Wollaton Hall

Our project theme was based from ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ by Edgar Allan Poe, which is set in an abbey but we adjusted that for us so instead if would be a grand, Victorian manor house. We thought it would be great if we could get some first hand pictures and research rather than just information off the internet.

Luckily for us, we were fairly close enough to Wollaton Hall, located in Nottingham. It was completed in 1588 and is in the English Renaissance style and is quite flamboyant in it’s design. The interior has been remodelled multiple times but the exterior remains unaltered from when it was built.

Interesting fact, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ film by Christopher Nolan used Wollaton Hall as one of it’s filming locations as Wayne Manor!

Even though Wollaton Hall wasn’t built in the same style as what we were planning on creating our project in (ours was to be done in the Gothic Revival period/style), there was still plenty that we could take inspiration from and just help add to our information and knowledge. We look at the room layouts and take interesting texture photos that we could directly use in our project.

There was also other interesting rooms like an insect gallery and bird gallery among others, which may not directly connect to our project or be relevant to us (immediately) but it was definitely interesting to look at and take photos of, which all helps.