Arbury Hall

Arbury Hall circa 1880
South front of Arbury Hall

Arbury Hall (grid reference SP335893) is a Grade I listed country house in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, and the ancestral home of the Newdigate family, later the Newdigate-Newdegate and Fitzroy-Newdegate (Viscount Daventry) families.

History

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The hall is built on the site of the former Arbury Priory in a mixture of Tudor and 18th-century Gothic Revival architecture, the latter being the work of Sir Roger Newdigate from designs by Henry Keene.[citation needed]

The 19th-century author George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) was born on one of the estate farms in 1819, the daughter of the estate's land agent.[1]

In 1911, Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate erected, at Arbury Hall, a monument to the memory of George Eliot.[2]

Description

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The hall is set in 300 acres (121 ha) of parkland.[1]

In the arts

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George Eliot immortalised Arbury Hall as "Cheverel Manor" in Scenes of Clerical Life, where it is the setting for "Mr Gilfil's Love Story".[1]

The film Angels & Insects (1995) was shot entirely at Arbury Hall and within the grounds.[citation needed]

Arbury Hall was also used as the fictional Hoxley Manor in the BBC TV series Land Girls (2009).[citation needed]

Ownership

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Custodians of Arbury Hall include:[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Cooke, George Willis. George Eliot: A Critical Study of her Life, Writings and Philosophy. Whitefish: Kessinger, 2004. [1]
  2. ^ "Newdegate, Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate (1862–1936)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 11. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. 1988. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
  3. ^ Wilkinson, R. (2006) Chronicles of the Newdegates and the Three Manors (1st Edition) Athena Press ISBN 1-84401-771-0
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