DOCSLIB.ORG

Malton Political Associations

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Malton Political Associations Political connections Malton has been associated with national politics since its origin. It returned 2 MPs to Parliament from 1640-1832, and one from 1833-1885. The MPs’ identities reflected not only local but national power relationships throughout this period. Eustace Fitzjohn delivered the castles of Alnwick and Malton to the army of David, king of Scotland who was fighting in support of the claim of Maud, his niece, to the crown held by King Stephen. The Scots garrison at Malton castle was removed by an army of northern nobles under the direction of Archbishop Thurstan of York, who then burned the town in retribution for its affiliation during this, the first English civil war, some would say. Eustace Fitzjohn returned from temporary exile in Scotland to begin rebuilding and fortifying the town and its castle site. Whilst not overtly involved in national politics, the Eures were important regional players, being Lords of various Marches, and several of the male line died in battle – at Towton during the wars of the roses; at Ancram Moor, the culmination of a Eure-led military rampage across southern Scotland which had included the burning and sacking of Edinburgh and Melrose; at Marston Moor, fighting for the Royalist cause, during the English Civil War. Sir William Eure was born 1485 and knighted ‘beneath the banner’ at Tournay in 1513. He was the Sheriff of County Durham 1519-23, of Northumberland, 1526-27 and Lieutenant of the Middle Marches after 1522. By 1538, he was Captain of the town and castle of Berwick and Warden of the East Marches and was a member of the Council of the North after 1540. He owned Warkworth as well as Malton and lived mainly at Witton Castle. He was created Lord Eure in 1544, dying in 1547. His eldest son Ralph had already died at the battle of Ancram Moor, itself the culmination of a blood- letting adventure begun some months earlier with the burning of Edinburgh by Hertford’s army of which Eure’s 4,000 regiment of Border Horse had been a part. During the following July – November 1544, “ ‘The whole number of towns, towers, steads, bastell houses seized, destroyed and burnt in all the border country was an hundred and ninety-two. Scots slain, 400, prisoners taken, 815, nolt 10,386, sheep 12,492, nags and geldings 1,296, gatys 200, bolls of corn 850, inside gear, etc, an infinite quantity’” (Haynes, Murdin, collection of state papers left by William Cecil Lord Burghley). In September, Eikford church and town were burned, as well as Moss Tower, its 34 occupants slain; more than 500 nolt and 600 sheep taken, as well as 100 horse-loads of loot from the tower. Coldingham Abbey was seized and Melrose ransacked before Eure’s raiders were confronted at Ancrum Moor by an army under the command of the Earl of Arran. Sir Ralph was buried at Melrose. His son William inherited upon his grandfather’s death, becoming the 2 nd Lord Eure. He became Captain of Berwick castle and Warden of the Middle Marches, but lived mainly at Ingleby Greenhow, where his house around 2 courtyards survives. Built in the C16, it seems likely to have been the 2 nd Lord Eure’s creation. (Ralph, 3 rd Lord Eure sold Ingleby in 1608, having built his own Prodigy House in Malton by 1604). William also had a house in York, where he commanded the County Militia that resisted the ‘Rising of the Northern Earls’ and was Vice-President of the Council of the North, as well as the Protestant that such a position required (the Eures of Malton during the C17 were Catholics, suggesting that the 2 nd Lord Eure’s Protestantism may have been pragmatic rather than real. His participation in the minor persecution of local Catholics may confirm, rather than confound this). He died in 1593 and was buried at Ingleby. Ralph, 3 rd Lord Eure was born at Berwick Castle in 1558. He married Mary Dawnay, receiving a dowry of £2,000 (£340,000, 2008), which may have contributed significantly to his building fund in Malton. He lived mainly at Ingleby and then Malton. Contrary to received wisdom, it is unlikely that he had an earlier house upon the Castle site after 1569. The Prodigy House was built immediately after his acquisition of the Clifford share of the castle and manor of New Malton in 1599. Any residence he had in Malton prior to the construction of the new house in 1604 was likely elsewhere in town – perhaps on the site of