Ripley Castle

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Le château en bref

Ripley Castle stands on the edge of the village of Ripley, a few kilometres north of Harrogate, in the heart of a landscaped park in North Yorkshire. Home of the Ingilby family since the 14th century, the house illustrates the gradual transformation of a medieval manor house into a great country residence. The ensemble combines a three-storey tower built around the mid-16th century for Sir William Ingilby, at the south-west corner, with wings rebuilt in the 1780s in the "Gothick" taste: crenellated parapets and a Gothic Revival porch, but decidedly classical interiors. The tower retains 16th-century panelling and plaster ceilings dated 1603, the year in which King James, on his way to his coronation in London, stopped at the castle. The site's interest lies in this exceptional family continuity, in the quality of its interior decoration (armorial stained glass by William Peckitt, drawing rooms designed by William Belwood) and in the close link between the castle, its park and the village remodelled by the Ingilbys in the 19th century.