Chicheley Hall
Chicheley Hall is a representative English country estate built in the early 18th century in the Baroque style and is located in the Borough of Milton Keynes in the county of Buckinghamshire in central southern England .
history
In 1525, the lands and buildings around Chicheley were owned by the Archbishop of York , Cardinal Thomas Wolsey . Only a few years later, after his fall in 1529 and death in 1530, they fell back to the crown . On December 5, 1545, Anthony Cave purchased the estate . It later passed to the Chester family. During the English Civil War (1642 to 1649) the property was looted and devastated. It survived in ruins until the new Chicheley Hall building was built for Sir John Chester in 1719 .
In 1952 this was passed from the descendants of the Chester family to David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty (1905–1972), the son of the British war hero from the First World War , David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871–1936) .
In modern times, Chicheley Hall is used as a conference hotel and has already hosted a number of prominent personalities, such as Tom Cruise , Nicole Kidman and even the Queen Mum .
Trivia
The 2001 British feature film Enigma , which is based on the novel Enigma , and which deals with the deciphering of the German Enigma machine by British code breakers during the Second World War in the manor house of Bletchley Park just 10 km south , was featured in Chicheley Hall shot.
literature
- Peter Collins and Stefanie Fischer: The story of Chicheley Hall. PDF; 1.3 MB (English) accessed on December 22, 2017
- Joan D. Tanner: The Building of Chicheley Hall. PDF; 330 kB (English) accessed on December 22, 2017
Web links
- Chicheley Hall. Retrieved December 21, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ WWII secret intelligence activities around Milton Keynes - A brief history of Chichley Hall [sic] (English) accessed on December 21, 2017
- ↑ Robert Harris: Enigma . Novel. Weltbild, Augsburg 2005. ISBN 3-89897-119-8 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 13 ″ N , 0 ° 40 ′ 45 ″ W.