Nostell Priory is a Palladian house located in Nostell

Nostell

Nostell is a village in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, near Hemsworth. It is in the civil parish of Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell, which has a population of 90, and is the site of an Augustinian priory which received its charter in 1121.Nostell Priory is an 18th century...

, near Crofton

Crofton, West Yorkshire

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 close to Wakefield

Wakefield

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, West Yorkshire

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, England

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, approached by the Doncaster

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 road from Wakefield. Built on the site of a medieval priory for the Winn family from 1733 onwards, Nostell Priory is today a National Trust

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 property.
The property was previously owned by the Gargrave family after being purchased in 1567 by Sir Thomas Gargrave

Thomas Gargrave

Sir Thomas Gargrave was a Yorkshire Knight who served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1565 and 1569. His principal residence was at Nostell Priory, one of many grants of land that Gargrave secured during his lifetime...

, Speaker of the House of Commons

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 from James Blunt, Lord Mountjoy, for £3,560.

The estate was then purchased in 1654 by the London alderman Sir Rowland Winn after the previous owner was declared bankrupt in 1650.