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The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Gloucestershire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of people associated with those establishments can be linked to this project and/or to individual projects where they have been set up.
Historic houses in alphabetical order
Including Castles, Abbeys, Priories, Manor Houses, Mansions, Stately Homes, Country houses, Estate houses, Courts, Halls, Parks and other listed buildings of historic interest.
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A
● Abbey House, Cirencester
● Ablington Manor
● Acton Court
● Alderley House
B
● Badminton House
● Barnsley Park
● Berkeley Castle (historically sometimes spelt Berkley Castle) is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire. The castle's origins date back to the 11th century and it has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building. The castle has remained within the Berkeley family since they reconstructed it in the 12th century built for Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley, except for a period of royal ownership by the Tudors. It is traditionally believed to be the scene of the murder of King Edward II in 1327
● Bibury Court
● Boxwell Court
● Brockworth Court
C
● Calcot Manor
● Chavenage House
● Cirencester House
● Clearwell Castle
D
● Daneway
● Daylesford
● Dodington Park
● Down Ampney House - Detached hall house. Late C15 or early C16, described by Leland in "Journey through Wiltshire" of 1540-42, altered by Sir John Soane c1799. Built for Hungerford family, in possession from 1361 (earlier manor house built on site c1270) until 1658.
Kelly's Directory 1923 lists Capt. Sydney Dennis as living at Down Ampney House. In... the south transept of t he Church of All Saints, placed within an ornamented arch, in an altar tomb, with recumbent effiges of a knight in armour, representing Sir Nicholas de Villiers and a lady: in the north transept is a marble marble monument, richly gilt, with effiges in armour kneeling, to Sir Anthony Hungerford, kt ob. 1653, and Sir John Hungerford kt. ob. 1637.
The north transept, or Hungerford Chapel, is enclosed within an oak screen. In the chapel is a memorial to Sir James Hungerford and his son Anthony, successive lords of the manor and owners of Down Ampney House. The gilded, ornate monument dates to 1637 and shows father and son facing each other across a prayer desk in a typically pious pose. Directly opposite the memorial, on the west wall, is a small brass plaque to Mary Berkeley, 1st wife of Sir John Hungerford of Down Ampney.
England
Sir John Soane's Museum Collection Online
- Sir Thomas Hungerford, Sr., of Down Ampney (c.1444-1494)
- Sir John Hungerford, of Down Ampney 1460-1524)
- Sir Anthony Hungerford, of Down Ampney (c.1485-1558)
- Sir John Hungerford, of Down Ampney c.1513-1580)
- Sir Anthony Hungerford, Sr. of Down Ampney (1540-1594)
- Samuel Blackwell of Cirencester - 1765
- Mrs. Paul Butler, late of Down Ampney House, lych-gate erected at her cost in 1877.
- Colonel Henry Stratton Bates 1881
- Edmund Cripps 1890s
- Captain Sidney Dennis (1877-1959)
● Dyrham Park
E
● Edgeworth Manor
● Ellenborough Park
● Elmore Court
F
● Frampton Court
● Fretherne Court
G
● Gatcombe Park
H
● Hardwicke Court
● Highgrove House
● Highnam Court
● Horton Court
I
● Icomb Place
J
K
● Kiftsgate Court Gardens
● Kingscote Park
L
● Lasborough Park
● Lodge Park and Sherborne Estate
● Lydney Park
● Lypiatt Park
M
● Manor Farmhouse, Temple Guiting
● The Mythe
N
● Nether Lypiatt Manor
● Newark Park
O
● Owlpen Manor
P
Q
● Quarwood
R
● Rodmarton Manor
S
T
● Sezincote House
● Sheppey Corner
● Sherborne House
● Snowshill Manor
● Speech House
● Stanway House
● St Briavels Castle
● Stonehouse Court Hotel
● Stouts Hill
● Stowell Park
● Stratford Park
● Sudeley Castle
● Swangrove
● Swinhay House
● Thornbury Castle
● Toddington Manor
● Tortworth Court
● Trull House
U-V
W
● Wallsworth Hall
● Westonbirt House
● Whittington Court
● Woodchester Mansion
● Wormington Grange
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References and Sources
Gloucestershire Specific
General
- Stravaiging.com
- Secret Scotland
- Canmore
- Historic Scotland
- National Trust
- English Heritage
- WIKI List of country houses in the UK
- Britain's Finest
- Britain Express
- Lankdmark Trust
- Historic Houses Association - represents 1,500 houses in the UK
- Hudson's Historic Houses and Gardens - UK - guidebook of over 2,000 houses open to the public
- The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses - database of over 7,000 houses
- Lost Heritage - A Memorial to the Lost Country Houses of England - list of over 1,700 houses
- National Trust for Historic Preservation - online database of historic houses in the United States
- WIKI Historic Houses Association
- Historic Houses Association
- WIKI Treasure Houses of England
- List of country houses in the United Kingdom
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