Strickland’s hunting lodge, or even York House. Ralph Eure attended St John’s College, Cambridge and then travelled widely across Europe during 1582 and 1583: to France, Italy and Germany, becoming proficient in several languages as well as in classical architectural detail, on the evidence of the former gatehouse, the Old Lodge, the detail of which displays unusual sophistication for its time. He became MP for Yorkshire in 1584 and was part of the commission that negotiated with James VI his transition to the English throne. He was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1593 and became a member of the Council of the North after 1594; Vice President of the Council after 1600. He was briefly Warden of the Middle March in 1595 but, perhaps reflecting the southward shifting of the family, his authority was not accepted by local lords. By 1599, when he extended his ownership of Malton, he was raising an army in the North Riding to serve in Ireland. He was prevailed upon by Elizabeth 1 to act as ‘Ambassador Extraordinary’ in later life as a result, to the King of Denmark and the Emperor Rudolph II in 1603. By 1604 he had completed a large mansion on the site of Malton Castle. This was compared at the time to Temple Newsam and Audley End, but no images of it survive and little obvious trace on the ground. Purey-Cast, writing in 1890 said that “ It is easy to trace the site...it must have extended round 3 sides of a quadrangle similar to Cobham Hall in Kent...The gateway...has been converted into a charming hall [using panelling and probably chimney pieces recycled from the mansion after 1674]. Above a curiously carved wooden chimney piece are still the arms of Lord Eure.” Barker elaborates: “Another sitting room is panelled with Jacobean panelling. Pillars in pairs break into separate panels the wainscoting round the room. Elaborately carved pilasters support the mantelpiece, which consists of four bas reliefs depicting the story of Jonah, in carved oak” (p50) Both of these chimney pieces – almost certainly made originally for the Prodigy House - were stolen from the Lodge around 1992, though the over-mantle of one, bearing the Eure arms, remains as a dislocated decoration on a wall. This theft was one of the more serious losses of cultural property in Malton’s history and certainly one of the most avoidable. Ongoing efforts should be made to locate these chimney pieces so that they might be re-united with the site in the future. In 1607, Ralph was appointed President of the Council of the Marches of Wales, and was buried in Ludlow upon his death there in 1617. In 1611, his son William, yet to become 4 th Lord Eure, had purchased the Conyers third of the Manors of New Malton, Welham and Sutton, thus consolidating ownership of the whole manor – and very much of the town – in the hands of the Eures. He lived at Ingleby, but this was sold in 1608. In 1622, William, now Lord Eure sold his holdings in Stokesley and also Witton Castle. The Eure Estates and their influence had begun to seriously wane by this time, having each reached their peak under his father Ralph. William was a Catholic and a recusant, a serious disadvantage politically and financially at this time. In 1625, Lord Clifford seized arms and armour from the house, to raise monies to pay fines associated with the Eure recusancy. In 1632, the house was besieged, and then seized after a breach in its wall was ‘battered by a great piece ordnance’. The house was returned immediately but by 1635 William was opining that trustees, “ to pay his debts, had sold most of his estate and leased the rest and yet many debts remained unpaid. He offered to make any settlement, provided he retained the Malton house, the honour of his family and the park” (Barker, 53). Eure claimed that £32,000 had been taken out of his estate - £2,853,000 in modern currency values. William, 4 th Lord Eure died in 1646. He was buried in the former Priory Church at Old Malton. His second son William pre-deceased him, killed fighting Cromwell’s New Model Army at Marston Moor, as did his eldest son, Ralph, who had been killed in a duel. Reflecting the diminishing fortunes of the family, William had sold all of his lands for £6000. His wife had written in 1642 that “ Times are soe bad here we have not made on peney on ower coles, and we have not received on peney from Misterton [her family lands], soe my husband was forst to send for thos rents as were gathered up to keepe life and soule together, which was but on hundred pounds. I still have half my rents behind. I am in such a great rage with Parliament ...for they promised us all should be well if my Lord Strafford’s [Sir Thomas Wentworth, whose descendants were to purchase all remaining Eure lands in Malton, 1n 1713] head ware off, and since there is nothing better’” (Margaret Eure, nee Denton, 1642, in Barker 56) The Eure estates and title were inherited by Ralph’s son William, still a child, in 1646.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Praetorium of Edmund Artis: a Summary of Excavations and Surveys of the Palatial Roman Structure at Castor, Cambridgeshire 1828–2010 by STEPHEN G
