It was the summer of 1994 when Sir Reresby and Lady Sitwell sat down together with friends and the workman at Renishaw Hall and decided to turn the derilct Stable comlex in to Musuems and a Cafe. In 1995, the Sitwellian Museum opened to the public for the first time, all the wood and glass display cabinets where made by the workman at Renishaw Hall and these housed exhibits and personal memotoes of the Sitwells through out the ages. Over the next two years the musuem expanded, a art shop was opened as was craft workshops and the Tea room became a Cafe. In 1997 the first ever John Piper exhibition was opened at Renishaw Hall by Johns daughter and this was so such a sucess, the John Piper exhibition has been held here every year. In 1999 the Sitwells opened the Gallery for the Performing Arts, this contains Gowns, Uniforms and personal letters, Pictures of the stars of the silver screen and stage. In 2000 the Gallery for the Performing Arts was extended and The John Piper Art Gallery was moved to a bigger and Brighter room and we added a new venture which was a souvenir and antique shop. In 2001, the Sitwells continued the trend of the family to encourage local and natioanal artists to exhibit at Renishaw Hall AND SEVERAL ARTISTS HAVE HAD EXHIBITIONS . 2003 will soon be here. check out 2003 CALENDER OF EVENTS BY TELEPHONING 01246 432310
| The Museum in the Georgian Stables |
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| Notes for the NewComer |
| The Stables at Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, occupy the site of a house that belonged to three successive families, the Wigfalls, Newtowns- related to the great Sir Isaac- and the Simpson and when the last Mr Simpson died in 1795, there nieghbour Mr Sitwell Sitwell, later first Baronet, bought there property that had long co-existed in the middle of his own and called in a alocal architect, known as Joseph Badger of Sheffield.Two years earlier Bbadger had added the Dining Room on to the original Manor Hose built by George Sitwell in 1625, the first of many additions, new buildings and follies in and around the Park. Hhere his instructions were to pull down the Simpsons house and erect a new Stable Block in the claasical style with six turrents, four at the corners and two in the middle of the nothern and southern elevations with a fine Tuscan portico and clock tower above, facing the Hall. By the middle of the this century the racing stud had long gone and the horses supplsanted by Fresian Cows, the property of the Gratton family, tenent farmers who lived in the central turret on the south side. Under the present owners modern farm buildings have been constructed and the farmers re-housed in a custom built bungalow. The future of the Stables, now largely abondened, became a promblem. Thus hence the idea for the Museum, art galleries and Tea Rooms became a reality. Alec Cobb and his assistant designed the layout. the clour schemes and the elaborate display cabinets and the rest is history. |
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| Unbelievable Collection |
| This is a collection to see. It is a must. Everthing from Cher to Rolling Stones. The Three Tenors to Sir Henry Irving. Audrey Hepburn to Ceil De Mille. Elizabeth Taylor to Richard Burton. Julia Migenes to Elizabeth Harwood. as well as a section devoted to Marie Callas |
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