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Bank Hall
Daffodils on the Tower Lawn at Bank Hall with a view of the south elevation of the hall
The daffodils on the tower lawn at Bank Hall
Bank Hall is located in Lancashire
Location within Lancashire
General information
Architectural style Jacobean
Town or city Bretherton, Lancashire
Country England
Coordinates 53°40′32″N 2°48′55″W / 53.67552°N 2.8152°W / 53.67552; -2.8152
Construction started 1608
Completed 1833
Technical details
Structural system Brick
Design and construction
Client George Anthony Legh Keck
Architect George Webster 1832 [Renovation]

Bank Hall is a Jacobean mansion south of the village of Bretherton in Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II* Listed Building. The hall was built on the site of a previous building in 1608 during the reign of James I by the Banastre family who were Lords of the Manor. It was extended during the 18th and 19th centuries by descendants of the Banastres. Extensions were built for George Anthony Legh Keck, in 1832–1833 to the design of architect George Webster, (1797–1864).

Legh Keck died in 1860 leaving no heir and the estates passed to the third Lord Lilford. The contents were auctioned in 1861 and the hall used as a holiday home until it was leased to tenants. During the Second World War the Royal Engineers used the building as a control centre. After the war the estate was returned to the Lilfords whose estate offices moved to the east wing of the house until 1972 when the house was vacated. The building was used as a filming location for the 1969 film The Haunted House of Horror.

The house was vandalised causing rapid deterioration. In 1995 the Bank Hall Action Group was formed to raise public awareness of the property, collect funds, host events, and clear the overgrown grounds. In 2003 Bank Hall was the first property to feature in the BBC's Restoration television series and was second in the voting. Since 2006 the action group and Urban Splash have planned to restore the house as apartments retaining the gardens, entrance hall and clock tower for public access and the Heritage Trust for the North West (HTNW) plan to renovate the potting sheds and walled gardens.

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[edit] History

For centuries Bank Hall was the manorial home of a branch of the Banastres, the lords of the manor descended from the Norman Roger de Banastre, who built a motte and bailey castle at Prestatyn in Wales in about 1164. In 1167 the Banastres were evicted when Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales destroyed the castle and the family fled to Cheshire and Lancashire.[1][2][3][4]

A structure from the time of Elizabeth I is recorded on Christopher Saxton's map from 1579.[5] In 1608 the Banastres built the first phase of the present hall and demolished the old timber building. The new house was constructed to a Jacobean style. The hall was rectangular with two rooms to the east, a room and staircase to the west and a grand hall in the centre containing a screen and fireplace. It is possible that there may have been a timber structure where the east wing stands and other wooden wings that were replaced as the house was extended. Recorded in the 1666 Hearth tax, of the 99 hearths in Bretherton, Bank Hall had twelve.[6]

The last of the Banastres, Christopher, who was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1670, died in 1690 leaving two daughters. The property was inherited by the eldest, Anne who married Thomas Fleetwood. He planned to drain the surrounding marsh lands[7] and in 1692, made the first attempt to drain Martin Mere, with no success. In 1714 the first canal was improved and floodgates kept back the high tides.[8] Their daughter, Henrietta Maria, married Thomas Legh of Lyme Park and ownership of the estate passed to the Leghs.

The Legh Keck coat of arms from above the front porch at Bank Hall
Legh Keck coat of arms above the front porch at Bank Hall

George Anthony Legh Keck moved from Stoughton, Leicestershire on inheriting the estate. He was the last resident owner and commissioned Kendal architect, George Webster, to extend the hall in 1832–1833.[9] Legh Keck was known for his collections of stuffed animals and birds, which included sets of horns from many animal species from all over the world. He owned a collection of classical style statuettes and casts of figures by the sculptor Antonio Canova.

