Worsley New Hall: A Guide to Sources Alexandra, Mitchell Title Worsley New Hall: A Guide to Sources Authors Alexandra, Mitchell Type Monograph URL This version is available at: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/28344/ Published Date 2012 USIR is a digital collection of the research output of the University of Salford. Where copyright permits, full text material held in the repository is made freely available online and can be read, downloaded and copied for non-commercial private study or research purposes. Please check the manuscript for any further copyright restrictions. For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, please contact the Repository Team at: [email protected]. THE LIBRARY Worsley New Hall A guide to sources www.salford.ac.uk 2 Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources Headerheader here Sub text Sub header Agnatur? Optiur andande lante verfere, qui ad quis mos ipicium si ullaceri il mo estios eum vellab ius quunte mint. 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Theses 29 6. Web resources 30 7. Archaeological reports 33 4 Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources header Sub header info Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources 5 A home for a A retreat for A place of beauty. A wartime family. Built in royalty. Queen Boasting one infirmary. Loaned 1846, serving four Victoria visited in of Lancashire’s by the 4th Earl generations of the 1851 and 1857, most impressive and his wife to the Earls of Ellesmere. King Edward gardens, with British Red Cross visited in 1909. intricately in 1914. designed terraces and a boating lake. 6 Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources Preface This bibliography is intended as a guide to material about Worsley New Hall, the Lancashire seat of the Earls of Ellesmere built in the 1840s in Worsley, Salford. It identifies original documents from various archive repositories, along with printed works and web resources, which together provide information about the design, building and administration of the Hall and the surrounding estate during the nineteenth and twentieth century. The publication of this bibliography is an The material contained in this bibliography outcome of the Worsley New Hall Project, is primarily organised by resource type, a joint venture between The Library at the and includes archives, selected newspaper University of Salford and Peel Holdings and journal articles, books and pamphlets, (Management) Ltd., which took place in web resources and reports. The section 2012 to research and collate historical on archives includes contact details sources relating to the building, the Earls of for individual repositories along with Ellesmere and the local area. descriptions of records relating to the New Hall. Printed and published articles, The project supported an archaeological books and pamphlets have been organised excavation of the site which took place thematically. in spring 2012, funded by Peel Holdings (Management) Ltd and led by the Centre for Applied Archaeology at the University Dr Alexandra Mitchell, Project Officer of Salford. (Worsley New Hall) The University of Salford, 2012 Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources 7 8 Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources 1. History of Worsley New Hall This section provides a brief history of Worsley New Hall, built between 1839 and 1846, as the Lancashire seat for four generations of the Egerton family and Earls of Ellesmere. It is intended as a general introduction to the subject and to provide some context for the bibliography that follows. The site of the former New Hall is located Leveson-Gower, but only on the condition servant’s wing to the other. The New Hall to the west of Worsley village, positioned that he assumed the name and arms of was one of a group of stylistically similar between Leigh Road and the Bridgewater Egerton. Elizabethan Gothic houses that Blore was Canal, and has an interesting and varied Lord Francis came to live at Worsley in 1837 working on at the time, including Merevale history. The Hall was part of the Worsley and soon after commissioned the design of Hall in Warwickshire, built between 1838 Estate belonging to the Egerton family, and a new building to replace the existing Brick and 1844 for the landowner W. S. Dugdale. was sold along with the rest of the Ellesmere Hall built by the 3rd Duke in the 1700s, as Costing just under £100,000 to build, the Estates in 1923 to Bridgewater Estates New Hall at Worsley was one of Blore’s his domestic residence. The New Hall was Limited. Although the Hall was demolished biggest houses. Over 400 of his original designed by Edward Blore (1787-1879), an in the 1940s, parts of the complex including plans for the Hall and his account books experienced country-house architect. Blore the Gardener’s Cottage, Kitchen Gardens survive at RIBA Drawings and Archive had a reputation for delivering buildings on and wider grounds continued to be used Collections at the Victoria and Albert time and to budget and had been appointed long after the Hall had been pulled down. Museum in London, while the site ledgers by the Government in 1832 to complete detailing the construction of the building Buckingham Palace following the dismissal Building the New Hall are deposited in the Cambridge University of John Nash.1 Blore had also carried out Worsley New Hall was built by Lord Francis Library. The Hall was completed in 1846, work for Sir Francis prior to the design of Egerton who inherited the Worsley Estate the same year Lord Francis was elevated to the New Hall, including alterations and from the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater in the Peerage as 1st Earl of Ellesmere. Blore additions to Worsley Old Hall in 1835 and 1833. Following the death of the 3rd continued to work on designs for the lodges the remodelling of Hatchford Park, near Duke in 1803, Worsley, along with his to the New Hall site and the landing stage, Cobham in Surrey. other estates in Lancashire, Cheshire and built on the banks of the Bridgewater Canal Northamptonshire, were placed in a trust for Work began on the foundations for the New for Queen Victoria’s visit in 1851. Hall in 1839, and in 1840 the first stone was the benefit of his nephew, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquess of Stafford and laid. It was built in an Elizabethan Gothic 1st Duke of Sutherland. According to the style, faced in Hollington Stone quarried in terms of the 3rd Duke’s will, in the event of Staffordshire and comprised a symmetrical his nephew’s death, the Estate passed to the main block, three stories in height with a Duke of Sutherland’s second son, Francis family wing on one side, and a tower and 1 H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (London, 1995), 3rd edition, p. 115. 2 C. H. Curtis, ‘Worsley New Hall, the Seat of the Earl of Ellesmere’, The Gardener’s Magazine, 24 August 1895, pp. 531-538. For further examples see section 3, ‘Selected newspaper and journal articles.’ Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources 9 Gardens occupied the post for over 40 years. Despite Hall and grounds were also temporarily The grounds at Worsley New Hall comprised retiring in 1914, Upjohn continued to live occupied by American soldiers. Abandoned a formal terraced garden descending at the Gardener’s Cottage until his death in by the Egerton family and under military from the south elevation of the house, 1939, renting it from the Ellesmere family occupation, the Hall and its grounds fell into surrounded by landscaped parkland. and subsequently Bridgewater Estates a state of disrepair. In September 1943 the William Andrews Nesfield (1794-1881), Ltd. When the New Hall and estate was top floor was badly damaged by fire and the the country’s most sought after landscape transferred to the ownership of Bridgewater rest of the structure weakened by dry rot designer, was involved in the development Estates Ltd in 1923, the Kitchen Garden and mining subsistence. Tenders were put of the grounds in the 1840s. Nesfield was let as a commercial market garden. out for its demolition and it was eventually is known to have worked on over 250 Following Upjohn’s death, the cottage was sold to Sydney Littler, a scrap merchant from gardens including Castle Howard in leased to Mr J. Whittingham who lived there Ashton-in-Makerfield for £2,500. By 1949, Yorkshire; Trentham Park in Staffordshire until early 1948 when it was sold to Richard just over 100 years after it had been built, for the Duke of Sutherland, and Witley and Herbert Cunliffe who used the building the Hall was demolished.