Qualla: New Wardour Castle https://qualla.com/new-wardour-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/d/new-wardour-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: New Wardour Castle https://qualla.com/new-wardour-castle New Wardour Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/new-wardour-castle/ Photo credit Rodw, Public domain. Three-quarters of a mile from the medieval ruin that gave it its name, New Wardour Castle rises in a Palladian block of pale limestone above a Capability Brown park. James Paine designed it for the Arundell family, work began in 1769, and it was completed in 1776. The house is not really a castle - that word belonged to Old Wardour, slighted in the Civil War and left across the parkland as a romantic ruin. What the Arundells built instead was a country house with a country house's ambitions: rusticated basement, piano nobile, a chapel inside that Pevsner called 'the size of a very major parish church.' One of its altar makers would go on to redesign Saint Petersburg.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/d/new-wardour-castle-wp/gcnd-new-wardour-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full New Wardour Castle: An Altar That Travelled to Russia https://qualla.com/new-wardour-castle/ Photo credit Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0. The chapel is where Wardour does something extraordinary. By the entrance, set into a niche, is a marble relief of the Virgin and Child sculpted by Pierre-Etienne Monnot in 1703 - a carving older than the building that holds it. Inside, giant fluted pilasters rise to a groin vaul...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/d/new-wardour-castle-wp/gcnd-new-wardour-castle-an-altar-that-travelled-to-russia.mp3 0:06 2 full New Wardour Castle: Capability Brown and the Best Staircase https://qualla.com/new-wardour-castle/ Photo credit Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0. The park outside is its own portrait of late Georgian taste. Richard Woods drew up the first plans in 1764, but they proved too expensive; George Ingham revised them in 1773; and then in 1775 the Arundells brought in Capability Brown, the most sought-after landscape designer in E...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/d/new-wardour-castle-wp/gcnd-new-wardour-castle-capability-brown-and-the-best-staircase.mp3 0:06 3 full New Wardour Castle: A Catholic House and a Recusant Family https://qualla.com/new-wardour-castle/ Photo credit Toby, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Arundells were one of England's leading recusant Catholic families. They held Wardour through centuries of penal laws that prohibited Catholics from holding office, owning a horse worth more than five pounds, or practising their faith openly. The chapel is the architectural e...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/d/new-wardour-castle-wp/gcnd-new-wardour-castle-a-catholic-house-and-a-recusant-family.mp3 0:06 4 full New Wardour Castle: On the Screen and Listed for Life https://qualla.com/new-wardour-castle/ Photo credit Toby, CC BY-SA 2.0. Historic England gave the house Grade I listing in 1951; the grounds are Grade II* listed. The school's various twentieth-century extensions were mostly demolished after Cranborne Chase closed in 1990, returning the building's outline closer to James Paine's intentions. New Wardo...

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