- Wroxall Abbey
Wroxall Abbey is a substantial Victorian mansion house situated at
Wroxall, Warwickshire which has been converted for use as an hotel and country club. It is aGrade II listed building .The estate was occupied for some 400 years by the Priory of Wroxall until the
Dissolution of the Monasteries byHenry VIII in 1536.In 1544 the King granted the estate to Robert Burgoyne of
Sutton, Bedfordshire (d 1545) who had been one of the King's Commissioners for the Dissolution. His son Robert (d 1613),High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1597, built a manor house in Elizabethan style adjacent to the Priory ruins.The Burgoyne family ( later
Burgoyne Baronets ) occupied the manor until 1713 when they sold it together with 1850 acres, toSir Christopher Wren .Although it is unlikely that Wren himself ever lived there, the house was occupied from tome to time by members of his family, including his greatgreatgrandson Christopher Roberts Wren, High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1820.Later descendants sold the estate in 1861 to James Dugdale, High Sheriff of Warwickshire 1868, who demolished the old manor house and replaced it with an imposing mansion, thereafter to be known as Wroxall Abbey, in the
Victorian Gothic style.The chapel adjacent to the Hall and known as
Wren's Chapel isGrade I listed building .The house was let and was occupied as a school from 1936 to 1995, and following a period of neglect was acquired by commercial owners and converted into a hotel in 2001
References
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57014 "A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 3" (1945) pp215-220 Wroxall from British History Online]
* [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=308397&mode=quick English Heritage; Images of England- 1990 description]External links
* [http://www.wroxall.com/history.ikml?s=1 Wroxall Abbey Estate Website]
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