Doddington Hall (Lincolnshire)
Doddington Hall is a mansion in the Elizabethan style with walled courtyards and a gate house with gables. It is in the village of Doddington, west of the city of Lincoln in the English county of Lincolnshire .
history
Doddington Hall was built between 1593 and 1600 by Robert Smythson for Thomas Tailor , Registrar to the Bishop of Lincoln . English Heritage has listed the house as a Grade I Historic Building.
In the 12th century the Doddington mansion belonged to the Pigot family , who sold it to Sir Thomas Burgh in 1450 . It then came into the hands of John Savile of Howley Hall in Leeds .
In 1593 he sold the mansion to Thomas Tailor , who had it torn down and the present house built. After his death, his son and then his granddaughter Elisabeth Anton , who was married to Sir Edward Hussey from Honington , inherited the house. Their son, Sir Thomas Hussey , inherited the property in 1658. After his death in 1706, his three daughters inherited in equal parts. Mrs. Sarah Apreece lived the longest of them and in 1749 bequeathed the house to her daughter Rhoda , wife of Captain Francis Blake Delaval of Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland . Then the house went to their second son, Sir John Hussey-Delaval . He had Thomas and William Lumby of Lincoln make some improvements to the house in 1761 . John's younger brother Edward inherited in 1808 and his daughter, Mrs. Sarah Gunman , who inherited her father in 1814, in turn passed the house on to Lieutenant Colonel George Jarvis in 1829 . When he died, the property fell to his cousin, Rev. Robert Eden Cole and is still in private hands to this day. Laurence Bond and Francis Johnson restored the mansion in the mid-20th century .
The interior of the mansion, such as textiles, ceramics, porcelain, furniture and pictures, reflect 400 years of unbroken family tradition. The house is surrounded by 24,000 m² of enclosed and wild gardens. Flowers bloom there from early spring to autumn.
The manor house and gardens are open to the public. There are facilities for private tours and school class visits. A temple designed by Anthony Jarvis in 1973 stands in the garden. Summer concerts and occasional exhibitions take place in the Long Gallery . Other businesses have also developed on the property, such as B. Selling Christmas trees and hosting weddings. A farm shop sells local products.
The Doddington tapestries
In 1762, Sir John Hussey-Delaval covered every square inch of the Holly room - even the backs of the doors - with tapestries depicting scenes of country life. These tapestries were made in Flanders in the early 17th century. Doddington's tapestries are now considered rare.
Ghosts
Daniel Codd claims in Haunted Lincolnshire that there is a haunted girl in Doddington Hall who threw herself from the roof of the manor house when she was pursued by a lustful squire : every autumn her ghost cries out in fear and falls from the roof.
Individual evidence
- ^ Doddington Hall . English Heritage ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 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 March 5, 2015.
- ↑ a b Doddington Hall . English Heritage ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 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 March 5, 2015.
- ^ A b Official website of Doddington Hall. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
- ↑ Peruse produce at Doddington Hall . Lincolnshire Echo. October 27, 2007: 14th Newspaper Source Plus. Web. December 29, 2011.
- ↑ Donald Caroline: True To Their Roots . The Sunday Times, March 8, 2009: 22.23. Newspaper Source Plus. Web. December 29, 2011.
- ↑ Festive decorations go back to nature . Lincolnshire Echo, December 18, 2004: 18th Newspaper Source Plus. Web. December 29, 2011.
- ^ Daniel Codd: Haunted Lincolnshire . Tempus Publishing, 2006. ISBN 0-7524-3817-4 . P. 28.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 13 ′ 12 " N , 0 ° 39 ′ 13.4" W.