Arbury Hall
| Arbury Hall | |
| Warwickshire | |
|---|---|
 South front of Arbury Hall | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP335893 |
| Location: | 52°30’2"N, 1°30’29"W |
| History | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Viscount Daventy |
| Website: | arburyestate.co.uk |
Arbury Hall is a country house by Nuneaton in Warwickshire and the ancestral home of the Newdigate baronets, of the Newdigate, later the Newdigate-Newdegate and Fitzroy-Newdegate family. The owner today is James Edward FitzRoy Newdegate, 4th Viscount Daventry.
The hall is built on the site of the former Arbury Priory in a mixture of Tudor and 18th-century Gothic Revival architecture, the latter being the work of Sir Roger Newdigate from designs by Henry Keene. Today it is Grade I listed.
The hall is set in 300 acres of parkland. The 19th-century author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) was born on one of the estate farms in 1819, the daughter of the estate's land agent. She immortalised Arbury Hall as "Cheverel Manor" in Scenes of Clerical Life, where it is the setting for "Mr Gilfil's Love Story".[1]
Miscellany
The film Angels and Insects was shot entirely at Arbury Hall and within the grounds.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Arbury Hall) |
- Arbury Estate
- Arbury Hall&nbps;- Heritage Gateway
- Heritage page about Arbury Hall
- Historic Houses Association page about Arbury Hall