Chateau Impney Droitwitch Worcestershire England UK
Chateau Impney is an imposing 19th century house built in the style of an elaborate French chateau near Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England. It was designed from 1869 onwards and built in 1873-75 for local industrialist the saltworks magnate John Corbett in the style of a Louis XIII chateau, for Corbett's wife, Hannah Eliza O'Meara, was of mixed French/Irish descent and had been raised in Paris, where her father was secretary to the Displomatic Corps. Corbett applied for designs to the Parisian architect Auguste Tronquois and employed the Beaux-Arts trained English architect Richard Phené Spiers as executive architect on site, In 1945, the house was purchased by Ralph Edwards who restored it and developed it as a hotel. .
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Location: Droitwitch Worcestershire England UK
Photo credit: © Jon Lewis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: chateau, hotel
