| Weston Hall | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Tudor |
| Country | England |
| Completed | late 17th century |
| Client | George Sitwell |
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| westonhall | |
Weston Hall is a 17th-century manor house in Weston, Northamptonshire. The house was owned by the Sitwell family's ancestors from 1714 to 2021. [1] It is a Grade II* listed building.
The manor house dates to the 17th century, and is believed to have been built by William Hiccocke, c. 1680-90. It was enlarged in the 1770s; in the early 19th century it was remodelled in the Tudor style. [2]
The house is situated in the village of Weston in the south of the county. It was given to the Sitwell family's ancestor Susanna Jennens in 1714 as a St. Valentine's Day present from her father Sir John Blencowe, who lived at nearby Marston St Lawrence, after the death of her husband. The property was then inherited through the female line until Sacheverell's father, the eccentric Sir George Sitwell, took a lease on the house from an aunt. [1] The library still contained a recipe book written by Susanna Jennens' mother Anne Blencowe, which was published in 1925. [3]
The house was the home of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell from 1927 until his death in 1988. His Canadian wife, Georgia Doble, also lived here until her death in 1980. It was here that Sacheverell wrote many of his 130 books on travel, art, music and poetry. After Sacheverell's death, it passed to his second son, Francis Sitwell, while the elder son, Sir Reresby Sitwell, took Renishaw. [4] [5]
The house was shared by Francis Sitwell's sons, George Sitwell, 8th baronet, [6] and his brother William Sitwell, [7] a food writer who ran a supper club at the house, until it was sold in 2021[ to whom? ]. [8] During preparations for an auction of the building's contents, an 18th-century drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was discovered in the loft. Bought by Osbert Sitwell in 1936, it depicts the Pulcinella character from commedia dell'arte , and sold for £100,000 at auction. [9]
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as GiambattistaTiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain.
Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic, and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings.
The Sitwells, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, were three siblings who formed an identifiable literary and artistic clique around themselves in London in the period roughly 1916 to 1930. This was marked by some well-publicised events, notably Edith's Façade with music by William Walton, with its public debut in 1923. All three Sitwells wrote; for a while their circle was considered by some to rival Bloomsbury, though others dismissed them as attention-seekers rather than serious artists.
Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet CH CBE was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother was Sacheverell Sitwell. Like them, he devoted his life to art and literature.
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Renishaw is a village in the district of North East Derbyshire in England. It is in the civil parish of Eckington.
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Sir George Reresby Sitwell, 4th Baronet was a British antiquarian writer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1895.
The Sitwell Baronetcy, of Renishaw in the County of Derby, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 October 1808 for Sitwell Sitwell, Member of Parliament for West Looe. The Sitwell family had been ironmasters and landowners in Eckington, Derbyshire, for many centuries.
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George Sitwell, the eldest son of George Sitwell (1569–1607) and Mary Walker, was a 17th-century landowner and ironmaster who was born at Eckington in Derbyshire and baptized there on 15 March 1601. He built Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire in 1626. His company mined, forged, and rolled iron for use in Britain and overseas. It exported a complete rolling mill to the West Indies.
Sir George Reresby Sacheverell Sitwell, 8th Baronet is a British businessman.
Anne Blencowe or Anne, Lady Blencowe, née Anne Wallis was a British compiler of recipes. Her book was first published more than 200 years after her death.
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