<strong>Denford</strong> <strong>Park</strong> Kintburv. Berkshire The purchaser was George Henry Cherry, who had married Charlotte Drake-Garrard of Lamer <strong>Park</strong>, Hertfordshire. 24 Cherry, later Sheriff of Berkshire, was responsible for some remodelling of the new house and for the construction of a new church close by; for both projects he used the then fashionable, and prolific, architect John Buonarotti Papworth (1775-1847). 25 Papworth was also a writer and artist and one of the small group of architects that formed what was to become the Royal Institute of British Architects - the RIBA; he was interested in so many different things that friends called him a 'second Michelangelo' and persuaded him to add the rather pretentious middle name Buonarotti in 1815. 26 The diminutive church of the Holy Trinity to the north-west of the house was built in the late-medieval style and consisted of a nave, porch and pinnacled east tower; initial plans were drawn up by Papworth in 1828 and the building, mainly built of stuccoed brickwork, was virtually finished by 1832. 27 The township of <strong>Denford</strong> was reconstituted as a parish in the following year, with the lord of the manor - George Cherry - as patron. Pap worth's work on the house included alterations and additions to the offices as well as some changes to the main part of the house; the drawings that survive in the RIBA archive relate to two phases of work, 1827-8 and 1832-8, and they include plans of various parts of the house and notes on changes to the entablature. Hopper heads to downpipes with the Cherry crest and the date 1832 survive on both main fronts of the building. On one drawing, related to the Drawing Room, there is a note to the effect that 'the drawing of the cornice will be given to Mr Grace* ?* That could have been Frederick Crace (1779-1859) or perhaps his son, John, members of a family of high class decorators and minor architects in the 19 th century. 29 Other rooms referred to include a Servants' Hall and a Bath & Dressing Room. Cherry also developed the house's gardens and the surrounding parkland and in 1831 it was sufficiently well established to warrant a brief description in the Gardener's Magazine. '<strong>Denford</strong> Place' [sic.] was described then as 'A small, well-kept place, the kitchen-garden well enclosed" with a park that 'has been much improved 1 by tree planting. 30 24 for the descent of Charlotte, see Burke, J, 1836, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.1, 593 25 McHardy, G, 1977 (ed.), Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: Office of J B Papworth, 7; 86-7 26 Colvin, op. cit.,731 " McHardy, op. cit., 7; the church was demolished in the 1950's, the ruins surviving in the wood. McHardy, op. cit., 86 see e.g. Megan, A, 1990, The Graces: Royal Decorators 1768-1899 30 Anon, -mum, 1831, isji, Gardener's (jaraener'sMagazine Vol.Vll, Vol.VII, 136 -10- Richard K Motriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SYS OEA
<strong>Denford</strong><strong>Park</strong> P1.3: Ruins of Papworth's Holy Trinity church, built for George Cherry near the house P1.4: Cherry coat of arms on the Stable Block to the north-east of the house. This seems to be a marital coat, with the Cherry arms on the left impaling the complex quartering of coats of arms of the Drake-Garrard family of Lamer <strong>Park</strong>, Hertfordshire to the right. The distinctive Cherry crest is used on several hopper heads on the main house, all dated 1832. -11- Richard K Morriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SYS OEA
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