Bank Hall

Daffodils on the Tower Lawn in Bank Hall overlooking the south facade of the country house

Bank Hall is a country house in the Jacobean style in Bretherton in Lancashire . The house has been classified as a Grade II Historic Building by English Heritage . It was built in 1608 on the site of an older house by the Banastre family , who were "Lords of the Manor" there. Bank Hall expanded in the 18th and 19th centuries. Extensions were built in 1832–1833 for George Anthony Legh Keck based on plans by George Webster .

Legh Keck died in 1860 and the country house was passed on to Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford . The facility was auctioned in 1861 and the country house was used as a holiday home. It was later rented out. During World War II , the Royal Engnineers used it as a base. After the war, the property was returned to the Lilfords. Their property management moved into the east wing and stayed there until 1972. The house has been empty since then. In 1969 the film The Haunted House of Horror was shot on the estate .

As a result, the country house was devastated by intruders and visibly fell into disrepair. In 1995 the Bank Hall Action Group was founded to raise public interest in the property, raise funds for its restoration, organize events and put the overgrown garden in order. In 2003 an episode of the British television series Restoration was dedicated to Bank Hall . The Bank Hall Action Group and Urban Splash have been planning to convert the country house into apartments since 2006 , with the gardens, entrance hall and clock tower being made accessible to the public. The Heritage Trust for the North West (HTNW) is planning to restore the plant sheds and the enclosed garden.

history

For centuries, Bank Hall was the country house of the Banastres, Lords of the Manor, descended from the Norman Roger de Banastre , who built the Motte in Prestatyn around 1164 . The Banastres fled to Cheshire and Lancashire in 1167 when Owain Gwynedd , Prince of North Wales, destroyed the castle .

In 1315 Sir Adam Banastre , who owned extensive estates in other parts of the country, led the Banastre rebellion against Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster , and was finally beheaded in Charnock Richard when the rebellion failed.

A building from the time of Elizabeth I is shown on Christopher Saxton's 1579 map. In 1608 the Banastres destroyed the old building and built the first phase of the current country house. It was built in the Jacobean style with a rectangular floor plan, two rooms in the east, one room and the staircase in the west and the knight's hall in the middle, in which a wooden panel and an open fireplace are attached. It is possible that there were wooden parts of the building in place of today's east wing and in other places, which were removed in the course of the extension of the country house. According to the 1666 Stove Tax List, Bank Hall had 12 stoves out of the 99 in Bretherron.

The last Banastre, Christopher, who was sheriff of Lancashire in 1670, died in 1690, leaving two daughters. The elder, Anne, who was married to Thomas Fleetwood , inherited the property. This planned the drainage of the surrounding marshland. In 1692 he made the first unsuitable attempt to drain the Martin Mere . In 1714 the drainage ditch was improved and flood gates held back the flooding. Their daughter, Henrietta Maria , married Thomas Legh from Lyme Park and the property passed to the Legh family. In 1719 Maria Legh donated building land to St. Mary's Church in Tarleton .

Legh Keck coat of arms above the entrance to Bank Hall

George Anthony Legh Keck moved from his previous seat of Stoughton Grange in Leicestershire to Bank Hall when he inherited the property. He was the last owner to live there and commissioned a Kendal architect , George Webster , to extend the country house between 1832 and 1833. Legh Keck collected stuffed birds and other animals, as well as horns from animals from all over the world. He had a collection of statuettes and figure shapes by the sculptor Antonio Canova .

In April 1861, a year after Legh Keck's death, the entire contents of the property were auctioned. An auction catalog in which the objects are listed by room has been preserved to this day. The mansion and estate went to Legh Keck's brother-in-law, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford , whose family seat was Lilford Hall in Northamptonshire . Bank Hall served the Lilfords as a vacation home until 1899. The property remained part of the Lilford estate to this day and was managed by an agent called Acland Bracewell in Tarleton .

tenant

Edward Crippen , owner of a coal mine, lived at Bank Hall from 1891 until his death in February 1892. In 1899 Sir Harcourt Everard Clare , an employee of Lancashire County Council , moved into the country house with his family and hosted garden parties. The Indian cricketer Ranjit Singh visited him in the 1920s. King George V stopped at Bank Hall on his tour of Lancashire in 1913 to greet the Clares and their employees. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Norman Seddon-Brown , owner of a cotton mill, and his family lived in the country house from the late 1920s until they moved to Escowbeck in 1938. The Aga Khan III. is said to have also visited Bank Hall.

