Ince Castle
Ince Castle is a country house about 3 miles from Saltash in the English county of Cornwall . It was built in 1642, at the start of the English Civil War , and was captured by enemy troops in 1646. Attached to the brick house are four three-story towers with walls up to 1.2 meters thick. The house has a classic porch and its windows are rectangular. The house and land were sold in the 1850s and leased as a farm. In the 20th century, the property fell into disrepair and the house was overgrown with ivy. It burned down in 1988 but was rebuilt.
history
The house is on a peninsula around which the lynher flows . Hence the name “Ince” is derived (the Cornish word “enys” means “island” in German). The first house on this site was probably built at the behest of the Courtenays at the end of the 14th century. It later came into the possession of the Killigrew family , who had it completely rebuilt. Henry Killygrew , the royalist MP for West Looe , who had the first house remodeled in 1642, is said to have four wives, one in each of the towers, and none of whom knew of the others.
From the 1840s onwards, the tenants who worked the land all belonged to the same family. Richard Pryn (1774-1846) belonged to Tredown , which he also ran. From 1841 he also ran Ince (according to the census) . His son, Richard Pryn (1822-1858), was unmarried and farmed Ince together with his also unmarried sister Anne Pryn (1817-1889) in the years 1846-1858. The property was called "Ince Barton" and was then 36 acres. After Richard Pryn's death (who drowned), another unmarried sister, Mary Ann Pryn (1828–1910), worked with Anne. After Anne's death in 1889, the lease fell to her great-nephew, Hannibal Steed (1856–?), Whose descendants Ince farmed until the beginning of the 20th century (1910 or later). The owner from 1922 to 1937 was H. Robert (“Bobby”) Somerset , whose yacht Jolie Brise won the Fastnet Race several times and was set up in Ince Castle's boathouse. The next tenants of Ince Castle were the Scottish yacht owner James Bryce Allan (1893-1960) and his wife, the American actress Rita Jolivet (1884-1971).
In 1960 Patricia, Viscountess Boyd of Merton (daughter of Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh , and wife of former Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton ) bought the property.
Around this time, glass swing doors were installed on the ground floor to let more light into the house, and the wing for the servants was extended. After a devastating fire in 1988, the burned down roof was renewed and a second kitchen was added. The current owners, Simon Lennox-Boyd, 2nd Viscount Boyd of Merton , and his wife Alice moved in in 1994. The house and gardens are only occasionally open to the public.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sir Charles Oman: Castles; Cornwall and its castles . Great Western Railway, London 1926. pp. 108-109.
swell
- Muriel Hammond: Castles of Britain; I: England . Ian Allan, London 1963.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '12.1 " N , 4 ° 15' 0.7" W.