1. The estate

2. The fountain

3. Family use and media

4. References
    Notes  Other sources 

5. External links

Stanway House is a Jacobean manor house, located near the village of Stanway in Gloucestershire, England. The manor of Stanway was owned by Tewkesbury Abbey for 800 years then for 500 years by the Tracy family and their descendants, the Earls of Wemyss and March.

Stanway House, originally constructed in the late 16th and early 17th century for the Tracy family, is a Grade I listed building.^[1] The principal rooms are in a long south-facing range forming an L-shape with the hall, unlike the usual Tudor house plan of a central hall. The north-east wing, remodelled in 1913 by Detmar Blow, was demolished in 1948. The kitchen court was designed by William Burn in 1859. The Gatehouse was built in about 1630.

The then Lord Neidpath, now the 13th Earl of Wemyss and March, has pursued a program of restoration for a number of years.

The estate

The gardens are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.^[2] The estate brewery, an original Elizabethan feature has, with the permission of Lord Neidpath, recently been re-established.^[3]

The fountain

Stanway House is also home to the Stanway Fountain, which was opened on 5 June 2004. The single-jet fountain, which rises to over {{convert|300|ft|m}}, is the tallest fountain in Britain (seconded by Witley Court at {{convert|121|ft|m}}), the tallest gravity fountain in the world (seconded by the Fountain of Fame at La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia, Spain at {{convert|153|ft|m}}), and the second tallest fountain in Europe, after the {{convert|400|ft|m}} high turbine-driven fountain in Lake Geneva.

The fountain has a {{convert|2|in|cm}} bronze nozzle and is driven from a 100,000-gallon reservoir, {{convert|580|ft|m}} above the canal in which it is situated. The {{convert|12|in|cm}} diameter pipe which feeds the fountain is {{convert|2|km|mi}} long.^[5] The fountain is operated by remote control.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}

Family use and media

The house is the home of James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss and his wife, drug policy reformer Amanda Feilding. It also the family home of Fielding's son, Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council’s deputy leader Rock Feilding-Mellen, who has been involved in the Grenfell Tower fire disaster.^[6]

In the Jeeves and Wooster TV series, Twing Hall was filmed at Stanway House for the episode "The Purity of the Turf".{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} Interiors for the 2004 film Vanity Fair were shot there.^[7] It was also used for The Christmas Candle.^[8][9] In the Season 5 Episode 2 "The Labyrinth of the Minotaur" of Father Brown the house features as the home of the Malmort family, the location of the maze.{{cn|date=July 2017}}

References

Notes

Other sources

• Gloucestershire: the Cotswolds, David Verey, Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England, Penguin, 1970, {{ISBN|0-14-071040-X}}, pp. 415–417.

External links

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103155943/http://www.stanwayfountain.co.uk/history.html Stanway House]

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