During World War II , the Royal Engineers were billeted in Bank Hall. The north-east wing, in which the boiler house, a shed, the laundry, the milk and cheese rooms, a mangle room, the brewery and the wash house around a centrally located courtyard were housed, was demolished. The ammunition surveillance map from 1928 shows two greenhouses and three buildings in the enclosed garden. A pond and a concrete driveway were created in the former courtyard. The army built Nissen huts in the gardens and parks, remains of which can still be seen today. After the war, the property was returned to the Lilford family, who managed the property until 1972. In 1974 a building application was made to convert the country house and the adjoining land into a country club , but was then rejected so that the historic parks and architecture would not be damaged. In 1991 an application was made to demolish historical parts of the building for security purposes, but then withdrew.

architecture

Damascus wall mosaic on the north facade from 1608

Bank Hall, built in 1608 in Jacobean style, is a three-story brick building with volute gables and a square tower in the center of the south facade. Remains of the damascene wall mosaic can still be seen on a gable wall . The country house was restored and expanded in 1832–1833 by the architect George Webster . He added a new wing to the west facade and a terrace on the north side, redesigned the windows on the north facade from 1608, covered the house with blue, Cumbrian slate and added stone decorations to the walls. Webster made the changes carefully to match a 17th century building, but you can see the difference in the color of the brickwork and the clarity of the details. Most of the windows were replaced during the restoration and two Italian-style bay windows were attached to the south facade, which changed its appearance.

The 18 m high clock tower was built between 1660 and 1665 and redesigned from 1832 to 1833. The tower, which contains an original cantilevered staircase with a balustrade in oak, is the most important architectural element of the south facade. The brick-built tower has four corner stones and the staircase has eight original stone cross windows with ajimez , skylights and roofs at irregular intervals and on different levels, which were octagonal lead-glazed . There is a clock on the top floor of the south facade of the tower; the one on the north facade was lost when the north-east facade collapsed in the 1980s. The clock's gears and wheels were made by John Alker , and the tower's parapet features ornaments that were added when it was remodeled in the 19th century.

Among the decorative elements include the lavish canopies and finials to the bay windows of the west wing and fake windows on the fireplace wall of the kitchen. Legh Keck's family coat of arms is cut into the stone above the front terrace and two green men on either side of the doors. Other elements of the renovation from 1832–1833 are Legh Keck's initials GALK and the year 1833 on the bay windows in the Italian style. There were once cast-iron ram heads with laurel wreaths and girls' heads on the building. The leaden rain funnels are decorated with the aforementioned initials and statues are attached to the tower parapets. The chimneys are diamond-shaped while others are square, and those in the west wing are octagonal. The tower clocks have a lily on each corner of the dial, which probably comes from the family coat of arms of the Bannastre.

The country house once had two 3.7 m concrete statues (presumably with a Gothic flower pattern and symbols from the Legh Keck coat of arms on the base) on the front terrace, which were destroyed, as well as a sundial , which was also lost. The two statues of lions from Atherton Hall , which stood on the front terrace, were moved to the offices of Lilford Property Management in Tarleton.

Interior decoration

Little is known about the condition of the interiors before the renovation in 1832 and 1833. At that time the knight's hall was divided into an entrance hall with a marble floor and a dining room with an open fireplace. A room on the first floor of the north wing was paneled with oak panels from the nearby Carr House . There was a 17th-century fireplace in one of the first-floor bedrooms with a peacock cut into the mantelpiece that looked like the peacock on the Delft fireplace tiles . More Delft tiles were found in the rubble that was in the house. The drawing room had a four-foot-high ceiling with lavish stucco (a small part of which has survived to this day) and a parquet floor . In the study at the back of the first floor in the west wing, there were bookshelves and an open fireplace that lay beneath the remains of the collapsed ceiling. The wood-paneled interior shutters of this room have survived in their housings. The cellars under the west wing have also survived to this day. There were also cellars under the east wing, but today we don't know where the entrance was. The family lived in the west wing and the servants in the east wing.

