Athelhampton Hall

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Athelhampton Hall

Athelhampton Hall is a 15th century manor house in the parish of Athelhampton in the English county of Dorset .

Manorial rule

The Domesday Book in 1086 has the Bishop of Salisbury and the tenant Odbold as owner of the manorial Athelhampton - then as Pidele called - out. The name Aethelhelm appears in the 13th century when Athelhampton belonged to the Loundres family. In 1350 Richard Martyn married the heiress of de Pydele , and her descendant Sir William Martyn , who was Lord Mayor of London in 1492 , was given permission to build a medieval deer park and fortify the mansion on 65 hectares of land.

Mansion

Athelhampton Hall is a privately owned mansion and has been listed as a Grade I Historic Building by English Heritage . It is surrounded by 65 hectares of parkland and is now open to the public.

Sir William Martyn had the great hall built around 1493. A west wing and gatehouse were added in 1550, but the gatehouse was demolished again in 1862. Sir Robert Long bought Athelhampton Hall from Sir Ralph Bankes in 1665 . In 1684 a court attempted to sequester the property from then owner James Long Esquire (son of Sir James Long ) to settle existing debts , but apparently unsuccessful. The property was passed on in the Long family to William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley , Viscount Wellesley and later 5th Earl of Mornington , who sold it to George Wood in 1848 . In 1891 the antiquarian Alfred de Lafontaine bought Athelhampton Hall, renovated the interior and added a north wing in 1920–1921.

At the same time, de Lafontaine hired Inigo Thomas to create one of the greatest gardens in England, a series of “outdoor spaces” inspired by the Renaissance . The River Piddle encircles 8.1 acres of formal English gardens and consists of eight enclosed gardens with numerous fountains and pavilions, a terrace with a balustrade , statues, obelisks and portholes. The Great Court contains 12 giant yew pyramids that are arranged around a pond near the large terrace. On the lawn in the west you will find a round dovecote from the early 16th century and on the south terrace a widespread evergreen magnolia and a banksia . Pear trees cover the old walls, where you can also find roses and clematis .

Athelhampton Hall has been owned by the Cooke family for three generations . A bad fire in 1992 destroyed most of the attic and the first floor of the south wing. Subsequent investigations revealed that the layout of the rooms on the first floor, which were intended for the servants, had changed since construction. A life-size sketch of a classic open fireplace was also found on the plaster behind a panel over an existing fireplace.

Athelhampton's commercial operations, with a number of Dorset pubs and restaurants, are partnered by Patrick and Andrea Cooke , the current owners of the property, and Owen Davies . The Martyrs Inn in the historic village of Tolpuddle is 2 miles away and is closely associated with Athelhampton.

In the movie

  • The mansion was used as the setting for the 1972 film Murder with Small Mistakes . At that time it belonged to the politician Robert Cooke .
  • House and Gardens also served as the main backdrop for the episode The Seeds of Doom series Doctor Who .
  • Julian Fellowes used the house for the children's film From Time to Time, based on the novella The Chimneys of the Green Knowe .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Newman, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England , Chapter: Dorset . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1972. ISBN 0-14-071044-2 . P. 80
  2. ↑ An Incident Admiston, Dorset at in the 17th Century . Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 1915. pp. 102-104.
  3. ^ John Newman, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England , Chapter: Dorset . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1972. ISBN 0-14-071044-2 . P. 83
  4. ^ Stately home owner's labor of love . Orange News, October 9, 2012. Archived from the original on November 12, 2014. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 11, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.orange.co.uk
  5. ↑ RCHME Newsletter 9. Spring 1993. ISSN  0957-0241
  6. ↑ a b c Most Popular Titles With Location Matching “Athelhampton House, Athelhampton, Dorset, England, UK” . IMDB database . Retrieved February 11, 2015.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 51.4 "  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 36.1"  W.