{"id":2814,"date":"2017-09-02T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2017-09-02T17:03:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T17:03:02","slug":"kedleston-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2814","title":{"rendered":"Kedleston Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9816.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2874\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9816.jpg\" alt=\"Hall frontage\" width=\"600\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2874\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9816.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9816-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <em>National Trust<\/em><br \/>\nKedleston Hall has a long frontage with a centre block and two semi-detached wings. The family still lives in the left hand one, which was always intended as a family home, the centre block being for display rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The lower hall is a forest of columns supporting the heavy floor and columns above. The State floor of the central block has an series of rooms on two rows (front and back). The centre front houses the double-height Marble Hall with Roman theme decor. At centre back is a round hall, Pantheon like with an oculus,  and black iron stoves to warm the room a bit. There are lots of paintings in various rooms by minor artists.<\/p>\n<p>The lower floor has a museum of Indian relics (one past Curzon owner was Viceroy of India). The exhibits include a howdah. The grounds are mostly open grass land, with some bits of garden border and garden buildings at back.<br \/>\nThe interesting church contains some fine family monuments.<br \/>\n<em>Click to enlarge<\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2883\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9819.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2883\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9819-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Saloon ceiling\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2883\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saloon<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2875\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9817.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2875\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9817-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Marble Hall\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2875\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marble Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2877\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9818.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2877\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9818-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Marble Hall - detail\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2877\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marble Hall &#8211; detail<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2878\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9814.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2878\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9814-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Church\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2878\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Church<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2879\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9813.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2879\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9813-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Church monument\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2879\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Church monument<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2880\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9812.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2880\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kedleston_9812-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Church monument\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2880\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Church monument<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Trust Kedleston Hall has a long frontage with a centre block and two semi-detached wings. The family still lives in the left hand one, which was always intended as a family home, the centre block being for display rooms. The lower hall is a forest of columns supporting the heavy floor and columns above. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kedleston Hall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}