Legh Keck collected sculptures and antiques; the knight's hall was furnished with Turkish carpets and inlaid furniture made of oak and mahogany from the 17th and 18th centuries, antlers and animal heads from all over the world and family portraits from the 17th century hung on the walls. Numerous Wedgwood pieces were sold to pay funeral expenses after Legh Keck's death in 1861.

state of construction

Clock tower (2008)

The building was ravaged by intruders and fell into disrepair because parts of the lead roof were stolen. In the early 1980s, the Lilford Group submitted a building application to convert the house and property into a country club with a golf course, but it was unsuccessful. A large mural in the drawing room was destroyed in the 1980s when the roof of the west wing collapsed.

In 1952, Bank Hall was added to the English Heritage List of Historic Buildings as Grade II. In 2002, the country house was one of the 22% of buildings in the UK at high risk of further deterioration or loss of fabric. and was on the Heritage-at-Risk register as in very poor condition and Priority B for restoration and preservation. In 2010 the house was in a ruinous condition. The roof of the west wing and the northeast corner of the clock tower collapsed in the early 1980s, with the face of a clock and three-quarters of the statues being lost to the reinforcement. In 2001 there was a grant from the Historic Buildings Program to do structural work on the tower. Three of the decorative corner turrets were able to remain, but the west facade has a crack held together by scaffolding erected in 2002 as part of emergency repairs funded by Action Group and English Heritage . At that time the remains of the clock mechanism were removed and the fallen statues and parts of the dial were taken to a warehouse. In 2006, a water tank from the attic broke through the ceilings of the oldest part of the building and caused damage to the roof, a gable and the rooms below. On July 26, 2007, Bank Hall was named on the BBC Breakfast News as one of 16 buildings in the UK in need of immediate emergency repairs. A cantilevered oak staircase still stands at the point in the tower where part of the staircase on the south facade collapsed in 2008, but did not cause any damage to the balustrade.

In 2008, most of the roof shingles were removed to prevent further gables from collapsing due to the pressure on the walls. Three magnolia trees grow from the foundations of the east wing, which has lost two gables, and cover the exterior. In the east wing there is a room on the ground floor that no longer has windows, a concrete ceiling and a steel door that has not been opened since the property management offices were closed in 1972. In September 2010, a collapse in the west wing caused further damage to the staircase from 1832. The rooms above the living room were destroyed when the roof and the wall collapsed and the rear wall of the salon partially collapsed. English Heritage assessed the damage as serious and requested that work be carried out on the structure of the building to prevent further collapse. In November 2011 , construction companies commissioned by the Heritage Trust for the North West dismantled the terrace on the north wing because the gable was in danger of collapsing. In 2012, decorative masonry was removed and shown at an exhibition at the HTNW in Nelson .

restoration

The Bank Hall Action Group ( Friends of Bank Hall since 2012 ) was founded in 1995 with the long-term goal of restoring Bank Hall. In 2003 the cost of a restoration was estimated at £ 3 million (approx. € 3.87 million). Urban Splash was brought in and in 2006 drew up a business plan with the help of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund . Urban Splash envisaged the establishment of 12 apartments in the country house and 23 houses in the old orchard, while the entrance hall, the clock tower and the rooms on the upper floors were to be open to the public under the aegis of the Bank Hall Action Group . The project will cost £ 6 million (approximately € 7.74 million) in income from the sale of the houses plus a £ 1.5 million (approximately € 1.94 million) grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund .

A 2009 report by Urban Splash suggested a plan for the interior of the building. After some delays, the building permit was granted in February 2011. On February 14, 2012, the Heritage Trust for the North West received a grant of £ 1.69 million (approx. € 2.19 million) to restore Bank Hall from the Heritage Lottery Fund from the end of 2012 . The HTNW has its own plans for a visitor entrance and a garden. The building permit to convert the planting shed and greenhouse into a visitor entrance, which should be financed separately, was granted in December 2011. Another £ 50,000 (approx. € 64,700) was raised in September 2013 by the non-profit WREN to restore the clock tower. Work began in late 2014.

