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    Photo gallery

    Basildon Park

    ©Mark Simmons

    The outside of Basildon Park.

    The Hall, Basildon

    ©NTPL / Andreas von Einsiedel

    The Hall, Basildon. View looking towards two painted side tables c.1730, surmounted by matching late 18th-century Imari plates. The stucco & ceiling are in the Adam-style.

    The dining room at Basildon Park

    ©NTPL / Andreas von Einsiedel

    The Dining Room, Basildon. View across the table laid with china towards the chimneypiece. Carr's decoration is clearly much influenced by Adam & Richardson.

    The Octagon Drawing Room at Basildon Park

    ©NTPL / J. Whitaker

    The Octagon Drawing Room showing Italianate ceiling by Papworth, 1840.

    The Green Drawing Room at Basildon Park

    ©NTPL / Andreas von Einsiedel

    The Green Drawing Room, Basildon. View towards the chimneypiece with its Adam-style overmantel mirror. The pair of pole screens with tapestry panels are Chippendale-style, c.1760.

    The Crimson Bedroom at Basildon Park

    ©NTPL / Andreas von Einsiedel

    The Crimson Bedroom, Basildon, so-called after the state bed, with its damask hangings, the window curtains & suite of furniture possibly by George Morant, William IV's upholsterer.

    The Great Staircase, Basildon

    ©NTPL / Andreas von Einsiedel

    The Great Staircase, Basildon. View looking towards the arches of the bedroom corridor, showing Carr's neo-classical plasterwork.

    The Shell Room at Basildon Park

    ©National Trust

    Shell Room at Basildon Park displaying a collection of land and sea shells.

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