Lambton Castle

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Lambton Castle late 19th century

Lambton Castle is a mansion between Sunderland and Chester-le-Street . The house in the English county of County Durham is the seat of the family Lambton , the Earl of Durham . English Heritage has it as a historical building II *. Grade listed.

The entrance to Lambton Castle in 1929. Everything on the right side of the picture (including the Great Hall, the roof of which is clearly visible) was demolished along with the end of the wing that was built towards the camera. The crenellated towers at the end of the portico were rebuilt in such a way that they harmonize with the narrower facade.

The manor house in its present form was essentially built in the years 1820-1828 for John Lambton , the first Earl of Durham and former Governor General of Canada , around Harraton Hall , a 17th century manor house. The new mansion was designed by the architect Joseph Bonomi, the elder , and his son Ignatius, and built in the style of a Norman castle, as was the fashion at the time. The building overlooks the wooded Wear Valley and was paid for with coal-mining funds from mines below the manor and in other areas of County Durham that were exploited by Lambton Collieries .

In the years 1862–1865 additions to the original house were made, e.g. B. the knight's hall , most of which were demolished in 1932. At the same time, the contents of the house were auctioned off in order to be able to pay inheritance tax. The family then moved to the smaller Biddick Hall on the same property.

The park around the manor house is enclosed by a high wall and is still used for the annual pheasant hunt today . In the 1970s, the "Lambton Lion Park" was located here; it opened in 1972 and closed again in 1980.

The Penshaw Monument , an ancient Greek temple of honor for the first earl, stands on the nearby Penshaw Hill, which used to be part of the Lambton Castle estate. This hill is often mistakenly believed to be the resting place of the mythical Lambton Lindworm , as portrayed in the ancient folk song from North East England. In the area, however, people think that this is more like Worm Hill near Fatfield .

The northern boundary of the castle park runs along the border between Counties Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

Since the 1960s, the Lambton family has repeatedly sold parts of the palace grounds to developers, especially the land on which the Washington New Town estate stands. However, the family was forced to give up this land (“Compulsary Purchase Order”). Biddick Wood Estate was sold, and a connecting road between the A182 and the A690 and an industrial park was built there.

Since 2011, the newly furnished mansion can be booked for weddings, conferences, banquets and film sets. 2012 served Lambton Castle as a film set for the TV series The Paradise of BBC One .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lambton Castle . britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  2. ^ Gavin Engelbrecht: Lambton Estate near Chester-le-Street may open for tourists . The Northern Echo Online, December 29, 2011. ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 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 April 29, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
  3. ^ Lambton Estates - Lambton Castle . LambtonCastle.co.uk. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  4. ^ Hannah King: The Paradise: Bringing the set to life . In: tv blog . bbc.co.uk. September 25, 2012. Retrieved April 29, 2015.

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Koordinaten: 54° 52′ 1,2″ N, 1° 32′ 9,6″ W