page_title: Dalham Hall
hierarchical_section_title: Dalham Hall
caption_attribution_description: English: Dalham Hall The Hall, with its carefully manicured lawn, lies adjacent to St Mary's Church. While the manor of Dalham is first recorded as being owned by William the Sinner during the reign of Edward the Confessor, there is no evidence of a manor house on the site until much later. In 1313 there is a reference to Queen Margaret's close, the wife of Edward 1st., at Dalham having been broken into and damaged by "certayne personnes". Subsequently, when Thomas Stuteville bought the estate in 1417, he is presumed to have rebuilt the house. This family occupied what was then called Manor Place for some three hundred years, only selling the estate to Gilbert Dolben in 1697. He in turn, due to his move to Ireland, quickly sold it on to Simon Patrick, Bishop of Ely in 1702. That year Simon Patrick was to write "made a purchase of an estate at Dalham in Suffolk twelve miles from Ely; where my wife and my son might live comfortably after my decease [the Bishop was some 20 years older than his spouse]. In order to which, I began not long after to build an house, the old one, by neglect, being fallen down before I purchased it." The Queen Anne style hall created by Bishop Patrick was completed in 1705. It was described as a fashionable house with a perfect exterior, though some deemed it unusually high for such a small building, as well as having an improved interior that was both simple and serviceable. The house might have been considered even taller except for Simon Patrick's untimely death in 1707, for he is thought to have been planning to crown the roof with a gazebo or lantern. This feature would not only have harmonised well, perhaps even echoing the great octagon atop his nearby cathedral, but might also have permitted him to view it across the fens to the North. The surrounding park, carved out of primary oak woodland, may date from this period too, as do also the lines of the present gardens and lawns. John Affleck Esq. acquired the estate from the Bishop's widow in 1714. Thereafter the hall, the adjacent stables and the gardens remained much as the Bishop had originally conceived them throughout the Affleck family's almost three hundred year tenure of the manor. In 1901 the estate was then sold to Cecil Rhodes, although his untimely death meant he never actually resided at Dalham. Various Rhodes' heirs then ran the estate until they, in turn, sold it to Lord Milford in 1927. Three generations of the Philipps family have since made their home at the hall, but sadly, in 1955, the third storey was lost during a fire and not reinstated when the hall was repaired. Thus the current prospect was not simply wilfully "removed" as Norman Scarfe implies in his 'The Suffolk Landscape', but actually in its stead a better-proportioned building was thereby created. With thanks to the Dalham village website at http://www.dalham.com
context_page_description: Dalham Hall is a country house and 3,300-acre estate, located in the village of Dalham, Suffolk, near Newmarket, and 13 kilometres west of Bury St Edmunds.
  Owners of the Dalham estate have included:
  c.1050-1240 Peche Family
  1240-1320 English Crown Estate
  1320-1362 Walter de Norwich, followed by his son John de Norwich
  1362-1417 various joint-owners, including Robert Scales, 5th Baron Scales
  1417-1697 Stuteville Family
  1697-1702 Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet
  1702-1714 Bishop Simon Patrick and his eponymous son
  1714-1901 Affleck Family, including Gilbert Affleck and John Affleck
  1901-1928 Rhodes Family, including Cecil Rhodes and Frank Rhodes
  1928-2009 Philipps Family
  2009-present Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
  The manor was not the principal residence of any family until acquired by the Stutevilles, the first of whom is likely to have established Dalham Hall. Simon Patrick, the Bishop of Chichester and Bishop of Ely, purchased this estate at Dalham in December 1702, and commissioned the building of the present Dalham Hall. John Affleck Esq. acquired the estate from the Bishop’s son in 1714.
context_section_description: Dalham Hall is a country house and 3,300-acre (13 km²) estate, located in the village of Dalham, Suffolk, near Newmarket, and 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of Bury St Edmunds.
  Owners of the Dalham estate have included:
  c.1050-1240 Peche Family
  1240-1320 English Crown Estate (from 1303, Margaret of France, Queen of England)
  1320-1362 Walter de Norwich, followed by his son John de Norwich (died 1362)
  1362-1417 various joint-owners, including Robert Scales, 5th Baron Scales
  1417-1697 Stuteville Family
  1697-1702 Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet
  1702-1714 Bishop Simon Patrick and his eponymous son
  1714-1901 Affleck Family, including Gilbert Affleck and John Affleck
  1901-1928 Rhodes Family, including Cecil Rhodes and Frank Rhodes
  1928-2009 Philipps Family
  2009-present Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
  The manor was not the principal residence of any family until acquired by the Stutevilles, the first of whom is likely to have established Dalham Hall. Simon Patrick (1626–1707), the Bishop of Chichester (1689–1691) and Bishop of Ely (1691–1707), purchased this estate at Dalham in December 1702, and commissioned the building of the present Dalham Hall. John Affleck Esq. acquired the estate from the Bishop’s son in 1714.
  After remaining in Affleck's family (the Affleck baronets) for nearly 200 years, in 1901, the estate was bought by Cecil Rhodes, on the evidence of photographs, and tales of its game shooting prowess. After Rhodes died in 1902, before taking possession, his brother Francis William Rhodes and his family inherited the hall, and erected a hall in the village in Cecil Rhodes' memory.
  The estate was bought in 1928 by Laurence Philipps, a shipping magnate who established what became known as the Dalham Hall Stud.
  In 1981 Major Jim Philipps sold the stud to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. After the major died in 1984, the rest of the estate was held in trust by his heirs until July 2009, when it was sold for £45 million to Sheikh Mohammed via estate agents Bidwells. The Hall is listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England.
caption: Dalham Hall
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