Record of the final inspection of the completed building of the Christinehof Manor House, or as the record has it "Andrarums Gård" (Andrarum House). Due to the detailed research by former chief inspector for historical monuments, Carl-Filip Mannerstråle (1924-2002), this unusual record of the final inspection has been extracted from the Christinehof Archives.
Andrarums Gård was built by the founder of the entailed estate, Christina Piper (1673-1752), after she had begun to take over the extensive alum production at the Andrarum alumworks. Alongside the clutter of buildings to do with this industry, she was to construct a new manor house, which formed a worthy centre for the large estate.
The detailed record of the final inspection not only gives an accurate description of the completed manor house, but is also a chronicle of the time, including the vocabulary which the surveyors mastered and were capable of producing on matters aesthetic which would have been strange and alien to them. The account does not make for easy reading, but it is invaluable for anyone interested in the building techniques of the period and, naturally, for anyone wishing to penetrate the history of the building itself.
"The New House at Andrarum. AD 1741" forms part of the Piper Document Series, the purpose of which is to spread knowledge about the world, as seen through the documents from the Christinehof Archives, that is, the history around the Andrarum alumworks and the entailed Christinehof estate in the southernmost county of Sweden, Scania.
The book is illustrated and, besides history, it contains the complete transcription of the original document, including source references, bibliography, explanations of the meaning of words and a detailed index.
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