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Kirklees Hall, North Front - HLS05936
Slide 9 - We now approach the North side of the Hall. It retains the E shape characteristic of the later Elizabethan style, having a projecting wing at each end, and a porch in the centre. It formally possessed ample mullioned windows like those at…
Upper Story of the Gatehouse, Kirklees Priory - HLS05931
Slide 4a - This the outlaw forbade, and only asked that he should once more draw his bow, and from the window of this room it is narrated he shot his last arrow to denote --
'That where the arrow down should fall,
There buried should he be.'
How…
'That where the arrow down should fall,
There buried should he be.'
How…
Kirklees Priory Gate House, from the South - HLS05930
Slide 4 - From the character of the architecture, this front of the Gate House, would not be earlier than the time of Elizabeth. Yet the room, looking out to the south, though altered and re-cased, may be the successor, on the same spot, of that…
The Gate House, Kirklees Priory - HLS05929
Slide 3 - The most perfect relic now remaining of the Priory is the Gate House, adjoining the stream called Nun brook, which flows through the Park and doubtless served to feed the fish ponds.
Gatehouse and Barn, Kirklees Priory - HLS05927
Slide 1 - Originally the district around Kirklees was covered by moorland and dense forests which were the resort of numerous outlaws. The priory has associations with Robin Hood, the most famous outlaw of all. It was founded around 1155 and…
Kildwick Hall, Fireplace in bedroom - HLS05926
Slide 11 - Inside more than one of the bedchambers the Jacobean character of the architecture is fully preserved.
This room, no doubt, was originally an upstairs parlour and has oak wainscoting to the walls with long fluted panels as a frieze.
This room, no doubt, was originally an upstairs parlour and has oak wainscoting to the walls with long fluted panels as a frieze.
The Kitchen, Kildwick Hall - HLS05925
Slide 10 - The oldest part of the hall is now the kitchen, which is dated 1673 and the initials HC are shown on one side of the fireplace. The initials stand for Hugh Currer, who was the builder of this portion of the hall at that date.
The…
The…
The Entrance Hall, Kildwick Hall - HLS05924
Slide 9 - The fire-place is the original one where logs and peat burn brightly on an open hearth supported by fire dogs. It may be mentioned that the fireplace was concealed by a modern mantelpiece which was only taken away in 1883 when Sir John…
The Entrance Hall, Kildwick Hall - HLS05923
Slide 8 - The description Emily Bronte gives of Heathcliffe's house in 'Wuthering Heights' answers to that of the Currer's. 'One step brought us into the family sitting-room without any introductory lobby or passage; they call it here The House'.…
View of lower garden, Kildwick Hall - HLS05922
Slide 7 - Across the road which divides the grounds, and passing through a pair of massive gate piers, we reach a lower garden.
A circular fountain is a central object where the water plays over a bed of water lilies. As seen from the south porch…
A circular fountain is a central object where the water plays over a bed of water lilies. As seen from the south porch…
Kildwick Hall, from the west - HLS05921
Slide 6 - Another glimpse of the Hall from the west shows the older part of the house, with its quaint square headed mullioned windows in the gables.
Kildwick Hall, view from the lawn / east - HLS05920
Slide 5 - This shows the east end of Kildwick Hall from the lawn. The dining room wing was built in 1858 by Miss M E Currer, of Eshton Hall. She was great book collector and died in 1861.
Garden House at Kildwick Hall - HLS05919
Slide 4 - At the east end of the grounds, adjoining the wall that borders the roadway, is a picturesque garden-house. The fashion for building such houses overlooking a road or canal, came from Holland and they were nicknamed 'Gazebo', this being a…
Justice Room'on the Terrace, Kildwick Hall - HLS05918
Slide 3 - The pavilion at the east end of the Terrace (though a billiard table shows the use to which it is now put) is still known as the 'Justice Room', the owner at that time being an active magistrate. In those days justice was often dispensed at…
Kildwick Hall from the Terrace - HLS05917
Slide 2 - After the Dissolution of the monasteries at the time of Henry V111, the Kildwick estates and Manor passed into the hands of the Currer family who built the Hall about 1673 and lived there for several generations. It now (1916) belongs to…
Kildwick Hall from the Road - HLS05916
Slide 1 - Kildwick Hall is one of our well preserved 'Ancient Homes' and stands on the sunny slope of a hill. Immediately below the house is Kildwick church or 'Lang Church in Craven', as it is commonly called.
The outlook from the front embraces…
The outlook from the front embraces…
Howsham Hall, the Porch - HLS05909
Slide 3a: The porch gives dignity to the front with its round headed doorway, its shields of arms and its coupled fluted columns of Ionic and Corinthian orders. The rooms are flooded with sunlight and the outlook to the woodland surroundings is…
Howsham Hall, near view - HLS05908
Slide 3 - Howsham Hall, built in the 'spacious days' of Queen Elizabeth shows the type of building then in vogue, in which men evidently loved the daylight, for its whole front is a wonder of mullioned windows in their leaded panes.
It is a great…
It is a great…
Howsham Hall from the lawn - HLS05907
Slide 2 - Sir William Bamburgh was the builder, about 1612, of Howsham Hall, taking the materials for the edifice, it has been said, from the ruins of Kirkham Priory which had fallen into his hands. For this act of sacriledge, these Bamburghs…
Howsham Hall, with Elm Tree - HLS05906
Slide 1 - Howsham Hall is a fine specimen of Elizabethan Architecture. It is snugly ensconced above the brink of one of England's most beautiful rivers, and in one of the most charming portions of the Derwent Valley, sufficiently elevated to enjoy…
The Holme, Cliviger - HLS05902
Slide 1 - Situated in a well wooded recess sheltered from the north, and in full view of the highway leading up the Cliviger valley, stands the quaint mansion of Holme, which for close upon six centuries has been the seat of the Whitaker family. The…
Heath Old Hall, Stairway to Terrace - HLS05899
Slide 4: This shows the nearer view of the stairway leading to the terrace, just alluded to. It is noteworthy that a house that has passed through so many hands should have remained so little spoiled externally in its main features as this house has…
Heath Old Hall, from the South - HLS05898
Slide 3: The exterior is better described in picture than it can be in words. The elevated position of the house adds to its distinction, as well as its picturesqueness, as may be seen in the curious terraces and stairway on the south frontage, the…
Heath Old Hall, from the South East - HLS05897
Slide 2: Witham's son dying without issue, the property came to his sister Mary, better known as the munificent Lady Bolles. She was a wealthy ladyand was created a baroness in her own right. Lady Bolles dies at the Old Hall in May 1662 but was…
Heath Old Hall, East Front - HLS05896
Slide 1: Heath Old Hall, the residence of Mr Gilbert Tennent, deservres to be accounted among the finest Yorkshire houses of the Elizabethan period. Its situation is striking, perched on a wooded cliff, overlooking the Calder Valley.
It appears to…
It appears to…