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Renishaw Hall and Gardens
Renishaw Hall and Gardens
Renishaw Hall, Renishaw
Sheffield, S21 3WB
Tel: 01246 432310
About Renishaw Hall and Gardens
Renishaw Hall & Gardens is a grand family day out for ticket holders between March and September, not far from Renishaw, Derbyshire, and Sheffield. A family pile accessible by pre-booking tickets, Renishaw Hall & Gardens was founded in 1625 as Cytewelle, the abode of iron nail pioneer George Sitwell, whose heritage included the French Kings, Robert the Bruce and the Macbeths. The family attraction offers much fascinating history, as well as captivating gardens based in 300 acres of park, providing a varied and enthralling family day out. Renishaw Hall & Gardens inspired D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and featured in BBC TV’s 1995 Pride And Prejudice.
The Grade II listed Renishaw Hall & Gardens have been owned by Sitwells for 350+ years, with alterations and additions undertaken by Sir Sitwell Sitwell circa 1800. It houses a major art collection and historical artefacts, while the grand drawing room - utilised for parties – includes Italian furniture such as a pair of Doges’ chairs, Brussels tapestries, and a Sargent canvas sitting above a Chippendale commode. A Lutyens antechamber leads to the 1808 ballroom, and among numerous signifivant artefacts is, purportedly, Robin Hood’s Bow (as well as several spectres!). Not something you’ll see on any ordinary family day out!
Renishaw Hall & Gardens has a handful of museums in its 300-yard long structure, the Sitwell Museum relating the life and times of the family attraction from the 16th century to the present. There are notes of visitors like Constant Lambert, Cecil Beaton, William Walton and T.S. Eliot, and a collection of costumes. The John Piper collection houses his paintings, while the Performing Arts Gallery in the Georgian Stables (altered in 1995) have Audrey Hepburn’s costume from My Fair Lady, Laurence Olivier memorabilia, and pieces donated by Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, Cher, The Beatles and Sir Noel Coward.
The family attraction featurs a 20th Century Ballet Exhibition of costumes, sculptures and stage sets, with objects from Anna Pavlova, Nijinsky, Nureyev, Fonteyn (the original Aurora costume of The Sleeping Beauty), sculptures by Brenda Naylor and Maurice Lambert, and stage designs by Edward Burra, John Piper and David Hockney.
The sumptuous eight-acre Italianate garden, dating from 1895, has numerous water features, extensive views, secret garden rooms, a children’s trails and magic garden, the Gallery Café, a sculpture trail opened in the old walled garden in 2002, a maze, tree carvings, a story teller’s chair cut into a tree trunk, a willow tunnel, an orangery, a National Collection of Yuccas, and a vineyard planted in 1972 that has produced wine since 2006.
A family day out to Renishaw Hall & Gardens can be crowned by a garden tour by expert guides revealing the yew hedges, pyramids and statues, borders, rose and clematis gardens, exotic plants, specimen trees and rare shrubs. Hall tours are available too, along with conference amenities in the 18th-century stables, and wedding ceremonies in the Red Dining Room of 1769, or the Wedding Lawn marquees (detailed on the Sitwell website for Renishaw Hall & Gardens).