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Hole Park

Hole Park is a privately owned country house near the village of Rolvenden, in Kent, England. It is a Grade II listed building. The gardens, first opened in the 1920s, are regularly open to the public. Description History The earliest mention of the estate is in 1278, when Hole Park was owned by Henry de Hole. By the early 16th century it was owned by Robert Gybbon, a wealthy clothier. The family was joined by marriage in the early 18th century with the Monypennys of Maytham Hall. The house was built circa 1720. In 1837 Thomas Gybbon Monypenny MP enlarged and refashioned the house in Pseudo Elizabethan style; he laid out modest ornamental gardens to the east of the house and enlarged the park. To achieve this he mortgaged the property to James Morrison, who subsequently became the owner. His son Frank Morrison was later the owner but never resided there. Instead the house was let to a series of tenants, at one time being an agricultural college for gentlemen. In 1910 the Morrison family tried to sell the estate, unsuccessfully at first with a speculator Cresswell briefly owning it until it was reoffered at auction in 1911. Hole Park was purchased in 1911 by Colonel Arthur Barham, who with his father Sir George Barham had made a fortune in the dairying business. Sir George from relative poverty, an apprentice carpenter had founded The Express Dairy Company, bringing fresh milk to London on trains, subsequently giving Express Dairy to his eldest son Titus Barham and The Dairy Supply Company to his other surviving son (of 5), Arthur. DSC became the leading arm of United Dairies in the reorganisation of the dairy industry after the Great War. Arthur retired as chairman of United Dairies in the early 1920s and set about creating a new garden for his new home, redesigned and enlarging the gardens, and they opened to the public in 1927, one of the first to be opened as part of the National Garden Scheme. The house was requisitioned by the army in the Second World War. In 1951 David Barham (1926–2022), grandson of Arthur Barham, returned to the estate. Faced with the problem of what to do with the main house, empty since wartime requisition, David, with his wife Catherine (ne Bucknall) demolished the greater part of the pseudo Elizabeth house of 1837, removing the 5 gabled roof, wings and entire back half and reconstructed the current house to the design of local architect Dennis Brown, who used a water colour of the 1720 house in the church records as his model. David Barham lived at the house for 43 years from 1960, until he moved out in favour of his son. Edward, with his wife Clare and 3 children, remain at Hole Park. Present day The current residents, since 2003, are Edward Barham, great-grandson of Arthur Barham, and his family. He manages the gardens and the wider estate, and as of 2021 is chairman of the south-east region of Historic Houses. The gardens, area 15 acres (6 ha), set in wooded parkland of area 220 acres (89 ha), are opened regularly to the public. References
Christ Church, Broad Town

Christ Church is the parish church of the village of Broad Town in Wiltshire, England. Constructed between 1844 and 1846 as a late Commissioners' church, it remains an active parish church and is a Grade II listed building. History Historic England gives a construction date for the church of 1844–1846. Nikolaus Pevsner records the architect as W. Hinton Campbell and writes "The detail quite seriously and generously done". The land was given by Horatio Nelson Goddard, and money from eight members of the Goddard family was augmented by a large amount from the Marchioness of Ailesbury. Repairs and refurbishment in 1937 included replacement of timbers affected by dry rot and woodworm. The cookery writer Jane Grigson is buried in the churchyard, alongside her husband, Geoffrey. The church remains an active parish church and holds regular services. Architecture and description The church is of ashlar Bath stone, with six bays and a bellcote. Pevsner describes Christ Church as "in the lancet style" and its Historic England designation records it as "a handsome building". The church is designated Grade II. Parish A chapelry was created for the new church in 1846 from parts of the parishes of Broad Hinton and Clyffe Pypard, and the vicars of those two parishes were to take turns in appointing a perpetual curate to serve the church. Broad Town was given parish status in 1857. Between 1951 and 1974, Broad Town had no vicar and was instead allied with St Bartholomew and All Saints’ Church in Wootton Bassett. Today, the parish is part of the Lyneham and Woodhill benefice, alongside five neighbouring parishes. Parish registers from 1847 are held at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham. References Sources "Grigson [née McIntire], (Heather Mabel) Jane". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2015. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39832. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.) Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (2002) [1963]. Wiltshire. The Buildings of England. New Haven, US & London, UK: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300096590. OCLC 1052824287.
St Leonard's Church, Burton Leonard

