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| Hawkshead Courthouse, Hawkshead | ||
| Hawkshead Courthouse | ||
| Hawkshead Hall | ||
| locality:- | Hawkshead | |
| civil parish:- | Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD34969879 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3498 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s placename:- Hawkshead Hall |
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| source data:- | Drawing, pencil, Hawkshead Courthouse etc, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Theophilus Lindsey
Aspland, 1847. click to enlargeAS0288.jpg "Hawkshead Hall" page number "76" Opposite page "formerly a Monastery where the abbots of Furness held their courts." item:- Armitt Library : 1958.488.88 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Photograph, sepia, Hawkshead Courthouse, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0583.jpg internegative at lower left:- "H. Bell" stamped on reverse:- "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS243 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Hawkshead Courthouse |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "HAWKSHEAD COURTHOUSE / / B 5286 / HAWKSHEAD / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76835 / SD3504298813" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Purpose uncertain, probably courthouse, now farm building with 1st floor exhibition hall. Possibly C13 but probably C15, with later alterations and restorations, 1849 and 1932. Stone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. East facade has central passageway with segmental-pointed arch with part of right jamb. Keystone a replica of original now attached to Hawkshead Old Hall (q.v.). One stone to left inscribed: "J. THOMPSON/BOLTON 1849". Rough voussoirs above ashlar. Ventilation slot to left. 1st floor has niche over lion-head corbel, with canopy, crocketed pinnacles and cusped arch with fleuron. Straight-headed windows of 2 cusped pointed lights, that to left renewed, that to right has original tracery head. South gable-end has crow-stepped gable. 2 ventilation slots, the'inner chamfers angled possibly for defence; 1st floor 2-light traceried window with 4-centred head. To left is small lean-to projecting wall, part slate, part crow-stepped, which forms part of a south wing, connecting courthouse with Hawkshead Old Hall (q.v.), now demolished. North gable-end has crow-stepped gable. Blocked ground floor entrance with segmental head has straight joint to right and is now partly obscured by stair to 1st floor entrance. West facade has wide flat buttress to right hand end. Passageway has segmental arch, with rough voussoirs; entrance to left with ashlar dressings, segmental-headed entrance to right. 2-light mullioned window to left hand end, with blocked entrance above. 2-light window with cusped pointed heads above passageway has inscribed panel recording 1932 restoration. To right is part of former south wing which has fireplace with bressummer. Interior has collar and tie beam trusses and C13 fireplace with 3-centred arch and dog tooth moulding, part of jamb missing. Originally part of monastic grange associated with Furness Abbey. Property of the National Trust." |
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| evidence:- | old print:- placename:- Old Hall, The |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured engraving, The Old Hall, Hawkshead, Lancashire, engraved by W J
Welch, published 1870. click to enlargePR0218.jpg On p.83 of Furness, Past and Present. printed at bottom:- "THE OLD HALL, HAWKSHEAD." printed at lower right:- "W. J. [WELCIL] Sc." item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.107.218 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Sylvan 1847 |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Hawkshead Hall, and Hawkshead Courthouse, Lancashire, published
by John Johnstone, Paternoster Row, London, et al, 1847. click to enlargeSYL128.jpg On p.93 of Sylvan's Pictorial Guide to the English Lakes. printed at bottom:- "HAWKSHEAD HALL." item:- Armitt Library : A1201.28 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
Built by monks of Furness Abbey and used for their wool business. It was a court,
and a gallows stood on a hill nearby. A niche over the entrance held a statue of the
Blessed Virgin Mary. |
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| In the 16th to 18th centuries it was the home of the Nicholson Family and Copely Family. |
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| person:- | : National Trust |
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