Biddlesden Park is a country house at Biddlesden in north-west Buckinghamshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Biddlesden Park is a country house at Biddlesden in north-west Buckinghamshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The house, which lies on the site of an old Cistercian abbey, was built by John Sayer, in the Georgian style in 1727. [1] The staircase dates from the same period. [2] The house then passed to Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney before it was acquired, on Verney's death in 1791, by George Morgan, who was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. [3] The house remained in the ownership of the Morgan and then the Morgan-Grenville family for most of the 19th century. [4] It was bought by Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Badger in around 1932 and then remained in the Badger family for many years before passing to Mrs. Elizabeth Maud Gordon. [5] It was then comprehensively renovated in the 1980s. [1]
The church of St Margaret of Scotland is situated in the grounds of Biddlesden Park. [6]
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