Redlynch, Somerset
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Redlynch is a village and former manor in the civil parish of Bruton, in Somerset, England. The 18th-century church and a folly named The Towers are of architectural interest.
St Peter's Church, built by Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester (1704–1776)
"The Towers", displaying the arms of Fox
Stephen Fox
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Sir Stephen Fox was an English politician who rose from humble origins to become the "richest commoner in the three kingdoms". He made the foundation of his wealth from his tenure of the newly created
Redlynch, Somerset
…the residence of her son, Sir Robert Gorges. She was buried on 14 May in Salisbury Cathedral. In 1672, the Gorges family conveyed the estate to Sir Stephen Fox (1627–1716) in settlement of a debt. Having acquired what was by then a large 16th-century manor house in 1672, Sir Stephen Fox, paymaster-general to…
Portrait by John James Baker, 1701
"Fox's Hospital", Farley, an almshouse founded by Sir Stephen Fox
Mural monument to Sir Stephen Fox and his second wife in the Ilchester Chapel of All Saints Church, Farley. Unusually the inscription is in French, in which language he was proficient, reflecting the time he spent in France with the exiled King Charles II. He built the church c. 1688–90, to the design of Sir Christopher Wren and effected by master mason Alexander Fort. He is called on it the fondateur de céans "founder of this place"
Mural monument to Elizabeth Whittle (d.1696), first wife of Sir Stephen Fox, in the Ilchester Chapel of Farley Church