Catton Hall

Infobox Historic building

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caption=Catton Hall stands in extensive grounds
name=Catton Hall
location_town=near Walton-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, accessed 1 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 between Derbyshire and Staffordshire. It gives its postal address as Walton-on-Trent although there was a village of Catton at one time. [The Domesday book] . It is a Grade 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 of Potterhanworth, Lincolnshire and son of Hon. Rev. Frederick Anson, Dean of Chester, born at the Anson family home Shugborough 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 like Calke 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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