Holdenby House historic country house Northamptonshire Holmby private residence gardens mansion Elizabethan Lord chancellor Sir
Holdenby House is a historic country house in Northamptonshire, traditionally pronounced and sometimes spelt Holmby. The house is situated in the parish of Holdenby, six miles (10 km) northwest of Northampton and close to Althorp. The house is a private residence, though the gardens are open to the public and include a falconry centre. The interior of the mansion is opened to the public for a few days of the year. The house was completed 1583 by the Elizabethan Lord chancellor, Sir Christopher Hatton. Following the great house's completion Hatton refused to sleep a night in the mansion until Queen Elizabeth I had slept there. Hatton's new house was in fact one of the largest palaces of the Tudor period, rivalling in size both Audley End and Theobalds and was reputed to be approximately 78,750 square feet (7,300 m²), although this probably included the two great courtyards around which it was built. The facades were symmetrical, with mullioned windows and open Doric arcades thus reflecting the arrival of the new renaissance style of architecture gradually spreading from Italy. The cost of building Holdenby financially ruined Hatton who died shortly after(1591). In 1607 the mansion was bought by Elizabeth's successor James I. In February 1647, after the First English Civil War, Charles I was brought to Holdenby by the Scots and handed over to English Long Parliament. He remained a prisoner there until in June 1647 cornet George Joyce seized him and took him to Newmarket in the name of the New Model Army. Parliament later sold the property to Captain Adam Baynes who demolished the house almost entirely except for a small domestic wing.
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