Lypiatt Park

Lypiatt Park was the manor house of Over Lypiatt, first recorded in 1220. In 1324 the manor was a possession of the Maunsell family, who probably built the extant chapel. In 1395 Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, acquired the manor in satisfaction of a debt. An engraving by Johannes Kip for Sir Robert Atkyns' History of Glostershire of about 1710 illustrates the Tudor manor house, perhaps the house of Robert Wye, who owned the manor from c. 1505–44. It was acquired by marriage and inheritance by John Throckmorton who was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In 1610 the house was bought by Thomas Stephens, whose descendants lived there for nearly 200 years. On 1 January 1645,…