- Bookcover of Sennicotts
- Booktitle:
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Sennicotts
East India Company
PlacPublishing (2013-01-09 )
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- ISBN-13:
978-613-8-95292-3
- ISBN-10:
- 6138952928
- EAN:
- 9786138952923
- Book language:
- Blurb/Shorttext:
- Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sennicotts is a small estate near Chichester, West Sussex, England, formed in 1809 by Charles Baker (1761–1839) having retired after serving in Madras, with the British East India Company. In the following years, he built the house (1810), the lodge (1815) and the chapel (1829). Charles Baker was the son of a Chichester surgeon, and claimed descent from the Bakers of Mayfield, the great Sussex Ironmasters. The architect of the house is thought to have been James Elmes (1782–1862), who is known to have submitted a design for Oakwood, the house opposite Sennicotts, and who lived at Oving nearby. Elmes was a friend of Sir John Soane, and artchitectural features such as the entrance hall, which is cube shaped and has a ceiling of shallow ‘groined’ vaulting, is very similar to Soane’s drawing room at Aynhoe Park. The ends of the hall are in the form of shallow apses, with marbled niches, and below the bold cornice runs an egg-and-dart moulding. Both the drawing and dining rooms at Sennicotts have coved ceilings with a bead moulding on the ceiling flat, and an unusual leaf enriched torus moulding at the cornice.
- Publishing house:
- PlacPublishing
- Website:
- http://www.betascript-publishing.com
- Edited by:
- Epimetheus Christer Hiram
- Number of pages:
- 72
- Published at:
- 2013-01-09
- Stock:
- Available
- Category:
- Geography
- Price:
- 34.00 €
- Keywords:
- India, East, West, company, Chichester, Sussex
