The Abbey, Aston Abbotts

The Abbey, Aston Abbotts

The Abbey, Aston Abbotts is a small country house in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. The house derived its name from being a property of St. Albans Abbey in the Middle Ages, and it belonged to the Dormer family from the Dissolution of the Monasteries until the early 19th century. While in their ownership the house was almost continuously tenanted, and it was altered in a piecemeal way as a result. It is now an L-shaped house with a plain, mildly neo-Classical, south front of c.1800, masking a medieval hall and dining-room, and Queen Anne drawing-room at W. end; the smaller west wing is Elizabethan. In the early 20th century it was a secondary seat of the Spencer family of Coles Hall.

During the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 Dr Edvard Beneš, the exiled President of Czechoslovakia, stayed at The Abbey in Aston Abbotts.

References

"Country Times & Landscape", November 1989, pp. 61-63

Sir N. Pevsner & E. Williamson, "The buildings of England: Buckinghamshire", 1994, p. 145


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