Delves Hall

Delves Hall (also: Doddington Castle ) is a fortified building in the park of Doddington Hall in the English county of Cheshire , north of the manor house. English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.

history

Sir John Delves had the fortified tower built in 1364 on the site of a previous mansion with a moat. The tower was initially vacant and was supposed to serve as a refuge for the family. In the 17th century it was integrated into a larger structure called "Doddington Hall". During the English Civil War the building was used as a garrison for Roundhead troops . Lord Byron captured it for the royalists in January 1644 , but it was recaptured by parliamentary troops a little later. In 1427 the property and house fell to the Broughton family . Around 1777 the mansion was demolished and replaced by the new Doddington Hall, with the tower left standing as a landscape detail, possibly as a salettl for a banquet pavilion. The external staircase to the former manor house has been preserved and added to the tower.

architecture

The tower was in red sandstone - stone built and has a slate roof . The floor plan is square. The tower has three floors and the roof has turrets on all four corners. A double staircase in Jacobean style made of ashlar leads to the entrance . The middle, lower flight of stairs leads to a platform on which a coarse Ionic column with a naked female figure stands. The substructure to the side flight of stairs has rusticated pilasters on each side, the large statues depicting the Black Prince , Audley and his four squires are all in arms. The parapets of the tower and the corner turrets are crenellated.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Delves Hall . Images of England. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
^ ^A ^b Samuel (ed.) Lewis: Doddington . In: A Topographical Dictionary of England . British History Online. Pp. 63-69. 1848. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
↑ ^a ^b Pastscape: Delves Hall . English Heritage. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
^ ^A ^b Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde, Edward Hubbard, Nikolaus Pevsner: Buildings of England: Cheshire . Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1971 (2011). ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 . P. 331.

53.0197 -2.4356Coordinates: 53 ° 1 '10.9 " N , 2 ° 26' 8.2" W.

[images-1] Delves Hall . Images of England. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[bhol-2] A ^b Samuel (ed.) Lewis: Doddington . In: A Topographical Dictionary of England . British History Online. Pp. 63-69. 1848. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[pastsc-3] Pastscape: Delves Hall . English Heritage. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[pev-4] A ^b Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde, Edward Hubbard, Nikolaus Pevsner: Buildings of England: Cheshire . Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1971 (2011). ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 . P. 331.