Boughton House

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Boughton House

Boughton House is a country house about 3 miles northeast of Kettering off the A43 motorway at Geddington in the English county of Northamptonshire . The house belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch . English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.

history

The first building on this site was a monastery , but Edward Montagu , Lord Chief Justice of Henry VIII , bought it in 1528, just before the English monasteries were dissolved, and began converting it into a mansion . Most of the building that has survived to this day is the work of Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu († 1709), who inherited the property in 1683.

Montagu used to be the English ambassador to France and so Boughton House also shows strong French influences. The son of the first Duke, John Montagu , had little changes to the house, but all the more to the landscaped garden after he returned from his trip to Europe with his father-in-law, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough .

After the death of George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu , in 1790, when his daughter Elizabeth married, the house fell to Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch and 5th Duke of Queensbury . From the middle of the 18th century, Boughton House was little changed, but it was well maintained. As a result, some of the best-preserved Baroque parade rooms in the British Isles can be viewed there today .

Film and festival

In the musical film version of Die Elenden from 2012, Boughton House portrays the family estate of Marius , one of the protagonists. An open-air screening of the film later took place on the estate.

The Greenbelt Festival , a Christian music festival, has been taking place on the Boughton House estate since 2014 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, Bridget Cherry (Auditor): The Buildings of England . Yale University Press, London and New Haven 1961. ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3 . Chapter: Northamptonshire . Pp. 110-114. (Includes a full description and plan of the building.)
  2. ↑ Visit Boughton House for a magnificent day out . Boughton House . Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  3. ^ A b Huw Silk: Boughton House to stage outdoor screenings of Les Miserables . Northants Telegraph. July 23, 2013. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ Greenbelt 2014: Another view, pt 2 . Greenbelt blog. ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 September 29, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.greenbelt.org.uk

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Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 28.2 "  N , 0 ° 40 ′ 40.1"  W.