Thrumpton Hall
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| General information | |
| Coordinates | 52°52′30″N 1°14′45″W / 52.875065°N 1.245784°W |
| Completed | 1617 |
| Design and construction | |
| Client | Gervase Pigot |
| Designations | Grade I listed building |
Thrumpton Hall is an English country house in the village of Thrumpton near Nottingham.
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[edit] History
The mansion is on the site of an older house which was occupied by the Roman Catholic Powdrell family who were evicted following the Gunpowder Plot.[1]
The Hall dates from the early part of the seventeenth century[2] and was built by the Pigot family in rose-coloured brick.[3] it was largely complete by 1617.[4]
In the 1660s it was altered and improved by his son Gervase Pigot. There were late eighteenth century alterations made for John Wescomb Emerton, further changes c.1830 for John Emerton Wescomb, and another restoration in the mid twentieth century.
[edit] Owners
- Gervase Pigot
- Gervase Pigot (son) ??? - 1685
- John Emerton 1685 - 1745
- John Wescomb Emerton 1745 - 1823
- John Emerton Wescomb 1823 - 1838
- Rev William Wescomb
- George Byron, 8th Baron Byron ???? – 1870 who had, in 1843, married Lucy Wescomb, the daughter of the Rev. William Wescomb, the last of his family in the male line to own Thrumpton.
- George Byron, 9th Baron Byron 1870 - 1917 who had no children, so the estate once more went 'sideways' to his brother
- Frederick Byron, 10th Baron Byron 1917 - 1949, Vicar of Langford in Essex and while, as it were, 'in waiting' was Vicar of Thrumpton in 1914, succeeding his brother and so becoming 'Squarson' of the estate three years later. The 10th Lord married Lady Anna FitzRoy, sister of the 10th Duke of Grafton and a direct descendant of King Charles II.
- George Fitzroy Seymour 1949 - 1994 (the son of Lady Byron's sister Lady Victoria Seymour (née FitzRoy) and a member of the family of the Marquess of Hertford) and his wife Rosemary, youngest sister of John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden
- Miranda Seymour 1994 - current.
[edit] Features
It contains a magnificent library, medieval kitchen, glorious double cube reception room, baronial hall, and a priest hole. It also hosts a rich collection of portraits, furniture and needlework, as well as various relics of the poet Lord Byron, whose descendants lived at Thrumpton.
Thrumpton Hall is renowned for a superb cantilever Jacobean staircase, carved in wood from the estate. This was added to the earlier house by the Pigot family, and shows their coat of arms and that of the former Powdrell owners. The staircase was supervised by John Webb, a pupil of Inigo Jones.
[edit] Current status
The house, while it remains in private ownership, is available for conferences, weddings and private functions.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
Media related to Thrumpton Hall at Wikimedia Commons
