Shipton Hall
| Shipton Hall | |
| Shropshire | |
|---|---|
 Shipton Hall | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SO561919 |
| Location: | 52°31’25"N, 2°38’51"W |
| Village: | Shipton |
| History | |
| Built 1587 | |
| For: | Richard Lutwyche |
| Country house | |
| Elizabethan / Georgian | |
| Information | |
| Website: | www.shiptonhall.com |
Shipton Hall is a large Elizabethan country house in Shipton, a sitting within Corvedale in Shropshire. It is found about seven miles south-west of Much Wenlock.
The house is a Grade I listed building.[1]
The hall is constructed of limestone to an E-plan in two storeys with attics. In one of the internal corners stands a slender, four-storey tower.
In the ornamental gardens are stables and an early monastic dovecote, which is itself a Grade II* listed building.[2][3]
Close by stands the 12th century Church of St James.
History
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries Shipton manor was granted by the Crown in 1548 to Sir Thomas Palmer. However in 1553 he was executed for high treason so the estate was resold by the Crown in 1557. After passing through several hands, it eventually came, in 1580, into the possession of John Lutwyche.[4]
The present house was originally built around 1587 for Richard Lutwyche to replace an older timber-framed house which had burned down.[2] The decayed church of St James was also rebuilt by the Lutwyches in 1589 and is now a Grade II* listed building.[5]
Richard Lutwyche later gave the estate to Thomas Mytton as a dowry when Mytton married Lutwyche's daughter and it thereafter descended in the Mytton family until 1795, when it passed by marriage to the local More family. In the late 1800s the Mores sold the Hall to the great-grandfather of the present owner.[6] John Nicholas Bishop of Shipton Hall was High Sheriff of Shropshire in 2002.[7]
The Hall was greatly rebuilt in the Georgian style in the mid-18th century, when the roccoco interior decor was created by architect Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, designer of the Iron Bridge in Coalbrookdale.[2]
Outside links
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1294246: Shipton Hall (Grade I listing)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Shipton Hall: the Historic Houses Association
- ↑ National Heritage List 1053773: Dovecote to north of Shipton Hall (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ A History of the County of Shropshire - Volume 10 pp 368-380: Shipton (Victoria County History)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1367573: Church of St James (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ "Shipton Hall". Britain Express. http://www.touruk.co.uk/houses/houses_shropshire_shipton_hall.htm. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 56531, p. 4284, 9 April 2002.
