Slide 3 - Goldsborough Hall is mentioned in Domesday Book, and before the conquest, a Saxon thane named Merlesuam held the manor. It then came to the De Vescy family by whom it was granted in the 13th Century to the knightly family of Goldsborough,…
Slide 4 - After being held for many generations by the Goldsborough's, their estates passed to the family of Hutton in the forty third year of Elizabeth's reign, AD 1601, and by them was the existing house built, which is late Elizabethan or early…
Slide 6 - The changes that have passed over the house, though they have broken its original style, have not diminished the interest, which such a building presents to the enquirer. The illustration on the screen shows the picturesque Entrance Porch…
Slide 8 - The kitchen is a spacious apartment. It is fitted up with all the necessary appliances for the efficient catering of the establishment.
At one end is a gallery, supported on two octagonal wooded pillars, with ornamental carved capitals and…
Slide 9 - The oak staircase, plain in its feature, but excellent in its construction, indicates the solidity of the structure and its internal arrangements. The solid upright oak posts supporting the steps and floors are somewhat like, (but not as…
Slide 1 - The very impressive house of Ledston has a dignity and character all its own. It stands on the brow of an elevated ridge overlooking Ledston village and commanding a fine prospect of the valleys of the Aire and Calder, and in an easterly…
Slide 3 - Passing through the Gateway and taking our stand on the grassy mound flanking the carriage drive we obtain a view of the House. The main frontage is set about a hollow quadrangle, and the great size and dignity of the structure mark out…
Slide 5 - The grand grouping of the house compels admiration, and the grey stonework lends an impressive character to the severe lines of the edifice while the cool hue of the stone, and the rich green of the foliage is most beautiful.
Slide 6 - On the east side the laid out grounds and grass terraces graced with numerous spreading trees, add another pleasing feature to the place. In early spring, on many a mossy bank within the confines of the park, primroses are to be found in…
Slide 9: Sir John Lewis, of Marr, Doncaster, carried on the work which Strafford had begun and completed the house as it stands, laying out gardens, forming the Terraces, and enclosing the park on the north side; and surrounding it with a substantial…
Slide 10 - Passing along the terrace path another view is taken in the opposite direction, showing one of the corner Towers and a portion of the building front facing west. Sir John Lewis, who died in 1671, left no son to inherit his properties, but…
Slide 11: The Terraces are a feature of the place, and were constructed at an enormous cost by Sir John Lewis. He adorned them with a profusion of statuary of which a few specimens still remain.
Sir John Lewis was raised to the Baronetcy in 1660 and…
Slide 12: Having viewed the exterior of the house, let us now enter this ancestral home by the principle door facing the Quadrangle. On entering we pass through a pair of swing doors direct into the Saloon, a spacious apartment, filled with costly…
Slide 13: A door out of the Saloon leads into the Dining Room. The walls are wainscoted in oak formed into large panels. At the end of the room is an arched recess which forms an effective feature. The mantelpiece is a good example of work of the…
Slide 15: The interior of this fine old Mansion is most interesting, bearing come similarity to Haddon Hall. In the room known as "Lady Betty Hasting's Room" is a fine panelled oaken mantelpiece, bearing the date 1588, and the initials W.W, and E.W.,…
Slide 16: We have referred to the historical associations of this Mansion with the great Earl of Strafford, but locally the place is better known as the home of Lady Elizabeth Hastings daughter of Theopolies seventh Earl of Huntingdon. Here she was…
Slide 17: The earliest remaining portion of the Mansion is to be found in a crypt in the basement of the building, situate under a portion of what is known as "Lady Betty Hastings Room" previously alluded to. The crypt has been converted by the…
Slide 18: The outer door to the Chapel is approached by a flight of stone steps from the Terrace walk on the West. In a recess over the door a bell is hung. The tolling of which is used to summon worshippers to service.