Baddesley Clinton
Baddesley Clinton is a mansion with ditch in the village of Baddesley Clinton , just north of Warwick in the English county of Warwickshire . The house was believed to have been built during the 13th century when large parts of the Forest of Arden were cleared and then converted into fields and meadows. The site is a Scheduled Monument and the house is listed by English Heritage as a Grade I Historic Building.
history
In 1438 John Brome , Under-Treasurer of England, bought the manor which fell to his son Nicholas after his death . Nicholas Brome was responsible for the substantial expansion of the nearby parish church, which is dedicated to St. Michael . He did this as a penance for the murder of the local pastor, which probably took place in the manor house itself. Since that time the house was equipped with gun ports and possibly a drawbridge . When Nicholas Brome died in 1517, the house fell to his daughter, who had married Sir Edward Ferrers , the High Sheriff of Warwickshire, in 1500 . The house remained in the ownership of the Ferrers family until 1940 . Then Thomas Walker , a relative of the family, bought it and changed his name to Ferrers. His son, who inherited the house in 1970, sold the property in 1980 to the National Trust , which now manages it.
Henry Ferrers , "the antiquarian" (1549–1633), had additions made to Baddesley Clinton, e. B. he started the tradition of leaded glass windows on which the family coat of arms was depicted. Such glass windows can be seen today in many publicly accessible rooms of the house. One thinks that the knight's hall was also built on his behalf . In the 18th century, the knight's hall was rebuilt in brick and the east wing was expanded, but with great care in order to preserve the original style of the house.
In the 1860s, the writer Georgiana Chatterton and her second husband Edward Heneage Daring lived there , both of whom converted to Catholicism . The house's Catholic chapel was rebuilt during the general renovation of the house. There were major changes to the interior of the house until the 1940s, e.g. B. the first floor was completely changed with the exception of the chapel. The present mansion has extensive formal gardens and ponds; many of the farmhouses date back to the 18th century. Michaelskirche, which has largely the same fate as the manor house, is just 500 meters up the street. The house has, among other things, a beautiful knight's hall, a salon and a library and you can see many carvings and furniture from the 16th century. You can also see accessories from the 19th century that the later residents used.
In 1986, ITV Granada used a series of exterior shots of Baddesley Clinton for its Sherlock Holmes series in the episode The Ritual of the Musgrave Family . In October 2016, the house was the subject of BBC One's Antiques Roadshow .
Connection to Catholicism
The Ferrers seem to have remained Roman Catholic recusants after the Reformation , as did many other members of the Warwickshire lower nobility. They protected Catholic priests, who were threatened with death if discovered, and took special precautions to hide them. Various priest holes were built, secret passages to hide people in case of a search. One of these holes is next to the Moat Room ; it's just a small room with a door hidden in the wood paneling. A second priest hole leads into the ceiling and is therefore invisible to visitors; six people are said to have stayed there. A third priest hole is in an old toilet. Refugees could slide down on a rope from the upper floor through an old lavatory bay into the former sewer pipes of the house, which ran alongside the building. Presumably up to twelve people could be accommodated there. These priest holes are said to have been dug to Nicholas Owen , a Jesuit brother who created many masterful hiding places, particularly at Harvington Hall . He was later caught and tortured to death by the English Protestant government. The hiding places were used at least once in 1591 when a conference of Jesuit priests was persecuted by local authorities. The hiding spots turned out to be good; no one was caught.
Individual evidence
- ^ Baddesley Clinton House and Bridge over Moat . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Entry: Henrietta Chatterton . Retrieved October 18, 2016.
- ^ Baddesley Clinton 1, Series 39, Antiques Roadshow - BBC One . bbc.co.uk. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
Sources and web links
- John Burke: History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland . Volume 3. 1835. ISBN 978-18472-7168-6 . Pp. 127-131.
- Warwickshire County Council Timetrail .
- Baddesley Clinton Hall . Gatehouse Gazetteer.
- Baddesley Clinton . National Trust.
- Photos of Baddesley Clinton and the surrounding area. Geograph.org.
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 25.2 " N , 1 ° 42 ′ 33.6" W.