Claverton Manor at The American Museum and Gardens - statue

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Claverton Manor at The American Museum and Gardens - statue
Claverton Manor at The American Museum and Gardens - statue

A return visit to the American Museum and Gardens near Bath in Somerset.

They have developed the gardens since our last visit here.


The American Museum and Gardens (formerly American Museum in Britain) is a museum of American art and culture based at Claverton, near Bath, England. Its world-renowned collections of American furniture, quilts and folk art are displayed in a Grade I listed 19th-century house, surrounded by gardens overlooking the valley of the River Avon.


It has been over 13 years since I last went to the American Museum, this time I got photos inside of Claverton Manor.

Here are my 2022 photos of the exterior of the manor.


Grade I listed building

Claverton Manor (The American Museum) and Screen Walls to North and South

Description

ST 76 SE CLAVERTON

7/60 Claverton Manor (The American
Museum) and Screen Walls to North
1.2.56 and South

G.V. I

Manor or country house, now a museum. 1819-20 by Jeffry Wyatt (later Sir Jeffry
Wyatville) for John Vivian of Claverton. Ashlar with rusticated ground floor;
hipped slate roof behind moulded cornice and blocking course; ashlar stacks with
moulded caps. 3 storeys and basement. East elevation, 3:3:3 bays, the outer
ones are in 3 storey segmental bows; glazing bar sash windows,in moulded
architraves on upper floors. The centre 3 bays consist of two Giant Order attached
Ionic columns in antis, resting on the rusticated ground floor; shallow niches
containing statues flank the columns; centre first floor window under a cornice
on long brackets; projecting square porch with urns on parapet, glazed door
flanked by tall windows, all under a recessed segmental head. South elevation:
1:3:1 bays, the centre 3 are slightly advanced with Giant Ionic pilasters
supporting a pediment which has the Vivian arms in the tympanum; similar
fenestration to east front. West (entrance) elevation: 1:3:1 bays, the centre 3
are advanced and the inner bay is recessed with 2 Giant Ionic columns in antis;
central glazing bar sash window under cornice on long brackets; glazed door
flanked by tall lights and under a recessed segmental headed niche; fenestration
as east elevation; affixed plaque by door reads "Here Winston Spencer Churchill
on July 26th, 1897 made his first political speech". From the south-west corner
a tall screen projects to the south; panelled ashlar wall of 7 bays with a
balustraded parapet and urns on pedestals, approximately 20 yards long. A
similar wall extends to the north from the north-east and north-west corners:
6 bays with a projecting porch on the east front and alternating panels and
glazing bar sash windows on the west front; between the north screen walls are
service rooms. Interior: open well staircase hall, cast iron anthemion
balustrade, circular lantern and ox-skull plasterwork; Greek Revival room to
north-east with enriched cornice and frieze and marble fireplace with caryatids.


Listing NGR: ST7843964064


Statues outside of the manor house.

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Taken on: June 28, 2022
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