable way to decorate gentry houses in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. The artist is not known, though the paintings may date from around 1707, when Robert Vyner acquired Swakeleys." data-placement="right" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="hover" data-container="body" type="button" data-title=""> <span class="info"> </span><img class="alignleft wp-image-256 size-full" src="http://www.swakeleys.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Swakeleys-2-15.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="336" /> </button>
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		<title>Entrance, Screen Passage &amp; The Great Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<button class="osc_popover btn  btn-default " data-content="Upon entering the house, one stands in the entrance porch with a view through to the screens passage. The vaulted ceiling of the porch has simple plasterwork decoration of the 1630s, one of the few remaining traces of the original decorative scheme. The screens passage itself, running from the porch to the stair hall, is a traditional feature also found in much earlier houses. It screened off the hall from the kitchen and other rooms, while still allowing free circulation." data-placement="right" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="hover" data-container="body" type="button" data-title=""> <img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-248" src="http://www.swakeleys.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Swakeleys-2-20.jpg" alt="Swakeleys-2-20" width="225" height="336" /><span class="info"> </span> </button>
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<button class="osc_popover btn  btn-default " data-content="By the time Swakeleys was built, great halls were no longer used for dining but as the ceremonial heart of the house, where visiting guests would be received. Visitors would have admired the arched screen, which still dominates the room today. It was added by the second owner, Sir James Harrington and was designed in a baroque style. It was probably the next owner, the powerful banker Sir Robert Vyner, who installed the large fireplace. In turn, Vyner’s great-nephew inherited the house in 1707, installing the panelling and grand Corinthian pilasters forming the window bays." data-placement="right" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="hover" data-container="body" type="button" data-title=""> <img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-225" src="http://www.swakeleys.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Swakeleys-2-34.jpg" alt="Swakeleys-2-34" width="225" height="336" /><span class="info"> </span> </button>
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<button class="osc_popover btn  btn-default " data-content="Samuel Pepys noticed this bust of King Charles I when he visited Swakeleys in 1665: ‘Plenty to see over the screen of the hall (put up by Sir J. Harrington, a Long Parliament man) the King’s head’. Harrington was against the monarchy, so Pepys may have been amused to see his screen adapted with a statue of the king!" data-placement="right" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="hover" data-container="body" type="button" data-title=""> <img class="alignleft wp-image-247 size-thumbnail" src="http://www.swakeleys.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Swakeleys-164-225x165.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="165" /><span class="info"> </span> </button>
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<button class="osc_popover btn  btn-default " data-content="The screen illustrates how each successive owner has left their mark on Swakeleys. It was put up by James Harrington in the mid seventeenth century, but the shields were later overpainted with coats of arms belonging to members of the Clarke-Thornhill family, who owned Swakeleys in the nineteenth century. Such displays of heraldry were popular amongst the landed classes as a means of asserting a strong dynastic pedigree." data-placement="right" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="hover" data-container="body" type="button" data-title=""> <img class="alignleft wp-image-245 size-thumbnail" src="http://www.swakeleys.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Swakeleys-187-225x165.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="165" /><span class="info"> </span> </button>
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		<title>Outside Architectual Detail</title>
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<button class="osc_popover btn  btn-default " data-content="These five window surrounds are ornamented with fanciful shapes called ‘strap work’, outlined in plaster. This style of decoration was developed in Germany and Flanders in the sixteenth century and spread to England through pattern books used by craftsmen. In the decades after Swakeleys was built, strap work was phased out in favour of classical Italian ornament." data-placement="right" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="hover" data-container="body" type="button" data-title="Strapwork"> <img class="alignleft wp-image-188 size-full" src="http://www.swakeleys.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/strapwork2.jpg" alt="strapwork2" width="225" height="336" /><span class="info"> </span> </button>
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		<title>Outside Elevations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<button class="osc_popover btn  btn-default " data-content="With its dramatic roofscape crowded with Dutch gables, Swakeleys is an impressive sight. It is a rare example of the Artisan Mannerist style which flourished for a short period in the early seventeenth century. The style was developed by London craftsmen who combined traditional elements, such as the large Tudor-style windows, with up-to-date features, like the pediments above them. The projecting wings add to the effect, helping to create a lively silhouette and framing the central door." data-placement="right" data-toggle="popover" data-trigger="hover" data-container="body" type="button" data-title="Entrance (West Elevation)"> <img class="alignleft wp-image-160 size-thumbnail" src="http://www.swakeleys.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/West-Elevation-225x165.jpg" alt="West-Elevation" width="225" height="165" /><span class="info"> </span> </button>
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