PADLEY HALL AND CHAPEL, GRINDLEFORD, DERBYSHIRE Conservation Management Plan Report Number 2010/84 March 2011 ArcHeritage ii CONTENTS PART 1: BACKGROUND INFORMATION, SURVEYS AND ASSESSMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE ........................1 1 INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................................1 1.1 Site location and topography.......................................................................................................1 1.2 The project...................................................................................................................................1 2 METHODOLOGY .............................................................................................................................2 2.1 Descriptive and chronological analysis ........................................................................................2 2.2 Archaeological interventions .......................................................................................................3 2.3 Fabric survey................................................................................................................................ 3 2.4 Worked stone .............................................................................................................................. 3 2.5 Engineer’s report .........................................................................................................................4 2.6 Topographic and stone-by-stone survey .....................................................................................4 2.7 Ecological Survey .........................................................................................................................4 3 ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ......................................................................4 3.1 Documentary sources ..................................................................................................................5 3.2 Ordnance Survey maps ................................................................................................................7 4 ANALYSIS OF THE 1930S EXCAVATIONS AND WORKS TO THE SITE AND CHAPEL............................8 4.1 The journal article........................................................................................................................8 4.2 The site plan.................................................................................................................................8 4.3 The photographic evidence .........................................................................................................9 4.4 The site evidence .........................................................................................................................9 4.5 Critique of the works .................................................................................................................10 5 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS .............................................................................................10 5.1 Summary....................................................................................................................................10 5.2 Trench descriptions....................................................................................................................10 5.3 Conclusions ................................................................................................................................ 14 6 DESCRIPTION OF THE SITE............................................................................................................15 6.1 Analysis and description of surviving remains...........................................................................15 7 OTHER SURVEY RESULTS ..............................................................................................................27 7.1 Dressed stone survey.................................................................................................................27 7.2 Topographic survey....................................................................................................................28 7.3 Ecological survey........................................................................................................................28 7.4 Mortar analysis .......................................................................................................................... 28 8 DISCUSSION, ASSESSMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTENTIAL ......................29 9 ASSESSMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE....................................................................................................31 9.1 Medieval hall plan form.............................................................................................................31 9.2 Archaeological evidence within the ruins..................................................................................31 9.3 Landscape setting ......................................................................................................................31 9.4 Spiritual values........................................................................................................................... 32 9.5 Amenity value and learning environment .................................................................................32 Padley Hall and Chapel ArcHeritage Report Report No 2010/84 ArcHeritage iii PART 2: CONDITION SURVEY AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REPAIR AND CONSERVATION ...............33 10 MANAGEMENT POLICIES..............................................................................................................33 10.1 Policy 1: The rural aesthetic of the site......................................................................................33 10.2 Policy 2: Multiple discourses......................................................................................................33 10.3 Policy 3: Management of visitors............................................................................................... 33 10.4 Policy 4: Access and learning .....................................................................................................34 10.5 Policy 5: Best practice in repairs and conservation ...................................................................34 11 ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGE ...........................................................................................................34 11.1 Inappropriate materials .............................................................................................................35 11.2 Natural environment damage....................................................................................................35 11.3 Human impact damage..............................................................................................................35 12 APPRAISAL OF REPAIR OPTIONS ..................................................................................................36 12.1 Essential repair works................................................................................................................36 12.2 Conservation solutions ..............................................................................................................36 12.3 Solutions for historic surfaces....................................................................................................38 12.4 Solutions for archaeological deposits ........................................................................................39 12.5 The revetment wall 142.............................................................................................................39 12.6 Other repair options ..................................................................................................................39 13 ECOLOGICAL ISSUES .....................................................................................................................39 13.1 Constraints.................................................................................................................................39 13.2 Natural environment damage....................................................................................................40 13.3 Ecological management.............................................................................................................40 14 MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS..........................................................................................40 14.1 Visitor management ..................................................................................................................40 14.2 Signage.......................................................................................................................................42 14.3 Seating .......................................................................................................................................42 14.4 Annual pilgrimage......................................................................................................................42 14.5 Works of the 1930s and 1970s ..................................................................................................43 14.6 Potential for further work to aid understanding of the site ......................................................43 PART 3: SCHEME OF WORKS ................................................................................................................46 15 SCHEDULE