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26-510: Kassam may refer to: Firoz Kassam – British entrepreneur Raheem Kassam (born 1986) - British political activist and journalist Kassam Stadium – home ground of Oxford United F.C. , England. Alternative spelling of Qassam Qassam rocket , a weapon used by Hamas against Israel By extension, any rocket used in Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel Topics referred to by

52-493: A fire swept through the house destroying the interiors, many designed by James Gibbs , including a quatrefoil hall, a feature believed to have been unique in England. Other features of the rooms included a saloon which had an entablature supported by life-sized statues of Ceres and Flora beneath a stuccoed ceiling depicting the four corners of the globe. Mrs. Philip Lybbe Powys, who visited Heythrop in 1778 remarked that

78-459: A free-standing screen that marches across the recessed entrance bays. The wall plane is ashlar on the entrance front but with strictly conventionalized channeled rustication the full height of the garden front. On the side elevations, the channeled rustication appears only on the rusticated pilaster-like corner quoins of the lightly projecting five central bays. In the frieze under the main cornice, occasional discreet square openings give light to

104-463: A hotel and conference centre formerly owned by Phoenix Venture Holdings , the consortium who owned carmaker MG Rover from 2000 until 2005. In February 2006, Kassam's Firoka company was announced as the preferred bidder for the redevelopment of Alexandra Palace in London. The whole Palace would be given to Firoka on a 125-year lease for commercial uses. As it is held on a charitable trust, and Firoka

130-623: A modern Italian palazzo set in the Oxfordshire countryside. At this time, Archer was one of the few English architects to have studied in Italy and become conversant with the Baroque forms of architecture, but many of the details of Heythrop were adapted from Roman precedents through engravings in Rossi's publication, though none was directly imitated. Work on the house began in 1706. By 1709

156-544: Is a private company, this proposal was very controversial. It was subject to agreement of the charity commission, which received 350 objections to the lease to develop a multi-use exhibition, leisure and entertainment complex. On 5 October 2007 in the High Court, Mr Justice Sullivan granted an application by a member of the conservationist Save Ally Pally group to quash the Charity Commission's Order authorizing

182-424: Is broken by three projections, the centre being the central portico with Corinthian columns; this has no pediment to break the roof-line. In a break from his usual style, Archer has given the fenestration unusual emphasis by contrasting architectural detailing: the windows on the ground floor are from a design by Bernini, while those on the floor above are in a mannerist style with overlarge keystones penetrating

208-646: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Firoz Kassam Firoz Kassam (born 1955) is a British businessman. Born and brought up in Tanzania , of Indian descent, he came to Britain at the age of 19. He owned Oxford United F.C. from 1999 to 2006, and was named the 309th wealthiest person in the UK in the Sunday Times Rich List 2009 with an estimated fortune of £180 million. Firoz Kassam

234-611: The Football League . Kassam sold the football club in 2006, but retained ownership of the stadium through his company Firoka with Oxford United (and later also London Welsh RFC ) as tenants. Oxford United's old home, the Manor Ground in Headington , was sold by Kassam, first to his own holding company for £6 million, and then to developers for £12 million in 1999. The ground has since been demolished and developed into

260-514: The Italian Baroque style. On the entrance facade of eleven bays, the giant order with a level balustraded roof is very similar to the design which William Talman had executed for the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth House just few years earlier. Archer's Corinthian order shifts restlessly against the wall plane, varying on the entrance front from flat pilasters to attached columns, to

286-580: The Manor Hospital, which opened in October 2004. Kassam also owns the historic mansion and grounds of Heythrop Park which he purchased in 1999 for £15m. The site underwent a £50 million rebuilding programme and has been developed into a luxury hotel and spa with an 18-hole championship golf course and restored landscape gardens. In August 2005, he purchased Studley Castle in Warwickshire ,

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312-565: The Talbot family until it was rendered uninhabitable by the fire of 1831. Rebuilt by new owners, the Brassey family in 1871; the house remained in their possession until 1926. From then until 1970, Heythrop Hall was a college for the philosophical and theological studies of Jesuit scholastics. During this period the house was altered and enlarged, not always in a style sympathetic to the original architectural concept. In 1926 two wings were added to

338-402: The cornice, as at Talman's Chatsworth. The central nine bays of the 13-bay garden front carry the rustication of the half-basement right up the wall to the cornice, with perfectly plain window openings and a central door framed in a very sober Doric order ; this severe front is relieved by its richly treated two-bay end pavilions, which take up all the rich motifs of the entrance front. In 1831