    Britannia 42 (2011), 23–112 doi:10.1017/S0068113X11000614 The Praetorium of Edmund Artis: A Summary of Excavations and Surveys of the Palatial Roman Structure at Castor, Cambridgeshire 1828–2010 By STEPHEN G. UPEX With contributions by ADRIAN CHALLANDS, JACKIE HALL, RALPH JACKSON, DAVID PEACOCK and FELICITY C. WILD ABSTRACT Antiquarian and modern excavations at Castor, Cambs., have been taking place since the seventeenth century. The site, which lies under the modern village, has been variously described as a Roman villa, a guild centre and a palace, while Edmund Artis working in the 1820s termed it the ‘Praetorium’. The Roman buildings covered an area of 3.77 ha (9.4 acres) and appear to have had two main phases, the latter of which formed a single unified structure some 130 by 90 m. This article attempts to draw together all of the previous work at the site and provide a comprehensive plan, a set of suggested dates, and options on how the remains could be interpreted. INTRODUCTION his article provides a summary of various excavations and surveys of a large group of Roman buildings found beneath Castor village, Cambs. (centred on TL 124 984). The village of Castor T lies 8 km to the west of Peterborough (FIG. 1) and rises on a slope above the first terrace gravel soils of the River Nene to the south. The underlying geology is mixed, with the lower part of the village (8 m AOD) sitting on both terrace gravel and Lower Lincolnshire limestone, while further up the valley side the Upper Estuarine Series and Blisworth Limestone are encountered, with a capping of Blisworth Clay at the top of the slope (23 m AOD).1 The slope of the ground on which the Roman buildings have been arranged has not been emphasised enough or even mentioned in earlier accounts of the site.2 The current evidence suggests that substantial Roman terracing and the construction of revetment or retaining walls was required to consolidate the underlying geology.
    [Show full text]
  • Biographical Appendix
    Biographical Appendix The following women are mentioned in the text and notes. Abney- Hastings, Flora. 1854–1887. Daughter of 1st Baron Donington and Edith Rawdon- Hastings, Countess of Loudon. Married Henry FitzAlan Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, 1877. Acheson, Theodosia. 1882–1977. Daughter of 4th Earl of Gosford and Louisa Montagu (daughter of 7th Duke of Manchester and Luise von Alten). Married Hon. Alexander Cadogan, son of 5th Earl of Cadogan, 1912. Her scrapbook of country house visits is in the British Library, Add. 75295. Alten, Luise von. 1832–1911. Daughter of Karl von Alten. Married William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, 1852. Secondly, married Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, 1892. Grandmother of Alexandra, Mary, and Theodosia Acheson. Annesley, Katherine. c. 1700–1736. Daughter of 3rd Earl of Anglesey and Catherine Darnley (illegitimate daughter of James II and Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester). Married William Phipps, 1718. Apsley, Isabella. Daughter of Sir Allen Apsley. Married Sir William Wentworth in the late seventeenth century. Arbuthnot, Caroline. b. c. 1802. Daughter of Rt. Hon. Charles Arbuthnot. Stepdaughter of Harriet Fane. She did not marry. Arbuthnot, Marcia. 1804–1878. Daughter of Rt. Hon. Charles Arbuthnot. Stepdaughter of Harriet Fane. Married William Cholmondeley, 3rd Marquess of Cholmondeley, 1825. Aston, Barbara. 1744–1786. Daughter and co- heir of 5th Lord Faston of Forfar. Married Hon. Henry Clifford, son of 3rd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, 1762. Bannister, Henrietta. d. 1796. Daughter of John Bannister. She married Rev. Hon. Brownlow North, son of 1st Earl of Guilford, 1771. Bassett, Anne. Daughter of Sir John Bassett and Honor Grenville.
