Lilford Hall
| Lilford Hall | |
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South facade of Lilford Hall
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| General information | |
| Type | Grade 1 listed |
| Architectural style | Jacobean exterior (Georgian interior) |
| Location | Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe, England |
| Coordinates | 52°26′42″N 0°29′12″W / 52.4451°N 0.4868°WCoordinates: 52°26′42″N 0°29′12″W / 52.4451°N 0.4868°W |
| Construction started | 1495 |
| Completed | c. 1495 |
| Client | Williams Elmes (the elder), William Elmes (the younger) and 1st Lord Lilford |
| Owner | Micklewright family |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | Stone (Blisworth Limestone) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Henry Flitcroft |
| Website | |
| http://www.lilfordhall.com | |
Lilford Hall is a Grade I listed stately home in Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. It was started in 1495 as a Tudor building, with a major Jacobean exterior extension added in 1635 and a Georgian interior adopted in the 1740s, having a 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m2) floor area. The 100-room house is located in the eastern part of the County of Northamptonshire, south of Oundle and north of Thrapston. A Grade I listed building is considered by the UK government as of outstanding architectural and historic interest.
The Hall was the home of the Browne (Elmes) family from 1495 to 1711, and then the Powys family (Baron Lilford) from 1711 to 1990. Lilford Hall is now the seat of the Micklewright family, only the third family in over 500 years to live permanently at the Hall. Lilford Hall and the associated parkland of 350 acres (1.4 km2) is specifically located along the River Nene for around a mile, and north-west of the village of Lilford, part of the parish of Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe and Thorpe Achurch. The land which was turned into the parkland was mentioned in the Domesday Book, and owned by King David I of Scotland at that time.
The Manor of Lilford was acquired in 1473 by William Browne a wealthy wool merchant and landowner from Stamford, from the estate of Baron Welles who was beheaded by King Edward IV for treason. William Browne passed on the Manor of Lilford to his only child Elizabeth in 1489, and the Hall in a Tudor style was built in 1495 by William Elmes (the elder) who was Elizabeth's son.
Robert Browne (1550–1633), the founder of the Brownists, early Separatists from the Church of England, lived at Lilford Hall between 1616 and 1631 after he had returned to the Church of England. He held the benefice of Achurch Church from 1591 to 1631. Robert Browne is known as 'The Father of the Pilgrims" and also "The Grandfather of the Nation" (USA) due to his teachings of the separation of the Church from the State, and the adoption of the first step in American democracy, namely the election by the congregation of each church in his Brownist movement of their own preacher.
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