Hill Hall is an Elizabethan mansion located in Theydon Mount near Epping , Essex , England. Although owned by English Heritage , the building consists of many private apartments. It is a Grade I listed building .
6-806: Hill Hall may refer to: in England Hill Hall (Essex) restored Elizabethan mansion near Epping Headington Hill Hall in Oxford in the United States Hill Hall (Savannah State College) in Savannah, Georgia Hill Hall (Missouri) on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Missouri Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
12-554: The earliest classical decoration on any surviving building in Britain - the tiers of columns and friezes on the courtyard walls and the use of 'giant' column (that is, rising through two storeys) on the exterior facades. Secondly, the 1969 fire destroyed most of the interiors but not, miraculously, a series of wall paintings on the first floor completed more or less when the house was built in the late 16th century. There are an unusual survival of classically inspired mural paintings. The house
18-645: The east end of London were also evacuated from London during the early part of World War II and babies were also born there. Later, Hill Hall became a women's prison until a fire in 1969. It has since become part of the Heritage Trust. Limited tours are available to see the internal period wall paintings described by Croft-Murray of the British Museum as the most important survival of Elizabethan decorative figure painting in England. According to local legend, Hill Hall
24-515: The furnishings at Hill Hall in 1578 were listed in the will of Lady Philippa Smith, including beds made of French walnut wood in the Great Chamber, Gallery, and Green Bedchamber. The hall stands in 50 hectares (120 acres) of parkland designed by Humphrey Repton . The Smith, later Bowyer-Smyth , family remained in occupation until the mid 19th century. Hill Hall subsequently became a prisoner of war camp during World War 2 . Pregnant women from
30-527: The title Hill Hall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hill_Hall&oldid=646801789 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hill Hall (Essex) The importance of Hill Hall lies in two features. Firstly, it has some of
36-429: Was originally built for Sir Thomas Smith during the reign of Elizabeth I to replace a 12th-century house on the same site. Construction was carried out over several intervals (1567–68, 1572–73) interspersed between Smith's stints as ambassador to France. In his will, Smith mentions that Richard Kyrkebye or Kyrbie was the chief architect and builder of Hill Hall, according to the "plat" or plan he had given to him. Some of
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