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| Basing Park. The Seat of Joseph Martineau Esqr |
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| Brief Description: View of the back of Basing Park in 1833. |
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| Subject Date: 1833 |
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| Creator: G F Prosser; C Hullmandel |
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| Owner: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Contributor: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Full Description: The front of the house was built like a Grecian temple. Prosser gives us the much plainer rear elevation, probably in order to illustrate the fine gardens and fountain. The gardens contained large conservatories and greenhouses, with an avenue of fruit trees 100 yards long. Water was supplied to the house and fountains from a 350 feet-deep well, raised by pumps the engine of which was worked by a horse in an underground well house beneath the front lawn.
The house was later owned and enlarged by William George Nicholson, MP for Petersfield 1897-1935. On his death in 1942, the house was requisitioned by the army, and after the war was used as a furniture store until demolished in 1964.
Incidentally, the brother-in-law of James Martineau was Sir William Parry, the Arctic explorer.
Reference:
Daniels, Pauline, Froxfield and Privett, Hampshire Family Historian, volume 11, no. 2, August 1984, pp. 85-88. |
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| Collection: The Hampshire Collection |
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| Place: Froxfield, East Hampshire, Hampshire |
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| Subject: building, house, garden, fountain, Basing Park |
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| Name Subject: William Graham Nicholson, Joseph Martineau, William Parry |
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| Content Type: Print |
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| Location: Winchester Library - Jewry Street |
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| Local Ref: H 72.83; 289 |
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| Unique ID: hs-hl-hs5905-i-00-000.jpg |
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