Ingestre Hall
Ingestre Hall is a country house in the village of Ingestre near Stafford in the English county of Staffordshire . The 17th century Jacobean house was first the seat of the Earls Talbot and then the Earls of Shrewsbury . Today the house is owned by the Sandwell Township and serves as a center for local arts and conferences. English Heritage has it as a historical building II *. Grade listed.
history
The manor Ingestre is mentioned in the Domesday Book . During the reign of Henry II it belonged to the Mutton family . In the reign of Edward III. the house fell to the Chetwynd family through the marriage of Isabel de Mutton to Sir John Chetwynd . Their descendants became Barons Talbot in 1733 and Earls Talbot later in the same century.
Sir Walter Chetwynd , High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1607, had the imposing red- brick country house built in 1613 on the site of an earlier manor house. A later Walter Chetwynd , his grandson, was made Viscount Chetwynd in 1717 . The daughter and heiress of the 2nd Viscount Chetwynd married the Hon. John Talbot in 1748 and their son John Chetwynd-Talbot (later the 3rd Baron Talbot and from 1784 Viscount Ingestre and Earl Talbot) inherited the property in Ingestre.
The country house was renovated in the early 19th century by the architect John Nash for Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot . In 1856 the 3rd Earl and 3rd Viscount Ingestre, Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot , inherited another earldom from a distant cousin and became the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury. In 1882 the country house was badly damaged by fire and most of it was rebuilt.
In 1895 Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury , founded the Staffordshire Polo Club at Ingestre Hall. There were z. B. Charles Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington , Algernon Burnaby , Captain Daily Fergusson , Captain Hon. Robert Greville , Gerald Hardy , Albert Jones , Captain "Wengy" Jones , Edward and George Miller , Norman Nickalls , Bertram Portal , Captain Gordon Renton , Jasper Selwyn and John Raid Walker .
Ingestre Hall estate, totaling 450 acres, was sold and divided in 1960 by the 21st Earl of Shrewsbury. The Sandwell Town Council bought the 11 acre country house and installed a center for local artists and conferences.
Local Arts Center
When it was sold in 1961, it was determined that the country house had to be used "to promote art and education". Ingestre Hall housed schools and youth groups for children between 7 and 16 years of age. There is provided for “enrichment of education and life experience of children and young people through creative art”.
Ingestre Hall sees its goals as “expanding the heritage of the arts of Ingestre to national recognition as a center of excellence, where the horizons of children and young people are broadened and where they are inspired and motivated to reach their full potential in an ambitious environment, where Creativity and self-esteem are valued and brought to bloom. ”Ingestre Hall is unique in the UK as a Local Authority Arts Center that has brought more than 12,000 children and young people to the local arts in the past five years.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b John Britton: The Beauties of England and Wales . Volume 19. Longman & Co., London.
- ^ Ingestre Hall . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
- ↑ a b Horace A. Laffaye: Polo in Britain: A History . McFarland, Jefferson NC 2012. ISBN 978-0-786465-11-8 . P. 29.
swell
- Staffordshire Historical Collections . Volume 4 (1883). Pp. 1-20. British History Online.
- William White: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire . 1851. GENUKI.
- Ingestre Hall . Images of England.
- Leigh Rayment Peerage Page.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '27.6 " N , 2 ° 1' 17" W.