Ingestre Hall

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Date:31st of August 2013

Description:This photograph was taken during the Ingestre Festival which was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the current Ingestre Hall.

In November 1907 King Edward VII visited Lord Shrewsbury. During his stay at Ingestre the King planted a Cedrus Libani (Cedar of Lebanon) in an area near to the Hall which is known as The Mounts.

The tree in this photograph is the same tree planted by the King and it is still growing well. On the left of the tree is a Camera Obscurer.

Ingestre Hall was built by Sir Walter Chetwynd in 1613. By the eighteenth century it had been acquired by the Talbots, who remodelled parts of the hall in the early 1800s. The Talbots became the Earls of Shrewsbury in 1856.

After a fire in 1882 John Birch was employed to restore the building.

Ingestre Hall remained in the hands of the same family until it was sold in 1960 to what is now Sandwell Council who use the Hall as a Residential Arts Centre and a venue for weddings, meetings and courses.