In April 1861, a year after Legh Keck's death, the hall's contents were sold at auction. The catalogue survives and lists the items by room.[10] The house and estate passed to Legh Keck's brother-in-law, Thomas Littleton Powys, fourth Baron Lilford,[11] whose family seat was Lilford Hall in Northamptonshire.[12] Bank Hall was used as a holiday home by the Lilfords until 1899. The estate remains part of Lilford Estates and is managed by a land agent, Acland Bracewell & Co.[13]

[edit] Tenants

Local businessman Edward Crippen, was resident in 1891 until his death in February 1892. Sir Harcourt Everard Clare, clerk to Lancashire County Council[14][15] moved to the hall with his family who hosted garden parties in the grounds. The cricketer Ranjit Singh visited him during the 1920s. King George V whilst visiting Lancashire in 1913 stopped at the lodge to greet the Clares and their staff.[16] Cotton mill owner, Sir Norman Seddon-Brown and his family lived at the hall from the late 1920s until 1938, when they moved to Escowbeck.[17] The Aga Khan III is thought to have visited the hall during this time.[citation needed]

During the Second World War the Royal Engineers were billetted at Bank Hall. The north east wing, a service wing, housed a boiler-house, shed, laundry, dairy and cheese rooms, mangle room, brew house and wash house around a central courtyard.[10][18] The buildings can be seen on the 1928 Ordnance Survey map which shows two greenhouses and three buildings in the walled garden. A pond was constructed on the site of the courtyard and a concrete drive installed. The army also constructed numerous Nissen huts in the gardens and parkland, the remains of some of which are still visible. A number of wartime artifacts have also been unearthed including bullets, light bulbs and date stamps.

After the war the estates were returned to Lilford Estates, who had an estate office in the east wing until 1972.[19]

The exterior was used as a location for The Haunted House of Horror (1969).[20]

[edit] Architecture

A view of the diaper (lozenge) flushwork on the north elevation of Bank Hall
Diaper flushwork on a 1608 front elevation

Bank Hall, built in the Jacobean style in 1608, is a brick built mansion of three storeys with Dutch gables and a square central tower on the south front. Some of the original brickwork in a diaper (lozenge) flushwork pattern is visible on one gable. The house was restored and enlarged by architect George Webster in 1832–3. He added a wing to the west elevations, built a porch on the north side, remodelled the 1608 north elevation windows, covered the roofs with blue Cumbrian slates and finished the walls with stone details. Webster carried out the alterations sympathetically, in a style corresponding to the 17th century building, but the difference is marked by the colour of the brickwork and sharpness of the detail. Most windows were renewed during the restoration and two Italian style bay windows added to the south front, altering its appearance.[21]

The clock tower which rises to a height of 60 feet (18 m), was built between 1660 and 1665 and remodelled in 1832–33.[22][23] The tower, which contains an original oak cantilevered staircase, is the chief architectural feature of the building on the south side.[21] The brick built tower has stone quoins at the corners and the staircase has eight original stone cross-windows with mullions, transoms and hoodmoulds irregularly spaced at different levels.[24] The tower has a south facing 19th century clock in the top storey, (the north facing clock fell when the north east elevation of the tower collapsed during the 1980s) the cogs and wheels were manufactured by John Alker and the tower terminates in battlements with angle and intermediate ornaments from the 19th century restoration.[21]

Decorative features include lavish stonework design and finials on the west wing bay window and false windows on the kitchen chimney stack wall creating a decorative feature on a plain wall. Other features from the 1832 renovation include Legh Keck's initials "G.A.L.K" and "1833" inscribed above the Italian bay windows. There were once four cast iron ram's heads holding laurel sprigs[25] and maiden's heads[26] on the building and a coat of arms on the front porch. The lead rain hoppers have the initials "LK", and the porch has two carved green men on either side of the doors. There are stone statues on the tower battlements. Another architectural feature are the chimney stacks, the oldest being diamond shaped, while others are square. The chimneys on the west wing are notable for their octagonal shape. The clocks on the tower feature a Fleur-de-lis at each corner of their faces, thought to be from the Bannastre family coat of arms.[27]

The Legh Keck coat of arms comprises a ram's head and a rampant lion from the Legh family, from Lyme Park, a maiden's head from the Keck arms and three sparrowhawks from the Atherton coat of arms.[28][29] The Legh Keck motto is, "EN DIEU EST MA FOY" which translates to 'In God is my faith'.[30]

Architectural features in the gardens once included a pair of stone lion statues at the front porch, a pair of 12 feet (3.7 m) concrete statues (thought to be of a gothic floral design, with the Legh Keck symbols on the base) near the front porch with the Legh Keck crest symbols, and a sundial, which have all now disappeared.

