Historic houses · West Midlands
Huntingdon Hall
Huntingdon Hall — theatre and music venue in Worcester, England.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Nearest railway station
- Worcester Foregate Street · 0.4 km
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Huntingdon Hall is a historic house in the United Kingdom — typically a country seat, manor, or town house with notable architecture or history. Heritage designation: Grade II* listed building. Wikidata describes it as: "theatre and music venue in Worcester, England". Coordinates: 52.1917°, -2.2221°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Teme SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Huntingdon Hall is a Grade II* listed theatre and concert venue located in Worcester, England. It was built in 1773 and opened on the 31st of October of that year as the Countess of Huntingdon's Church by her first cousin Walter Shirley. Selina Hastings, the Countess of Huntingdon, described the building as 'exceedingly handsome' in a letter to her friend John Hawksworth. In his book Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner describes Huntingdon Hall as "an odd plan... a three-bay chapel with a hipped roof and behind it, transversely, a large oblong part apsed at both ends."
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Background
History
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon was an English religious leader who founded the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. The connexion was (and still is) a small society of English churches which split with the Church of England. The Countess established several churches for the Connexion across England, such as the New Connexions Free Church in Ely and Jarvis Hall in Steyning, West Sussex. Hastings died in 1783, but the movement she founded had lasting influence; in 1804 Huntingdon Hall was established as a church of the Connexion. The Hall operated as a chapel until closing in 1970. It reopened in 1987 after a renovation by the City of Worcester Building Preservation Trust.
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- Coordinates
- 52.1917, -2.2221
- County
- Worcestershire
- District
- Worcester
- Parish
- Worcester, unparished area
- Postcode
- WR1 2ES
- Parliamentary constituency
- Worcester
- Nearest railway station
- Worcester Foregate Street — 0.4 km
- Official site
- friarywalkworcester.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q17548093 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Huntingdon Hall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Huntingdon Hall, Worcester - geograph.org.uk - 459907.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Huntingdon Hall?
- Huntingdon Hall is in Worcestershire, the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode WR1 2ES), in the parish of Worcester, unparished area.
- Is Huntingdon Hall a listed building?
- Huntingdon Hall is officially recognised as Grade II* listed building listed.
- Is Huntingdon Hall a protected site?
- Yes — Huntingdon Hall is part of the River Teme SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- How do I get to Huntingdon Hall?
- The nearest railway station is Worcester Foregate Street, about 0.4 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode WR1 2ES.