Haigh Hall
Haigh Hall | |
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Country house | |
Address | Haigh, Greater Manchester, England |
Coordinates | 53°34′18″N 2°36′33″W / 53.5717°N 2.6092°W |
Construction started | 1827 |
Completed | 1840 |
Client | James Lindsay, 7th Earl of Balcarres |
Owner | Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust |
Designations | |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Haigh Hall |
Designated | 19 November 1951 |
Reference no. | 1228292 |
Haigh Hall is a historic
History
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Haigh had a timber framed manor house from the late 12th century when Hugh le Norreys was lord of the manor. Its easily defended position was on or near the elevated site of Haigh Hall.[1] The earliest recorded inhabitants were the Norreys, who lived there in 1193. Between 1220 and 1230, the manor was part of the Marsey fee and was sold to the Earl of Chester. The hall was home to the Bradshaighs from 1298 until 1780 when Elizabeth Dalrymple, great niece of Sir Roger Bradshaigh, inherited the estate as a result of the failure of the male line in her maternal family.[2] Sir Roger had lived at the hall frugally from 1742. In 1745 the hall was occupied by the Jacobite Army. Another Sir Roger had married Dorothy Bradshaigh in 1731 and she was a noted correspondent of Samuel Richardson. Sir Roger died in 1770 and Dorothy died at Haigh in 1785.[3]
Elizabeth Dalrymple married
The present hall was built between 1827 and 1840
During the
The hall is owned by Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust. In May 2016, the council entered into a partnership with Contessa Hotels and £6 million was spent to convert the hall into a hotel and spa. In 2019, however, Wigan Council took the decision to terminate the lease with Contessa Hotels after the firm failed to honour its terms.[10][11][12]
In January 2023, it was announced that the hall had been granted money from the government's Levelling Up Fund. It will receive £20 million to create a "heritage destination of national significance", according to the council.[13] The state of the hall has declined in recent years, but it is set for a £37.5 million transformation, with other funding coming from the council and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.[14]
Architecture
The five-storey hall has a square plan round a central
The interior is richly decorated, particularly the ceilings. The entrance hall has a
The house was heated by hot air channelled through brass grilles in the skirting boards from seven stoves in the basement.[7] Lighting was firstly by candles, although electricity and gas were installed in the 19th century.[15]
Entrance lodges were constructed around the estate boundary and a gateway lodge was built on Wigan Lane around 1840. A stable block in red brick with yellow brick trim and Italianate tower with a pyramid roof was built north of the hall in 1865.[7][16]
The hall has been registered in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building since 19 November 1951.[5]
Bibliotheca Lindesiana
Housed on the first floor of the hall was the Lindsay family's library, the
Gardens
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Formal gardens established at the old hall in the early 18th century were illustrated in engravings by
Within and around the Grade II listed parkland and pleasure grounds are several historic listed structures.[23] On Wigan Lane is a pair of square ashlar lodges and a round-headed entrance arch in the Classical style probably built in 1840. The lodges are single-story with pyramidal roofs. The gateway arch has ornamental cast iron gates and a pendant lamp bracket suspended from the arch.[24] Another stone lodge with a hipped roof on Hall Lane west of the canal dates from around 1830.[25]
A railway bridge, with a cast iron balustrade from 1883 to 1884, over the Whelley Loop Line, which crosses the estate in a cutting, is Grade II listed[23] as is the bridge over entrance to canal basin on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.[26]
Haigh Country Park
Parkland surrounding the hall now forms the Haigh Country Park and the Haigh Hall Golf Club. Although in the 1790s the park encompassed an area of 500 acres (200 ha),[2] the area today is around 250 acres (100 ha).[27]
The Great Haigh Sough, a 1,120 yards (1,020 m) tunnel to drain shallow coal pits, was driven under the estate between 1653 and 1670 by Sir Roger Bradshaigh.[28] The estate was cut through by the southern portion of the Lancaster Canal, now part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, in 1799. The canal is crossed by several bridges within the park.[16][21] The estate is bounded to the west by the River Douglas and to the east, the boundary is New Road.[citation needed]
