Sandon, Staffordshire
| Sandon | |
| Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints' Parish Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SJ943298 |
| Location: | 52°51’58"N, 2°5’7"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 361 (2011) |
| Post town: | Stafford |
| Postcode: | ST18 |
| Dialling code: | 01889 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Stafford |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Stone |
Sandon is a village in Staffordshire, about four and a half miles north-east of Stafford and the same distance south of Stone. The village is in the Trent Valley, close by the River Trent itself and the Trent and Mersey Canal which runs beside it, on the A51 road.
Sandon Park
There is a rectangular moated site in Sandon Park, about 186.0 yards (170.1 m) northeast of the parish church.[1] The site measures about 110 yards by 87 yards and the moat varies from 11 yards to 16 yards wide.[1] It was the site of the parish's manor house, which was the home of the Erdeswick family from 1338 until the middle of the 17th century. The moat site is a scheduled monument.[1]
In 1776 Nathaniel Ryder was ennobled as Baron Harrowby. He commissioned the architect Samuel Wyatt to transform the manor house into Sandon Hall and the landscape gardener William Emes to create a 400-acre park.[2] Creating the park involved demolishing Sandon village, which was close to the house and parish church, and building a new village further away from the house and church.
In 1848 a workman on the roof of Sandon Hall accidentally set the building on fire, which caused such damage that it had to be demolished.[2] The current Sandon Hall is a Jacobethan country house of nine bays built for Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby in 1852.[3] It was designed by the Scots Baronial architect William Burn — apart from the conservatory, which was added in 1864.[3] Sandon Hall is a Grade II* listed building.
Parish church
The parish church of All Saints was built in about 1200 and almost completely rebuilt about 1300.[4] The north aisle]] was built in the 14th century, but was remodelled in 1851 as a family chapel for the Earls of Harrowby.[4] The church was restored in 1923 under the direction of the architect W. D. Caroe.[4] All Saints' is a Grade I listed building.[4]
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Economic history
The Trent and Mersey Canal passes through the area and was completed in 1777.
The North Staffordshire Railway opened the Stone to Colwich Line through Sandon in 1849.[5] The London, Midland and Scottish Railway closed Sandon railway station in 1947 but the railway remains open as part of the West Coast Main Line.
About the village
Sandon has a public house, the Dog and Doublet Inn,[6] that was designed by the architect Sir Guy Dawber and built in 1906.[7]
Sandon has a village shop.[8]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 National Heritage List 1011049: Sandon Old Hall Moated Site (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "History". Sandon Estate. Sandon Hall. http://www.sandonhall.co.uk/sandon-estate/history/. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 National Heritage List 1189732: Sandon Hall, Sandon Park (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 National Heritage List 1294163: Church of All Saints (Grade I listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1039003: Sandon Railway Station (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Dog and Doublet, Sandon
- ↑ National Heritage List 1294104: Dog and Doublet Inn (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Sandon Village Shop". Sandon Estate. Sandon Hall. http://www.sandonhall.co.uk/sandon-estate/sandon-village-shop/. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
