- Catton Hall
caption=Catton Hall stands in extensive grounds
name=Catton Hall
location_town=nearWalton-on-Trent ,Derbyshire
location_country=England
architect=William Smith [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=edzSoQBSbwQC&dq=%22Catton+Hall%22&lr=&as_brr=3&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 Derbyshire] , Nicholas Pevsner, Elizabeth Williamson, 2nd Ed, 1986, ISBN 0140710086, accessed1 October 2008 ]
client=Christopher Horton
coordinates=coord|52.732|-1.696
engineer=prob.William Pickford
construction_start_date=1741
completion_date=1745
date_demolished=
cost=
structural_system=
style=Baroque|Catton Hall is a
country house near the boundary betweenDerbyshire andStaffordshire . It gives its postal address asWalton-on-Trent although there was a village of Catton at one time. [TheDomesday book ] . It is aGrade II* listed building [ [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=82933&mode=quick English Heritage:Images of England, Image and architectural description of listed building] ]The Manor of Catton was acquired at the beginning of the 15th century by Roger Horton ["History of the County of Derby" Glover and Noble (1829) p204 Google Books] . Members of the family served as
High Sheriff of Derbyshire . In the 19th century Anne Beatrix Horton, heiress of the estate, married Robert Wilmot thus creating the Wilmot-Horton family. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=9eIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA22&lpg=RA1-PA22&dq=%22levett+prinsep%22+croxall&source=web&ots=qKBV5HjfRP&sig=SIMmfLtGjokhVWApPWv4KFb6U4Y&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PRA1-PA13,M1 The Olds Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Vol. III, Joseph Tilley, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London, 1902] ] On the death of the fifth Wilmot-Horton Baronet in 1887, the estate passed to his niece Augusta-Theresa who married in 1851 to Rev. Arthur Henry Anson, rector ofPotterhanworth , Lincolnshire and son of Hon. Rev. Frederick Anson, Dean ofChester , born at the Anson family homeShugborough Hall .Catton Hall is now owned by the Neilson family, descendants of Anson-Horton family, descendants of the fifth Baronet, Rev. Sir George Wilmot-Horton. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hortonfamilyhistory/Roger%20de%20Horton%20-%20Derbyshire%20Hortons.html Roger de Horton, Derbyshire Hortons, rootsweb.com] ] The manor house which had been there since the 15th century was replaced by the current building in 1745 [ [http://www.statelyhomes.com/areas/details.asp?HID=1076&ID=2237&path=12,3095,41,2237&town= Catton Hall] ] . It was built for Christopher Horton who had rejected many designs before finally accepting a grand design from William Smith in a more baroque style than had been seen at
Chatsworth House and more recently and more likeCalke Abbey . The building is nine bays wide and three storeys high.Behind the Hall is an 1892 constructed chapel which has a Norman Font. (Possibly from when the village was mentioned in Domesday).
The Hall is now available for private functions and horse trials.
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