Jeffrey
Re the Bagshot park room:
The room was not built in England, but in Lahore, and reassembled in England.
In 1883 the Duke of Connaught, arrived in India as GOC, the Meerut Division
of the Indian Army, and in December Lockwood was presented to him at the
opening of the Jeypore Exhibition. In 1884 he and his wife came to visit the
Lahore School of Art and, with Lockwood's advice, the Duchess began to
collect brassware. this was when discussions began for the creation of an
'Indian' billiard room at Bagshot Park. Ultimately, and after a lot of heavy
hinting, the Indian Princes offered to have the decoration done as a wedding
present. Lockwood was the obvious person to design the room. He had done a
ballroom for the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, 'charmingly decorated and
painted in eastern Moorish style'. And so he now designed for the Duke and
Duchess an 18th-century Punjab-style room with 241 carved wooden panels, plus
a carved ceiling, window and door frames, mouldings, fireplace furniture,
billiard-cue racks and all the other impedimenta of a gent's room. In
addition, the smoking room next door, an ante-room and the passage also got
the Indian treatment. Everything was produced under Lockwood's supervision in
the Lahore School of Art workshops over the next four years, ready to be
assembled in Surrey on the Duke's return to England in 1890.
Most of this information comes from Mildred Archer's article, 'Lockwood
Kipling and Indian Decorative Arts', which appeared in in Apollo, April 1986,
pp. 264-9
Best
Judith
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I have been given a 1986 booklet describing Bagshot Park, built for the
Duke of Connaught. My interest is in the description of the Billiard of
Indian Rroom which is said to have been decorated throughout with
sandalwood carvings made under the direction of Lockwood Kipling whilst
head of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore. Craftsmen under the supervision
of Ram Singh then installed the decorations between 1885-87.
Has anyone further information? Did Lockwood Kipling return to the UK in
this period? Andrew Lycett indeed records that Lockwood was invited to
submit designs and (p 217) that Kipling put the finishing touches in 1890
while Rudyard was now in London.
Any further information gratefully received. Jeffery Lewins
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Magdalene College &
Engineering Department
Cambridge CB3 0AG UK
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