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Knebworth House in 2007. Knebworth House is an English country house in the parish of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. [1] Its gardens are also listed Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. [2] In its surrounding park are the medieval St. Mary's Church and the Lytton family mausoleum.
The church is set in a churchyard which in turn is surrounded by parkland. Like a number of Norman churches in the area (for example, St Nicholas' Church, Stevenage; All Saints, Datchworth), the site is on a hill. Archaeological investigations have identified traces of an early settlement between the church and Knebworth House. It is believed ...
Homewood is an Arts and Crafts style country house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England. Designed and built by architect Edwin Lutyens around 1900–3, using a mixture of vernacular and Neo-Georgian architecture, it is a Grade II* listed building . [ 1 ]
Inside the mausoleum are a number of coffins, [3] including that of Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton (1770–1843). A casket holds the ashes of Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton (1869–1923). She joined the suffragette movement , [ 4 ] and, as her epitaph states “sacrificed her health and talents in helping to bring victory to this cause”.
Henry Fromanteel Lytton Cobbold, 3rd Baron Cobbold (born 12 May 1962), is a British screenwriter. He is the current occupant of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England.. He is the son of David Lytton Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold, and succeeded his father in the Cobbold barony in May 2022.
In the 1960s the Lytton Cobbolds undertook an extensive renovation of Knebworth House. They opened it to the public in 1971. [2] The title of her best-selling 1986 memoir, Board Meetings in the Bath: How We Opened Knebworth House to the Public, [1] was inspired by the bathtub she had installed in the kitchen of their Little Venice home.
The Knebworth Festival was a recurring open-air rock and pop festival held on the grounds of the Knebworth House in Knebworth, England. The festival first occurred in July 1974 when The Allman Brothers Band , The Doobie Brothers and other artists attracted 60,000 people.
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