The two-storey stable block of 1865 has been converted to the golf clubhouse and information center. It is built of red brick with stone and blue and yellow brick dressings. Its tower has round-headed windows and an opening for a clock face.[29]
The
From 2002 to 2011 the park was the venue for the "Haigh Fest" music festival, which returned in 2017 after a six-year gap.[32][33]
See also
References
Citations
- ^ a b Haigh Village Conservation Area (PDF), Wigan Council, retrieved 28 July 2011[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c d Farrer, William; Brownbill, J, eds. (1911), "Haigh", A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, British History Online, pp. 115–118, retrieved 14 December 2010
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- ^ Wigan Coal and Iron Co, Graces Guide, retrieved 5 February 2011
- ^ a b c d e Historic England, "Haigh Hall (1228292)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 12 September 2012
- ^ Lewis, Samuel (1848), "Haigh", A Topographical Dictionary of England, British History Online, pp. 369–372, retrieved 7 April 2011
- ^ a b c d Pollard, Pevsner & Sharples 2006, p. 186
- ^ a b c Pollard, Pevsner & Sharples 2006, p. 185
- ^ Haigh Hall – England, Clan Lindsay, archived from the original on 3 January 2010, retrieved 7 April 2011
- ^ Ltd, Insider Media. "£6m Haigh Hall transformation underway". Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "The Hotel - Haigh Hall Hotel". Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ George, Thomas (20 September 2019). "Haigh Hall hotel operators 'to have lease terminated' after access row". Manchester Evening News.
- ^ "Levelling Up: Council ecstatic over £20m for historic hall revamp". BBC News. 19 January 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
- ^ "Haigh Hall: Historic site set for £37.5m transformation". BBC News. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
- ^ "Newsletter 78". wiganarchsoc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ a b c Haigh Hall, Wigan, England, Parks and Gardens UK, retrieved 7 May 2011
- ^ Barker, Nicolas (1978) Bibliotheca Lindesiana: the Lives and Collections of Alexander William, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres, and James Ludovic, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres. London: for Presentation to the Roxburghe Club, and published by Bernard Quaritch
- ^ Guppy, Henry (1946) "The Bibliotheca Lindesiana", in: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library; vol. 30, pp. 185–94
- ^ Bibliotheca Lindesiana, University of Texas at Austin, archived from the original on 18 May 2011, retrieved 5 February 2011
- ^ British Library Philatelic Collections: The Crawford Library, British Library, retrieved 7 August 2011
- ^ a b c Pollard, Pevsner & Sharples 2006, p. 187
- ^ Haigh Country Park, visitor guide map leaflet, published by Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust.
- ^ a b Historic England, "Railway bridge in Haigh Hall Park (1376802)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2013
- ^ Historic England, "Gateway and lodges to Haigh Hall Park (1384570)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2013
- ^ Historic England, "Lodge to Haigh Hall (1228100)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2013
- ^ Historic England, "Bridge over entrance to canal basin on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (1287258)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2013
- ^ "Haigh Country Park", Wigan culture & Leisure Trust, archived from the original on 28 September 2011, retrieved 2 May 2011
- ^ "Great Haigh Sough", Wigan Archaeological Society, retrieved 2 February 2011
- ^ Historic England, "Stables approximately 100 metres to north of Haigh Hall School Lane (1228105)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 January 2013
- ^ "The Haigh Railway", Miniature Railway World, retrieved 2 May 2011
- ^ Wigan Model Engineering Society, Wigan Model Engineering Society, retrieved 28 July 2011
- ^ Haigh Fest at Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust, archived from the original on 19 March 2012, retrieved 15 March 2015
- Wigan Today. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
Bibliography
- Pollard, Richard; ISBN 978-0-300-10910-8
Further reading
- Anderson, Donald (1991), Life and Times at Haigh Hall: Eight Hundred Years of History, Smiths Books (Wigan), ISBN 978-0-9510680-6-9
External links
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