In Person: Boston Manor, a private tour
Mon, May 13
|Boston Manor
One of West London's lesser-known gems and a fine Jacobean manor house built in 1623, recently restored to its former glory following a 5-year project, and we are given exclusive access on a day when the house is closed to the general public! more information below
Time & Location
May 13, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Boston Manor, Boston Manor Rd, Brentford TW8 9JX, UK
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About the Event
A manor estate existed on this site since probably the 1170s, and once owned by a priory, was part of King Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries. Later Queen Elizabeth I gave it to her favourites, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. He seemed an ungrateful owner as he promptly sold it to the rich merchant Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of Gresham College.
The estate passed to his step-son, who married Mary Goldsmith, and it was she who built the Boston Manor house in 1622/3.
After her death, it was sold to the Clitherow family, in whose ownership it remained for more than 250 years, until after the first world war when the family put the land, house and its contents up for sale.
The contents were auctioned, but there was no buyer for the house or land. It was eventually bought by the local council. The land became a…
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