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Stowe, Kilkhampton

Stowe House, Kilkhampton. Detail from drawing (see below) by John Chessell Buckler in 1827 copied from an unknown original depiction, possibly from the engraving in the collection of Peter Prideaux-Brune. British Library, Add. MS 36360, f.167
Arms of Grenville: Gules, three clarions or
Stowe House, Kilkhampton, copied by John Chessell Buckler in 1827 from an unknown original depiction, possibly from the engraving in the collection of Peter Prideaux-Brune. British Library, Add. MS 36360, f.167
Stowe House, Kilkhampton, drawn by Edmund Prideaux (1693–1745) of Prideaux Place, Cornwall.[1] Collection of Peter Prideaux-Brune of Prideaux Place, Cornwall. This picture in 1903 was in the possession of Mrs. Waddon Martyn, at Tonacombe Manor[2]
Grenville arms above front door of Stowe Barton

Stowe House in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall, England, UK, was a mansion built in 1679 by John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701) and demolished in 1739. The Grenville family were for many centuries lords of the manor of Kilkhampton, which they held from the feudal barony of Gloucester, as they did their other principal seat of nearby Bideford in Devon. It is possible that the family's original residence at Kilkhampton was Kilkhampton Castle, of which only the groundworks survive, unusual in that it had a motte with two baileys.[3]

  1. ^ "Prideaux Place - Edmond Prideaux's Drawings - Acorn Archive". freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  2. ^ See illustration in Hawker, Robert S., Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall, London, 1903 [1]
  3. ^ "Access to Monuments - Kilkhampton Castle". historic-cornwall.org.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
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