Ashburne Hall
Ashburne Hall (to which Sheavyn House is an annex) is a University of Manchester hall of residence for students on the Fallowfield Campus, situated 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the main university campus (the Oxford Road Campus). The hall has catered accommodation offered to mainly undergraduate students, though some places are reserved for postgraduate students.[citation needed]
History
[edit]Ashburne Hall was founded in 1900 by Samuel Alexander, R. D. Darbishire, C. P. Scott and Alice B. Cooke as a hall of residence for women students. (Two halls for men had already been founded in association with Owens College.) It was first located at Ashburne House in Victoria Park (donated by R. D. Darbishire for the purpose) and remained there until the removal to "The Oaks" (which was then renamed Ashburne Hall) in 1910. The new site was on Wilmslow Road at the corner of Old Hall Lane, Fallowfield.[1]
By 1930 the hall had been extended by new buildings and enriched by the bequest from Lord Morley of his personal library. At a later date Sheavyn House was built in the grounds and commemorates Dr Sheavyn who had been the third warden of the hall.[2]
Ashburne Hall became a Grade II listed building on 8 June 2012.[3]
In 2023, the Ashburne Hall Archive was transferred to the University of Manchester Library. The archive contains many administrative documents, student publications, records and ephemera relating to student life at the Hall.
Norman Gillson is the current warden of Ashburne Hall.
Notable students
[edit]- Alison Uttley, writer, who left money to support students at Ashburne Hall[4]
Notable staff
[edit]- Elizabeth French, former warden
- Barbara Gwyer, later Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, was Vice-Warden of the hall from 1910 to 1916
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Sheavyn, Phoebe A. B. (1939) Ashburne Hall, 1900-1930, in: The Journal of the University of Manchester, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 66-70
- ^ Yggdrasill; 1997/98 (centenary issue of the Hall magazine, containing 15 contributions by various hands)
- ^ Historic England (8 June 2012). "Ashburne Hall (Lees, Mary Worthington, Ward and Central block), including the Alice Barlow memorial gates and Ashburne Hall Lodge (Grade II) (1401670)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Forgotten treasures shed new light on Little Grey Rabbit author". The University of Manchester. 12 October 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
External links
[edit]- "Accommodation prospectus for Fallowfield". University of Manchester (The). Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
