Shrigley Hall
| Shrigley Hall | |
| Cheshire | |
|---|---|
 Shrigley Hall | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SJ94297980 |
| Location: | 53°18’55"N, 2°5’14"W |
| Village: | Pott Shrigley |
| History | |
| Built 1825 | |
| For: | William Turner |
| County house | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Converted to hotel |
Shrigley Hall is a country house standing to the northwest of the village of Pott Shrigley in Cheshire. It has since been used as a school, when a chapel was added, and later as a hotel and country club operated by The Hotel Collection.
The house is a Grade II* listed building.
History
The hall was built in about 1825 for William Turner, a Blackburn mill owner and Member of Parliament. The architect was Thomas Emmet senior of Preston.[1][2]
During the 20th century the building was used as a school by the religious institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco,[1] who in 1936 added a chapel to the south of the house, dedicating it to Saint John Bosco. This was designed by the Arts and Crafts architect Philip Tilden.[1] An attic was added to the house in the middle of the 20th century.[2]
In 1989 the house and church were converted into a hotel and country club.[3]
Architecture
House
This is designed in the Regency style,[1] and constructed in ashlar brown sandstone with slate roofs.[2] The house has two storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical entrance front of eleven bays. The central three bays and the bays at each end project forward slightly. At the centre, five steps lead up to a portico with four Ionic columns supporting a pediment with a plain frieze. In the pediment is a medallion containing a lion and a cross.
The windows are sashes, those in the end bays having three lights; elsewhere they have single lights. The doorway has a curved architrave, over which is a rectangular fanlight.
To the rear of the house are two wings in rubble stone, the one on the left having three storeys, and the one on the right two storeys.[2]
Originally the entrance hall was open internally to a dome and a skylight, and it contained an Imperial staircase. The staircase has been removed and a floor inserted. The interior contains "good Neoclassical plasterwork".[1]
Chapel
This is constructed in sandstone rubble with a slate roof. Its plan consists of an octagonal nave with a transept at each cardinal point, and a chancel. Radiating outwards between the transepts are small chapels. The ground floor includes Romanesque features including round-headed arches, and above them there are lancet windows. Over the nave is a domical vault. The chapel contains paired round-headed sedilia on each side.[4] The architect painted the Stations of the Cross and the altarpiece, but with the conversion of the building into a hotel, the fittings have been removed.[1]
The chapel is designated as a Grade II listed building.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 de Figueiredo, Peter; Treuherz, Julian (1988), Cheshire Country Houses, Chichester: Phillimore, p. 270, ISBN 0-85033-655-4
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 National Heritage List 1232168: Salesian Missionary College
- ↑ The Shrigley Hall Hotel, Golf & Country Club – The Puma Hotels Collection
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 National Heritage List 1232118: College of Missionary Chapel
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Cheshire, 1971; 2011 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09588-3page 543
