Photo: John Millar, courtesy of the National Trust1/13The west front of Clandon Park, located in Surrey.
Photo: Anthony Parkinson, courtesy of the National Trust2/13The Speakers’ Parlour, or family dining room, before the fire. Three members of the Onslow family were speakers for the House of Commons. Their portraits, which hung in this room, survived the blaze.
Photo: Anthony Parkinson, courtesy of the National Trust3/13The Marble Hall, pictured here, is “a 40-foot cube with a white marble floor,” explains Chessum. “[Its] monumental marble fireplaces [have] exquisite white Carrara marble overmantels with scenes of emblematic hospitality by Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack.”
Photo: Anthony Parkinson, courtesy of the National Trust4/13“A team of Italian-Swiss stuccadores sculpted the six significant 18th-century decorative plaster ceilings,” Chessum says. Pictured here, the plasterwork ceiling of the Entrance Hall.
Photo: Anthony Parkinson, courtesy of the National Trust5/13The Palladio Room was, of course, named for Andrea Palladio, the father of Palladian architecture. Chessum cites this room as an example of complete destruction in the fire, describings it as having been “vaporized.”
Photo: Anthony Parkinson, courtesy of the National Trust6/13The Saloon, one of the main ground-floor rooms that the National Trust has decided to focus its renovation efforts on.
Photo: Anthony Parkinson, courtesy of the National Trust7/13The south facade of Clandon and its surrounding grounds.
Photo: John Millar, courtesy of the National Trust8/13The interior of the house after last April’s fire.
Photo: John Millar, courtesy of the National Trust9/13A surviving architectural detail.
Photo: John Millar, courtesy of the National Trust10/13Firefighters work together in the Speakers’ Parlour, which remains almost fully intact. Silver, glassware, and a large Turkish carpet from the 19th century were among the objects salvaged from this room.
Photo: John Millar, courtesy of the National Trust11/13A detail of the Speakers’ Parlour ceiling. All the walls at Clandon were covered with either wallpaper or silk.
Photo: John Millar, courtesy of the National Trust12/13The Marble Hall post-fire, with one of the mantels sculpted by Rysbrack.
Photo: John Millar, courtesy of the National Trust13/13A practically unscathed statue of Venus, also in the Marble Hall.