    [Show full text]
  • February 2018
    Living Villages WANSFORD COMMUNITY HALL Peterborough Road, Wansford This hall accommodates parties of up to 36 people seated. Ideal for Meetings, Workshops, Aerobics etc GREAT VALUE AT ONLY £4 per hour FOR BOOKINGS TELEPHONE John Stannage 07879 485330 S K CONTRACTS Award Winning Builders & Carpenters Winner LABC 2009 Awards Family run business offering high quality workmanship and customer satisfaction with over 33 years of experience. • New House Builds • Commercial Conversions • Domestic Extensions • Loft Conversions • Stone Property Renovations • On Site Joinery • Orangeries • Conservatories 6 Old North Road, Wansford, Peterborough PE8 6LB Tel: 07970 700767 [email protected] www.skbuildersandcarpenters.co.uk 2 EDITORIAL CONTENTS Contacts 4 I’m delighted to be able to inform all our readers Worship Lists 5 and advertisers that Gordon Alleyne is joining Reflections 7 the LV Editorial Team as the Treasurer. If you NEWS REPORTS: need to contact him, his details are on the next Friends of churches: page. Through this column I welcome him to this Water Newton 8 volunteer run publication, delivered free to 750 Wansford and homes. More than 50% of the publication is Thornhaugh 9 dedicated to local churches, clubs and societies, we cover village events and have regular articles St John the Baptist 8 on local history and nature. We evolved from a Stibbington Centre 13 church/parish magazine in the 1960’s (or earlier) Communicare 14 Hort Society 15 to where we are today and we look forward to WI 29 being able to continue in the future with the wonderful support of our advertisers, sponsors, PARISH COUNCILS: distributors and contributors Thornhaugh 24/25 Wansford 26 Once again as I was starting to put this edition together accidents on major roads around our SPECIAL FEATURES: Community Carol villages caused severe disruption to the area.
    [Show full text]
  • 'The Marquess of Rockingham's House In
    Elspeth Veale, ‘The Marquess of Rockingham’s house in Wimbledon’, The Georgian Group Journal, Vol. XIV, 2004, pp. 243–260 TEXT © THE AUTHORS 2004 THE MARQUESS OF ROCKINGHAM’S HOUSE IN WIMBLEDON ELSPETH VEALE he Wimbledon of the ’s was a small but known about it. For only a few years does the curtain Tgrowing village of some one thousand people, lift, the years between and when the its population assessed in at , , largely Marquess of Rockingham leased the house and left, concentrated in the centre of a big parish which among his many papers, detailed accounts relating to extended from the Beverley Brook on the west to the his years in Wimbledon. River Wandle on the east. It was overshadowed by its The house may have been built for Richard le more populous Thameside rivals, Putney ( , in Bas, a member of a Huguenot family from Caen who ) and Wandsworth ( , in ). The shops died in . It was bought at some date by Sir and homes of its chief villagers lay along Church Theodore Janssen, a fellow Huguenot and wealthy Road and the High Street from the Dog and Fox Inn London merchant, possibly with a view to living northwards. The larger properties of the gentry, over there himself. But at first he let it while he pursued of the households listed in , lay on the more ambitious plans which culminated in the south and west side of the Common, with smaller purchase of the manor of Wimbledon in . He recently-built cottages beyond (Fig. ). Further away followed this by planning and building a new house, lay a few scattered properties and a small settlement on fashionable Palladian lines, with a six-acre of about houses near the mills on the Wandle.
    [Show full text]
  • Chapter 16 Marholm Village and Buildings
    Chapter 16 Marholm Village and Buildings History of the Village Marholm village lies approximately four miles West of Peterborough and one mile from the seat of the Fitzwilliam family at Milton Hall. The parish covers some fourteen hundred acres, with the village positioned roughly in the centre. Today it remains a peaceful, largely agricultural community of some two hundred people. Although during the past fifty years the domination of agriculture has diminished, the village retains a rural feel, and in many ways is unchanged from its earlier history, despite the modern development, and proximity to a burgeoning city. To a large extent, this tranquillity has been preserved by the protection derived from Milton Estate, which has retained ownership of much of the property in the village. In addition, the Estate has curtailed further encroachment from the city beyond Mucklands Wood to the East, which delineates the border of Milton’s sales, in the 1960s, of land to the Peterborough Development Corporation for the expansion of the city. The name of the village most probably derives from ‘mere’, meaning pool, and ‘ham’, or settlement, and may refer to the pools by the Manor House. During the Middle Ages, the name was alternatively Marham, Marreham, Marrenham, Mareham, Morham and Marhome. By the 18th century it was commonly referred to as Marham and later known by the present spelling, Marholm [1]. Early History The early history of the village is obscure, with few known archaeological sites. Not surprisingly, however, in view of its proximity to the flourishing Roman settlement in Castor, there is some evidence of their presence in the area now embraced by Marholm.
