Dingestow Court
| Dingestow Court | |
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| File:Dingestow Court, Co.Monmouth. (3375270).jpg
Dingestow Court by Augustus Butler; mid 19th century lithograph.
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Dingestow |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
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| Construction started | early 1600 |
| Completed | 1927 |
| Client | Samuel Bosanquet |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Lewis Vulliamy, Prichard and Seddon, and others |
| Designations | Grade II* listed |
Dingestow Court, at Dingestow, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a Victorian country house with earlier origins and later additions. Newman describes it as "one of the county's major houses."[1] The court has been designated a Grade II* listed building since 5 January 1952.[2]
The court has an "unusually complicated building history. Its origins are the early sixteenth-century house of the Jones family,"[1] of which part of the gatehouse range survives.[2] In the late eighteenth century, the main house was rebuilt by James Duberley and was then acquired by Samuel Bosanquet in 1801.[1] In the mid-nineteenth century, Sir John Bosanquet commissioned Lewis Vulliamy to extend and restore the house,[2] followed, some twenty years later, with limited additions, although much more extensive plans, by John Prichard and John Pollard Seddon. An east wing and interior re-modelling were undertaken in the late nineteenth century and finally the kitchen wing was added in 1927.[1]
The varied building history of the court is reflected in its rather disjointed appearance. Vulliamy's south front is a near copy of that of the mansion of Franks Hall, Horton Kirby, Kent.[3] The west front includes the original sixteenth-century gatehouse.[3] The interior is little more co-ordinated but contains some "significant" nineteenth century rooms.[1]
The grounds were laid out by Edward Milner in the nineteenth century.[4] They are a largely complete example of a nineteenth-century park.[5]
The court remains the private home of the Bosanquets[6] and is not open to the public, although the grounds are occasionally opened for charitable events.[7]
Notes
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire, page 213
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Bibliography
- The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire; Newman,J ISBN 0-14-071053-1