St Leonard's Church is the parish church of Burton Leonard, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The first church in Burton Leonard was constructed in 1242, and it was rebuilt in 1782. It was demolished in 1877, being in poor repair, and considered too small for the village. A new church on the same site was funded by a bequest from James Brown. It was designed by Charles Hodgson Fowler, and was consecrated on 20 November 1878. The church was Grade II listed in 1987. The church, designed in the Gothic Revival style, is built of magnesian limestone with a red tile roof. It consists of a nave, a south porch and a lower chancel. The nave roof is 30 feet high, and the building is 81 feet long by 21 feet wide. On the west gable is a bellcote with a pediment and a cross. The porch entrance has a double-chamfered surround, and above it is a niche containing a statue. At the west end is a paired two-light window, and the east window has five lights. It depicts the Ascension of Jesus, and was designed by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier. See also Listed buildings in Burton Leonard References
Bethel Chapel, Burslem

The Bethel Chapel in Burslem is a former Methodist church in Waterloo Road, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. It was built in 1824 as a church of the Methodist New Connexion, and the church closed in 1955. It is a Grade II listed building. History Soon after the formation of the Methodist New Connexion, the first meetings of the movement in Burslem were held by 1797 in the house of a Mr Rowley in Hot Lane. Job Ridgway (1759–1814), a potter and a founder member of the Methodist New Connexion in Hanley, where he had a factory, built in 1797 a church in Princes Row, Nile Street in Burslem, called Zoar Chapel. It was a brick building seating 500. It remained the property of the Ridgway family, and was later sold to the Congregational Church. Job's sons John and William Ridgway bought a site on Waterloo Road, which had recently been built, and erected the Bethel Chapel. It opened in 1824. Projecting blocks were added in 1835 to the north (left) side, containing three school rooms, and south (right) side, containing the minister's accommodation. In 1851 it was governed by a new trust, making it independent of Bethesda Chapel in Hanley. The building was renovated in 1883 and 1904. In 1940 it seated 650, and was head of the Burslem Bethel circuit. In 1955, because of a movement of population away from the town centre, the church closed; the Hill Top Chapel became head of the Burslem circuit. Description It is built of brick with stucco dressing. The original building has five bays, the upper windows having semicircular heads. Above is a pediment with a tablet inscribed "Bethel Chapel 1824". Additional blocks to left and right were added later: these have stuccoed pilasters, and central windows in a tall arched recess. See also Burslem United Reformed Church References
Royal Hotel, Weymouth

Royal Hotel is a 19th-century hotel at Weymouth, Dorset, England. It is located on the town's seafront, overlooking Weymouth Beach and Weymouth Bay. The building has been a Grade II listed building since 1974. Replacing an earlier hotel of the same name, the Royal Hotel opened in 1899. Historic England describe it as a "forceful building, in the manner of Richard Norman Shaw's more monumental work in this style and demonstrating a characteristic late Victorian approach to urban development". History Weymouth developed as a popular seaside resort at the end of the 18th-century, which was greatly boosted by King George III's numerous visits to the town. Sea bathing was established at Weymouth by the 1770s, prior to the King's first visit in 1789. During this period, complaints were made about the town's lack of "desirable" accommodation. In response, Stacie's Hotel was built by builder Andrew Sproule for its proprietor Mr. Stacie and opened in 1773. Stacie's Hotel was one of the first purpose-built establishments to capitalise on Weymouth's early development as a resort. It was built with its own assembly room, which proved popular enough to replace the town's original at Trinity Street. It was soon renamed the Royal Hotel, after being patronised by King George III. In 1805, a grand dinner was held at the hotel to celebrate the birthday of Princess Amelia. Although the royal family dined at their nearby holiday home Gloucester Lodge, they received guests at the hotel and later rejoined them at the evening ball. The original hotel was demolished in 1891, with plans for a replacement being drawn up by Charles Orlando Law. Construction began with the laying of the foundation stone in 1897 by the mayor of Weymouth, Charles Jesty. Built of red brick, with Portland stone dressings, the hotel was completed in 1899 and opened on 16 May that year. Along with a carriage house, a ballroom known as Queen's Ballroom was built to the rear of the building. During World War II, the hotel was requisitioned for use as the local headquarters of the United States military. Both Weymouth and Portland were major embarkation points for Allied troops involved in the Normandy landings. Requisitioned in 1943, the hotel reopened on 26 November 1945. The hotel, which formerly operated as part of the Bay Hotels chain, was taken over by Bespoke Hotels in 2020. Leisureplex Hotel Group then bought the Royal Hotel on 20 December 2023. References
Alexander-Keiller-Museum

