Qualla: Boringdon Hall https://qualla.com/boringdon-hall en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/n/boringdon-hall-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Boringdon Hall https://qualla.com/boringdon-hall Boringdon Hall: Introduction https://qualla.com/boringdon-hall/ Photo credit own photo, Public domain. King Charles I's coat of arms still presides over the great fireplace at Boringdon Hall, dated 1640 and flanked by two larger-than-life female figures: Peace on the left, Plenty on the right with her cornucopia. Two years after the plaster was set, civil war broke out, and Cromwell's soldiers came calling. The Parker family had backed the wrong king. Cromwell's men demolished the entire eastern wing of the house, leaving only the western half standing for the next three centuries. The royal arms survived because they were on the wall the soldiers chose to spare.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/n/boringdon-hall-wp/gbvn-boringdon-hall-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Boringdon Hall: A House the Historian Found Irritating https://qualla.com/boringdon-hall/ Photo credit own photo, CC BY-SA 3.0. Nikolaus Pevsner, the great chronicler of England's buildings, called Boringdon "irritating for the historian." The house refuses to date itself cleanly. Bits of medieval stonework sit alongside Tudor windows and Victorian repairs. The entrance porch has a semicircular Norman-sty...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/n/boringdon-hall-wp/gbvn-boringdon-hall-a-house-the-historian-found-irritating.mp3 0:06 2 full Boringdon Hall: The Parker Centuries https://qualla.com/boringdon-hall/ Photo credit Keith Weller, USDA-ARS, Public domain. The manor came to the Parker family in 1582, when Frances Mayhew married John Parker of North Molton in North Devon. Five years later, they finished remodelling the house. The Parkers would hold Boringdon for the next three and a half centuries, rising through Barons Boringdon to...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/n/boringdon-hall-wp/gbvn-boringdon-hall-the-parker-centuries.mp3 0:06 3 full Boringdon Hall: Ruin to Rebirth https://qualla.com/boringdon-hall/ Photo credit User: (WT-shared) OldPine at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. By 1980, Boringdon was little more than four walls and a memory. Restoration began in 1986, and just three years later, in March 1989, a major fire tore through the partially restored building. It was rebuilt again. In 2011 the property went on the market for three million pounds...

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