Beddington Place

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Beddington Place, view of the former mansion from the west

Beddington Place (also Carew Manor ) is a former manor house in the London Borough of Sutton .

history

In the Domesday Book of 1086, two estates are mentioned in Beddington . In the 14th century the courtier Nicholas Carew acquired the goods and united them in 1381. He had a mansion fortified with a moat built, which became the seat of the Carew family of Beddington. In 1375 Nicholas Carew received the hunting rights on his property, so that a hunting park was established around this time. Sir Francis Carew had the manor house rebuilt in Tudor style after 1550 , and he had a splendid garden built for which he had plants from the Mediterranean region. Walter Raleigh , who was related to him, brought England's first orange trees to Beddington, which is why Queen Elizabeth I visited the property in 1599. An orangery was built for the plants in 1690 , but the orange trees perished during a severe frost in 1759. The manor house was rebuilt from 1707 to 1720. The house remained in the possession of the Carew family until in 1856 the indebted Charles Hallowell Carew had to waive all claims. In 1859 the Female Orphan Asylum of London purchased the property. The building was used as an orphanage, for which large parts of the property were rebuilt. The former mansion is known as Carew Manor and now serves as a school.

investment

Mansion

Of the Carews manor house, the main hall from the 16th century has been preserved, which is surrounded by the brick school buildings built after 1860. The buildings erected in the neo-Gothic style were probably built on the foundations of the old manor house. The large hall, protected as a Grade I cultural monument, is around 18.5 x 16 m. The hall with simple, whitewashed walls has an elaborate, four- bay hammer-beam vault .

The pigeon tower in Beddington Park

Garden and park

In the gardens surrounding the property are the ruins of the orangery, of which only a 58 m long brick wall has been preserved. To the northwest of the manor is the octagonal and extraordinarily large pigeon tower , built between 1715 and 1720, which is protected as a Grade II * cultural monument. The former hunting park was converted into a park at the beginning of the 18th century by Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet , for which a canal-like lake was created. The park lies to the west and north of the property and now serves as a 58 acre Beddington Park as a recreational area for Beddington, Hackbridge and Wallington .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friends of Beddington Park: Carew Manor. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ Historic England: Beddington Place, Beddington, Greater London. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .
  3. ^ Carew Academy. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ London Borough of Sutton: Parks and facilities - Beddington Park & ​​The Grange. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 19.2 "  N , 0 ° 8 ′ 21.1"  W.