Château de Lambton

Le château de Lambton, qui se dresse au-dessus de Chester-le-Street, dans le comté de Durham, est une demeure seigneuriale, siège ancestral de la famille Lambton, les comtes de Durham. Il est un bâtiment classé, Grade II*.

1. Histoire

Construit en grande partie entre 1820 et 1828 par John George Lambton, premier comte de Durham et ancien gouverneur général du Canada, il est bâti autour de Harraton Hall, un manoir du XVIIe siècle. Le château est conçu par les architectes Joseph Bonomi l'Ancien et son fils Ignace et construit dans le style d'un château normand, comme c'est la mode de l'époque. Les ajouts ultérieurs à la maison construite par Sydney Smirke en 1862-1865, dont la grande salle, sont en grande partie démolis en 1932. La structure avait souffert d'un affaissement. Dans les années 1930, la famille déménage à Biddick Hall situé au sein du domaine. Le parc qui entoure le château est bordé par un haut mur. De 1972 à 1980, le terrain a accueilli une entreprise qui a fermé ses portes, Lambton Lion Park. Plus tard, la famille vend Biddick Woods, permettant une liaison routière de l'A182 à l'A690 à Houghton-le-Spring et de nouvelles unités commerciales. En 2012, le château est le théâtre du drama de BBC One, The Paradise.

1. Références

(en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Lambton Castle » (voir la liste des auteurs).

1. Liens externes

Ressource relative à l'architecture : National Heritage List for England

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Lambton Castle

Lambton Castle stands above Chester-le-Street, County Durham and is a stately home, the ancestral seat of the Lambton family, the Earls of Durham. It is listed in the mid-category of listed building, Grade II*.

Castle Landmark

Chester New Bridge

Chester New Bridge is a Grade II* listed medieval stone bridge over the River Wear near Chester-le-Street in County Durham, England. It carries Black Drive, the private entrance road to Lambton Castle, across the Wear just north of the A1052 road bridge, which superseded it in 1926. Frank Graham in Bridges of Northumberland and Durham describes it as "a fine 14th century bridge" but the official English Heritage listing citation considers it to be "probably C15". The parapet, which English Heritage suggest may be partly rebuilt, bears a worn inscription referring to "Charles Swinburne's Leap", an incident in which a horse and its rider were killed falling from the bridge. The bridge has a span of approximately 45 metres (148 ft) and four pointed arches with cutwaters on each pier. An archway at its eastern end, erected in 1815 by Ignatius Bonomi, marks the entrance to the Lambton Estate.

Bridge Historic Site

Chartershaugh Bridge

Chartershaugh Bridge is a road traffic bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking Penshaw with Fatfield as part of the A182 road. The bridge was opened in 1975 and is named after the former settlement of Chartershaugh, which once stood on a site near the bridge.

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Fatfield

Fatfield is an area of Washington, in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Harraton

Harraton is a suburb of Washington, in the Sunderland metropolitan borough, in Tyne and Wear, England. Harraton is near the River Wear and is 3 miles north-east of Chester-le-Street, 2 miles south-west of Washington town centre and 9 miles south-southwest of Sunderland. When nearby Washington (historically a village) was founded as a new town under the New Towns Act in 1964, Harraton alongside the neighboring villages of Chaters-Hough, Fatfield, Cox Green and Picktree became suburbs of Washington forming the southern suburbs of the town. Certain developments also took place for overspill for the nearby towns of Chester Le Street and Houghton-le-Spring (also in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough). It is on the main road serving Seahouses and the northern coast. Harraton was a civil parish until 1974.

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