[1] Wimpole is the largest house in Cambridgeshire. By using this website, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with our. Tamara and I went to hear him talk.… Wimpole was settled on his son Gerald, the seventh Viscount, but it was often shut up. At that time there was a moated manor house set in a small 81 hectares (200 acres) deer-park. H Repton, Red Book for Wimpole Park, 1801 (private collection)Description written: May 2000 There was one schoolroom and a teacher's house. Wimpole History Festival. L Brown, Design for the lakes and the northern extension of the park at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, 1767 (private collection) Enjoy falconry, sword school and archery, catch a talk by your favourite author or come and participate in our ’50 Things’ activities. The main doorway to the garden is on the south wall, through a gate hung on tall piers surmounted by ball finials. Until 1999, the main settlement on the A603 was officially known and signed as New Wimpole and Orwell, Cambridge Road. Testing vertical aerial photography methods at British Camp on the Malvern Hills. Wimpole Hall, (1979) Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 438 Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 263 Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment. Benjamin Hare, Survey plan of the Wimpole Estate, 1638 (R77/1, copy), (Cambridgeshire Record Office) C Bridgeman, Proposals for the layout of the park, early C18 (Bodleian Library) House (featured building) Description: Wimpole Hall is a substantial neo-classical mansion house built of red brick with limestone dressings under a hipped and balustraded slate roof. The house welcomes you with a huge introduction into Wimpole Hall’s history. Charles Yorke, the fifth Earl who inherited Wimpole in 1873 led such an extravagant lifestyle that within fifteen years his debts forced the sale of the estate. Jonathan Saul Freedland is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian. Wimpole History Festival (20-21 June) is a day out full of things to see and do, come and enjoy the hidden stories of the past with our interactive ‘living history’ displays. Like many other estates managed by the National Trust, a range of organised events and less formal access arrangements now use Wimpole Park. To accommodate the tourists they even have a little tearoom. [3] The last of this family to hold the house was the politician Thomas Chicheley, who was responsible for the "new" house that was completed in 1650. An inner rectangular red-brick wall (listed grade II) encloses an area currently (1999) under restoration as a fruit and vegetable garden. [11], In 1938, Capt. Earliest Date: 31 Dec 1639 Latest Date: 31 Dec 1639 Gateway Description: The grand gateway consisting of wrought-iron gates and railings with Portland stone piers was erected by H E Kendall in 1851. Detailed history. North of the ha-ha lies a string of serpentine lakes, created by Brown out of Lord Radnor's late C17 fishponds. Shaped by some of history’s greatest architects, artists and designers, Wimpole remains a working ... pick up a trail in the hall or try geocaching in the parkland. John Laing Collection JLP01/08/007475, New Heritage Partnership Agreement Signed at King's Cross Station, Brixton Windmill - Friends of Brixton Windmill. A second serpentine ha-ha (partly by Brown, partly mid C19, listed grade II) crosses the north park c 250m north of the Hall, just to the south of which, close to the western boundary stood an icehouse, no longer extant, built by Flitcroft on Mill Mound. These are crossed by a wooden Chinese Bridge (of late C18 design, rebuilt in the late 1970s, listed grade II) which leads to a grass slope scattered with trees at the summit of which stands the Gothic-style Folly Castle (listed grade II*), designed by Sanderson Miller and built under Brown's supervision by James Essex in 1768-72. The ground plan has a double-pile central block with lower flanking wings. Many of the enclosing belts of trees in both the North and South Park, which contain a perimeter drive by Brown and were consolidated by Repton when the park was extended to the south and west in the early C19, have survived.KITCHEN GARDEN [7] In 1740, Edward sold Wimpole to Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, in order to pay off his debts. Edited: January 2001. The grand gateway (listed grade II) consisting of wrought-iron gates and railings with Portland stone piers was erected by H E Kendall in 1851 to replace lodges designed by John Soane in the 1790s. [25][26] The Wimpole's Folly castle on the estate is listed Grade II*. A unique working estate owned by the National Trust, which includes a grand mansion, Home Farm with rare breed animals, gardens and parkland. It is dominated by Charles Bridgeman's great double South Avenue which runs from the drive south of the Hall for more than 4km across the park and out over the surrounding farmed landscape. The present gardens lie on the site of the late C17 formal parterres which were removed by the succession of 'naturalistic' designers working at Wimpole before being partially put back by Humphry Repton. The block was designed by Henry Kendall and built in 1852 to replace the original late C17 stable which stood just to the south of the church.GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. 