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2057 - WILTON HOUSE AND ESTATE ARCHIVES

1 - SURVEYS AND VALUATIONS

2 - ACCOUNTS

3 - RENTALS AND RENT ACCOUNTS

4 - MANORIAL

5 - ENCLOSURE

6 - PLANS AND MAPS

7 - OTHER ESTATE RECORDS

8 - WILTON HOUSE AND PARK

1 - Papers relating to house alterations and restoration

2 - Papers relating to park improvements

3 - Plans and drawings

1 - Photograph of a plan for Isaac de Caus’s water garden at Wilton, c.1626. It is in the form of an aerial view and shows the proposed south front of Wilton House approximately double its eventual size. The original plan is in the library of Worcester College, Oxford. And a Country Life article about parch marks in the summer of 1989, revealing the extent to which the buildings and garden were laid out; and another, 1992, about Inigo Jones.

2 - Plan of the park, showing the formal gardens south of the house and various other features.

3 - Plan of the park

4 - Sketch plan of the house and its outbuildings, the gardens and park.

5 - Plan of the house and park.

6 - Two sketch plans of an ornamental cascade

7 - Ink and sepia wash design for a cupola.

8 - Elevation, apparently of one of the ends of the Palladian bridge, with some measurements and notes about stonework.

9 - Plans, etc., for a real tennis court at Wilton.

10 - Plan, elevation and specification for a target, probably to be put up in the park.

11 - Plan and elevation of a small classical building, endorsed “Temple. Lord Pembroke”.

12 - Elevation of an archway surmounted by a statue of Marcus Aurelius, by Sir William Chambers.

13 - Plan and sketch plan of a formally planted area and a river with an island with a building on it. Probably a proposal for part of the park.

14 - Plan and elevation of a bridge on the Nadder by William Chambers. With a note in Sidney, 16th Earl of Pembroke’s hand, “Now known as the Sawmills bridge, not carried out”.

15 - Plan and elevation of a building, possible a conservatory.

16 - Plan of the dimensions of an open-air manège.

17 - Five plans of a manège or riding house signed “V.D. inv. delin. 1755”. One includes a descriptive table in French, headed “Project d’un manège, par Vallin de la Mothe architecte des academies de Florence et de I’Institu de Bologne”.

18 - Plan and section of a manège.

19 - Elevation of the front of the riding-house at Wilton.

20 - Sketch of “Dimensions, etc., east end of riding house” – presumably at Wilton. And a small plan of a riding house.

21 - Plan for alterations to the riding house stables at Wilton.

22 - Plans, sketches and watercolour drawings of Wilton House

23 - Architectural drawing showing the plan of the east end of St. Mary’s Church, Wilton, and the three chancel walls, with the monument to Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke. The bust from this monument was in the church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas until c1999, when it was sold, but the rest of the monument has not survived.

24 - Plan of the old kitchens, etc., showing the site of a new building to be added; and large-scale plan of the new buildings and part of the old kitchen

25 - Four sketch plans of proposed alterations to Wilton House

26 - “Ground plan of Wilton House as it remained in March 1801”, before James Wyatt’s alterations were started. With a key to the use and dimensions of each room.

27 - Working plans by James, Jeffrey and Benjamin Wyatt for the alterations to Wilton House.

28 - North elevation of the cloister (with an alternative version); perspective sketch of the upper cloister; and plan and section of the upper storey in the Wolsey tower. All by James Wyatt.

29 - Plan of the flues at Wilton House, with the contemporary names of the rooms.

30 - Drawings for the Image Bridge over the Wylye.

31 - Plans, elevations and drawings by Richard Westmacott and Money Fisher for the Dairy bridge across the Nadder (near the Daye House)

32 - “Mr Westmacott’s working drawings for Iron bridge and East bridge. Executed.” Pencil drawings and watercolours.

33 - Drawing for a bridge, endorsed “Matts Lodge bridge, 31 feet, Wilton.” Annotated by Sidney 16th Earl of Pembroke “Iron bridge by Park school”.

