Lyme Park | |
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![]() The south front, south lawn and pond | |
Location | Disley, Cheshire, England |
Coordinates | 53°20′17″N 2°03′17″W / 53.3381°N 2.0548°W |
OS grid reference | SJ 964 823 |
Built | 16th century, 1720s |
Architect | Giacomo Leoni Lewis Wyatt |
Architectural style(s) | Elizabethan, Palladian, Baroque |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Designated | 17 November 1983 |
Reference no. | 1231685 |
Lyme Park is a large estate south of Disley, Cheshire, England, managed by the National Trust and consisting of a mansion house surrounded by formal gardens and a deer park in the Peak District National Park.[1] The house is the largest in Cheshire,[2] and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[3]
The estate was granted to Sir Thomas Danyers in 1346 and passed to the Leghs of Lyme by marriage in 1388. It remained in the possession of the Legh family until 1946 when it was given to the National Trust. The house dates from the latter part of the 16th century. Modifications were made to it in the 1720s by Giacomo Leoni, who retained some of the Elizabethan features and added others, particularly the courtyard and the south range. It is difficult to classify Leoni's work at Lyme, as it contains elements of both Palladian and Baroque styles.[a] Further modifications were made by Lewis Wyatt in the 19th century, especially to the interior. Formal gardens were created and developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The house, gardens and park have been used as locations for filming and they are open to the public. The Lyme Caxton Missal, an early printed book by William Caxton, is on display in the Library.
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