595 likes. Wimpole Hall run by the National trust on the Wimpole Estate near Cambridge, England, UK Parish Church of St. Andrew, Wimpole, England. A second turn off the Cambridge Road c 1.8km south-east of the Hall passes the mid C19 Southern Lodge and meets the east drive at the point where the two enter the park.PRINCIPAL BUILDING Over the centuries, Wimpole has been owned by several families, and each has left its mark. A Brief History Wimpole's first school "for poor children" opened in 1807, founded and supported by Elizabeth Yorke, Countess of Hardwicke. R Greening, Design for the garden at Wimpole Hall, c 1752 (private collection) The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority. Summer, Wimpole Hall, a 17th century English stately home, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia England UK, home of the Earl of Hardwicke. In the 11th century ‘Wimpole’ was listed in the Domesday Book but there is evidence that the Romans lived in this area too. Wimpole Hall and Estate: The Owners of Wimpole Hall A quick guide through 550 years of 'Big House' history. [15], Bridgeman's formal grand avenue sweeps away from the south front of the house for two and a half miles, in contrast with the remainder of the park which was "naturalised" by Capability Brown. On the 1st April 1999, following a parish boundary N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire (1970), p 488 [2], The Wimpole Park Estate contains a number of listed buildings and structures. Carved marble busts of the Roman emperors Trajan and Galba were returned to Wimpole in 2014 and placed on the original wooden plinths which had been carved for them by Rattee and Kett in around 1860. Wimpole was gradually stripped and let to a series of tenants, the last of whom, Captain and Mrs George Bambridge finally purchased the estate from Clifden in 1938. A shorter and narrower South Avenue was already extant when Bridgeman came to Wimpole but he replanted and extended it using elms, which were lost in the 1970s and have since been replanted with lime. [5] In 1689, Sir John gave it as a marriage settlement to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor. [2] On the death of Elizabeth in 1697, without an heir, the estate passed to Edmund Boulter, nephew of Sir John Cutler. The exceptions to this are the south-west boundary which is formed by Arrington village and the end of the South Avenue which is terminated by the old A14 Ermine Street Roman road. Chicheley sold the estate to a city merchant, Sir John Cutler, in 1684, who was succeeded on his death in 1693 by his son-in-law Charles Robartes, second Earl of Radnor. A new school was built in 1853 at New Wimpole, again supported by the Yorke Family. Wimpole is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, about 8 1⁄2 miles (13.7 km) southwest of Cambridge. Tithe map for Wimpole parish, 1851 (Cambridgeshire Record Office)OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1886 Prior to this there had been a medieval moated manor house, just to the north-west of the present buildings. Over the years some of the most renowned names in English architecture have contributed to Wimpole, from James Gibbs to Henry Flitcroft and Sir John Soane. George Bambridge and his wife, Elsie, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, purchased it after having been tenants since 1932. [4] Chicheley established the "formal gardens and architectural landscape". Grade II listed Sandford Parks Lido, Cheltenham. There will also be historically-themed guided walks in the parkland. At that period the Hall became a resort for scholars, antiquaries, and authors, including the earls' friend, the poet Matthew Prior, who died there in 1721. In 1943 the British army requisitioned land from the owners of Wimpole Hall, the Bambridges, in order to build a general hospital to deal with casualties from the expected future invasion of Europe. 2nd edition published 1903 2nd edition published 1901Archival items In 1710 it was in the possession of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who left it to his daughter Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles upon his death the following year. J Kipp, View of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, 1707 (private collection) [27], The walled garden[28] and the gardener's cottage[29] on the north side of the walled garden are both listed Grade II, as is the game larder to the north east of the hall.[30]. Owners, families and people of interest. The New Town area of Colchester was developed from 1878 and within four years Colchester Wesleyans had started the search for a suitable site. Philip Yorke succeeded as second Earl of Hardwicke in 1764 but had brought Lancelot Brown (1716-83) to Wimpole in 1760 to redesign and extend the park. The mansion, at the heart of this estate, is evidence of Elsie Bambridge’s success in creating a home. Guided Tours Free | All ages New guided tours of the Farm and Walled Garden, specially created for the Wimpole History Festival and focussing on newly researched areas of Wimpole’s history. This front was remodelled by Henry Flitcroft in 1742, with a c 1720 chapel in the east wing by James Gibbs, who also added the library wing to the north-west. G Jackson-Stops, An English Arcadia (1992), p 41 The present village of Wimpole was founded around 1840 about a mile to the east of Ermine Street, either side of the Roman road that once linked Ermine Street to Cambridge [now the A603]. Park or Home Farm (buildings listed variously grade II and II*) lies on the edge of the north park, c 200m east of the walled garden and is an unaltered survival of a late C18 model farm, designed for the third Lord Hardwicke by Sir John Soane.The South Park retains more traces of the earlier formal park landscape and represents the area of the early deer park. This garden or other land is registered