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Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Abbot Hall
Street:-   Kirkland
locality:-   Kendal
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   museum
locality type:-   art gallery
coordinates:-   SD51709219
1Km square:-   SD5192
10Km square:-   SD59

photograph
BJS45.jpg (taken 14.8.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) 
placename:-  Abbot Hall
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611
placename:-  Abbotts Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"4 Abbotts Hall"
building 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770
placename:-  Abbot Hall
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Abbot Hall / George Wilson Esqr."
building/s 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Abbot Hall
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Abbot Hall / Geo. Wilson Esqr."
house 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  Abbot Hall
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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Page 179:-  "..."
"Mr. Gray ... 'Near the end of the town [Kendal], stands a handsome house of Colonel Wilson's, [1] ..."
"[1] This is called Abbot-hall, and is now the property of Christopher Wilson, Esq."
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Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769 
Page 214:-  "... Near the end of the town [Kendal] stands a handsome house of Colonel Wilson's, and adjoining to it the church, ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Abbot Hall
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 152:-  "... North of the church is Abbot hall, formerly belonging to the abbot of St. Mary's abbey, York, patron of the living. ..."
evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Abbot Hall
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 273-274  "On the r. of Kendal is Abbot Hall, Sir Alan Chambre, Bart."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Capper 1808
placename:-  Abbot Hall
source data:-   Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published 1808-29.
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"[Kendal] ... North of the church is Abbot Hall, formerly the residence of the abbot of St. Mary's at York. ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Abbot Hall
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.513 
From the Compendium of County History:-  "Chambré, Sir Allan, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, Abbot Hall, near Kendal (ob. 1823)."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Abbot Hall Art Gallery
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ABBOT HALL ART GALLERY / / KIRKLAND / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / I / 75416 / SD5170992187"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Hall, now Art Gallery. 1759, almost certainly by John Carr of York, for Colonel George Wilson. Coursed, squared rubble with quoins on plinth. Band between ground floor and cellars; modillioned eaves cornice with parapet. Main roofs not visible. Mostly 2 storeys with cellars. Symmetrical east elevation, 7 bays overall. Curved stone steps (with spiral curtails to C20 wrought-iron handrails) up to central part-glazed door and interlaced fanlight, with small window to either side, in architrave with projecting keystone and moulded imposts; sash, in architrave with splayed feet on bracketed sill, above. Full-height canted bay window, with sashes, to either side; latticework grilles to cellar. Lower bay set back on either side of central block has Venetian ground floor window; sill band to tripartite sash above. Single-storey gabled bay adjoining each end of main building has 2 semicircular-headed sashes in recesses with blocked oval opening in open pediment above (part-glazed door replaces one sash in left-hand end bay). All sashes with glazing bars in stone surrounds. Decorative rainwater heads to rear. Interior: Entrance hall divided by 2 Roman Doric columns, with responds. Decorative plaster cornices to ground floor. Main ground floor front rooms have plaster frames to walls, and corniced fireplaces, with applied Baroque foliate decoration. Main stair to rear left is curved at top and bottom with spiral curtail; cut string with turned balusters and moulded handrail. Panelled doors (some in pedimented doorcases) and shutters throughout."

photograph
CDE15.jpg (taken 3.6.2015)  courtesy of Abbot Hall Art Gallery
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CDE18.jpg (taken 3.6.2015)  courtesy of Abbot Hall Art Gallery
hearsay:-  
 Built by John Carr of York for Colonel George Wilson of Dallam Tower, 1759.
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