Stansted or Steanstead Hall is located in

Stansted Mountfitchet Stansted Mountfitchet is an England, English village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, near the Hertfordshire border, north of London. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,533, increasi ...

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, United Kingdom. It was the country seat of the

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during the reign of

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. The Tudor-era Stansted Hall was partially destroyed by fire. So in the early 1660s Sir Thomas Myddleton built a new hall, a massive Jacobean four-story building with two large domed-shaped towers. The older Tudor hall remained standing nearby until at least 1770.History of Stansted Hall
Arthur Findlay College. Accessed 7 August 2023. The famous

landscape designer Landscape design is an independent profession and a design and art tradition, practiced by landscape designers, combining nature and culture. In contemporary practice, landscape design bridges the space between landscape architecture and garde ...

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produced one of his ‘red books’ of designs for Stansted in 1791.

Ebenezer Maitland Ebenezer Fuller Maitland FRS (23 April 1780 – 1 November 1858) was an English landowner and politician. Early life Maitland was the only son of Ebenezer Maitland, a London businessman and Bank of England director, and his wife Mary, daught ...

(1780-1858) married Miss Berthia Ellis (1780-1863), the granddaughter of William Fuller (d.1800), a London banker. When his wife’s maiden aunt Sarah Fuller, William’s only surviving heiress, died in 1810, left all she possessed to the couple – a substantial fortune estimated at £500,000 () – stipulating that Ebenezer assume the surname Fuller Maitland. So Stansted Hall became the property of the Fuller Maitland family. The manor house that stands today was begun in 1871 by William Fuller Maitland (d. 1876) and completed in 1876 following his death, adding some elements recovered from the surviving Jacobean tower of the previous manor hall. The Fuller-Maitland family owned Stansted Hall for many decades, until

William Fuller-Maitland William Fuller-Maitland (6 May 1844 – 15 November 1932) was an English art collector and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1875 to 1895. A cricketer, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University between 1864 and 1 ...

(d. November 1932) sold the estate in 1921.1544-1921: Essex (Stansted Hall in Stansted Mountfitchet, Birchanger, etc) deeds and papers
The Fuller-Maitland family of Stansted Hall. Essex Record Office. Retrieved 7 August 2023. James Arthur Findlay bought the estate in 1923 from Sir Albert Ball. In 1964 Stansted Hall, its grounds and an endowment were transferred by Mr. Findlay to the

Arthur Findlay College Arthur Findlay College is a college of Spiritualism and psychic sciences at Stansted Hall in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England. Stansted Hall was built in 1871, and the college was founded there in 1964. In accordance with Arthur Findlay ...

, a college of

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and psychic sciences.

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The Arthur Findlay College
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