34 - Drawing (signed Catherine Herbert) for a bridge. Annotated by Sidney, 16th Earl of Pembroke “Bow bridge over Stepping Stone river to Island. (Now collapsed, 1949)”.

35 - “Mr. Baker’s plan for kitchen garden, hot houses, drive, etc., Wilton House, May 1822. His other plan given to Mr. Westmacott 6 March 1823.”

36 - Two watercolour drawings and an elevation of the end of the Bell house, showing alternative proposals for the treatment of the doorway and turret.

37 - Small sepia drawing of the Isaac de Caus façade (probably from the temple), re-used as the front of the park school. Titled “Pavilion du Jardin des Enfans.”

38 - Plan for a flower garden at Wilton House, with detailed annotations.

39 - Sketches and watercolour drawings of vases, pedestals, figures, etc., for flower gardens at Wilton House.

40 - Plans, elevations and drawings for the loggia, a niche, casino, whispering seat, column, gateways, and other major features of the flower garden and Italian garden, and the Holbein porch.

41 - Drawings of the west front of the house, and of the south-east.

42 - Watercolour drawing of the rear of the Park school.

43 - Drawing of the entrance gates to Wilton House. Annotated by Sidney Herbert “Iron gates bought by me and now lying in the coach house at Mount Merrion”.

44 - Plans, etc., of hothouses for Wilton House gardens.

45 - Plans for a new boathouse.

46 - Plans and elevations for Wilton House dairy.

47 - Plan of the towers at Wilton House, and of the first and second floors.

48 - Plans of Wilton House showing parts reserved for the family and parts requisitioned by the War Department. With later annotations about the water supply

49 - Elevation of alternative treatment of the west front of Wilton House (annotated by the 16th earl “Not carried out”), and of the east front showing proposed alterations to the cupola.

50 - Plans of the four floors of the house.

51 - Two plans and an elevation for the forecourt gardens, with two rough sketches for a fountain.

52 - Elevations of the south and west fronts of the house.

53 - Photographs of plans and architectural drawings of Wilton House, Marble Hill House and Pembroke House, Whitehall. Done for the Victoria and Albert Museum and the R.I.B.A. With three covering letters, 1943 and 1959.

54 - Two sketches of shelving, for the muniment room and for a cupboard.

55 - Elevations of windows and panelling in the dining room at Wilton House.

56 - Drawings for a new side entrance door and steps.

4 - Engravings and prints, etc.

5 - Inventories

6 - Sale catalogues

7 - Household management

9 - CHARITIES

10 - FAMILY AND PERSONAL

11 - Other activities of the family

12 - Public and State papers of Sidney Herbert (1810-1861), Baron Herbert of Lea. Herbert was Secretary to the Admiralty, 1841-1845, Secretary at War 1845-1851, and Secretary of State for War 1852-1860. The papers are an important source for the reorganisation of the army, particulaly medical reforms and the campaign in the Crimea. Florence Nightingale was a frequent correspondent and she figures heavily in the series. Other subjects covered include campaigns in China, India in 1860, Ireland, Wellington College and the Royal medical School at Chatham. See also 2057/F4/50-71 for related correspondence. This list to 2057/F8/I-VI was made by Dr. James G. Provan, Associate Professor of History at Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A. and completed in 1975. Parts VII to XI were listed in 1992, by Nicola Bailey, a student in the Wiltshire Record Office, when the following items in the original list were not found: 2057/F8/III/A/9c, 2057/F8/IV/A/8, 2057/F8/V/A/67-73, 2057/F8/V/A/140, 2057/F8/V/A/216, 2057/F8/V/B/393h, 2057/F8/V/C/71j. Index F8/I 1833-1846 F8/II 1847-1852 F8/III 1853-1855 F8/IV 1855-1858 F8/V 1859-1861 F8/VI Documents dated prior to 1833 or after 1861 F8/VII Additional miscellaneous papers F8/VIII Emigration to Australia; Family Colonisation Loan Society and Female Emigration Fund F8/IX Emigration to Australia; Female Emigration Fund F8/X Appointment of nurses to the army in the Crimea F8/XI Miscellaneous

13 - Deeds

14 - Legal

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