1795 KENDAL, postmarked document & letter, to Tim Parker of Hornby Hall, Lancs

Description: 1795 KENDAL, postmarked document & letter, to Tim Parker of Hornby Hall, LancsThis product data sheet is originally written in English. 1795 KENDAL, postmarked 2 page document & letter, From Kendal to Timothy Parker of Hornby Hall, Lancs HORNBY HALL Many people living in Hornby will be unaware that there was once a large house called Hornby Hall, or sometimes Town End Hall, which with the Castle formed the two focuses in the village, each having its own estate and property. The Hall itself was burnt down in mysterious circumstances in 1946 and its roofless remains survived for several more years. On its site now stands Hornby Hall Close. The only surviving parts of the Hall are its stables and coach-house, a long building dated 1790 at right angles to the Main Street, and a stone wing built after the main building. The Hall was originally built in about 1730-5 by Thomas Benison, a successful Lancaster attorney and estate steward to the Castle estates. His daughter is rather more famous, being Ann Benison, later Fenwick, who established the Roman Catholic Presbytery here and was involved in a long battle to regain her rights after her husband died in a hunting accident and his brother tried to deprive her of her property. There is a fine painting in the Judges’ Lodging Museum showing the Hall newly built with Thomas and Ann receiving a pineapple from the head gardener at the rear of the gardens, with the village and a distant Castle in the background. Pineapples were notoriously difficult to grow and represented the pinnacle of a gardener’s achievement. The Hall contained a private chapel which was used by local Roman Catholics before St Mary’s church was built (the original church was built in 1763 at Claughton and only rebuilt in Hornby under Dr Lingard in the 1820s). Ann Fenwick also funded the building of the Presbytery in 1777, aware that after her death the Hall would pass into non-Catholic hands. Poor Thomas Benison did not live to see his house completed. It was a large Palladian structure with three floors and thirteen bed- 27 rooms. The rooms were decorated with Italian plasterwork like that at Burrow Hall, seat of the Fenwick’s. It was sold numerous times, in 1779 after the death of Ann Fenwick to William Sudal.In 1785 to Timothy Parker, in 1808 to David Murray, and in 1888 to Francis Rhodes Darwin. In the early 20th century, it became the offices of the Lunesdale Rural District Council, until the fire of 1946. Hornby Hall had surprisingly large estates. There were several farms such as Butt Yeats, Scale House (further up the road to Roeburndale) and Strands in Hornby as well as Above Beck in Wray, and Grindlestone Thorn in Roeburndale. Then there were nine cottages and a shop in three separate places in the village : Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution1795 KENDAL, postmarked 2 page document & letter, From Kendal to Timothy Parker of Hornby Hall, Lancs HORNBY HALL Many people living in Hornby will be unaware that there was once a large house called Hornby Hall, or sometimes Town End Hall, which with the Castle formed the two focuses in the village, each having its own estate and property. The Hall itself was burnt down in mysterious circumstances in 1946 and its roofless remains survived for several more years. On its site now stands Hornby Hall Close. The only surviving parts of the Hall are its stables and coach-house, a long building dated 1790 at right angles to the Main Street, and a stone wing built after the main building. The Hall was originally built in about 1730-5 by Thomas Benison, a successful Lancaster attorney and estate s Place Posted Kendal Document Type Manuscript posted letter Cancellation Type Handstamped Destination Hornby Hall, Lancashire Theme Social History Era 1750-1800 Postmark Type Town Straight line Handstamp UK County Westmorland City/Town/Village Kendal Family Name parker Year of Issue 1795

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