Arbury Hall (grid reference SP335893 ) is a Grade I listed country house in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, and the ancestral home of the Newdigate family, later the Newdigate-Newdegate and Fitzroy-Newdegate (Viscount Daventry) families.
Arbury Hall (grid reference SP335893 ) is a Grade I listed country house in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, and the ancestral home of the Newdigate family, later the Newdigate-Newdegate and Fitzroy-Newdegate (Viscount Daventry) families.
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.[ citation needed ]
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. [1]
In 1911, Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate erected, at Arbury Hall, a monument to the memory of George Eliot. [2]
The hall is set in 300 acres (121 ha) of parkland. [1]
George Eliot immortalised Arbury Hall as "Cheverel Manor" in Scenes of Clerical Life , where it is the setting for "Mr Gilfil's Love Story". [1]
The film Angels & Insects (1995) was shot entirely at Arbury Hall and within the grounds.[ citation needed ]
Arbury Hall was also used as the fictional Hoxley Manor in the BBC TV series Land Girls (2009).[ citation needed ]
Custodians of Arbury Hall include: [3]
Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1742 and 1780. He was a collector of antiquities.
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