Thorndon Hall is a Georgian Palladian country house within Thorndon Park, Ingrave, Essex, England, approximately two miles south of Brentwood and 25 miles (40 km) from central London.
Formerly the country seat of the Petre family who now reside at nearby Ingatestone Hall, the house is located within nearly 600 acres (240 ha) of ancient medieval deer park, meadows and forest. The garden is designed by Capability Brown.
Thorndon Hall is Grade-I listed with English Heritage, and the park is Grade II*-listed.[1][2]
^Historic England. "Thorndon Hall (Grade I) (1297212)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
^Historic England. "Thorndon Hall (Grade I) (1000314)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
ThorndonHall is a Georgian Palladian country house within Thorndon Park, Ingrave, Essex, England, approximately two miles south of Brentwood and 25 miles...
Petre moved the family seat to ThorndonHall and rented Ingatestone Hall out to tenants. In 1876 much of ThorndonHall was destroyed by fire. During World...
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to have designed a new church when working for the 8th Lord Petre at ThorndonHall, Essex. The original church had been swept away to make room for the...
discreet Catholic who maintained two local manor houses, Ingatestone Hall and ThorndonHall, the first of which still survives in a much-altered state (the...
paintings housed at Ingatestone Hall and ThorndonHall. The pictures were initially displayed in the long gallery at Ingatestone Hall. By 1600 the displayed paintings...
four kings by John Verelst appear in the collection of Lord Petre at ThorndonHall by 1851. These paintings were purchased by the Public Archives of Canada...
administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants...
in botany. He planted 40,000 American trees at their family seat of ThorndonHall. Sieur Bourginioni was employed to redesign the garden. The couple had...
Baron Petre (who wined and dined George III and Queen Charlotte at ThorndonHall), Thomas Weld the bibliophile, (and friend of George III) who in 1794...
Duke of Norfolk. In the 1730s, Robert James Petre, 8th Baron Petre of ThorndonHall, Essex, was the foremost collector in Europe of North American trees...
deer park. Formerly called "Thorndon Old Hall", it burned down in the early 18th century; after which "New" ThorndonHall was built about a mile north...
Thorndon Park Chapel (The Petre Chapel) is a former Roman Catholic private chapel situated in Thorndon Park, near the grounds of ThorndonHall near Ingrave...
four kings by John Verelst appear in the collection of Lord Petre at ThorndonHall by 1851. These paintings were purchased by the Public Archives of Canada...
celebrations in recusant households. These would have included ThorndonHall and Ingatestone Hall, the two Essex country houses owned by Byrd's main patron...
Thorndon School is a New Zealand primary and intermediate school located in the suburb of Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand. It was first established on...
Wanganui in the North Island. The Wellington suburb of Thorndon was named after their ThorndonHall estate in England. Petre was the son of the Hon Henry...
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