Stover, Teigngrace
Stover is a historic estate in the parish of
The Georgian mansion, sometimes called Stover House, was built by the first James Templer. It is a Grade II* listed building. Since 1932 the house and part of the former estate have been occupied by a private school.
114 acres of the former estate situated south of the A38 now forms Stover Country Park, a nature reserve owned and managed by Devon County Council and open to the public.
History
Templer family
His eldest son and heir, James Templer (1748–1813), built the Stover Canal in 1792. In 1786, together with his two brothers, he rebuilt St Peter and St Paul's Church,[6] the parish church of Teigngrace, as a memorial to his parents,[7] which contains many mural monuments to the Templer family. He married Mary Buller, the third daughter of James Buller.[8]
George Templer (1781–1843) inherited the Stover estate on his father's death. He built the Haytor Granite Tramway to ease the carriage of granite from his quarries to the canal. During his tenure, George founded the South Devon Hunt, with kennels based at Stover. However, he was not a successful businessman and in 1829 was forced to sell Stover House, the canal, the tramway and most of the rest of the family's considerable estates to Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset.[9]
Seymour family
Harold St. Maur (1869–1927), of
20th and 21st centuries
At the start of World War I, Stover House was opened as a hospital for injured soldiers with Mrs St Maur, being a former nurse, acting as Lady Superintendent; but it closed just a year later.[17] Harold St. Maur moved to Kenya where he died in 1927, leaving three sons.[18]
In 1932, Major Richard St. Maur leased Stover House and part of the grounds to Stover Girls' School, which had previously occupied premises in College Road in
From the time of the first James Templer, many trees were planted around the estate. This continued into the 20th century, when the
The Templer Way is an 18-mile-long public footpath and cycleway between Haytor on Dartmoor and Teignmouth on the south coast, which follows the route of the Haytor Granite Tramway and the Stover Canal, both built by the Templer family of Stover for the purpose of exporting granite quarried on Dartmoor.[24]
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Stover House, south front, now mostly obscured by theporte-cochere
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The staircase within the porte-cochere
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The gatehouse from the outside
Notes
- ^ Blazoned as Quarterly azure and gules, the perspective of an antique temple argent on the pinnacle and exterior battlements a cross or; in the first quarter an eagle displayed in the second quarter a stag trippant reguardant both of the last.[1]
- ^ According to Ewans. Other sources refer to it as "Stover Lodge".[2]
- ^ Numerous early sources refer to James Templer's new building as "Stover Lodge".
- , London, 1902
References
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.2217
- ^ a b c d e Historic England. "Stover Park (1001268)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ^ a b c d Ewans, p. 13
- ^ a b Cherry & Pevsner, pp. 768–9
- ^ Historic England. "Former Stables to Stover House approx 50m to north (1308968)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ Cherry & Pevsner, p.793
- ^ Per inscribed stone tablet in entrance hall of church
- ^ Burke's, 1937, p.278, pedigree of Buller of Downes
- ^ Ewans, pp.26–28
- ^ a b Historic England. "Stover House (1334127)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Clock House, Stover School (1308973)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ a b Masters, p.50
- ^ Masters, p.49
- ^ Masters, p.56
- ^ The Complete Peerage vol.XIIpI, p.87, note e.
- ^ "Club History". Stover Golf Club. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ "Great War Poetry – Part 2" Samantha Frances Patricia Little (2015). Archived 21 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Masters, p.57
- ^ Stover. The Story of a School, pp.13–15, 23.
- ^ "History". Stover School. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ Stover. The Story of a School, pp.60–61.
- ^ "Search results for "stover"". Historic England. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ "Stover Country Park – Local Nature Reserve". Devon County Council. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ "Templer Way". Devon County Council. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
Sources
- Cherry, Bridget; ISBN 0-14-071050-7.
- Ewans, M. C. (1966). The Haytor Granite Tramway and Stover Canal. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
- Masters, Brian, The Dukes: Origin, Ennoblement and History of 26 Families, 1980. Google Books
- Stover. The Story of a School. Stover School. 1982. ISBN 0-907854-01-X.
External links
- Joliffe, Judith. "Church History". Teigngrace Village. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021 – via Internet Archive.
- Stover School website