under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 within the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens by Historic England for its special historic interest. It is the site of the country … English: Wimpole Hall is a mansion in the civil parish of Wimpole close to the clustered village centre in Cambridgeshire, England.The house, begun in 1640, and its 3,000 acres (12 km²) of parkland and farmland are owned by the National Trust and are regularly open to the public. : You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. C19 formal gardens on the site of late C17 gardens, with C19 pleasure grounds originating in the mid C18, set in an extensive park first enclosed in 1302. The report gives an overview of the history of Wimpole Hall – which was left to the NT, along with its estate – in 1976. A map of Wimpole made in 1638 by Benjamin Hare (copy B.M. Tourists are invited and is really worth seeing. The drive, now a track, was laid out in the mid C19, against advice given by Repton in the Red Book, and runs through Victoria Plantation until it enters the park c 700m east of the Hall beside the site of the C19 North Lodge (demolished). We have not checked that the contributions below are factually accurate. Posts about Wimpole Hall written by jbwilgus1. He presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View, and also writes thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne. 11K likes. They listened to speeches by local politicians including the Earl of Hardwicke, and dinner was served for 26 people. Wimpole Hall, (1979) Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 438 Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 263 'Country Life' in 27 May, (1927) 'Country Life' in 21 May, (1927) Other An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968) [5] Lord Radnor extended the formal gardens and dug out fishponds. Register Inspector: EMP Dogs are welcome in the parkland, Stable Block and Restaurant The creation of Wimpole Hall as it appears today began in c 1640 when Thomas Chicheley began to build a new hall on the estate which his family had leased since 1428. A short length of lime and chestnut avenue, a surviving portion of Radnor's north avenue altered and thickened by later planting, frames the vista to the folly. The symmetrical south front has seven central bays and wings of five bays each and looks onto the curved forecourt which is enclosed by a mid C19 low wall topped by railings (listed grade II). A cross-walk runs the length of the boundary and is edged by clipped yews. [2], On 27 October 1843, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited the hall. Wimpole Hall (listed grade I) is a substantial neo-classical mansion house built of red brick with limestone dressings under a hipped and balustraded slate roof. It is the site of the country house of Wimpole Hall and its accompanying Wimpole's Folly. Wimpole Hall Estate is a working estate still guided by the seasons, with an impressive mansion and Home Farm. [17] The "Dutch Garden" beneath the hall was established in 1980 with the rest of the garden completed based upon the mid-19th century parterre. the grounds of Wimpole Hall on the Saturday and Sunday of the festival weekend. The information and images below are the opinion of the contributor, are not part of the official entry and do not represent the official position of Historic England. [24] On the edge of the ornamental gardens the Ha-ha to the north west and to the north are both listed Grade II. Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes M.V.O., J.P. is a spacious mansion of brick, the central part of which was built by Sir Thomas Chicheley about the year 1632, the wings being added by Lord Oxford, and the house newly fronted and the principal apartments fitted up by Philip, first Earl of Hardwicke and Lord Chancellor, in 1736-37; it contains a D Stroud, Capability Brown (1975) Below all the later work on Wimpole Hall stands the core of Thomas Chicheley's 1640s house.The service courtyard and St Andrew's church lie on the east side of the Hall. Wimpole is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, about 8 1⁄2 miles southwest of Cambridge. The pleasure ground was first planted by Robert Greening in the 1750s to connect the Hall to his walled garden, but it was substantially altered by William Emes when he rebuilt the walled garden in the 1790s.PARK The house was held by the Chicheley family for over 250 years. A flight of stone steps leads down from the Hall to a central gravel walk, flanked by lawns cut into a formal parterre using box-edged borders filled with roses and clipped yews. A STORY OF WIMPOLE HALL Written by Wit Hill About Wimpole Hall. The following information has been contributed by users volunteering for our Enriching The List project. Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area. Wimpole Estate is a large estate containing Wimpole Hall, a country house located within the Parish of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, England, about 8 1⁄2 miles (13.7 kilometres) southwest of Cambridge. Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development. Sited close to the great Roman road, Ermine Street, Wimpole was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. The west front, looking onto the gardens, was erected by Sir John Soane and remodelled in the mid C19 by Henry Edward Kendall. Der Park von Wimpole Hall wurde von Landschaftsarchitekten wie George London und Henry Wise (1693–1705), Charles Bridgeman (1720er-Jahre), Robert Greening (1740er-Jahre), Capability Brown (1767) und Humphry Repton (1801–1809) angelegt und umgestaltet. RCHM(E), Wimpole Park, an archaeological survey (1998)Maps He came to advise the second Earl of Hardwicke from the mid 1760s to the mid 1770s and in addition to extending and laying out the North Park he removed much of the work previously completed by Charles Bridgeman for the second Earl of Oxford and by Robert Greening for the first Earl of Hardwicke. Located 8 miles south of Cambridge on the A603, Wimpole Hall is a National Trust property that was once the home of Rudyard Kipling's daughter. During the War, for instance, the house had no running water nor electricity. If you wish to report an issue with a contribution or have a question please email [email protected]. H Repton, Survey map of the park and farm showing proposed alterations, from Red Book 1801 (private collection) The walled garden designed by Robert Greening in the 1750s was demolished in the 1790s when the present walled garden was constructed by William Emes.REFERENCESD Stroud, Humphry Repton (1962) The estate is regularly open to the public and received over 335,000 visitors in 2019. A working estate still guided by the seasons. Rather than complete all Emes proposals, the third Earl asked Humphry Repton (1752-1818) to prepare a Red Book in 1801 in which the reinstatement of a small garden on the north side of the Hall was proposed. The house, begun in 1640, and its 3,000 acres (12 km2) of parkland and farmland are owned by the National Trust. The above map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. A second drive enters off the Cambridge road c 2.4km to the east of the Hall. " Wimpole Hall, the seat of the Hon. In the grounds are a chain of lakes (1695–1767), St Andrew's church (1749),[16] Wimpole's Folly (the false Gothic Tower; 1768), a home farm (1792), a walled garden (18th century), and a stable block (1851). On the north wall stands the Gardener's Cottage (listed grade II), built in the late C18 of red brick under a hipped tiled roof. The last owners of Wimpole completely refurnished and decorated the house over 40 years, before the National Trust became the guardians of the estate. J Phibbs, Wimpole Park, (report for National Trust 1980) In 1713 the estate passed into the hands of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford who commissioned Charles Bridgeman (d 1738) to prepare a grand scheme for the landscape which included the dramatic South Avenue. Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment. Encircling the inner garden is a second wall of gault brick. Wimpole Estate NT. Wimpole Hall lies c 14km south-west of Cambridge off the A603 and 10km north of Royston. Brown's work was consolidated by William Emes (1730-1803) who was employed by the third Earl of Hardwicke following his succession in 1790, at the same time as Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was commissioned to alter the Hall. Country Life, 166 (6 September 1979), p 658; (13 September 1979), p 768 It leads to an C18 drive which runs north-east through the park. Wimpole . OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1886 The gardens lie to the north and west of the Hall. They were again substantially remodelled in the mid C19 and have been laid out in their present form by the National Trust since 1976.The pleasure ground lies to the north-east of the Hall where grass planted with many varieties of trees and flowering shrubs flanks a serpentine walk which leads to the walled garden c 350m to the north-east. [14], The Yellow Drawing Room 1793 by Sir John Soane, The Chapel by James Gibbs with murals by Sir James Thornhill completed 1724, Wimpole Hall's grounds, enclosed in 1302,[2] were laid out and modified by landscape designers such as George London and Henry Wise (1693–1705), Charles Bridgeman (1720s), Robert Greening (1740s), "Capability" Brown (1767), and Humphry Repton (1801–1809). Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE). Our website works best with the latest version of the browsers below, unfortunately your browser is not supported. Robartes became the sixth Viscount Clifden in 1899 and moved to the Clifden's principal seat at Lanhydrock (qv), Cornwall. In December 2019, the National Trust farm hosted the trial of a robot, known as Tom, that maps weeds with absolute precision. © Historic England Archive. The hospital site was handed over to the incoming United … T Way, A study of the impact of imparkment on the social landscape of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire from c 1080 to 1760, BAR Brit Ser 258 (1997), p 279 The finished house was surrounded by a formal garden and an architectural landscape. On the north wall of the courtyard, facing north is the mid C18 rusticated game larder (listed grade II) while the parish church (of C14 origin apart from Chicheley chapel, replaced in 1749 by Flitcroft, listed grade II*) stands beyond the east wall.The mid C19 stable block (listed grade II*) stands c 200m east-south-east of the Hall. Until 1999, the main settlement on the A603 was officially known and signed as New Wimpole and Orwell, Cambridge Road. According to the Hare map of 1638 this was surrounded by a deer park which had been created in the C14 by the Basingbourn family (Way 1997). The walled kitchen garden lies c 350m north-east of the Hall. At that time there was a moated manor house set in a small 81 hectares (200 acres) deer-park. Prior to this there had been a medieval moated manor house, just to the north-west of the present buildings. Users volunteering for our Enriching the List entry please see the attached PDF - 1000635.pdf boundary of than... 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