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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, 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.
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]
Belton House in Lincolnshire is the main location for King George's residence in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. Filming took place in the Orangery, Italian Garden and Marble Hall.Prices ...
Sir John Brownlow, 1st Baronet, portrait at Belton House, surrounded by carving by Grinling Gibbons Arms of Brownlow: Or, an escutcheon within an orle of martlets sable Monument to Sir John Brownlow, 1st Baronet, with his wife Alice Poultney, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Belton. Above are shown the arms of Brownlow impaling Poultney
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.
Monument in Belton Church to Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet. Arms: Cust quartering Brownlow with inescutcheon of pretence of Payne, for his heiress wife. Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet PC (29 August 1718 – 24 January 1770), of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was a British politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1761 ...