Barrington Park
Barrington Park is a Palladian-style country house near the villages of Great Barrington and Little Barrington in Gloucestershire, England. It is a Grade I listed building, and the surrounding parkland is Grade II* listed. The house was built between 1736 and 1738 for Charles Talbot, who was Lord Chancellor to George II, for his son William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, and William’s wife Mary de Cardonnel. It was extended in 1870–73 by Edward Rhys Wingfield. The building has two storeys plus a basement, is made of ashlar stone with a slate roof, and is rectangular with extensions at both ends. The front has nine bays, with the central three bays projecting. The park features a dovecote and two temples, all separately Grade II* listed.
Historically, the manor of Great Barrington belonged to Llanthony Priory before the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 1540 it was sold to John Guise, who then sold it in 1553 to Richard Monnington and Reginald Bray. It stayed in the Bray family for over 200 years until Reginald Morgan Bray sold it in 1735 to the Lord Chancellor, who commissioned the new house and died soon after. His son and Mary de Cardonnel moved in but separated in 1742, leaving Mary in possession. She laid out the pleasure grounds around the house. Through marriage the estate passed to Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, then to George Rice and their descendants, who adopted the surnames Talbot-Rice and later Rice-Trevor. The estate later came to the Wingfields, who took the name Rhys Wingfield, and it remains with them.
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