Richard Bangay
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| Residence | Belmont, Lyme Regis | ||||||||
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1888.10.30 proposed for election at next meeting
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Belmont:The house was a summer home and a sort of three dimensional trade card for the formidable Eleanor Coade, who manufactured classical figures, architectural ornaments and garden statues at Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory in Lambeth, out of an artificial stone which has proved astonishingly tough.
The facade is sadly damp-stained and cracked, and inside ceilings, verandah and windows are propped to prevent collapse: the fierce little dolphins, made in the 1780s, are as crisp as if made yesterday.
Fowles, who was for many years curator of the Lyme Regis museum, was fascinated by Coade – "that very rare thing, both an artist and a successful early woman industrialist".
The trust has now won planning permission to demolish the shabby stumps of once ornate Victorian wings added by later owners, but will keep a charming observatory added in the 1880s by a Victorian GP, Richard Bangay.
..: After Mrs Coade’s death in 1821, Belmont was lived in by a series of tenants, until it was bought in 1883 by a GP, Dr Richard Bangay. He transformed the villa into a large family home, adding two large side wings, conservatories and an observatory tower ... John Fowles, the author of seminal works such as The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman, lived at Belmont from 1968-2005
..: Following her death, the house was rented by various people then, in 1883, bought by Dorset doctor Richard Bangay, who had a large family along with a number of staff. He was a member of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeology Society, a keen amateur geologist, botanist and astronomer. He extended the house, adding two wings, a conservatory and a polygonal observatory tower complete with winding gear to rotate the roof.
Wife Agnes
... a fine specimen of a fossilized Calamus, which had been discovered on the sea beach near Lyme. It measured 30 feet in length, and was taken up in seven sections and fixed against the garden wall.
