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About The Old Rectory, Quenington
There has been a rectory in Quenington since the time of the Knights Hospitallers in the twelfth century. It belonged to an important group of buildings which included the church, the Knights’ preceptory, farm, barns, dovecote, mills and mill race until the Reformation. The last water wheel of the 1880s rests in the gardens by the road bridge.
The fine trees are due to plantings over 250 years ago, but more recently the garden was laid out before the last war and then doubled in size by Lady Abel Smith in the 1970s, Esme Bradburne arrived in 1987 and helped Lucy Abel Smith and Robert Wyatt further develop the garden and turn it organic. Esme’s memorial by Gary Breeze is on a tree in the garden.
Newly added in 2019, is the pergola, designed and built by Donald Andrew Rowe.
Website:
https://www.queningtonoldrectory.com
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