Batchwood Hall

Batchwood Hall is a manor house in St Albans, Hertfordshire

Batchwood Hall

History

The house was designed in the Queen Anne style and built for Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe in 1874.[1] It contains the prototype of the Great Clock in the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster.[2] The site was acquired by St Albans Council in 1935 when John Henry Taylor was commissioned to design and establish an 18-hole golf course in the grounds.[3] The house became an event venue in the 1970s.[4] An arson attack resulted in the complete destruction of the Batchwood Tennis and Golf Centre in August 2011.[5]

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References
  1. "Batchwood Hall". St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological History Society. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  2. "About Batchwood Hall". Batchwood Hall Golf Club. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  3. "Club History". Batchwood Hall Golf Club. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  4. "Club Batchwood: the spooky past behind St Albans favourite nightclub". Hertfordshire Advertiser. 29 October 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  5. "Four arrested on suspicion of arson following St Albans sports centre fire". Hertfordshire Advertiser. 11 August 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2017.

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