Bradbourne Hall is a

country house An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these peop ...

next to All Saint's Church, within the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

of Bradbourne, near

Ashbourne, Derbyshire Ashbourne is a market town in the Derbyshire Dales district in Derbyshire, England. Its population was measured at 8,377 in the 2011 census and was estimated to have grown to 9,163 by 2019. It has many historical buildings and independent sho ...

. It is a privately-owned

Grade II* 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 Ir ...

, and is not open to the public.

History

The church of All Saints at Bradbourne was in the ownership of the

Dunstable Priory The Priory Church of St Peter with its monastery (Dunstable Priory) was founded in 1132 by Henry I for Augustinian Canons in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. St Peter's today is only the nave of what remains of an originally much larger Augu ...

from 1278 until it was forfeited to the Crown in the 16th century at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.''History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby'' Pt I Vol 2 (1829) Stephen Glover p133. Google Books The former

glebe Glebe (; also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson's close(s))McGurk 1970, p. 17 is an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support a parish priest. The land may be owned by the church, or its profits may be reserved ...

lands of some and the

advowson Advowson () or patronage is the right in English law of a patron (avowee) to present to the diocesan bishop (or in some cases the ordinary if not the same person) a nominee for appointment to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church living, a ...

of All Saints were purchased by George Buxton in 1609. He replaced the old vicarage with the present house for his own occupation. Built in limestone, the three-storey entrance front has four irregular bays, three gables and irregular

mullion A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen, or is used decoratively. It is also often used as a division between double doors. When dividing adjacent window units its primary purpose is a rigid sup ...

ed windows, and was the home of the Buxton/Buckston family for 200 years. George Buckston (died 1810) changed the spelling of the family surname. His son Rev. George Buckston was vicar of Bradbourne 1803–1826, and his grandson Rev. German Buckston succeeded to the position and held it until 1861. The latter married Ellen Ward, daughter of the vicar of

Sutton on the Hill Sutton-on-the-Hill is a civil parish, parish in south Derbyshire eight miles (13 km) west of Derby. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 123. The village is widely spread out and contains both a church (which, unli ...

. When he succeeded his father in law in 1834, the family moved to Sutton. The Bradbourne house was then let out; tenants included Col. David Wilkie and until 1910 archaeologist Albert Hartshorne.Kelly's Directory 1891 from Andrews Pages
The house was sold Hodson in the 1920s when it was altered and extended.

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History

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