page_title: Bentworth Hall
section_title: 1832 – Building the new Bentworth Hall
hierarchical_section_title: Bentworth Hall / 1832 – Building the new Bentworth Hall
caption_attribution_description: English: Victorian paintings
context_page_description: Bentworth Hall is a country house in the parish of Bentworth in Hampshire, England. It is about 1 mile south of Bentworth village centre and 4 miles northwest of Alton, the nearest town.
  Before the 1830s, the building called Bentworth Hall or Bentworth Manor House is now re-named Hall Place.
  It was built in the early 14th century and is a Grade II listed building. It lies 330 feet south of the village green. The current Bentworth Hall is surrounded by woodland that was planted during building which started in 1832, after Roger Staples Horman-Fisher purchased the Bentworth Manor estate.
context_section_description: In 1832, the Bentworth Hall estate of about 500 acres was sold at Garraway's Coffee House in the City of London by the Fitzherbert family. The Fitzherberts were relatives of Maria Fitzherbert, the illegal wife of the Prince Regent, later George IV (illegal because although George married Maria Fitzherbert, she was a Roman Catholic and banned by Act of Parliament from marrying into the Royal Family).
   
   
  The Bentworth Hall estate was purchased by Roger Staples Horman-Fisher for about £6000.
  Horman-Fisher started building the current Bentworth Hall on what was then open downland about 0.6 miles (0.97 km) to the south of the earlier Bentworth Hall at 51°8′52″N 1°3′0″W, access being from an 800 metres (2,600 ft) 
  private drive from the Bentworth-Medstead road.
  The book "Heraldic Illustrations" by Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, stated the following about the Horman-Fisher family.  Capitals and abbreviations are as in the original:
  "ROGER STAPLES HORMAN-FISHER, Esq., of Bentworth Hall, eldest son of the late Robert Fisher, Esq. of the Inner Temple, and of Mitcham, Surrey, by Mary, his second wife, dau. of Charles Staples, Esq. of London, by Mary, his wife, dau. and heir of Baron Butz, a German noble, bears a quartered shield, FISHER and HORMAN, and an escutcheon of pretence for HORMAN, in right of his wife, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of John Horman, Esq. of Finchley."
  It would appear that proof reading in those days was not very good, because under the Horman-Fisher crest, Bentworth is spelled "Brereworth", and the heading of the extract quoted above says "Fisher, of Bentworth Hall, Hants" omitting the name "Horman" which in the copy referred to in this entry was added in pencil.
caption: Horman-Fisher wives
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