Madresfield Court
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The Court across the moat
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| Type | Country house |
| Location | Madresfield, Worcestershire |
| Coordinates | 52°07′30″N 2°16′51″W / 52.1251°N 2.2808°WCoordinates: 52°07′30″N 2°16′51″W / 52.1251°N 2.2808°W |
| OS grid reference | SO8087347463 |
| Built | late Medieval |
| Architectural style(s) | vernacular |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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| Designated | 25 March 1968 |
| Reference no. | 153385 |
 Location of Madresfield Court in Worcestershire
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Madresfield Court, Madresfield, near Malvern, Worcestershire is a country house. The house has been the home of the Lygon family for nearly six centuries, and has passed only by inheritance since the 12th century. The present building is largely a Victorian reconstruction, although the origins of the present house are from the 16th century, and the site has been occupied since Anglo-Saxon times. The novelist Evelyn Waugh was a frequent visitor to the house and based the family of Marchmain, who are central to his novel Brideshead Revisited, on the Lygons. Surrounded by a moat, the Court is a Grade I listed building.
The house has been the home of the Lygon family since 1450. In 1593 Madresfield Court was rebuilt, replacing a 15th-century medieval building. It was again remodelled in the 19th century to resemble a moated Elizabethan house. In 1806, William Lygon was made a baronet and subsequently enobled as Earl Beauchamp in 1815. Madresfield was the home of the 7th Earl Beauchamp. Evelyn Waugh was a frequent guest to the house.
In January 2006, documents revealed by the National Archives showed that emergency plans were made to evacuate Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret of the British Royal Family to Madresfield in the event of a successful German invasion following the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.
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