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Article: Salt-glazed stoneware at Temple Newsam House, Leeds.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Temple Newsam House in Leeds, England, has a rich history extending back to the Domesday Book in 1086, when the manor of Newsam (or Neuhusum), meaning "new houses," was first recorded. The property was bought in 1622 by Sir Arthur Ingram (1565 or 1570-642) who reconfigured the old Tudor house, demolishing three sides and rebuilding two new wings to the north and south, uniting the whole in 1628 (Fig. 1). It remained in the hands of nine successive Viscounts Irwin into the middle of the eighteenth century and thereafter their descendants until Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (1881-1959), later Viscount Halifax, sold it to the Leeds Corporation in 1922. (1)
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