Das Alexander-Keiller-Museum ist ein archäologisches Museum in Avebury, England. Es wurde 1938 eröffnet. Ausgestellt werden unter anderem die Funde, die der Amateur-Archäologe Alexander Keiller (1889–1955) bei Ausgrabungen in der Gegend von 1925 bis 1939 machte. Zu den Exponaten zählt das Skelett eines neolithischen etwa dreijährigen Kindes, bekannt als Charlie. Weblinks Einzelnachweise
Nettlestone and Seaview

Nettlestone and Seaview is a civil parish and electoral ward on the Isle of Wight. It contains the villages of Nettlestone and Seaview. Public Transport is provided by Southern Vectis bus route 8, which operates between Ryde, and Newport via Bembridge and Sandown. History The parish was formed from the unparished area of Ryde on 1 April 1989 as "Seaview", the parish was then renamed to "Nettlestone and Seaview" on 15 May 1989. Freedom of the Parish The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Parish of Nettlestone and Seaview. Individuals Roy Hayward: 14 November 2022. References
Nettlestone and Seaview

Nettlestone and Seaview är en civil parish i Storbritannien. Den ligger i grevskapet Isle of Wight och riksdelen England, i den södra delen av landet, 110 km sydväst om huvudstaden London. Antalet invånare är 2 833. Nettlestone and Seaview ligger på ön Isle of Wight. Kommentarer Källor
Corn Exchange, Faringdon

The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in Gloucester Street in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England. The structure, which is currently used as a community events venue, is a Grade II listed building. History In 1862, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, to be known as the "Faringdon Corn Exchange Company Limited", to finance and commission a corn exchange for the town. The site they selected in Gloucester Street was occupied by the Green Dragon public house. The new building was designed by John Luker of West Dulwich in the Gothic Revival style, built by local contractors, Isaac and James Wheeler, in rubble masonry at a cost of £1,400 and was officially opened by the Member of Parliament, John Walter, on 29 December 1863. The design of the corn exchange involved an asymmetrical main frontage of two bays on the corner of Gloucester Street and Marlborough Street. The left hand bay featured an arched doorway, with a quatrefoil in the tympanum and a moulded surround, flanked by statues on pedestals. There was an oriel window with cusped heads on the first floor and an arched window in the stepped gable above. The right-hand bay, the canted bay to the right of that and the first bay in Gloucester Street were all fenestrated with bi-partite windows with ogee-shaped heads on the ground floor and by bi-partite windows with dividing shafts, cusped heads and quatrefoils on the first floor. The Gloucester Road frontage extended along the street with a further five bays all containing tri-partite segmentally-shaped windows with dividing shafts and ornate bosses. Internally, the principal room was the main hall which featured a vaulted ceiling. The building was also used for public events: speakers included the former Virginia slave and anti-slavery campaigner, Henry Box Brown, who visited the building in September 1867. A single storey building behind the corn exchange, which had been commissioned the Faringdon Trustee Savings Bank, was acquired by the Faringdon Corn Exchange Company in 1889, and subsequently leased to the local freemasons as a meeting place for the Vale of White Horse Lodge. The use of the main building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the Great Depression of British Agriculture in the late 19th century. Instead, from 1913, it was let out as a cinema showing silent films. After the building had been sold to Faringdon Parish Council, the Faringdon Corn Exchange Company was wound up in late 1936. The building was subsequently used as a community events venue for dances, dinners and similar events. See also Corn exchanges in England References
Thame Town Hall