    [Show full text]
  • Peterborough Heritage Open Days
    7TH – 10TH SEPTEMBER 2017 PETERBOROUGH HERITAGE OPEN DAYS incredible venues in and around Peterborough for you to explore, FREE Find out more information at: www.peterboroughcivicsociety.org.uk/heritage-open-days.php PETERBOROUGH HERITAGE OPEN DAYS PETERBOROUGH HERITAGE OPEN DAYS PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL, MINSTER PRECINCTS, PETERBOROUGH, PE1 1XS Explore Hidden Spaces… We’re opening up some of our buildings for you to explore, with guides on hand to answer any questions. These are open 11am – 4pm on Saturday 9 September, 12noon – 3pm on Sunday 10 September. Cathedral Library Almoner’s Hall Tucked away above the Cathedral’s 14th century Explore the medieval Almonry and find out porch is our remarkable and unseen library! about the role the abbey played in caring for the (Please note: access via spiral staircase). poor of Peterborough. Knights’ Chamber Inside the Cathedral’s Visitor Centre is the 13th century Knights’ Chamber, a recently restored medieval hall. Medieval costumed guides will be on hand to chat to visitors. Special Guided Tour - Cathedral Taster Tours Table Hall and the Infirmary Find out about the people, events and stories CELEBRATE Discover the remains of the Abbey’s Hospital, that are connected to the Cathedral, a centre including a rare chance to go inside the 15th for Christian worship for over 1300 years with century Table Hall. Tour lasts just over an hour one of our expert tour guides. HERITAGE OPEN DAYS and places are limited (pre-booking strongly Tours last about 45 minutes, meet inside the advised); meet at the Cathedral’s main entrance. Cathedral’s main entrance. Heritage Open Days celebrate England’s fantastic architecture and culture Tours at 11.30am and 2pm on Saturday 9 September, Tours at 11.30am and 2pm on Saturday 9 September by offering free access to properties that are usually closed to the public or 2pm on Sunday 10 September.
    [Show full text]
  • The 2Nd Marquis of Rockingham's Properties in 1776
    THE 2ND MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM’S PROPERTIES IN 1776 Stephen Cooper In the 18th century the owners of Wentworth Woodhouse were noblemen. It was a pre-democratic age, when the aristocracy (along with the gentry) still enjoyed enormous wealth and exercised enormous power. The 2nd Marquis of Rockingham (1730-1782) was one of the richest men in Britain, and was Prime Minister twice, though briefly. He owned a large estate in what we now call South Yorkshire, and an even larger one in County Wicklow in Ireland. He sat in the House of Lords, controlled two ‘pocket boroughs’ and influenced elections in dozens of constituencies in the House of Commons, was Lord Lieutenant in his home County of Yorkshire, and controlled the militia there. He also owned or leased several houses apart from Wentworth House (as he called it). My curiosity was aroused when I happened to read the account of a trial in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, 1674-1913. On 30 August 1786 one John Brown was indicted for ‘feloniously stealing a black gelding, price £14, the property of John Sharman of Girton near Ryegate in Surrey. One of the witnesses for the prosecution was William Bruce, who was a shoe-maker and boot-maker at Lambeth-Marsh, next door to the Queen’s Head. He said that the accused rented ‘one pair of stairs’ in Sharman’s house, which consisted of three rooms in all. When asked what sort of man Brown was, Sharman replied: He told me when he came to lodge with me, he was a gentleman’s servant, and I having [sic] been a gentleman’s servant myself; I lived with the Marquis of Rockingham about ten years ago;1 and at Wimbledon I lived with him seven years; I was footman to my Lady:2 I went down to Wentworth with him, and to Little Harriden [sic]; that was the very time when they left that house on Parson’s Green, before they went to Mr Rush’s House at Wimbledon.
