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Belton House is a Grade I listed country house in the parish of Belton near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, built between 1685 and 1687 by Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet. It is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a larger wooded park .
Sir John Brownlow, 1st Baronet (c. 1594–24 November 1679) of Belton, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was twice Sheriff of Lincolnshire [1] and on 26 July 1641 was created a baronet "of Belton in the County of Lincoln". He died without progeny when his baronetcy became extinct.
Christmas Special: filmed at Tredegar House (21 December 2014) Durham Cathedral 1 (28 December 2014; not shown in Scotland until 6 January 2015, BBC2 repeat) Walthamstow Town Hall 2 (11 January 2015) Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral 1 (22 March 2015) Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral 2 (29 March 2015) Belton House 1 (5 April 2015)
John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, owner of Belton House from 1807 to 1853 commissioned Salvin to undertake improvements to the Belton Estate in 1838. [1] Salvin's additions included a public house, a cross in Belton Village, cottages and houses for a gamekeeper and a blacksmith, a hermitage and the boathouse on Boathouse Pond. [1]
The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Belton, South Kesteven, Lincolnshire is a functioning parish church and a Grade I listed building.Since the 17th century, the church has served as the estate church for Belton House and it holds a notable collection of funerary monuments commemorating members of the Brownlow family.
The Saxon meaning of Belton is "a bell-shaped hollow". [citation needed] The village is significant for the 1686 Grade I listed Belton House. [2] [3] The house is the property of the National Trust and is open to the public. [4] A church at Belton is recorded in the Domesday Book.
Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet (26 June 1659 – 16 July 1697) of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was an English member of parliament. He built the grand mansion of Belton House, which survives today.
Belton House, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, inherited in 1779 by 1st Baron Brownlow. In 1779 Cust inherited Belton House, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, under the will of his paternal grandmother, Anne Brownlow (Lady Cust), wife of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Baronet and sister, and in her issue heiress, of John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel (1690–1754), of Belton House.