page_title: Holywell Hall, Lincolnshire
section_title: Later owners
hierarchical_section_title: Holywell Hall, Lincolnshire / Later owners
caption_attribution_description: English: Wedding of Agatha Reynardson of Holywell Hall 1926
context_page_description: Holywell Hall is a building of historical significance in Lincolnshire and is listed on the English Heritage Register. The house is in the civil parish of
  Careby Aunby and Holywell in the district of South Kesteven, south-west Lincolnshire, in England. It is a 17th-century country house which was built by the Goodhall family and then purchased by the Reynardson family who owned it for the next two hundred years. It is a Grade II* listed building and now a venue for special events particularly weddings.
context_section_description: When General Birch Reynardson died in 1847 his son Charles Thomas Samuel Birch Reynardson (1810-1889) inherited Holywell Hall. He was educated at the University of Cambridge. In 1855 he married Anne Yorke, daughter of Simon Yorke of Erddig, Denbighshire. Her picture is shown. The couple had one son and three daughters. Charles had a strong interest in driving coaches and he wrote a book called “Down the Road: Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman”. When Charles died in 1889 his son Charles Birch Reynardson inherited the property.
  Colonel Charles Birch Reynardson (1845-1919) was an officer in the Grenadier Guards. In 1875 he married Emma Maria Stracey. The couple had two daughters. Their eldest daughter Miriam inherited Holywell when Charles died in 1919. She had previously married in 1896 Arthur Acland Hood (1859-1929) the son of Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 3rd Baronet. When the couple became the owners of the property they changed their name to Acland Hood Reynaldson in accordance with the terms of the inheritance. They had one son and one daughter. Unfortunately their son died in the War in 1916. Their only surviving child was Agatha.
  Agatha Isabel Acland-Hood-Reynardson (1903-1993) married Major Hon. Mountjoy John Charles Wedderburn Fane in 1926.
  The event was held at Holywell Hall and was widely reported in the newspapers. One account is as follows.
  "One of the most interesting society weddings of the season was that solemnised today at St Marys Church Holywell near Stamford when the Hon. Mountjoy Fane of Little Ponton Hall Grantham, younger son of the late Earl and Countess of Westmorland led to the alter Miss Agatha Isabel Acland-Hood-Reynardson of Holywell Hall Stamford.
  Wearing a magnificent gown of crème crepe romaine bordered with silver and adorned with a girdle of diamante the bride made a radiant figure. The train to the gown also of crepe romaine was embroidered in silver and lined with pale pink chiffon. Her veil was of pink tulle and she carried lovely bouquet of arum lilies."
  When her father died in 1929 Agatha inherited Holywell Hall and the couple came to live there for many years. She became the Lady of the Manor and Justice of the Peace. They were frequently mentioned in the society newspapers. In 1954 they decided to sell Holywell Hall and move to “The Old Rectory” at Careby.
caption: Wedding of Agatha Isabel Acland-Hood-Reynardson at Holywell Hall in 1926
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