Lyme Park, House and Garden - National Trust






Great estate with lavishly decorated house and fine gardens. Originally a Tudor house, Lyme was transformed by the Venetian architect Leoni into an Italianate palace. Some of the Elizabethan interiors survive and contrast dramatically with later rooms. The state rooms are adorned with Mortlake tapestries, Grinling Gibbons woodcarvings and an important collection of English clocks.
The 6.8ha (17-acre) Victorian garden boasts impressive bedding schemes, a sunken parterre, an Edwardian rose garden, Jekyll-style herbaceous borders, reflection lake, a ravine garden and Wyatt conservatory. The garden is surrounded by a medieval deer park of almost 566ha (1400 acres) of moorland, woodland and parkland, containing an early 18th-century hunting tower (The Cage).
Lyme appeared as ‘Pemberley’ in the BBC’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice.
Venue Type:
Historic house or home, Garden, parklands or rural site
Collection details
Architecture, Literature
Key artists and exhibits
- Lyme appeared as ‘Pemberley’ in the BBC’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice
- Mortlake tapestries
- Grinling Gibbons woodcarvings
- important collection of English clocks
- Venetian architect Leoni
The Greek Legacy
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-lymepark/
Groups look for the Greek legacy at Lyme Park and explore the Greek influence in the architecture and artefacts that remain.
How to obtain
Call 01663 762023 or email lymepark@nationaltrust.org.uk for more information.
Lyme Park, House and Garden - National Trust
Disley
Stockport
Cheshire
SK12 2NX
England
Website
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lyme-park
Telephone
01663 762023
Education
01663 761406
Fax
01663 765035
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