Hall House, Bishop's Tawton
| Hall House | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Hall House | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SS58552715 |
| Location: | 51°1’35"N, 4°1’6"W |
| Village: | Bishop's Tawton |
| History | |
| Built 1844 - 1847 | |
| For: | Robert Chichester |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Chichester family |
Hall House is the manor house of the substantal Hall estate within the parish of Bishop's Tawton, Devon.
The state was for several centuries the seat of a younger branch of the prominent and ancient North Devon family of Chichester of Raleigh, near Barnstaple. The house itself stands about two miles south-east of the village of Bishop's Tawton and four miles south-east of Barnstaple, on a south facing slope of the valley of the River Taw, overlooking the river towards the village of Atherington.
The house and about 2,500 acres[1] of surrounding land continues today to be owned and occupied by descendants, by a female line, of the Chichester family. The present Grade II* listed[2] neo-Jacobean house was built by Robert Chichester between 1844 and 1847 and replaced an earlier building.[3]
Near the house to the south at the crossroads of Herner the Chichester family erected in the 1880s a private chapel of ease which contains mediæval woodwork saved from the demolished Old Guildhall in Barnstaple.[4]
Outside links
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- Hall House, Bishop's Tawton - British Listed Buildings
- Photograph of Hall House, North Devon Journal
References
- ↑ Lauder, p.35
- ↑ House - Bishop's Tawton - British Listed Buildings
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Devon, 1952; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09596-8page 467
- ↑ Pevsner, p.480
- Vivian, J.L., Lt.-Col.: 'The Visitations of the County of Devon comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620' (1895) pp. 172–184, 'Chichester of Hall'
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Devon, 1952; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09596-8
- Lauder, Rosemary: 'Devon Families'; Tiverton (2002) pp. 35–40
- Risdon, Tristram: 'The Chorographical Description or Survey of the County of Devon' (circa 1635; in 1810 edition, pp. 321–2)
- Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, pp. 400–1, Chichester of Hall
Further reading
- Chichester, Sir Alexander Palmer Bruce, Bart., History of the family of Chichester, from A.D. 1086-1870, Including the descents of the various branches settled at Raleigh, Youlston, Arlington, Widworthy, Calverleigh, Hall, and elsewhere in Devonshire; also of the Chichesters, marquesses of Donegal, and barons Templemore, London, 1871, pp. 127–148, Chichester of Hall
- Archives of the Chichester family of Hall, North Devon Record Office: GB/NNAF/F88214
