| Elmore Court | |
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 Elmore Court | |
  Location of Elmore Court within Gloucestershire | |
| General information | |
| Type | Mansion |
| Location | Elmore, Gloucestershire |
| Town or city | Elmore |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 51°50′10″N2°19′01″W / 51.836°N 2.317°W |
| Owner | Anselm Guise |
Elmore Court is a grade II* listed mansion, located at Elmore in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. [1] The original building dates from between 1564 and 1588. [2]
The house has been the family seat of the Guise Baronets for nearly 800 years, first granted by John of Burgh, who was part of the court of Henry III with the rent set at "One clove of Gillyflower" each year. [3] [4] [5] [6] The current house was built between 1564 and 1588 and altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. [1]
The Guise Mausoleum, built in 1733, is in the churchyard of St John the Baptist, the local church. [7]
The Guise family were non-resident from about 1685 to about 1845, when Sir John Wright Guise took up residence. The house was used as a school from 1778, [8] originally under the Revd. Charles Bishop (died 1788), and later under the Carveth family to about 1830. Its most distinguished pupil was the future surgeon William Lawrence FRS. [9]
The house was owned by Sir Anselm Guise, 6th Baronet, from 1921 to 1970. The current owner, another Anselm Guise, inherited the estate from his uncle the 7th Baronet in 2007, with the Baronetcy going to Anselm's father, Sir Christopher James Guise (born 1930). [10] [11]
In 2008 and 2011, Elmore Court was the subject of a Channel 4 television programme presented by hotelier Ruth Watson as part of her Country House Rescue series. [12]
In February 2013, Anselm Guise's plans for a sustainable new wedding reception venue called The Gillyflower at Elmore Court featured in the BBC2 TV programme, Permission Impossible: Britain's Planners. [13] Elmore Court and The Gillyflower opened for weddings and events in November 2013. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
Rewilding began in 2020 with 250 acres of the estate [19] regenerative farming began in 2022 through a collaboration with Wildfarmed, and the building of treehouses overlooking revived wetlands will be complete in 2023.
The two and three-storey limestone building consists of a central hall with cross-wings. The centre of the front of the building has a 19th-century porch with Doric columns. [1]
The wrought iron gates at the entrance of the driveway are 300 years old and originally sited at Rendcomb. [20]
The walls to the south of the main building were constructed in the early 18th century. [21]
Aspley Guise is a village and civil parish in the west of Central Bedfordshire, England. In addition to the village of Aspley Guise itself, the civil parish also includes part of the town of Woburn Sands, the rest of which is in the City of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. Together with Woburn Sands and Aspley Heath, it forms part of the Milton Keynes urban area. It is centred 6 miles (9.7 km) east southeast of Central Milton Keynes and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the M1 junction 13. It has its own railway station on the Marston Vale Line, and an historic centre with 29 listed buildings.
Hardwicke is a large village on the A38 road 7 km south of the city of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. Despite its proximity to Gloucester, the village comes under Stroud Council. The population of the village taken at the United Kingdom Census 2011 was 3,901.
Rendcomb College is a public school for pupils aged 13–18), located in the village of Rendcomb five miles north of Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England.
Sir James Augustus Grant, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician.
There have been two baronetcies created for the Guise family, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain. The latter creation is extant as of 2014.
Clearwell Castle in Clearwell, the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, is a Gothic Revival house constructed from 1727. Built by Thomas Wyndham to the designs of Roger Morris, it is the earliest Georgian Gothic Revival castle in England predating better-known examples such as Strawberry Hill House by over twenty years. A home of the Wyndham family for some 150 years, the first half of the twentieth century saw a disastrous fire, and subsequent asset-stripping, which brought the castle close to ruination. Slowly restored from 1954, in the 1970s the castle housed a recording studio used by, among other major bands, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Bad Company, Queen and Sweet. Now operating as a wedding venue, the castle is a Grade II* listed building.
For other places with the same name, see Elmore (disambiguation).
Sir Christopher Guise, 1st Baronet, of Elmore Court in Gloucestershire, England, was a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire in 1654.
Ladybellegate House, 20 Longsmith Street, Gloucester GL1 2HT, is a Grade I listed building with English Heritage, reference number 1245726.
Beaulieu House and Gardens is an estate in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. It was thought to be built in the 1660s, although later research seems to suggest it was built around 1715 incorporating elements of an earlier structure, and it includes a terraced walled garden. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Drogheda less than half a mile from the estuary of the River Boyne.
Sir Berkeley William Guise, 2nd Baronet of Highnam Court in the parish of Churcham, Gloucestershire, was a British landowner and Whig Member of Parliament.
Sir John Guise, 4th Baronet, of Elmore Court and Rendcomb, both in Gloucestershire, England, was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1727.
Maunsel House in the English county of Somerset was built in the late 14th or early 15th century. The house stands south of the hamlet of North Newton, in the parish of North Petherton. It is the family seat of the Slade baronets and is a Grade II* listed building.
Brockworth Court is a Tudor house in the village of Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Ashleworth Court is a grade I listed house close to the River Severn in Ashleworth, Gloucestershire, England.
Sir William Guise, 5th Baronet, was a British politician who accompanied Edward Gibbon on his Grand Tour of Italy and sat in the House of Commons between 1770 and 1783.
General Sir John Wright Guise, 3rd Baronet was a British Army general.
Sir John Guise, 3rd Baronet of Elmore Court, Gloucestershire was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1705 and 1727.
Sir John Guise, 2nd Baronet of Elmore Court, Gloucestershire was an English landowner and Member of Parliament.
Sir Anselm William Edward Guise, 6th Baronet was an English soldier, landowner, and magistrate, of Elmore Court, Gloucester.
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