Barrington Park is a Palladian style country house standing in an estate of the same name near the villages of Great Barrington and

Little Barrington Little Barrington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Barrington, in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the south bank of the River Windrush, west of the town of Burford. In 1931 the parish had ...

, Gloucestershire, England. It is a

Grade I listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

. The parkland in which it stands is Grade II* listed. The house was built between 1736 and 1738 for Charles Talbot, Lord Chancellor to George II, for the use of his son

William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot William Talbot, Earl Talbot, PC (16 May 1710 – 27 April 1782), known as the Lord Talbot from 1737 to 1761, was a British politician. Talbot was a notable figure among opposition Whig politicians during the reign of King George II before later ...

and the latter's wife Mary de Cardonnel. It was extended in 1870-3 by Edward Rhys Wingfield. The building is constructed in two storeys plus a basement of ashlar with a stone slate roof. It is rectangular in plan with the later extensions at both ends. The frontage has 9 bays of which the central 3 bays project. Several of the parks features (a dovecote and two temples) are separately Grade II* listed.

History

Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries the manor of Great Barrington had belonged to

Llanthony Priory Llanthony Priory ( cy, Priordy Llanddewi Nant Hodni) is a partly ruined former Augustinian priory in the secluded Vale of Ewyas, a steep-sided once-glaciated valley within the Black Mountains area of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmou ...

. In 1540 it was sold to John Guise, who in turn sold the estate to Richard Monnington and his son-in-law Reginald Bray in 1553. It then descended for over 200 years within the Bray family until Reginald Morgan Bray sold it in 1735 to the Lord Chancellor, who commissioned the building of the new house before dying shortly afterwards. His son and daughter-in-law (Mary de Cardonnel) moved in but separated in 1742, leaving Mary de Cardonnel in possession of the house. She laid out the pleasure grounds around the house. Mary de Cardonnel's daughter,

Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor (July 1735 – 14 March 1793) was a Welsh peeress. She was the daughter of William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot. Her mother was the daughter and heir of Adam de Cardonnel, British Secretary of War. Under ...

, married George Rice, whose descendants adopted the surname of Talbot-Rice and then Rice-Trevor. The house then passed by marriage to the Wingfields who adopted the name of Rhys Wingfield and in whose hands the property still remains.

References

{{Authority control Country houses in Gloucestershire Grade I listed houses in Gloucestershire