Qualla: Temple Newsam https://qualla.com/temple-newsam en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:23 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/c/temple-newsam-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Temple Newsam https://qualla.com/temple-newsam Temple Newsam: Introduction https://qualla.com/temple-newsam/ Photo credit David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was born here in 1545. Twenty years later he would marry Mary, Queen of Scots, father the boy who became James I of England, and be murdered at Kirk o' Field in Edinburgh in a plot that has been argued over by historians for four hundred and fifty years. Most of the great country houses of England can claim a king, a battle, or a love affair. Temple Newsam can claim the bloodline. From this Tudor manor east of Leeds, in a single generation, came the man who linked the Scottish and English crowns and put a Stuart on the throne of both kingdoms.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/c/temple-newsam-wp/gcwc-temple-newsam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Temple Newsam: The Templars to the Darnleys https://qualla.com/temple-newsam/ Photo credit Original uploader was SpaceMonkey at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Domesday Book of 1086 calls the manor Neuhusam, meaning new houses, held before the Norman Conquest by two Anglo-Saxon thanes named Dunstan and Glunier. After 1066 it passed to Ilbert de Lacy. By the early 13th century it belonged to the Knights Templar, who farmed the estate...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/c/temple-newsam-wp/gcwc-temple-newsam-the-templars-to-the-darnleys.mp3 0:06 2 full Temple Newsam: The Ingrams' House https://qualla.com/temple-newsam/ Photo credit PPlock, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1609 James I granted the estate to his Franco-Scottish second cousin Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, who promptly ran out of money and began selling it in 1622 to Sir Arthur Ingram, a Yorkshire-born London merchant and arms dealer. Ingram paid £12,000 for the property in ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/c/temple-newsam-wp/gcwc-temple-newsam-the-ingrams-house.mp3 0:06 3 full Temple Newsam: Brown's Landscape and the Coal Beneath https://qualla.com/temple-newsam/ Photo credit Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0. In the 1760s, Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine, hired Capability Brown to redesign the park. Brown's contoured landscape of clumped trees, sweeping vistas, and ornamental water still defines the estate, though the great lake he planned near the house was never dug. Brown's ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/c/temple-newsam-wp/gcwc-temple-newsam-browns-landscape-and-the-coal-beneath.mp3 0:06 4 full Temple Newsam: Hampton Court of the North https://qualla.com/temple-newsam/ Photo credit Simon Cobb, CC0. When Edward Wood sold the house and park to Leeds Corporation in 1922 for a nominal sum, with covenants ensuring preservation, the Derby Daily Telegraph compared it to Hampton Court Palace. It opened to the public on 19 October 1923. The collections inside, fine and decorative ar...

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