Elvetham Hall
Samuel Sanders Teulon
1859-62
Hartley Wintney, Hampshire
Source: Plate 23, Appendix to Eastlake's A History of the Gothic Revival.
This is a good example of Teulon's style, with his typical "rich multiplicity of towers and gables, and a studiously observed symmetry" (Richards and Saunders) — as well as his copious brick patterning. For a better idea of the size of the building, see the Hall's own website, here (it is now a conference centre, coporate events facility, wedding venue etc). Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner describe Teulon as having a "steamroller sensitivity"" (470), but this illustration captures a certain gaiety about Elvetham Hall, at least from this angle and in this cropped view.
Scanned image and text by Jacqueline Banerjee. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL.]
Related Material
Sources
Curl, James Stevens. Victorian Architecture. Newton Abbot and London: David & Charles, 1990.
Eastlake, Charles. A History of the Gothic Revival (1872). Republished in the Victorian Library by Leicester University Press, 1970.
Nairn, Ian and Nikolaus Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Buildings of England: Surrey. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2nd ed. 1971.
Richards, J. M., revised by M. J.Saunders. "Samuel Sanders Teulon, 1812-1873." The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Viewed 26 November 2008.
Last modified 26 November 2008