Shipton Hall is a large Elizabethan country house in the village of
Shipton, Shropshire, England, which lies in the
Corvedale
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valley some 7 miles south-west of
Much Wenlock
Much Wenlock is a market town and parish in Shropshire, England, situated on the A458 road between Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth. Nearby, to the northeast, is the Ironbridge Gorge, and the new town of Telford. The civil parish includes the villag ...
. It is a
Grade I listed
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building.
The hall is constructed of limestone to an E-plan in two storeys with attics, and boasts a slender 4-storey tower in one of the internal corners. In the ornamental gardens are stables and an early monastic dovecote, which is a
Grade II* listed
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building.
[
Close by stands the 12th century Church of St James.
]
History
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries Shipton manor had been granted by the Crown in 1548 to Sir Thomas Palmer, after whose attainder and execution for high treason
Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplo ...
in 1553 it was resold by the Crown in 1557. After passing through several hands it eventually (1580) came into the possession of John Lutwyche.
The present house was originally built around 1587 for Richard Lutwyche to replace an older timber-framed house which had burned down. The decayed church of St James was also rebuilt by the Lutwyches in 1589 and is now a Grade II* listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
building.
Richard Lutwyche later gave the estate to Thomas Mytton as a dowry when Mytton married Lutwyche's daughter and it thereafter descended in the Mytton family until 1795, when it passed by marriage to the local More family. In the late 1800s the Mores sold the Hall to the great-grandfather of the present owner. John Nicholas Bishop of Shipton Hall was High Sheriff of Shropshire
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in 2002.
The Hall was greatly rebuilt in the Georgian style in the mid-18th century, when the rococo interior decor was created by architect Thomas Farnolls Pritchard
Thomas Farnolls Pritchard (also known as Farnolls Pritchard; baptised 11 May 1723 – died 23 December 1777) was an English architect and interior decorator who is best remembered for his design of the first cast-iron bridge in the world.
Biogra ...
, designer of the Coalbrookdale
Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England, containing a settlement of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting. It lies within the civil parish called the Gorge.
This is where iron ore was first s ...
Iron Bridge.[
]
See also
*Grade I listed buildings in Shropshire
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* Listed buildings in Shipton, Shropshire
References
External links
Shipton Hall - Official Website
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Country houses in Shropshire
Grade I listed buildings in Shropshire