Biddlesden Park Explained

Biddlesden Park is a country house at Biddlesden in north-west Buckinghamshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

History

The house, which lies on the site of an old Cistercian abbey, was built by John Sayer, in the Georgian style in 1727.[1] The staircase dates from the same period.[2] The house then passed to Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney before it was acquired, on Verney's death in 1791, by George Morgan, who was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire.[3] The house remained in the ownership of the Morgan and then the Morgan-Grenville family for most of the 19th century.[4] It was bought by Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Badger in around 1932 and then remained in the Badger family for many years before passing to Mrs. Elizabeth Maud Gordon.[5] It was then comprehensively renovated in the 1980s.[1]

The church of St Margaret of Scotland is situated in the grounds of Biddlesden Park.[6]

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: New sporting estates on the market. Country Life. 16 April 2009. 4 July 2015.
  2. Web site: Biddlesden Park. Buckingham County Council. 4 July 2015.
  3. Web site: Biddlesden. Open University. 4 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193100/http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Biddlesden/. 4 March 2016. dead.
  4. Web site: Lady Mary Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville later Morgan later Morgan-Grenville. Cracrofts Peerage. 4 July 2015.
  5. Web site: At the Court at Buckingham Palace. Church Society. 26 July 1977. 4 July 2015.
  6. Web site: Biddlesden. A church near you. 4 July 2015.