Batchwood Hall

Batchwood Hall is a manor house in St Albans, Hertfordshire The house was designed in the Queen Anne style and built for Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe in 1874.

[2] The site was acquired by St Albans Council in 1935 when John Henry Taylor was commissioned to design and establish an 18-hole golf course in the grounds.

[3] The house became an event venue in the 1970s.

[4] An arson attack resulted in the complete destruction of the Batchwood Tennis and Golf Centre in August 2011.

[5] It operated as a vaccination centre, organised by a consortium of local GPs, during the COVID-19 pandemic.