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The Forgotten Country House: The Rise and Fall of Roundway Park - Hardcover

Simon Baynes

 
9781846893063: The Forgotten Country House: The Rise and Fall of Roundway Park

Synopsis


This fine Palladian house known as New Park was built between 1777 and 1783 and became part of the golden age of the Georgian country house. Its owner, James Sutton, was one of a new breed of landowners, benefitting from the proceeds of the boom in late eighteenth century trade and from local political influence.

The house was a celebration of the dynamism and success of Georgian Devizes, built on its thriving wool trade. As neoclassicism became the defining style for the late eighteenth English country house, New Park, later re-named Roundway Park, perfectly represented the high ambition of the age, the product of the prestigious architect, James Wyatt, and landscape designer, Humphry Repton.

The Forgotten Country House tells for the first time the story of Roundway s rise and fall, the people who built and owned it, lived and worked there, and the contribution they made to their local community. It paints a vivid picture of the lives of gentry families who far outnumbered their more aristocratic counterparts and who played a central role in the rural communities that characterised much of Britain up until the mid-twentieth century.

Part family history, part love letter to the English country house, Simon Baynes draws on family papers and new research to pay a fitting, evocative tribute not just to his ancestors, but also to a lost world and the people who lived in it.

About the Author

Simon Baynes grew up in Montgomeryshire where his father ran Lake Vyrnwy Hotel. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and read history at Magdalene College, Cambridge After a career at stockbrokers Cazenove & Co. and as Managing Director of the merged JP Morgan Cazenove investment bank, Simon moved back to Montgomeryshire where he now focuses on writing and the local community. He ran a second-hand bookshop for five years, is founder of the Montgomeryshire Literary Festival and co-author of Lake Vyrnwy Hotel: The Story of a Sporting Hotel.

Simon has stood for parliament in Mid-Wales and is Mayor of his local town, Llanfyllin. His wife, Maggie, is an architect and he is Chairman of the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust; together, they have restored Bodfach Hall and its gardens where they live with their daughters, Clemmie and Francesca.

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About the Author

Simon Baynes grew up in Montgomeryshire where his father ran Lake Vyrnwy Hotel. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and read history at Magdalene College, Cambridge After a career at stockbrokers Cazenove & Co. and as Managing Director of the merged JP Morgan Cazenove investment bank, Simon moved back to Montgomeryshire where he now focuses on writing and the local community. He ran a second-hand bookshop for five years, is founder of the Montgomeryshire Literary Festival and co-author of Lake Vyrnwy Hotel: The Story of a Sporting Hotel.

Simon has stood for parliament in Mid-Wales and is Mayor of his local town, Llanfyllin. His wife, Maggie, is an architect and he is Chairman of the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust; together, they have restored Bodfach Hall and its gardens where they live with their daughters, Clemmie and Francesca.

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