William Sandys, of the Vyne

Sir Walter’s older son Thomas Sandys grew up at East Cholderton. His wife’s name was Sybil and they had two sons: William born in 1439 and Christopher born about two years later. Thomas died in 1442 and, after Sybil died in 1445, it is presumed that William and Christopher were brought up by their uncle William with his own family.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vyne entury estate and country house outside Sherborne St John near Basingstoke in Hampshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building.[1]. The Vyne was built for Lord Sandys, Henry VIII's Lord Chamberlain.[2] The house retains its Tudor chapel, with stained glass. The classical portico on the north front, the first of its kind in England, was added in 1654 by Inigo Jones's pupil John Webb[3] for the lawyer and politician Chaloner Chute.[4] In the mid-eighteenth century The Vyne belonged to Horace Walpole's close friend John Chaloner Chute, who designed the Palladian staircase, whose magnificent apparent scale belies its actual small size.[3] The Vyne holds an inscribed Roman ring as well as a lead tablet that speaks of a curse on the one who stole it. J. R. R. Tolkien was asked to comment on it as an expert on Anglo-Saxon history, including its connection to a mine fabled to have been dug by dwarves, and a few days after began writing Lord of the Rings.