Bradgate House, Bradgate Park

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Bradgate House ruins

Bradgate House is a 16th-century ruin in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, England.

Edward Grey's son

Lord John Grey of Pirgo.[3] His great-grandson was made Earl of Stamford. Later earls acquired estates in Enville, Staffordshire, and Dunham Massey
, Cheshire.

Bradgate House's ruined chapel and tower

Sometime after 1739 they moved out of Bradgate, which began a long decline.[3] The spectacular ruins of the house are still visible at the centre of the park.[4][5] The house was approximately 200 feet (61 m) long, featuring a main hall measuring 80 by 30 feet (24.4 m × 9.1 m). As well as considerable remains of walls and fireplaces, it has four truncated towers and the chapel is still intact,[6] containing a tomb effigy to Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford and his wife.[7]

In the mid-19th century, George Harry Grey and the 7th Earl of Stamford and Warrington commissioned a new house to be built designed by the architect Mr M.J. Dain of Dain and Parsons, London, and built by the local builder Mr Thomas Rudkin. The new

Bradgate House
was completed in 1856 near the village of Groby, Leicestershire and built in the Jacobean style. It has been referred to as the Calendar House because it had 365 windows, 52 rooms, and 12 main chimneys. The new house was demolished in the mid-1920s when Leicestershire estates were sold by the late Earl's niece Katherine Henrietta Venezia Grey, who incidentally changed her surname to Grey on the condition of her inheritance of the estates from her deceased uncle. The new Bradgate House near the village of Groby is frequently confused with the 16th-century ruined house of the same name in Bradgate Park 2 miles in distance.

See also

  • Bradgate House (19th century)

References

  1. ISBN 1-902685-10-5
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  2. ^ Bradgate Park: the History of Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood
  3. ^ a b Squires, A.E. (1986). "Groby Manor – Bradgate Park". In Squires A.E. and Humphrey W. (ed.). The Medieval Parks of Charnwood Forest. Sycamore Press.
  4. ^ John Leland's itinerary: travels in Tudor England, ed. J. Chandler (1993)
  5. ^ Nichols, J., The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester, 4 vols. (1795–1815)
  6. ^ Forsyth, Mary (1974) The History of Bradgate, The Bradgate Park Trust
  7. ^ Pevsner, Nicklaus (1960). Leicestershire and Rutland. The Buildings of England. Penguin Books.
Bibliography
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books)

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