Hardwick Hall

/ ˈhɑːdwɪk /

noun

an Elizabethan mansion near Chesterfield in Derbyshire: built 1591–97 for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick)

How hard and set, for instance, do her features seem in the life-size oil-painting by Oudry at Hardwick Hall.

Hardwick Hall is a very perfect example of Elizabethan building; ruins of the old Tudor hall stand near by.

The countess, besides Hardwick Hall, built the former house at Chatsworth, which has since been torn down.

In Hardwick Hall are several hangings of pictorial needlework that are very interesting.

There is something peculiarly majestic and stately about Hardwick Hall.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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