Sandbeck, Yorkshire
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Sandbeck Park, c. 1880
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 Location within South Yorkshire
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| General information | |
| Type | Country house |
| Architectural style | Palladian |
| Location | Maltby, South Yorkshire |
| Coordinates | 53°24′22″N 1°08′44″W / 53.406166°N 1.145605°W |
| Current tenants | Richard Lumley, 13th Earl of Scarbrough |
| Completed | 1626 |
| Renovated | c. 1763–68; 1857 |
| Client | Sir Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton |
| Renovating team | |
| Architect | James Paine; William Burn |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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| Designated | 13 November 1959 |
| Reference no. | 1314665 |
Sandbeck Park is a Palladian country house in Maltby, South Yorkshire, England. The house dates to the 17th century and was extensively expanded and remodeled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house is Grade I listed with Historic England and several outbuildings on the estate are also listed. The house has been the seat of the Earls of Scarbrough since the 18th century. The garden was designed by Lancelot Brown and is also Grade II* listed.
The name Sandbeck – alternatively spelled in the 13th century as Sandbec (1241), Sandebek (1276), and Sandebeck (1297) – is from Old English sand + Old Norse bekkr (stream).
Sandbeck Park lies near the now ruined Roche Abbey, founded in 1147 by Cistercian monks, and approximately 2 miles (3 km) southeast of Maltby. The grounds contain a large wood once known as Roche Wood that is now called King's Wood.
The first record of Sandbeck is in a document dated 1222, in which it is mentioned among the lands given by Alice (or Alix), Countess of Eu to Robert de Vieuxpont and his wife Idonea, daughter and heir of John de Busli. Idonea gave the manor of Sandbeck to the monks of Roche Abbey by deed on Saint Giles Day (1 September) 1241.
However, this donation was later unsuccessfully disputed by her grandson Robert de Vipont, at some point between 1238 to 1254, as a document exists with witnesses certifying her gift to the monks was made of sound mind. The monks' right to the manor was again challenged by Robert de Vipont in 1265, when a jury concluded that the Abbot of Roche had not "intruded himself into the manor of Sandbec" during a time of de Vipont's struggles in England, but had possession of the property beforehand.
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