364-507: The eminent architect Alfred Waterhouse to rebuild the interior. Waterhouse, a noted Gothic Revival architect , in deference to the history of the house worked in a neo-classical style; his double-height arcaded hall, being more redolent of the Baroque of John Vanbrugh than Archer. However, Waterhouse did add Gothic motifs to the hall's clerestory in the form of stained glass windows, by Morris and Co , depicting Faith, Hope and Charity . Heythrop Hall passed through various generations of

390-636: The grounds in a contemporary style. When in 1970 the Jesuit college moved to London as part of the University there, the National Westminster Bank group bought Heythrop Park and turned the house and its precincts into a training and conference centre. In 1999 NatWest sold the house to Firoz Kassam 's company Firoka Ltd, which has turned the house and grounds to a hotel and country club . Heythrop Park Hotel Golf & Country Club

416-532: The lease. In 2007, his net worth was estimated at £240 million. In the 2017 Sunday Times Rich List , his net worth was £315 million. Heythrop Park Heythrop Park was designed by the architect Thomas Archer for Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury . Shrewsbury had travelled in Italy on an extensive Grand Tour , between 1700 and 1705. Apparently the duke had already decided to build in 1700, before he left for Italy, because of his failure to buy Cornbury Park near Charlbury , Oxfordshire. Cornbury

442-456: The low attics. The inspiration for the Baroque facade at Heythrop was Gian Lorenzo Bernini 's final design for the Louvre, a plan never executed. Like Chatsworth, Heythrop Park comprises two floors linked by the giant order standing upon a raised semi-basement; the bays are articulated by a giant order with the Baroque inturned Corinthian volutes invented by Francesco Borromini . The elevation

468-449: The north front built of Hornton ironstone from north Oxfordshire. Like Chipping Norton Limestone it is a Middle Jurassic limestone, but its higher ironstone makes it much darker and browner than the stone used to build the house in the 18th century. In 1952, the indoor real tennis court was converted to a chapel and in 1965, a library was added. In 1960, the architectural firm of Howell, Killick and Amis created two halls of residence in

494-470: The roof was in place and by 1713 the house was ready for partial occupation, but John Vanbrugh noted in April 1716 that it was incomplete, and so it was still, on Shrewsbury's death in 1718. The building contractors were William and Francis Smith of Warwick . The stone used is a Middle Jurassic freestone , apparently Chipping Norton Limestone from local quarries. Archer's design was, as requested, in

520-409: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kassam . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kassam&oldid=1258073989 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

546-443: The stucco work was by "the famous Roberts of Oxford", though the plasterer Thomas Roberts was born in 1711; "In the arches over the doorways", Mrs. Lybbe Powys noted " fables of Aesop , finely executed in stucco, with wreathes of vine leaves." After the fire the house remained derelict until sold to the railway contractor Thomas Brassey in 1870 as a wedding present for his third son Albert Brassey (1840–1918). Brassey commissioned

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572-468: The tenants rebelled over the conditions in which they were being housed. In 1999, Kassam bought Oxford United F.C. for £1, also taking over its debts, estimated to be in the region of £13m. In 2000, he resumed building a 12,500-capacity stadium at Minchery Farm on the edge of Oxford , which he called the Kassam Stadium . Construction of this stadium had actually been in progress since 1997, but

598-462: Was a regular classical house designed by Inigo Jones ' mason, Nicholas Stone , which had been brought up to date for the Earl of Clarendon more recently by Hugh May ; Shrewsbury's disappointment evinces the enthusiasm for classical architecture that he had acquired before he left England. Modern architecture in Italy had evolved into its Baroque form, a style quite unknown in England. The travelling duke

624-513: Was born in Tanzania, one of five children. His father had a small confectionery business, and his mother died when he was a child. They migrated to England when he was 19. Starting out with a fish and chip shop , Kassam made his fortune as a slum hotelier and in the 1980s was labelled a "merchant of misery". He bought run-down London hostels and hotels and was paid by local councils to fill them with homeless people and asylum seekers , until

650-545: Was quickly won over: in Rome, Shrewsbury visited the villa of Domenico de' Rossi in 1702, to "lay aside some prints" by the architectural engraver of the Studio di architettura civile di Roma , full of designs by Borromini and Bernini. In 1704 Shrewsbury obtained a plan for a house from Paolo Falconieri . On his return to England, apparently possessing at least Rossi's first volume (of 1702), Shrewsbury called upon Archer to create

676-470: Was suspended in the early stages due to the club's financial problems. The fourth side of the stadium was left empty due to Oxford's decline in the league, as they had dropped down two divisions while the stadium was being built. The development includes a hotel, cinema, bowling alley, gym, health centre and restaurants. Oxford United played its first game there on 18 August 2001, in Division Three of

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