Hampton Court, Herefordshire
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Hampton Court seen from North
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 Location in Herefordshire
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| Alternative names | Hampton Court Castle |
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| Architectural style | Gothic, Gothic Revival |
| Location | Hope under Dinmore, England |
| Coordinates | 52°10′3.57″N 2°42′14.91″W / 52.1676583°N 2.7041417°WCoordinates: 52°10′3.57″N 2°42′14.91″W / 52.1676583°N 2.7041417°W |
| Construction started | 1427 |
Hampton Court is a castellated country house in the English county of Herefordshire. The house is located in the village of Hope under Dinmore, near Leominster and is a Grade I listed building.
Hampton Court dates from 1427, when a Sir Rowland Lenthall built the original house on an estate which had been granted to him some years previously by King Henry IV on the occasion of his marriage to the king's cousin Margaret Fitzalan, a daughter of the Earl of Arundel. Sir Rowland's house was a quadrangular courtyard house, and despite numerous alterations over the centuries the house has retained this basic form.
Construction of the house had actually started under Henry Bolingbroke, as Henry IV was at the time, before he gave it to Lenthall.
It was owned by the Coningsby family from 1510 until the early 19th century when the estate was purchased by John Arkwright, the grandson of the inventor and industrialist Richard Arkwright.
Some of the original oak panelling was removed, probably during the 17th century, to the private house Wickton Court near Leominster (grid SO525500) where it still adorns the living room.
The house was remodelled in the 1830s and 1840s to give it more of a castle air, reversing earlier attempts to make it appear more regular and domestic.
It was sold by John Stanhope Arkwright in 1910 and has since changed hands several more times. Between 1924 and 1972 it was the seat of Viscount Hereford and was bought by American businessman Robert Van Kampen in 1994. He died in 1999. The formal gardens were still opened with a celebration by the Van Kampen family in the year 2000, where the Indiana Wesleyan University Chorale was featured as a sacred choir and some members as a small madrigal choir.
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