Fronhof

Bank Bridge and Warehouse 2010

The Fronhof is traversed by the River Douglas , whose bank reinforcement forms the flood protection for the lower land. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal runs close to the river and the A59 runs over Bank Bridge , which is a Grade 2 Historic Building owned by English Heritage . A warehouse, also classified as a Grade II Historic Building, is located near the bridge. The Bank Lodge , located on a disused access road, belongs to the Fronhof and is shown on the ammunition surveillance map from 1928.

Bank Hall Farm 2006

The Bank Hall Farm , the Elizabethan , long barn early 17th century was built, is listed as a historic building II. Degree. The farm was expanded in the early 19th century and converted into apartments in 2004. Between the barns and the fields was a place in the room. Property management offices, a forge and a coach house were housed on the farm. The Bank Hall Action Group used the coach house and the offices as a visitor center at times.

The Crossford Lodge , a modern, single-storey building, and the Bretherton Lodge (also New Lodge ) are on a dirt road lined with linden trees and connecting Bank Hall to Bretherton .

The Bank Hall Windmill (windmill) was built in 1741, is also a historical building of the 2nd degree. and lies between the Bank Bridge and Plocks Farm. The Carr House , built by the Stone family in 1613 , was home to Jeremiah Horrocks , the first person to predict and observe the transit of Venus in 1639 .

Gardens

Enclosed garden and greenhouse in Bank Hall (2009)

Snowdrop Carpet in Bank Hall (February 2009)

Bank Hall is surrounded by 15 acres of gardens and parks. It also includes an arboretum created by George Anthony Legh Keck . From 1980 to 1995 the gardens were left to their own devices and so some plants survived. Snowdrop carpets that cover most of the gardens in February were discovered in 2001 when a small area was weeded. In 2007, the British Snowdrop Society visited the gardens, which had attracted thousands of visitors each year. There are also different types of daffodils , hare bells and cowslips .

The oldest tree, a 550-year-old yew tree , is older than the country house and the largest tree, a giant sequoia , towers above the light forest. There are several coastal sequoias and specimens of metasequoia , Lebanon cedars , Atlas cedars , bald cypresses , linden trees and magnolias. A greenhouse was built for Elizabeth Legh Keck in the 1830s . The enclosed garden, laid out in 1835, includes a greenhouse and pale shed on the north wall and a heated outer wall. The Heritage Trust for the North West would like to convert it into a historic garden as part of a three-stage project. A cricket field and tennis courts were located outside a Ha-Ha and were accessible via a tunnel made of yew trees.

Movie and TV

The exterior of the country house was used as a filming location for the film The Haunted House of Horror in 1969 . Country house and gardens came on the local news the BBC and ITV as well as in Fred Talbot before s weather reports, 1995 onwards. Bank Hall's plight was featured in the first series of the BBC's Restoration program on August 8, 2003, when the country house was voted second. The plant shed and the country house were mentioned in the introduction to the second series of the BBC's Restoration 2011 program .

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18. ↑ RECTOR'S WEEKLY NEWS 14 March 1946. Tarleton Parish Church. ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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44. ↑ Winter News Letter - Potting Sheds (Phase 1) Project. Bank Hall Action Group, 2011.
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literature

• Bank Hall Auction Catalog - 1861. Bank Hall Action Group, 2005.
• Bank Hall Record Book. Bank Hall Action Group, 2009.
• Geoff Coxhead, Paul Dillon: Bank Hall, Bretherton, Lancashire. 2004, ISBN 0-9530081-0-X .
• Mary Esstlemont: My Times at Bank Hall. Bank Hall Action Group, 2005.
• Charles H. Lane: Dog Shows and Doggy People. Hutchinson & Co, 1902.
• Phillip Wilkinson: Restoration - Discovering Britain's hidden architectural treasures. Headline Book Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0-7553-1251-1 .
• Phillip Wilkinson: Restoration - The story continues. English Heritage, 2004, ISBN 1-85074-914-0 .

Web links

Commons : Bank Hall  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bank Hall website
• Heritage Trust for the North West website

Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 32.2 "  N , 2 ° 48 ′ 54.4"  W.