Kingston Hall | |
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General information | |
Location | Kingston on Soar |
Town or city | Nottingham |
Country | England |
Coordinates | 52°50′45″N1°14′56″W / 52.845958°N 1.248812°W |
Construction started | 1842 |
Completed | 1846 |
Client | Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Edward Blore |
Kingston Hall is a country house in Kingston on Soar, Nottinghamshire. [1]
It was built between 1842 and 1846 to designs by the architect Edward Blore [2] for Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper. It was made a Grade II listed building in 1987. [3]
The grounds of Kingston Hall contains a Grade II listed Pavilion and a Grade II listed stable block.
In 1916 it was the birthplace of Lavinia Mary Strutt, (later Lavinia Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk), daughter of Algernon Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper and his wife, Eva Strutt.
It was subdivided into separate apartments in 1977.
Sutton Bonington is a village and civil parish lying along the valley of the River Soar in the Borough of Rushcliffe, south-west Nottinghamshire, England. The University of Nottingham has a 420 hectares (4.2 km2) site just to the north of the village: Sutton Bonington Campus.
Baron Belper, of Belper in the County of Derbyshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1856 for the Liberal politician Edward Strutt, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1853 to 1854. He was son of William Strutt and the grandson of the inventor Jedediah Strutt. Lord Belper's son, the second Baron, represented Derbyshire East and Berwick in the House of Commons as a Liberal. As of 2017 the title is held by the latter's great-grandson, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1999.
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper PC FRS, was a British Whig Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1852 to 1854 under Lord Aberdeen.
Jedediah Strutt or Jedidiah Strutt – as he spelled it – was a hosier and cotton spinner from Belper, England.
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Kingston on Soar is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England.
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Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper,, styled The Honourable Henry Strutt between 1856 and 1880, was a British businessman, courtier and politician. Initially a Liberal, he left the party over Irish Home Rule and later held office as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1895 to 1905 in the Unionist administrations headed by Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour.
Eva Isabel Marion Primrose, Countess of Rosebery and Midlothian was the daughter of Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare and his wife, Constance.
Algernon Henry Strutt, was 3rd Baron Belper from 1914 to 1956.
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Kingston on Soar is a civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish contains 19 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Kingston on Soar and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings include a church, its lychgate, a country house and associated structures, smaller houses and cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, a bridge, a canal lock, a pumphouse, and a telephone kiosk.