Sandbeck Park

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Sandbeck Park
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Sandbeck Park, c. 1880
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Location within South Yorkshire
General information
Type Country house
Architectural style Neo-Palladian
Location Maltby, South Yorkshire
Coordinates 53°24′22″N1°08′44″W / 53.406166°N 1.145605°W / 53.406166; -1.145605
Current tenants Richard Lumley, 13th Earl of Scarbrough
Completed1626
Renovatedc. 1763–68; 1857
ClientSir Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton
Renovating team
Architect(s) James Paine; William Burn
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated13 November 1959
Reference no.1314665

Sandbeck Park is a Neo-Palladian country house in Maltby, South Yorkshire, England. The house dates to the 17th century and was extensively expanded and remodeled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house is Grade I listed with Historic England and several outbuildings on the estate are also listed. [1] The house has been the seat of the Earls of Scarbrough since the 18th century. The garden was designed by Lancelot Brown and is also Grade II* listed. [2]

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Etymology

The name Sandbeck – alternatively spelled in the 13th century as Sandbec (1241), Sandebek (1276), and Sandebeck (1297) – is from Old English sand + Old Norse bekkr (stream). [3]

History

Sandbeck Park lies near the now ruined Roche Abbey, founded in 1147 by Cistercian monks, and approximately 2 miles (3 km) southeast of Maltby. The grounds contain a large wood once known as Roche Wood that is now called King's Wood. [4]

The first record of Sandbeck is in a document dated 1222, in which it is mentioned among the lands given by Alice (or Alix), Countess of Eu to Robert de Vieuxpont and his wife Idonea, daughter and heir of John de Busli. Idonea gave the manor of Sandbeck to the monks of Roche Abbey by deed on Saint Giles Day (1 September) 1241. [5]

However, this donation was later unsuccessfully disputed by her grandson Robert de Vipont, at some point between 1238 and 1254, as a document exists with witnesses certifying her gift to the monks was made of sound mind. The monks' right to the manor was again challenged by Robert de Vipont in 1265, when a jury concluded that the Abbot of Roche had not "intruded himself into the manor of Sandbec" during a time of de Vipont's struggles in England, but had possession of the property beforehand. [6]

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1541, the manor at Sandbeck was sold to Richard Turke of London, [6] [7] who sold it to Robert Saunderson in 1552. His son Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton either built a new house or added to an existing structure, c. 1626. "Nycholas Saunderson" is listed as residing at Sandbeck as far back as the late 16th century. A contract dated February 1626 calls for mason Richard Marshall of Ashby, Lincolnshire to "undertake & begin a new house of the said Sir Nicholas Sanderson at Sandbeck in the County of Yorke where it is lefte & bring up the rough walls chimneys & gavell ends & all other work thereof belonginge to the bonde of a rough mason until the whole worke to be finished with bringinge up of the walls." [8] [9]

A sketch of Sandbeck Park by architect James Paine Sandbeck Park, by James Paine.jpg
A sketch of Sandbeck Park by architect James Paine

In 1637, the second Viscount Castleton received a royal licence to build a deer park from King Charles I. It was the last known local royal licence granted for a deer park. [10] [11]

Sandbeck remained in the hands of the Castletons until 1723, when the sixth viscount, who was granted an earldom in 1720, died without an heir. He willed Sandbeck to his maternal cousin, Thomas Lumley, the third Earl of Scarborough, who added the Saunderson surname by royal licence. [12] Sandbeck Park has remained the family seat of the Earls of Scarbrough ever since.

The fourth earl hired Neoclassical architect James Paine to considerably rebuild and extend the house in the fashionable Neo-Palladian style. Paine enlarged the main building with a new Grecian front, and added several outbuildings, including gatehouses and the limestone stables c. 1763–68. He used stone from Roche Abbey in his construction of the house. [13]

In 1774, the fourth earl commissioned Capability Brown to completely landscape the area, signing a contract to pay him £2,800 for work to last through 1777. [14] Brown showed little regard to the archaeological significance of Roche Abbey; he "extensively demolished the remaining buildings, constructed huge earth terraces, and turfed across the entire site, leaving only the two transepts as 'romantic' features in the grounds." [15]

In 1857, the ninth earl hired William Burn to further remodel and improve the house. In 1869, Benjamin Ferrey built a private chapel for the earl. A 19th-century service wing that linked the house to Sandbeck Chapel was demolished in 1954. [1]

Today

The house remains the private residence of the current head of the family, Richard Lumley, 13th Earl of Scarbrough, who takes an active part in local charities, including serving as Patron of the Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind. [16] The Sandbeck Park Estate is approximately 5,000 acres. [17] [18] Today King's Wood is noted for its abundance of large-leave lime; the 11th Earl substantially replanted the depleted King's Wood after the Second World War. [4]

Listed buildings

Gatehouse, designed by James Paine Lodge and gates near Firbeck (geograph 4837347).jpg
Gatehouse, designed by James Paine
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Malpas Hill Gateway

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References

  1. 1 2 Historic England. "Sandbeck Park (House) (1314665)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Sandbeck Park and Roche Abbey (1001161)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Goodall, Armitage (1913). Place-names of South-west Yorkshire: That Is, of So Much of the West Riding as Lies South of the Aire from Keighley Onwards. University Press. p.  248 . Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  4. 1 2 Hey, David (2015). A History of the South Yorkshire Countryside. Pen and Sword. pp. 28–29. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  5. ↑ Milner, Edith (1904). Records of the Lumleys of Lumley Castle. G. Bell. p.  363.
  6. 1 2 Aveling, James Hobson (1870). Yorkshire: The History of Roche Abbey, from Its Foundation to Its Dissolution. R. White. pp.  140–141.
  7. ↑ Milner 1904, p. 364
  8. ↑ Milner 1904, p. 365
  9. ↑ The Herald and Genealogist. 1865. p. 118.
  10. ↑ Rotherham, Ian D. (2013). Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals: A European Perspective on Woodlands and Grazed Treescapes. Routledge. p. 27. ISBN   9780415626118.
  11. ↑ Hey, David (2015). A History of the South Yorkshire Countryside. Pen and Sword. p. 111. ISBN   9781473834354.
  12. ↑ Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1841). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England. Scott, Webster & Geary. p. 470.
  13. ↑ Rochefoucauld, Alexandre de La; Lazowski, Maximilien de; Scarfe, Norman (2001). To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat. Boydell & Brewer. p. 41. ISBN   9780851158433.
  14. ↑ Milner 1904, p. 366-367
  15. ↑ "Rotherham Web: Sandbeck Park, Maltby, Rotherham". RotherhamWeb.co.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  16. ↑ Our Patron, srsb.org.uk, accessed 29 November 2022
  17. ↑ "Lord Scarborough names the day". The Star. 9 March 2007. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  18. ↑ Benson, Robert (7 June 2004). "'Estate policeman' still going strong at 70 keeping the fly-tippers and thieves at bay". The Yorkshire Post . Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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