Carlton Towers
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Carlton Towers in the
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History
It is known that there has been a house on the site from at least the 14th century, but nothing visible remains and there is no documentary record.
Lady Beaumont owned Carlton until her death in 1971. During the Second World War the house was used as an auxiliary military hospital but was afterwards restored to its original condition. Her eldest son, Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, 12th Baron Beaumont (1915–2002), inherited both the Beaumont and Howard of Glossop baronies and in 1975 also succeeded his cousin as 17th Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England, with several other peerage titles and also inherited the Duke's estates including his principal seat of Arundel Castle in Sussex, which he made his home. After many years with no residents, Carlton Towers was re-occupied in 1990[10] by his second son Lord Gerald Fitzalan-Howard (born 1962) and his wife Lady Gerald Fitzalan-Howard.[6][7]
In popular culture
The house was used as the location of "Hetton Abbey" for the 1988 film version of
The South Australian Film Corporation also used the house in the film Like Minds (2006), starring Toni Collette.[7] The TV series Micawber starring David Jason used the house for filming.[7] The Darling Buds of May used the house when Carlton Towers appeared as Château Brest in one of the television episodes in which the family was on holiday in France.[7]
The character played by Bernard Cribbins in the 1967 film Casino Royale was named "Carlton Towers of the F.O.", playing off the name of an earlier British comedy, Carlton-Browne of the F.O.[16] Carlton Towers was also the name of several blocks of highrise council flats in the Little London area of Leeds. The flats were demolished in February 2010 as part of a major housing regeneration project.[17]
See also
- Arundel Castle in Sussex, which is the main seat of the Dukes of Norfolk
- Norfolk House, the former London residence of the Dukes of Norfolk
- Thomas Atkinson (architect), added long East Wing in 1765
- Thomas Stapleton, commissioned landscaping of the grounds
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-14-020652-3.
- Sayer, Michael (1993). The Disintegration of a Heritage: Country Houses and their Collections, 1979–1992. Norfolk: Michael Russell (Publishing). ISBN 0-85-955197-0.
References
- ^ "Carlton Towers website".
- ^ He assumed the additional forename of Stapleton in 1975, by deed poll (Debretts Peerage, 2015, p.923)
- ^ Coordinates 53.706589°N 1.017471°W
- ^ Listed 17 November 1966 Ref:1295955 [1]
- ^ Listed building text
- ^ a b c Ingilby, Sir Thomas; Foster, John. "Carlton Towers Yorkshire" (PDF). Ingilby History.
Photographed by Mr Grahame E. Davidson on 29 July 2002
- ^ a b c d e f g HHA. "Carlton Towers". Historic Houses Association. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
Carlton Towers has belonged to the ancestors of the Duke of Norfolk since the Norman Conquest.
- ^ "Carlton Towers, Carlton". British Listed Buildings.
English Heritage Building ID: 326453
- ^ "History of Carlton Towers". BBC. 1986. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
Map of the area from 1986 and 2011
- ^ a b c "A family of medieval prominence". carltontowers.co.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "The history of Carlton Towers". carltontowers.co.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "a township, in the parish of Deane, union of Bolton, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 2½ miles (W. by N.) from Bolton...The property belongs exclusively to H. Tempest, Esq." ('Heath – Heaton-Norris', in A Topographical Dictionary of England, ed. Samuel Lewis (London, 1848), pp. 459–462. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp459-462)
- Broughton Hall, North Yorkshire; Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.129; Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.2215; 'Townships: Heaton', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 9–12. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol5/pp9-12
- ^ HHA (15 April 2012). "Carlton Towers is on TV". Historic Houses Association.
- ^ "The Guest Wing". Radio Times.
Episode guide
- ^ Newton, Matthew. "Casino Royale". MJ Newton.
- ^ "Massive machine takes first bite of high rise". Leeds City Council. 15 February 2010. Archived from the original on 14 October 2014.