Lytham Hall
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| Location: | Lytham, Lancashire |
| Coordinates: | 53.7441°0′0″N 2.9768°0′0″W / 53.7441°N 2.9768°WCoordinates: 53.7441°0′0″N 2.9768°0′0″W / 53.7441°N 2.9768°W |
| Built: | 1757–1764 |
| Architect: | John Carr |
| Architectural style(s): | Palladian style |
| Governing body: | Heritage Trust for the North West |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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 Location of Lytham Hall in Lancashire
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Lytham Hall is an 18th century English manor house in the seaside town of Lytham, Lancashire. It has been designated a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.
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[edit] History and assessment
The manor of Lytham was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Lidun.[1] In the 12th century it was given to the Benedictine monks of Durham Priory for the foundation of a monastic cell—Lytham Priory. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s, Lytham Priory came into the possession of Sir Richard Molyneux. In 1606 the land was acquired by local landowner Cuthbert Clifton who built a house there.[2][3] Cuthbert's descendant, Thomas Clifton, replaced that house with the current hall, which was built 1757–1764 to the design of John Carr.[4]
On 1 December 1965, English Heritage designated Lytham Hall a Grade I listed building.[5] The Grade I designation—the highest of the three grades—is for buildings "of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important".[6] The hall is on the Heritage at Risk Register because its condition is considered to be only "fair".[7]
Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance bought Lytham Hall in the 1960s.[8] In 1997 Lytham Town Trust bought the building and subsequently leased it to Heritage Trust for the North West for 99 years.[8]
[edit] Architecture
Lytham Hall is constructed in the Palladian style of red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings and stuccoed features.[2][5] It has three storeys on a rectangular, symmetrical plan and sits on a stone plinth.[4][5] The front façade lies to the east; it has a central bay that extends slightly forward and has an Ionic pediment.[4] The main entrance is also pedimented and is flanked by Doric columns.[2] There are four pilasters between the first floor and roof cornice.[4] The ground floor window have Gibbs surrounds.[2]
In contrast to traditional Palladian-style houses in which the servants' and utility rooms were on the ground floor (piano rustico) and the important family rooms were on the first floor (piano nobile), Lytham Hall's main rooms are on the ground floor.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Footnotes
- ^ Fishwick (1907), pp. 2–3
- ^ a b c d Hartwell, p. 436
- ^ Brazendale (1994), p. 254
- ^ a b c d e Brazendale (1994), p. 255
- ^ a b c "Lytham Hall", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1219078, retrieved 27 June 2011
- ^ "Listed Buildings", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/listed-buildings/, retrieved 27 June 2011
- ^ "Lytham Hall", Heritage at Risk Register (English Heritage), http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1219078, retrieved 27 June 2011
- ^ a b "Lytham Hall History & Further Information", Official Lytham Hall website, http://www.lythamhall.co.uk/lytham_hall_history.html, retrieved 27 June 2011
- Bibliography
- Brazendale, David (1994), Lancahire's Historic Halls, Carnegie, ISBN 1859360041
- Fishwick, Henry (1907), The History of the Parish of Lytham in the County of Lancaster, Chetham Society, OCLC 4939041
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0300126670
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lytham Hall |
- Lytham Hall - official site
- Friends of Lytham Hall
- Heritage Trust for the North West