    [Show full text]
  • Fabian Summer Walk – Some Background Notes
    Fabian Summer Walk – Some Background Notes Alwalton – Some history Traces of early man have been found. In Roman times a building of some kind evidently existed at Alwalton, and various coins and pieces of pottery, etc., have been found. King Edred granted the land at Alwalton in 955 to his thegn Aelfsige Hunlafing. It was afterwards given to the Abbey of Peterborough, which held Alwalton at the time of the Conquest. Alwalton was listed in the Domesday Book [1086] as “Alwoltune”. It records that there were 20 households with a population between 70 and 100. In the 2011 census the population was 317. Alwalton used to be in the administrative county of Huntingdonshire until 1965. Apparently locals are still fiercely loyal to the old county – or at least identify with it as a shire district, rather than Cambridgeshire. References Archive images – Alwalton British History Online – Alwalton British History Online – Parishes, Alwalton Welcome to Peterborough – Alwalton Wikipedia: Alwalton Wikipedia: Huntingdonshire Alwalton Marble Alwalton marble is known to have been used from the 12th century until 1875**. It was used in the cathedrals at Lincoln, Peterborough, Bury St Edmunds and Ely, and in Southwell Minster, as well as many parish churches, such as Barnack. The quarry site has been identified as the Alwalton Lynch escarpment on the banks of the River Nene (which provided a convenient way of transporting the stone). (** though one source indicated that quarrying continued into the 1920's) References Virtual Microscope – Limestone – Alwalton Marble Alwalton Lynch Escarpment Marble Quarry An Alwalton Marble Capital Cambridgeshire Geological Society – Nene Valley Historic England – Alwalton Limestone Quarries Nene Living – Finding our Marble! Virtual Microscope – Limestone – Alwalton Marble Alwalton Hall The red brick wing dates back to the 1780's.
    [Show full text]
  • Wentworth Woodhouse First Earl of Strafford
    Wentworth Woodhouse First Earl of Strafford Wentworth Woodhouse, standing in a park of 250 acres & situated about four miles from Rotherham, with its East Front of over 600 feet & its courts & buildings covering three acres or more of ground, is ranked as perhaps the very largest of the country palaces created by our 18th Century Whig Magnates. It was the home of Charles 1st’s ill­fated administrator, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. There were Wentworths at Wentworth in the 13th Century & there they continued until 1695. Then, on the death of William 2nd Earl of Strafford, son of the 1st Earl, it passed to Thomas Watson, a son of his sister who had married Edward 2nd Baron Rockingham. He died in 1723 & was succeeded by his only son, Thomas Wentworth, who was created 1st Marquess of Rockingham in 1746 & died in 1750. He was succeeded by his fifth & youngest son, Charles, 2nd & last Marquess of Rockingham, who died in 1782 without issue. Wentworth then passed to William 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, who was the eldest son of the Marquess’ eldest sister who had married the 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam of Milton. It remained in the hands of the Fitzwilliam family until 1989. The house & around 90 acres of land were then bought by Mr Wensley Haydon­Baillie, a businessman, who was here for 10 years. In 1999, it was bought by Mr Clifford Newbold & his family, who were in the process of restoring the house to its former glory upto 2015. Since then the Wentworth preservation Trust have taken over.
    [Show full text]
  • CAMBS GARDEN TRUST News 10/04
    NEWSLETTER No. 17 OCTOBER 2004 PRESIDENT THE LORD FAIRHAVEN PATRONS Lady Crossman Lord and Lady De Ramsey Lady Nourse Mrs D Astor Lady Proby Dr J Parker Mr C Vane Percy COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT Mr J. Drake .............Chairman Mrs E. Davies Mr M. Wilkinson ..Secretary Dr W. Emmerson Mr T. Hayward.......Treasurer Mr A Brown Mrs A. Gould Mr C Malyon Mrs J. Trevor CHAIRMAN’S LETTER hope you that you will find this Newsletter of interest as it consists of Ireports about gardens we visited during the summer illustrated with a range of maps, prints and photographs found in various magazines and books. So my letter is much shorter. I would like to especially thank Mr and Mrs Alan Bowkett who kindly invited us to see their garden at Croxton Park and I am pleased to report that this raised £900 for the restoration for Ramsey Abbey Walled Kitchen Garden Trust. This trust has now been granted charity status and there has been much interest in the project, even BBC Cambridge Local Radio is now giving weekly progress reports to listeners on Saturday mornings. I would very much like to thank all garden owners who have allowed members to visit their properties this year, the highlight being the garden at Milton Park which we had all waited patiently for two years to see. We are giving Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland, Bt a plant of Rhododendron Lady Alice Fitzwilliam in appreciation of our visit. Christopher Taylor has kindly donated copies of his articles about the layout of the gardens at Babraham Park and its water systems for the meadows.
