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Royds Hall, Centre Portion of the South Front - HLS06069
Slide 2 - A date and arms over the porch on the South Front fix the date of the erection of the central portion of the house at 1640. Another portion of the East End bears the date 1651 and the West Wing that of 1656. The extreme eastern end was…
Royds Hall, the Justice Room - HLS06070
Slide 3 - 'Squire Leedes' as he was familiarly called was a noted magistrate of George the Third's time and sat to administer justice in a building within his own grounds, aview of which is now shown. The broad flight of steps outside, and the…
Royds Hall, the South Front - HLS06068
Slide 1 - Royds Hall is very fine specimen of a Yorkshire Manor house of the Seventeenth Century. It is situated in the Parish of Bradford and is picturesqely seated upon high table - land looking south, affording an extensive and charming prospect.…
Screen in Dining Room, Kirklees Hall - HLS05941
Slide 14 - Now let us enter by the North Porch, which leads into a passage, and on the right of this we go through a door into the Dining Room. The screen in this room is the finest decorative feature of the house. It dates from the time when a Hall…
Shandy Hall - Coxwold - HLS05957
Slide 30 - Where author Laurence Sterne lived, worked and wrote 'Tristam Shandy' and 'Sentimental Journeys'
Shibden Hall - South Front, distant - HLS06030
Slide 1 - "A front of timber-crost antiquity"
This line from Tennyson's 'Enoch Arden' aptly describes the appearance of the fine old Hall overlooking the pleasant Shibden Dale. Shibden Hall is one of the few structures now remaining erected at a…
This line from Tennyson's 'Enoch Arden' aptly describes the appearance of the fine old Hall overlooking the pleasant Shibden Dale. Shibden Hall is one of the few structures now remaining erected at a…
Shibden Hall from the Terrace - HLS06032
Slide 3 - Placed within a park of about sixty acres, the position of Shibden Hall, like that of most old houses, is well chosen. Standing midway down the slope of a hill, its principle frontage is towards the south.
Shibden Hall, Interior - HLS06033
Slide 4 - The entrance to the Hall on the south side is by a long narrow porch, which opens into a long passage (as was the case in all medieval mansions) through the entire width of the house. On the left of this passage is the most interesting…
Shibden Hall, North Front - HLS06035
Slide 6 - This picture shows a portion of the North Front of the Hall, which is the oldest part of the edifice. It will be seen from the foregoing that the occupancy of the Hall can be fully traced from the year 1410. Five hundred years have rolled…
Shibden Park, Timber Framed House - HLS06036
Slide 7 - Situate at the bottom of the Park, on the borders of the lake, we see the interesting old timber-framed house, which was some years ago brought from Cripplegate, Halifax, by Mr John Lister, and re-erected by him on the site it now…
Sprotbrough Bridges and Avenue - HLS06023
Slide 15 - On taking our stand at the end of the bridge the ornamental stone parapets on each side forms a notable feature, and beyond it seen a fine avenue of trees on the road leading in the direction of Conisbrough.
Sprotbrough Church - HLS06018
Slide 10 - At a short distance through the park, we reach the Church, which is so intimately associated with the Hall and the families who have so long owned it. The Church is situate on a tree covered hill at the juncture of two roads. It is an…
Sprotbrough Church - HLS06020
Slide 12 - In the south aisle is a singular stone chair with grotesque sculpture of the 14th century date, sometimes supposed to be a sanctuary seat. This relic was dug out of the churchyard many years ago.
Sprotbrough Church (Tower West End) - HLS06021
Slide 13 - For nothing has the village more frequently been mentioned than for its Cross, the site of which, opposite the west end of the church, is still preserved, or rather the following singular piece of ancient rhyme, which was engraved upon a…
Sprotbrough Hall - HLS06009
Slide 1 - Some three miles south of Doncaster, in a secluded and beautiful situation, on the banks of Don, stands the charming village of Sprotbrough. It is a place of ancient origin, as the name of Sprot occurs in Domesday, as a patronymic, and so…
Sprotbrough Hall - HLS06010
Slide 2 - The house contains a good library, principally collected by Sir Godfrey Copley, and includes some rare M.S.S, it also contains a fine collection of pictures by Holbein, Raphael, Vandyke and other noted painters, procured by Sir Godfrey…
Sprotbrough Hall - HLS06012
Slide 4 - Taking our stand on the lawn, in front of us stands -
'In majesty serene, the stately Hall of Sprotbro's fair domains,
Firm built and well proportioned
With its spreading wings, it stands upon the
Hill's steep brow, with aspect fair,…
'In majesty serene, the stately Hall of Sprotbro's fair domains,
Firm built and well proportioned
With its spreading wings, it stands upon the
Hill's steep brow, with aspect fair,…
Sprotbrough Hall - HLS06013
Slide 5 - It is a handsome elevation of stone in the style of architecture prevalent in the reign of Charles the II, consisting of a main body nearly square, three stories in height, with two wings and is said to have been built after the model of a…
Sprotbrough Hall - HLS06015
Slide 7 - Entering the house by the door facing North, we are shown into the entrance hall, and the furniture and appointments of which are quite in keeping with the style of architecture of the edifice.
At the end of the hall is seen the…
At the end of the hall is seen the…
Sprotbrough Hall - HLS06016
Slide 8 - The Dining Room is also furnished with old time furniture, and the walls are hung with fine paintings, and amongst the most notable of these, is one over the side-board, which is a portrait by Vandyke.
Sprotbrough Hall - South West View - HLS06011
Slide 3 - Sir Godfrey Copley, the 2nd Baronet, was an early member of the Royal Society, which founded the 'Copley Medal', the most honourable distinction which the Society has to bestow. To him, his successors owe the present mansion. Passing…
Sprotbrough Mill and Cottage - HLS06026
Slide 18 - Another photograph shows where 'Upon a promontory small, the water mill juts out' which bears on one of the gables the Arms of the Copley's dates 1653, and on the keystone of the doorway is the date 1748. Opposite the mill on the rivers…
Stone Staircase, Newburgh Priory - HLS05951
Slide 24 - There are also to be seen rare and valuable china, and cabinets filled with curios, also portraits of some of the ancestors of the present Baronet.
The Armoury, Newburgh Priory - HLS05953
Slide 26 - In the Armoury room, on the first floor of the West Wing of the house, are hung on the walls, a number of old swords, guns, bayonets and pistols etc. dating from the time when Napoleon Bonaparte was proposing to invade England, a the…
The Bedroom, Shibden Hall - HLS06034
Slide 5 - A fine oak staircase leads from the 'House Body' to the apartments on the upper floor. Ascending the staircase we are shown in one of the rooms on the upper storey, a massive carved oak four poster bed, dating from the time of Queen…