Cannon Hall
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Cannon Hall is a country house between the villages of Cawthorne and High Hoyland , about 8 km west of the town of Barnsley , in the English county of South Yorkshire . Originally the seat of the Spencer and Spencer-Stanhope families, it now houses a museum of fine furniture, paintings, ceramics and glassware, as well as the regimental museum of the 13th and 18th regiments of the Queen Mary's Own and Light Dragoons.
The building is made of sandstone with stone cladding and has a symmetrical structure with a three-story, five-part central building and two slightly recessed, two-story, three-part side wings.
history
While there was already a house on this site when the Domesday Book was drawn up in 1086 , Cannon Hall was named after its 13th-century resident Gilbert Canun . At the end of the 14th century, Cannon Hall was owned by the Bosville family of Ardsley , now a southeastern suburb of Barnsley. During this time, the cruelest event in the history of Cannon Hall took place. The Bosvilles had leased the mansion to a family - whose name is no longer known - whose daughter was in love with a young man named Lockwood . Lockwood was implicated in the murder of Sir John Elland , the High Sheriff of Yorkshire . The tenant, fearful of the situation he might find himself in if he gave shelter to a fugitive, informed the Bosvilles. Bosville's men rode to Cannon Hall, where they cruelly killed the fugitive.
The story of Cannon Hall was rather unspectacular after this particularly unpleasant episode. In 1660, John Spencer , a Welsh windrower , bought the property. The Spencers had come to Yorkshire from Montgomeryshire on the Welsh border, a far safer place for someone with royalist sympathies like the Spencers (John Spencer even obtained a pardon from King Charles II when he was imprisoned in York on suspicion of manslaughter ). The Spencer family quickly became involved in the local iron and coal industry, and later built a large industrial empire to finance the construction of Cannon Hall.
The centerpiece of what is now Cannon Hall was built for John Spencer in the early 18th century, presumably by John Etty of York , but certainly with interior design by William Thornton , another well-known local craftsman. In 1764–1767 the wings were added by John Carr , the top Georgian architect who worked in Yorkshire. Later, the wings were raised, creating the rather towering mass of the building that you see today. The last descendant of the Spencer family, Elisabeth , sold the house to the Barnsley City Council in 1951. The museum opened in 1957.
The surrounding parkland was designed in the 18th century by landscape gardener Richard Woods of Chertsey . You will find parks, lakes, waterfalls, follies and viewpoints there. The Pleasuregrounds from the Victorian era border the enclosed garden from the Georgian era, in which there is an impressive collection of pear trees and other plants. The Cannon Hall Museum, Park, and Gardens are owned and administered by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council .
In the country house there are several events, e.g. Including the annual Regency Ball , a Christmas exhibition every December, and guided tours, workshops and activities for children all year round. A flower, plant and gift shop was recently set up in the old greenhouse next to the fenced-in garden.
Individual evidence
- ^ Cannon Hall, Cawthorne . British Listed Buildings. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
literature
- Howard Colvin: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840
- Rev. Charles Tiplady Pratt: History of Cawthorne . 1882.
Web links
Koordinaten: 53° 34′ 15,2″ N, 1° 35′ 26,2″ W