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Throwley Old Hall is a ruined
Throwley Hall Farm. Retrieved 6 June 2019. The house is aligned north-east/south-west; it has two storeys, with a square tower, of three storeys, attached to the north-east corner. S. C. Hall, writing in the mid-19th century, described the house when it was intact: "It is built of the limestone of the neighbourhood, quoined with larger gritstones; and its walls bear a very time-worn appearance. On the Eastern side, its gables, large bayed window of many lights, divided by stone mullions, terminating in depressed arches, and its strong square tower, carry us back to the Sixteenth Century the period of its erection." By 1921 the building's condition was similar to its present state.
''The Baronial Halls of England''
Volume I. 1858. Oliver de Meverell was settled here by 1203. The surviving building dates from the early 16th century. The last Meverell at Throwley Hall was Robert Meverell (died 5 February 1626); there is an alabaster tomb in the Church of the Holy Cross at Ilam, containing the remains of Robert and his wife Elizabeth (died 5 August 1628). The inscription informs that their only child married Thomas Lord Cromwell, Viscount Lecale (a descendant of Henry VIII's minister
stately home
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near the village of Calton and adjacent to the River Manifold
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The Manifold rises at Flash Head just sout ...
, in north-east Staffordshire
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, England.
It is a Grade II* listed building
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and a scheduled monument
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. The estate is privately owned."The hall and its history"Throwley Hall Farm. Retrieved 6 June 2019. The house is aligned north-east/south-west; it has two storeys, with a square tower, of three storeys, attached to the north-east corner. S. C. Hall, writing in the mid-19th century, described the house when it was intact: "It is built of the limestone of the neighbourhood, quoined with larger gritstones; and its walls bear a very time-worn appearance. On the Eastern side, its gables, large bayed window of many lights, divided by stone mullions, terminating in depressed arches, and its strong square tower, carry us back to the Sixteenth Century the period of its erection." By 1921 the building's condition was similar to its present state.
Meverell and Cromwell families
The 16th-century writerSampson Erdeswicke
Sampson Erdeswicke (born c. 1535x1540; died 1603) was an English antiquary and chorographer.
Background
Sampson's father, Hugh Erdeswicke claimed descent from Richard de Vernon, Baron of Shipbrook in the reign of William the Conqueror. The fami ...
wrote: "Throwley is a fair, ancient house, and goodly demesne; being the seat of the Meverells, a very ancient house of gentlemen and of goodly living, equalling the best sort of gentlemen in the Shire." S. C. Hall. "Throwley Hall" i''The Baronial Halls of England''
Volume I. 1858. Oliver de Meverell was settled here by 1203. The surviving building dates from the early 16th century. The last Meverell at Throwley Hall was Robert Meverell (died 5 February 1626); there is an alabaster tomb in the Church of the Holy Cross at Ilam, containing the remains of Robert and his wife Elizabeth (died 5 August 1628). The inscription informs that their only child married Thomas Lord Cromwell, Viscount Lecale (a descendant of Henry VIII's minister
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell (; 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English lawyer and statesman who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charge ...
).
Subsequent ownership
After the Cromwell family, Throwley Hall was later owned by Edward Southwell, 21stBaron de Clifford
Baron de Clifford is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1299 for Robert de Clifford (''c.''1274–1314), feudal baron of Clifford in Herefordshire, feudal baron of Skipton in Yorkshire and feudal baron of Appleby in Westmo ...
; he sold it to Samuel Crompton in 1790, who passed it to his son Sir Samuel Crompton, 1st Baronet
Sir Samuel Crompton, 1st Baronet (8 July 1785 – 27 December 1848) was a politician in the United Kingdom. He served as a Member for Parliament for East Retford, Derby and Thirsk (UK Parliament constituency), Thirsk. He also served as Deputy Li ...
. It was afterwards owned by Earl Cathcart.
Francis Allen Parramore (1795-1862) lived at Throwley Hall from around 1836; his son, William Thomas Parramore (1840-1913) lived there until 1877, when he and his family went to live in Australia
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.The Baronial Halls, and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England, vol. I, Samuel Carter Hall, Willis & Sotheran, 1858, "Throwley Hall, Staffordshire" p. 3
References
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