Ince Blundell Hall
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The southeast front of Ince Blundell Hall in 1818
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| Location | Ince Blundell, Sefton, Merseyside, England |
| Coordinates | 53°31′08″N 3°00′59″W / 53.5190°N 3.0163°WCoordinates: 53°31′08″N 3°00′59″W / 53.5190°N 3.0163°W |
| OS grid reference | SD 327 030 |
| Built | c. 1720–50 |
| Built for | Robert Blundell |
| Architect | Henry Sephton |
| Architectural style(s) | Georgian |
| Governing body | Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus |
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Listed Building – Grade II*
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| Designated | 11 October 1968 |
| Reference no. | 1199254 |
 Location in Merseyside
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Ince Blundell Hall is a former country house near the village of Ince Blundell, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. It was built between 1720 and 1750 for Robert Blundell, the lord of the manor, and was designed by Henry Sephton, a local mason-architect. Robert's son, Henry, was a collector of paintings and antiquities, and he built impressive structures in the grounds of the hall in which to house them. In the 19th century the estate passed to the Weld family. Thomas Weld Blundell modernised and expanded the house, and built an adjoining chapel. In the 1960s the house and estate were sold again, and have since been run as a nursing home by the Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus.
The hall is Georgian in style, and consists of a main block with a service block linked at a right-angle to its rear. The hall is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Some of the buildings associated with the hall are also designated at this grade; these are the Pantheon and the Garden Temple, both of which were built by Henry Blundell for his collection of statues, the chapel, and a building known as the Old Hall. In the garden and grounds of the hall are nine structures listed at Grade II; these include the stables, a monument, a sundial, gateways and a lodge, and the base of a medieval wayside cross.
The manor of Ince Blundell was held by the Blundell family from the 12th century. The first documentation of the name of Blundell at the site is that of Richard Blundell in 1212. Following the Reformation the Blundells retained their Catholic faith and suffered from the consequent disadvantages and dangers. Nevertheless, by legal transactions and advantageous marriages the Blundell family acquired more possessions; by the end of the 18th century they held 15 manors together with other property, some of it as far away as Liverpool and Preston.
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