Little Moreton Hall
| Little Moreton Hall | |
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 Little Moreton Hall, south wing |
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| place | at Congleton , Cheshire , England |
| Construction year | 1504 to 1610 |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 7 '38 " N , 2 ° 15' 6" W |
Little Moreton Hall is a manor house located 4 miles southwest of Congleton , Cheshire, England. The half-timbered house was built in the 16th and 17th centuries and is surrounded by a moat. It is a monument of the National Trust , which the Grade I-listed building leads as one of the best preserved timber-framed manor houses in the UK.
history
The oldest part of the structure was built by wealthy landowner William Moreton from 1504 to 1508, and subsequent generations of the family expanded it until around 1610.
The oldest parts are the north wing with the great hall and the north part of the east wing, which were built for William Moreton between 1504 and 1508. The east wing was extended to the south around 1508 to make room for further living areas and the chapel. The south wing was built between 1560 and 1562 by John Moreton (1541–98). It contains the gatehouse and a third floor with a long gallery . The last extensions to the house, a small kitchen and a brewery, were added to the south wing around 1610.
Fortune left the Moreton family with the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642. She survived the war unscathed, but financially troubled. At the beginning of the 18th century the house was mostly rented. It was never inhabited again by the family. In the 19th century, Little Moreton Hall attracted romantic artists. Elizabeth Moreton, an Anglican nun who inherited the house after the death of her sister Annabella in 1892, began restoring the dilapidated house. She restored and furnished the chapel. In 1912 she bequeathed the house to a cousin, Charles Abraham, Bishop of Derby, on condition that it would never be sold. Abraham maintained the house until 1938 when he and his son donated it to the National Trust .
architecture
1: Great hall, 2: reception room, 3: toilet bay, 4: stairs, 5: lounge, 6: exhibition room, 7: chapel, 8: sanctuary, 9: granary, 10: gatehouse, 11: bridge, 12: Aborterker, 13: brewery (today public toilets), 14: shop, 15: restaurant, 16: screens passage , 17: porch, 18: courtyard, 19: dog house. Colored areas are not open to the public.
The irregular building surrounds a small paved courtyard in three wings. The hundred year old building history took place during the English Renaissance , but the structure is medieval and contains only decorative elements of the Renaissance such as the ornamentation of the gatehouse and Elizabethan chimneys. It is mostly a half-timbered building, with the exception of the brick chimneys. As is customary for buildings of this era in Cheshire, the construction is a framework of oak beams on a stone foundation. Diagonal black oak beams decorate the facades in chevron and diamond patterns. Further up, a clover-leaf motif is repeated in the facades and bay windows.
The house is accessed in the south wing via a stone bridge over the moat and a gatehouse. Both upper floors protrude over the floor below in a frame construction . The toilet bays on the two upper floors emptied directly into the trench. The gatehouse leads to a rectangular courtyard with the Great Hall on the north side.
restoration
The house has been fully restored and is open to visitors from April to December. During this time there is a service in the chapel on Sundays.
The gardens, neglected in the 20th century, have been restored in the Tudor style. The knot garden was recreated in the early 1980s based on a drawing from Leonard Meager's Complete English Gardener (1672). Other authentic elements are a Taxus tunnel and an orchard with fruits from the Tudor period, apples, pears, quinces and medlars .
Money for the preservation of the monument also comes from its use for filming. In 1996 Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders was filmed there in an adaptation for Granada Television .
literature
- Lydia Greeves: Houses of the National Trust . National Trust Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-905400-66-9 .
- Brian Hoggard: The archeology of counter-witchcraft and popular magic . In: Owen Davies, William De Blécourt (Ed.): Beyond the Witchtrials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe . Manchester University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7190-6660-3 .
- Stephen Smith: Underground England: Travels Beneath Our Cities and Country . Abacus, 2010, ISBN 978-0-349-12038-6 .
- Know Britain Little Moreton Hall (2) . Media Web Agency. 2004. Retrieved November 13, 2007.
Web links
- Detailed historical record about Little Moreton Hall
- Information about the stained glass from the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) of Great Britain
- Discovercheshire website (Little Moreton Hall Circular Walk page).
- Little Moreton Hall National Trust
Individual evidence
- ↑ Little Moreton Hall ( English ) Pastscape.org.uk. Archived from the original on September 3, 2009. 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. Retrieved April 26, 2008.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Jeremy Lake: Little Moreton Hall . The National Trust, 1995, ISBN 978-1-84359-085-9 .
- ↑ a b Rosemary Joekes: The National Trust Guide . The National Trust, 1984, ISBN 0-224-01946-5 .
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, Edward Hubbard: Cheshire . Yale University Press, 1971, ISBN 978-0-300-09588-3 , pp. 255-256.
- ↑ John Goodall: The Great Hall ( English ) BBC . Retrieved November 13, 2007.
- ↑ Sunday service at Little Moreton Hall's Chapel ( English ) National Trust. Archived from the original on December 24, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