Thame Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Thame, Oxfordshire, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Thame Town Council, is a Grade II listed building. History A moot hall, which was designed with arcading on the ground floor to allow markets to be held, was erected in the Middle Row (between the Buttermarket to the north and the Cornmarket to the south) in the High Street in 1509. After the moot hall fell into a state of disrepair, a second market hall, which was also arcaded and featured a clock tower, was commissioned by the James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon in 1684. In the late 1850s, following complaints that the 17th century market hall was inadequate for large public meetings, civic leaders decided to acquire the old building from Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon, to demolish it and to erect a new town hall, financed by public subscription, on the same site as part of the town's celebrations for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The old market hall clock, which had originally been made for Rycote chapel in 1577, was removed from the clock tower before it was demolished and donated to St Catherine's Church at Towersey. The new building was designed by Henry James Tollit in the Jacobethan style, built by a local contractor, John Wells, and completed in 1887. It was constructed from red bricks which had been baked at the Christmas Hill Brickworks in Moreton and was officially opened by a Mrs Reynolds on 2 April 1888. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing northwest along the High Street; the central bay featured an segmental headed doorway flanked by Ionic order columns supporting an entablature; there was a three-light mullion window on the first floor, a four-light arched mullion window flanked by obelisks on the second floor and a clock tower with a small spire at roof level. The principal room was the council chamber on the first floor which subsequently became known as the Upper Chamber. A fire took place in the Upper Chamber in 1906 and some alterations to the internal layout of the building were subsequently completed. The town hall was the headquarters of Thame Urban District Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government when South Oxfordshire District Council was formed in 1974. It subsequently became the home of Thame Town Council. The building featured extensively from the late 1990s in the crime drama television series, Midsomer Murders, as the fictional Causton Town Hall. References
Brightwell Manor

Brightwell Manor is a country house in the village of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell in Oxfordshire, England. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1952, and is owned by the former British prime minister Boris Johnson and his wife, Carrie Johnson. The manor dates back to around the mid-seventeenth century, or possibly earlier as there is a date of 1605 on the rear. The front of the house was built in the mid-eighteenth century. History In 1933, the house was purchased by William Ralph Inge, a theologian who was nominated on three occasions for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Inge served as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral for over twenty years from 1911 to 1934, becoming well known as the ’’Gloomy Dean’’ on account of his pessimistic views, which included supporting eugenics and opposing democracy. His wife wrote in her diary "It is a most attractive house but rather small." and that she had written to Paul Edward Paget and his business partner John Seely (later John Seely, 2nd Baron Mottistone) about adding to it. They wanted £2,000, and she wrote that "We really must try to cut them down a bit." Dean Inge died there in 1954 (and is buried next door in the churchyard), and the family owned the house until 1971, when his sons sold it. Johnson purchased it in February 2023 for a reported sum of £4 million. In 1952, Brightwell Manor was Grade II listed by English Heritage. Most of the house probably dates back to the mid-17th century, and the front is mid-18th century. An extension was added by Inge in the 1950s. Pevsner Architectural Guides describes the house as a "plain late 18th century [sic] brick box", but notes the dating of 1605 on the earliest, rear portion of the house. Brightwell Manor has nine bedrooms and is 8,128 square feet (755 m2) in total. The house sits in five acres (2.0 ha) of grounds, with a moat fed by a natural spring surrounding it on three sides. The study includes a mural painted by the neo-Romanticist George Warner Allen. Notes References External links Media related to Brightwell Manor at Wikimedia Commons
Winterbrook House

