Amport House
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Amport House is a manor house near Andover, Hampshire used by the British military. It is currently the headquarters of the Armed Forces Chaplaincy centre.
Amport House was built near the village of Amport in 1857 by the Marquis of Winchester and replaced two earlier houses built on the site. The gardens were laid out by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
During World War II the house was taken over and used as the headquarters of Royal Air Force Maintenance Command. In 1962 the Royal Air Force Chaplains School moved to Amport House from Dowdswell Court in Cheltenham. The Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre, which serves the British Army and Royal Navy as well as the Royal Air Force was set up there in 1996.