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Elston Towers - (Coeur de Lion Restaurant) Rear elevation showing entrance to the former chapel.

Courtesy of Reg Baker

Eden Hall
Lodge Lane
Elston
Nottinghamshire
England

The hall has had many uses over the years; a private house, an electronics and communications research centre, a maggot breeding factory, The Coeur De Lion Restaurant (seen here), and is now used as a country health club. It was originally called Middleton Towers and was built between 1872 and 1875 as a private house for one of Newark's most eccentric residents, Robert Middleton (1815-1877). He was the son of a successful Newark maltster, whose family home was in Lovers Lane. Upon inheriting the family fortune, he decided to build a house which incorporated a Baptist Chapel, which would allow him to follow what he considered to be his true calling of lay preaching, and which would allow worshippers to use his house almost as a place of pilgrimage. The home and chapel was built in an eclectic mixture of Tudor-Gothic-French styles, furnished lavishly and cost the huge sum (at that time) of

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