Hornby Castle, Yorkshire was a fourteenth and fifteenth-century courtyard castle on edge of Wensleydale between Bedale and Leyburn. It was largely rebuilt in the fifteenth century by William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers after the Conyers family had inherited it, but retained the fourteenth-century St. Quintins tower (demolished in 1927) named after the medieval family which had originally owned the building.[1]
Hornby was largely rebuilt in the 1760s by John Carr of York, who was responsible for the surviving south range and the east range (demolished in the 1930s) and outbuildings, for Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness. The eventual heir was the Duke of Leeds, who assembled there rich early eighteenth-century furniture from several houses, illustrated in the books of Percy Macquoid.
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