[edit] Interiors

Little is known about the interior before the renovations of 1832–1833, which saw the great hall split into an entrance hall with a marble floor and a dining room with a grand fireplace. A ground floor room in the north wing was panelled with oak from Carr House, also on the estate. There was a 17th-century fireplace with a peacock carved on the chimney-piece in one of the upstairs bedrooms[21] matching a peacock design on the Delft tiles of the fireplace. Other delft tiles were found in the rubble inside the house. The drawing room had a 16 feet (4.9 m) feet high ceiling with lavish plaster work (a small protion of which survives today) and a parquet floor. The study at the rear of the west wing ground floor had bookshelves and a grand fireplace which survive under the fallen floor from above. Its panelled window shutters survive in their closed casings. The cellars under the west wing survive in very good condition. The east wing also has cellars, but the entrance is unknown. The west wing of the house was occupied by the family and the east wing by the servants.

Legh Keck collected sculptures and antiques; the hall was furnished with Turkish carpets and oak and mahogany carved furniture from the 17th and 18th centuries, horns and animal heads from around the world and family portraits from the 17th century hung on the walls. Numerous Wedgwood items were among the contents sold at auction in 1861 after the death of Legh Keck[10]

[edit] Current condition

A view of the clock tower covered in scaffolding
A view of the clock tower in 2008

The building has been subject to vandalism and deterioration, caused by the theft of lead from the roof. In the early 1980s, the Lilford Trust applied unsuccessfully for planning permission to turn the house and grounds into a country club and golf course. A large mural, subject unknown, painted on the wall of the drawing room was destroyed when the west wing roof collapsed in the 1980s.

In 1952 Bank Hall was listed as a Grade II* Listed Building.[31] In 2002 it was identified as one of 22% of buildings in the UK that are deemed to be at immediate risk of further rapid deterioration or loss of fabric.[32] It is currently on the Buildings at Risk Register.[33] It is on the English Heritage "Heritage at risk register 2009", described as in very bad condition and priority B for restoration and conservation.[34] As of 2010, the house remains in a ruinous state.[35] The west wing roof and north-east corner of the clock tower collapsed in the early 1980s and has continued to deteriorate, losing a clock face and ¾ of the statues from the battlements.[36] In 2001 listed building consent was granted to carry out structural work to the tower,[37] Three of the corner decorative pinnacles remain but the west elevation has a crack held together by scaffolding installed in 2002 during emergency repairs funded by the action group and English Heritage.[38] At that time, what was left of the clock mechanism was removed from the tower and the fallen statues and clock face parts put into storage awaiting restoration. In 2006 a water tank in the attic crashed through the floors in the Jacobean part of the building, causing major damage to the roof, a front gable and the rooms below. On the 26 July 2007 BBC Breakfast News featured the building, as one of sixteen buildings across the UK on the updated Buildings at Risk Register and which require emergency work. A cantilevered oak staircase remains in the tower where, in 2008, part of the staircase from the south elevation collapsed, but caused no damage to the balustrade.[13]

In 2008 most of the slates were removed due to the fear of more gables collapsing because of pressure on the walls.[13] Three magnolia trees are growing out of the foundations of the east wing and cover the exterior, which has lost two gables. The east wing contains a ground floor room with no windows, a concrete ceiling and a steel door which remains unopened since the estate offices closed in 1972.[13] In September 2010, a collapse in the west wing occurred causing further damage to the 1832 stairwell. The rooms above the parlour where destroyed as the roof and wall collapsed and the back wall of the drawing room partially collapsed caused by an unsteady stone window. English Heritage assessed the damage as urgent and structural work was needed to prevent further collapse.[39] In November 2011 contractors for the HTNW dismantled the north wing porch as the gable was at risk of collapse. Decorative masonary was also removed for an exhibition to be held in Nelson in 2012 by the Heritage Trust for the North West.

[edit] Restoration

Bank Hall Action Group was formed in 1995 to raise awareness of the need to restore the hall. The Heritage Trust for the North West plans to have a visitor entrance and heritage garden separate from the house restoration project when the building is restored.[40] Planning permission to convert the potting shed and greenhouse into a visitor entrance was granted in December 2011.