Winterbrook House is a country house in Winterbrook, Oxfordshire. Agatha Christie purchased the house in 1934, and died there in 1976. The house was Grade II listed in 1986. There is a blue plaque on the house by the front door to mark the period of residency of Agatha Christie and her second husband Sir Max Mallowan. The house is in private hands, with large gardens that are also private. References
St Bartholomew's Church, Nettlebed

St Bartholomew’s Church is a Church of England parish church in the village of Nettlebed, Oxfordshire. It is a Grade II listed building dedicated to Bartholomew the Apostle. History A church in Nettlebed is recorded from at least the 12th century. However, the present building was largely reconstructed between 1845 and 1846 by architect John Henry Hakewill in an Early English Gothic Revival style, replacing a medieval predecessor on the same site. Architecture and fittings A plain structure of grey and red brick, with stone dressings and slate roofs, St Bartholomew's Church comprises a four-bay nave, two-bay chancel, south aisle, gabled south porch and south vestry. Hakewill preserved the earlier three-stage west tower, incorporating it into his rebuild. However, the tower itself was relatively modern and built only in the 18th century, though there may be some medieval fabric remaining within its base. Inside, the only surviving medieval fitting is the 12th-century Norman stone font, located near the south door. Several 17th and 18th-century memorials were transferred to the present building, including a brass plate dated 1637 dedicated to Edmund Taverner and later stone wall monuments in the south aisle. The green and cream marble pulpit, vaguely Art and Crafts-style, was installed in 1896 as a memorial to J. C. Havers of Joyce Grove. In the north wall of the nave is a late Arts and Crafts-style two-light window designed by Gerald Edward Roberts Smith and installed in 1945. The left light, depicting St Valentine, is dedicated to Major Valentine Fleming DSO, a former Member of Parliament for Henley who was killed in action in France in 1917 aged 35. Major Fleming was the father of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. The right light, showing St Michael Archangel, is dedicated to Major Fleming's eldest son, Captain Michael Valentine Fleming, who was himself killed in action in France in 1940, aged 28. Both were buried in France and memorial plaques are installed on either side of the window. The east window of the chancel was designed by John Piper and executed by Patrick Reyntiens in 1970. Commissioned in memory of Dr Robin Williamson, it comprises three main lights in red, blue, and green respectively. The central light shows the Tree of life flanked by fish on the left and butterflies on the right. A second window by Piper and Reyntiens was installed in the south aisle in 1976. It again depicts the Tree of life, this time populated by birds including an owl, hawk, and pheasant. The window commemorates travel writer and journalist Colonel Peter Fleming, younger brother of Ian Fleming. Bells The church has a ring of six bells, cast in 1846 at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Originally hung in an oak frame, they were re-hung in 2000 in a new steel frame after refurbishment. Gallery References
The Friary, Oxford

The Friary, formally known as Blessed Agnellus of Pisa Friary, formerly All Saints Convent or St John's Home is a centre of formation for the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Cowley, Oxford, England. The building was constructed in 1873 as the convent of the Anglican Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor. It is situated between St Mary's Road and Cowley Road, next to St John's Care Home and Helen & Douglas House. The friary and its chapel are Grade II listed buildings. History Construction In 1869, the Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor were invited to Oxford by the founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, Richard Meux Benson to run the St John's Home hospital. A convent was needed to house the sisters working in the hospital. In 1873, the foundation stone was laid by Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, for the adjacent convent to the south of the hospital. The building was designed by Charles Buckeridge. From 1882 to 1891, further work was done to the building, overseen by the architect John Loughborough Pearson. In 1906, the present chapel, designed by Ninian Comper, was built. In 1982, Sister Frances Ritchie of the All Saints Sisters founded Helen & Douglas House next door. Conventual Franciscans In 2013, the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Conventual returned to work in Oxford for the first time since the Reformation. They started a centre for formation in Holton. In July 2014, they moved to All Saints Convent after the All Saints sisters moved into a smaller residence. See also Greyfriars, Oxford List of monastic houses in England References External links Media related to The Friary, Oxford at Wikimedia Commons The Friary, Oxford from TheGreyFriars.org