    [Show full text]
  • Planning and EP Committee 5 July 2016 Item 3 Application Ref: 16
    Planning and EP Committee 5 July 2016 Item 3 Application Ref: 16/00590/FUL Proposal: Proposed extensions to create new administration accommodation with theatre suite over with plant room in roof and associated link corridor, new first floor level modular construction theatre store and new single storey waiting area. Various internal remodelling works to restaurant, physiotherapy department and main reception waiting accommodation. External works to create additional parking bays Site: Fitzwilliam Hospital, Milton Way, Bretton, Peterborough Applicant: Ramsay Health Care UK Ltd Agent: Hall Needham Associates LLP Referred by: Councillor Coles Reason: Impact upon neighbour amenity, overdevelopment and parking issues Site visit: 21.04.2016 Case officer: Miss Louise Lovegrove Telephone No. 01733 454439 E-Mail: [email protected] Recommendation: GRANT subject to relevant conditions 1 Description of the site and surroundings and Summary of the proposal Site and Surroundings The application site comprises the Fitzwilliam Hospital, a well-established private hospital. It is located within a predominantly residential area, with the site bound to the north, east and west by residential dwellings. To the south, the site is bound by Milton Park (included in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest) and the associated Grade I Listed Building of Milton Hall. The building within the site is largely single storey in height albeit there are some two and three storey elements to the south-eastern elevation. It is set back within the site, located centrally with car parking to the north, east and west. There is some soft landscaping around the site boundaries comprising a mixture of mature hedging and semi-mature trees albeit the southern boundary is formed by a mature tree belt.
    [Show full text]
  • Sampson Frisby (13H1): Rediscovering the Career and Milieu of a 17Th‑Century Freemason
    Sampson Frisby (13h1): rediscovering the career and milieu of a 17th‑century freemason by JENNIFER S. ALEXANDER and KATHRYN A. MORRISON Sampson Frisby (1597-1656) was a prolific stonemason, active in Northamptonshire and surrounding counties in the first half of the 17th century. His distinctive personal mason’s mark has been identified in the accounts of Clare College, Cambridge, and discovered on the ashlar of several significant country houses and churches. This allows his career to be reconstructed, beginning in the important workshop of the master mason Thomas Thorpe (c.1565-1626) in Kings Cliffe around 1618. This study reveals how masons’ marks can illuminate the process of building in the early modern period, developing a methodological approach first published by the authors in 2007.1 It additionally stimulates speculation about the career of Sampson’s father, the equally prolific Humphrey Frisby (d.1624/25), and highlights two factors that had a profound effect on the Frisby family and their contemporaries: the supplanting of Kings Cliffe by Ketton as a regional quarrying centre, and the subsequent disruption of the Civil War. BACKGROUND In 2006, working from scaffolding, the authors collated masons’ marks visible on the ashlar stonework of 1622‑24 at Apethorpe Hall (now known as Apethorpe Palace), near Kings Cliffe in Northamptonshire.2 For analysis, these marks were encoded using a formula based on the number of strokes involved, a system originally developed for the study of phasing in ecclesiastical buildings.3 Comparison with sets of marks found on securely attributed buildings of similar date, notably two well‑documented Norfolk houses, Blickling Hall (1618‑23) and Hunstanton Hall (1616‑24), made it possible to identify the Apethorpe master mason as Thomas Thorpe (c.1565‑1626).
    [Show full text]