Fawley Court
| Fawley Court | |
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| Former names | Divine Mercy College |
| General information | |
| Type | Mansion |
| Architectural style | Neo-Classical |
| Location | Fawley, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Construction started | 1684 |
| Renovated | 1770-71 |
| Owner | Cherrilow |
| Technical details | |
| Material | Red brick and stone |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | attributed to Sir Christopher Wren and Capability Brown |
| Designations | Grade I listed |
| Renovating team | |
| Architect | James Wyatt |
Fawley Court is a country house, with large mixed-use grounds standing on the west bank of the River Thames at Fawley in the English county of Buckinghamshire. Its former deer park extended east into the Henley Park area of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire that abuts it to the south. Following World War II, it was run by Polish Congregation of Marian Fathers, and with its associated library, museum and school was one of the cultural centers for the Polish minority in the United Kingdom until its closure and sale in the late 2000s. It is listed at Grade I for its architecture.
The main building sit five times its length away from the river, 600m along the 2112m Henley Royal Regatta course and has a private promenade covering approximately half of the course, adjoining its two small farms to the south.
Its former deer park extended east into the Henley Park area of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, which has an even larger estate, but more modest buildings. The town itself adjoins to the south, with the considerably smaller Phyllis Court being the closest neighbour.
Under Edward the Confessor in 1065 the Domesday Book notes Earl Tosti held this land as the manor of Fawley, connected with the village itself which sits atop the hill behind.
After the Conquest, Fawley Manor was given by William I to his kinsman Walter Giffard, who was one of the leading compilers of the Domesday Book. His steward Herbrand de Sackville was holding it when the book was compiled in 1086, and the Sackvilles held it until it passed through the marriage of the Sackville heiress Margery, to Thomas Rokes, in 1477.
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