Normanton Hall was a large, now demolished, country house at Normanton in Rutland.
Normanton Hall was a large, now demolished, country house at Normanton in Rutland.
Normanton was the possession of the De Normanvilles for fourteen generations following the Norman Conquest. The estate then passed in 1446 to Alice Basings who was married to Thomas Mackworth, of Mackworth, Derbyshire. [1] The house was then in the possession of the Mackworths for several generations. Thomas Mackworth, High Sheriff of Rutland for 1599 and 1609, was created a baronet on 4 June 1619. Sir Thomas Mackworth, 4th Baronet was ruined by electioneering costs in the early 1720s and was forced to sell. [2]
The estate was bought by Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London, in 1729. [3] His son, Sir John Heathcote, 2nd Baronet, rebuilt the hall between 1735 and 1740 to the design of Henry Joynes [3] and Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Baronet enlarged the hall to the design of Kenton Couse between 1763 and 1766. [3] A large central bow window designed by Thomas Cundy was added around 1800. [4] In the 18th century the village was cleared to make a park for the estate of the Heathcote family with the population mainly re-housed in Empingham, and the old church on the estate was rebuilt in 1764 by the 3rd Baronet. [5]
In 1827 Sir Gilbert Heathcote 5th Baronet (later Lord Aveland) married Clementina Willoughby, (later Baroness Willoughby d'Eresby) who was heiress to the Ancaster estates. [4] Following the death of Evelyn, Countess of Ancaster the estate was sold off in 1924 [3] but as the mansion could not be sold intact, a further auction in 1925 sold the fixtures and fittings and the shell was demolished. [6]
The stable block of the hall is now the Normanton Park Hotel. St Matthew's Church, Normanton, due to be demolished with the construction of Rutland Water, has been rescued and is reachable by a causeway. [7]
Baron Willoughby de Eresby is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1313 for Robert de Willoughby. Since 1983, the title has been held by Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1733. He was a Governor of the Bank of England and was Lord Mayor of London in 1711.
Normanton is a village and civil parish on the eastern shore of Rutland Water in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population remained less than 100 at the 2011 census and was included in the civil parish of Edith Weston.
Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster,, known as 2nd Baron Aveland from 1867 to 1888 and as 25th Baron Willoughby de Eresby from 1888 to 1892, was a British Liberal politician and court official.
Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster, known as Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1892 to 1910, was a British Conservative politician.
Gilbert James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster, styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1910 to 1951, was a British Conservative politician.
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Peter Robert Drummond-Burrell, 2nd Baron Gwydyr, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby PC, was a British politician and nobleman.
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Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 4th Baronet of Normanton Park, Rutland, was a British Member of Parliament.
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Baronet of Normanton Park, Rutland was a British Member of Parliament.
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Thomas Levett, was an Oxford-educated Lincoln's Inn barrister, judge of the Admiralty for the Northern Counties and High Sheriff of Rutland. But Levett's chief accomplishment was as antiquarian, preserving a centuries-old chartulary kept by Cluniac monks at their Pontefract, Yorkshire abbey, and then turning it over to Yorkshire medieval scholar Roger Dodsworth for publication.
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Sir Thomas Mackworth, 4th Baronet of Normanton Hall, Rutland was a British landowner and politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1694 and 1708 and in the British House of Commons between 1713 and 1727. He was a speculator in mining.
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