Hinton Ampner, Hampshire - All Saints Church interior - postcard c.1970s

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^{Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :}

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^{Hinton Ampner House is a stately home with gardens within the civil parish of Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, England.}

^{The house and garden are owned by the National Trust and are open to the public.[1][}

^{The garden was created by Ralph Stawell Dutton (1898–1985), the 8th and last Baron Sherborne, starting in 1930, making this a modern 20th-century garden.[3] The property is now more noted for its garden than the house. Previously, the parkland came directly up to the house, which was designed to be a hunting lodge. An earlier Tudor house stood close to the current site, before the current house was built.}

^{The current house was built in 1790 but remodelled extensively in 1867. It was remodelled again in the Neo-Georgian style by Trenwith Wills and Lord Gerald Wellesley for Ralph Dutton between 1936 and 1939 to his vision of what it would have been like had it been built on its current scale in 1790 – a Georgian country house.[4] It was badly damaged by fire in 1960, and restored again much as it had appeared in 1936.}

^{The house contains a number of fine paintings. There is a set of paintings of the four seasons by Jacob de Wit, depicting cherubs painted in a three-dimensional monochromestyle.}

^{Ralph Dutton, with no direct heirs, gave the estate to the National Trust, on his death in 1985.}

^{The old Tudor house attained notoriety, in the 18th century, after it was to have become uninhabitable due to loud noises attributed to a poltergeist. One tenant, Mary Ricketts, wrote about her experiences in the house.[5] The house was pulled down in 1793, after its replacement had been built about 50 meters (160 feet) to the south. Harry Priceciting Ricketts' statements wrote at length about the case in his book Poltergeist Over England (1945).}

^{Claims about the poltergeist were disputed by Trevor H. Hall who suggested that "underground water was mainly responsible for the noises at Hinton, although the account of some of them is highly suggestive of seismic disturbance."[6]}