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Mentmore Towers
Mentmore Towers is a 19th-century English country house in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. The house was designed by Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes,〔Hall, p16.〕〔Hall (Waddesdon Manor), p31, refers to them as the architectural team.〕 in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early 17th-century Elizabethan and Jacobean styles called Jacobethan〔Henry Russell Hitchcock (1958) Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Pelican History of Art), London, Penguin Books, p.73〕〔(Mentmore House ) Images of Britain〕 for the banker and collector of fine art Baron Mayer de Rothschild as a country home, display case for his collection of fine art. The mansion has been described as one of the greatest houses of the Victorian era.〔Hall (Waddesdon Manor), p37, makes this assertion〕〔Hall (The Victorian Country House, p153〕 In keeping with the contents intended to be displayed within, the interiors take their inspiration principally from the Italian Renaissance, although the house also contains drawing rooms and cabinets decorated in the gilded styles of late 18th-century France.〔Crewe, Vol, p116〕 Historically it was first known simply as 'Mentmore'. The design is closely based on that of Robert Smythson's Wollaton Hall.〔Mark Girouard, The Victorian Country House, Yale 1978〕 Mentmore Towers is a Grade I listed building, with its park and gardens listed Grade II
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Mentmore was the first of what was to become a virtual Rothschild enclave in the Vale of Aylesbury, as later, other members of the family built houses at Tring in Hertfordshire, Ascott, Aston Clinton, Waddesdon and Halton. Since 1846 Baron Mayer de Rothschild had been buying land in the area.
==Architecture==
The house was built between 1852 and 1854 for Baron Mayer de Rothschild, who required a house close to London. Paxton, who had previously designed the Crystal Palace, was responsible for the ridge and furrow glass roof which covered the central hall, designed to imitate the arcaded courtyard of a Renaissance palazzo, while Stokes was co-architect and clerk of works.〔Hall (Waddesdon Manor), p37.〕〔The Builder Magazine 1852.〕〔Hall (The Victorian Country House), p153, names Stokes and Paxton as joint architects.〕 The builder was the London firm George Myers, frequently employed by members of the Rothschild family.〔Hall (The Victorian Country House), p16.〕
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