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SUMMARY:The Tabley House Collection 
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DESCRIPTION:As a university of Manchester country house collection\, The 
 Tabley House Collection showcases a permanent exhibition of early Britis
 h modern masters alongside interchanging displays of impressive treasure
 s that tell the story of Tabley.\n\nTabley House was designed by John Ca
 rr of York for Sir Peter Byrne Leicester\, Bt.\, and completed in 1767. 
 Now home to The Tabley House Collection\, the collection is based around
  a great Regency picture collection and important paintings commissioned
  and collected by the Leicester family\, principally by the British art 
 patron Sir John Fleming Leicester Bt (1762-1827). Sir John was the first
  great patron of British paintings\; he became the first Lord de Tabley\
 , ennobled by his friend\, George IV in 1827. Amongst the modern masters
  that Leicester commissioned to paint was a young JMW Turner\, who staye
 d at Tabley and painted the house and the mere\, views of which are stil
 l unspoilt. Easel marks on the floorboards\, scrap book clippings and di
 ary entry remarks document the artist’s stay at Tabley House.\nWith appr
 oximately 12\,000 items in the collection there are many family treasure
 s\; social history items\, textiles\, decorative arts pieces and importa
 nt furniture from Gillow\, Bullock and Chippendale\, as well as two rare
  early keyboard instruments. The Tabley House Library makes up a quarter
  of the Collection\; it is owned by the John Rylands Library\, which has
  taken the principal items into its care at Deansgate\, leaving a still 
 remarkable collection at Tabley House to exemplify a typical country hou
 se collection.  \nThe house\, with its nine-bay central block facing sou
 th\, flanked by pavilions and quadrant passages set well back and splend
 id Doric Portico reached by curved stairs\, Tabley is the only 18th cent
 ury Palladian country house in Cheshire.\nHoused in the principal state 
 rooms of this grade 1 Palladian mansion\, the Tabley House Collection co
 ntains much to delight its visitors. \nThe following rooms are open to t
 he public:-\nThe Old Entrance Hall\, - the "Portico Room" - with its han
 dsome white stone chimney piece from John Carr’s York workshop\, provide
 d the main entrance to the house\, as it does today. The work of Yorkshi
 re craftsmen - the plasterer Thomas Oliver and the wood carvers Daniel S
 hillito and Mathew Bertram - is well represented here and in the other r
 ooms.\nThe Drawing Room was originally designed by Carr as the Dining Ro
 om and in the original plan was the mirror-image of the Drawing Room in 
 the south-west of the central block. The simple Jonesian design for the 
 ceiling\, enriched by Thomas Oliver's naturalistic plasterwork\, was int
 ended to complement the room's original function. The white chimney piec
 e supplied by Carr is the finest in the house. \nThe Common Parlour is t
 he best example of Carr's interior design surviving at Tabley. Its origi
 nal function was to provide a link between the 'public' rooms at the fro
 nt and 'private' bedrooms and dressing rooms at the back of the house. I
 t provides the counterbalance\, both functionally and in terms of the bo
 ws in the east and west fronts\, to the original Library\, located where
  the central bay of the Gallery is today. Restrained plaster work in Roc
 oco style decorates the ceiling.\nThe Dining Room was created between 18
 40-45 when the wall dividing the easternmost dressing room from the adjo
 ining bedchamber was removed. The fireplace\, by George Bullock\, made f
 rom Anglesey marble\, replaces the original bed- or dressing room firepl
 ace.\nThe top-lit Oak Hall is named for the oak trees that grew on the s
 ite prior to 1760. The leisurely ascent of the cantilevered mahogany sta
 ircase\, with its triple balusters\, is typical of Carr. The grandeur of
  this central space is reinforced by the crisp carving of the mahogany b
 y Shillito and Thomas Oliver's plasterwork.\nThe Gallery has been descri
 bed as one of the great rooms of Cheshire. It was created in the early n
 ineteenth century and incorporates the original Drawing Room\, Library a
 nd a bedroom and dressing room from Carr's design. Its evolution is not 
 yet fully researched\, but it appears that its development to create thi
 s one large space started in the first decade of the nineteenth century 
 and was modified further in the 1840’s\, when its present appearance was
  created.  When the house was restored in the late 1980s before it was o
 pened to the public\, the original wallpaper design was discovered and r
 estored.\n
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LOCATION:Tabley House\, Tabley Lane\, knutsford\, Cheshire\, WA16 0HB
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