Moreton Hall (Suffolk)

Moreton Hall (Suffolk)
For the listed building in Moreton Morell, Warwickshire, see Moreton Hall.
Exterior of Moreton Hall in 2005

Moreton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Bury St. Edmund's, a market town in the county of Suffolk, England. It was designed by the English architect Robert Adam and built in 1773 as a country house for John Symonds (1729–1807), a clergyman and Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. The building was originally known as "St. Edmund's Hill". It was later called "The Mount" and from 1890 "Moreton Hall".[1]

Since 1962, the building and surrounding 30 acres of parkland have been used by the Moreton Hall Preparatory School, an independent co-educational preparatory school founded by Lady Miriam Fitzalan-Howard and her husband Commander Peregrine Hubbard. Hubbard and Geoffrey de Guingand served jointly as the school's first headmasters. The Moreton Hall School Trust acquired the freehold to the building and parklands in 2009.[2]

References

  1. ^ British Listed Buildings. Moreton Hall School, Bury St. Edmund's (English Heritage Building ID: 466967)
  2. ^ The Bury Free Press (22 October 2009), "Land deal for Moreton Hall school"

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Coordinates: 52°14′47″N 0°44′16″E / 52.2464°N 0.7378°E / 52.2464; 0.7378


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