Kimbolton Castle, Kimbolton School
History of Kimbolton Castle
Listed Building:
Large country house, the present external appearance is substantially due to Sir John Vanbrugh who in 1707-10 remodelled the C16 and C17 home which had been built on a C12 moated site. Vanbrugh was assisted by Nicholas Hawksmoor and the Clerk of Works was William Coleman of Kimbolton.
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1856 death of Catherine of Aragon
Kimbolton Castle was successively the base for the Huntingdonshire Light Horse, and a troop of ‘D’ Squadron of the Bedfordshire yeomanry based in Godmanchester, and then a prisoner-of-war camp in the First World War.
See Mike Osborne, Defending Cambridgeshire.
Kimbolton Castle (Royal Commission on Historial Monuments)
Building dates
- Built by 1710
Source for this date
- Built by 1710: Listed building: by 1707-10 (grade I)
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