Bank Hall's plight was highlighted when it featured in the first series of BBC's Restoration programme, on 8 August 2003.[41] It was described as a "beautiful and impressive Jacobean country house" coming second in the voting.[42]

In 2003 the cost of restoring the shell of the building was estimated at £3 million.[43] Urban Splash was engaged in 2006, with the aid of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant, to develop a business plan.[44] It envisaged creating 12 housing units within the hall, 23 houses in two courtyards in the former orchard[45] with the action group retaining the entrance hall, clock tower and upper rooms for public access.[46] The project is worth £6 million with proceeds from the sale of the houses and a £1.5m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund funding the restoration of the building.[47]

A structural report carried out in 2009 by Urban Splash enabled a plan of the building's interior to be developed.[48] It was hoped that work would commence in 2010.[49] After delays, planning permission was granted in February 2011.

[edit] Estate

Bank Bridge, the warehouse, which carries the A59 road over the River Douglas
Bank Bridge and the warehouse in 2010

The estate is crossed by the River Douglas and its embankment provides flood protection for the low lying area. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal crosses close to the river and Grade II listed Bank Bridge carries the A59 road over river and canal. A Grade II listed warehouse is close to the bridge.

Bank Lodge, situated at a disused access road, is owned by the estate, and can be seen on the 1928 Ordnance Survey Map.[50]

A view of the Bank Hall farm house
Bank Hall farm house in 2006

Bank Hall Farm, the home farm whose Elizabethan long barn built in the early 17th century, is Grade II listed. It was extended in the early 19th century and converted into residences in 2004.[51] Between the fields and the barns was a timber yard. The estate offices, blacksmith's forge and coach house were housed on the farm. The action group use the coach house and offices as a temporary visitor centre.[13]

Along a carriage drive, lined with lime trees, connecting the hall to Bretherton are 'Crossford Lodge', a modern single-story building and Bretherton Lodge (The New Lodge).

Bank Hall Windmill built in 1741, is a Grade II listed building [52] situated between Bank Bridge and Plocks Farm. Carr House, built by the Stone family in 1613 was the home of Jeremiah Horrocks, the first person to predict and observe the Transit of Venus, in 1639.

[edit] Gardens

Main article: Bank Hall Gardens
A view of some of the snowdrops in a carpet that can be found at Bank Hall in late winter/ early spring.
Bank Hall snowdrop carpet, February 2009

Bank Hall is surrounded by 18 acres (7.3 ha) of gardens, parkland and an arboretum created by George Anthony Legh Keck.[53] Bank Hall Gardens were neglected from 1980-1995 though some plants survived. Snowdrop carpets which cover much of the gardens in February were uncovered in 2001 when a small area was cleared.[54] In 2007 the UK's Snowdrop Society visited for the first time and the gardens have attracted thousands of visitors each year for the displays and collection of snowdrops.[55] There are several varieties of daffodils, bluebells and primroses.

The oldest tree, a 550 year old yew, predates the hall, and the tallest, a wellingtonia, towers over the woodland. There are numerous coast redwoods[56] and specimens of dawn redwood, Lebanon cedar, atlas cedar, swamp cypress, lime and magnolia.

A conservatory was built for Elizabeth Legh Keck in the 1830s. The walled garden, constructed in 1835, has a greenhouse and potting sheds on its north wall and a heated outdoor wall. The Heritage Trust for the North West aims to restore this area into a heritage garden. A cricket field and tennis lawns were situated beyond a ha-ha and accessed via a yew tunnel.

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

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[edit] Bibliography

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  • Action Group, Bank Hall (2009). Bank Hall Record Book. Bank Hall Action Group. 
  • Coxhead, Geoff, Dillon, Paul (2004). Bank Hall, Bretherton, Lancashire. ISBN 0-9530081-0-X. 
  • Esstlemont, Mary (2005). My Times at Bank Hall. Bank Hall Action Group. 
  • Lane, Charles H. (1902). Dog Shows And Doggy People. Hutchinson & Co.. 
  • Wilkinson, Phillip (2003). Restoration – Discovering Britain's hidden architectural treasures. Headline Book Publishing. ISBN 0-7553-1251-1. 
  • Wilkinson, Phillip (2004). Restoration – the story continues .... English Heritage. ISBN 1-85074-914-0. 

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