Heslington Hall
Heslington Hall is a manor house near the village of Heslington in the English administrative unit North Yorkshire . The by English Heritage as a historic building * II. Grade-listed home is on the University of York campus , which is part of the City of York .
Today's Victorian- style house consists of two-story blocks with nine bays and an attic in the middle and two two-story side wings. It is built from bricks in the English composite and has ornaments made of sandstone ashlar.
history
The first mansion was built in 1568 for Sir Thomas Eynns , Secretary and Seal Keeper of the Council of the North , and his wife Elisabeth . Eynns died in 1573 and the property was sold to the Hesketh family by his nephews in 1601 . After the death of Thomas Hesketh in 1708, the manor was married to the Yarburgh family , who lived in it for several generations. In 1719 the 26-year-old Henrietta Yarburgh married the playwright Sir John Vanbrugh . The graves of many members of the Hesketh and Yarburgh families can be found in the cemetery of St Lawrence Church in York. Major Nicholas Yarburgh , who lived in the manor from 1825 to 1852, was the High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1836 and won the St. Leger Stakes in 1839 with his horse Charles the Twelfth . A pub in the area was subsequently named after him.
After the death of Nicholas Yarburgh in 1852, the property fell to his nephew, Yarburgh Greame of Sewerby Hall in Bridlington , who took the family name "Yarburgh" and in 1854 commissioned the architect Philip Charles Hardwick to convert the mansion in Victorian style. The parts of the original mansion that have been preserved include two stair towers, the inner courtyard and the suspended stucco ceiling in the knight's hall. After the death of Yarburgh Greame in 1856 inherited his nephew, George John Lloyd (who also added his name "Yarburgh") and after the death of this nephew in 1875 his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Yarburgh . Mary Elizabeth married George William Beteson in 1862 and in 1876, with royal permission, he took over the traditional name "Yarburgh". In 1890, after the death of his brother, he became the 2nd Baron Deramore . His two sons, Robert Wilfred de Yarburgh-Bateson (3rd Baron Deramore) (1865-1936) and George Nicholas de Yarburgh-Beteson (4th Baron Deramore) (1870-1943) lived after him in the manor house.
According to Nikolaus Pevsner, most of the interior of the mansion seen today was designed by the architect Brierley in 1903. When the Second World War broke out , the family cleared the house so that it could be taken over by the Royal Air Force as the headquarters of Group 4 , part of the RAF Bomber Command . After the war, the family no longer moved into the manor house. In 1955 the building was designated Historic Building II * by English Heritage . Grade listed. When the University of York , which was open to students from 1963, was founded, Bernhard Feilden led the renovation of the house into an administrative center for the university. The manor and university were then part of the East Riding of Yorkshire , but are now part of the City of York.
Garden front of the manor house
Heslington Hall from a distance
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Heslington Hall, Heslington . British Listed Buildings. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
- ↑ John Frederick Herring sen .: Major Yarburgh's brown colt, Charles XII, Winner of the 1839 St. Leger, with William Scott Up . Christie's. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
- ↑ Archives hub . ( Memento of the original from October 4, 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 August 31, 2015.
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England . 1995 edition. Chapter: Yorkshire: York and the East Rinding . P. 463.
- ^ Heslington Hall . Images of England. ( Memento of the original from October 24, 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 August 31, 2015.
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '45 " N , 1 ° 2' 49" W.