Lancashire Halls
Lancashire Halls
Friday 14 October 2016
Lancashire Halls
Lancashire Halls
Friday 14 October 2016
Gawthorpe Hall is an Elizabethan country house, an artistic and historic treasure trove in the middle of industrial Lancashire. Redesigned in the 1850s by Sir Charles Barry, designer of the Houses of Parliament and Highclere Castle. The Hall houses the North West’s largest collection of portraits on loan from the National Portrait Gallery as well as The Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, a wonderful collection of intricate lace, embroidery and needlework amassed by Miss Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth.
Lunch (included) will be soup & sandwiches in the Stables Restaurant at Towneley.
The Towneley family are an important Catholic family and once owned extensive estates in and around Burnley, the West Riding of Yorkshire, and County Durham. Towneley Hall contains the C15th Whalley Abbey vestments, and has its own chapel – with a finely carved altarpiece made in Antwerp around 1525. The Hall was the home of the Towneley family for more than 500 years. The male line of the family died out in 1878 and in 1901 one of the daughters, Lady O'Hagan, sold the house together with 62 acres of land to Burnley Corporation. Today, it is a museum that houses a variety of displays, encompassing natural history, Egyptology, local history, textiles, decorative art and regional furniture, together with an art gallery. The art gallery includes a large collection of paintings, focusing on romantic Victorian and pre-Raphaelite art, with some earlier paintings.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £41.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Cost includes transport, coffee, lunch & tours
Coach leaves Handforth Dean at 8.30am and RNCM at 9.00am
and leaves Towneley Hall at 4.30pm
Gawthorpe Hall is an Elizabethan country house, an artistic and historic treasure trove in the middle of industrial Lancashire. Redesigned in the 1850s by Sir Charles Barry, designer of the Houses of Parliament and Highclere Castle. The Hall houses the North West’s largest collection of portraits on loan from the National Portrait Gallery as well as The Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, a wonderful collection of intricate lace, embroidery and needlework amassed by Miss Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth.
Lunch (included) will be soup & sandwiches in the Stables Restaurant at Towneley.
The Towneley family are an important Catholic family and once owned extensive estates in and around Burnley, the West Riding of Yorkshire, and County Durham. Towneley Hall contains the C15th Whalley Abbey vestments, and has its own chapel – with a finely carved altarpiece made in Antwerp around 1525. The Hall was the home of the Towneley family for more than 500 years. The male line of the family died out in 1878 and in 1901 one of the daughters, Lady O'Hagan, sold the house together with 62 acres of land to Burnley Corporation. Today, it is a museum that houses a variety of displays, encompassing natural history, Egyptology, local history, textiles, decorative art and regional furniture, together with an art gallery. The art gallery includes a large collection of paintings, focusing on romantic Victorian and pre-Raphaelite art, with some earlier paintings.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £41.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Cost includes transport, coffee, lunch & tours
Coach leaves Handforth Dean at 8.30am and RNCM at 9.00am
and leaves Towneley Hall at 4.30pm
EVENT DATE
OCTOBER 14, 2016
COST
£41.00 per person
POSTAL BOOKINGS
Booking Closed
NUMBER OF PLACES
Max. places: 39
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