Madeley Court
Madeley Court is a 16th-century country house in Madeley, Shropshire, England which was originally built as a grange to the medieval Wenlock Priory. It has since been restored as a hotel. The house is ashlar built in two storeys to an L-shaped plan and is a Grade II* listed building. To the south west of the house is a 16th-century gatehouse which is separately grade I listed. History After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the manor of Madeley was acquired in 1544 from Wenlock Priory by Sir Robert Brooke, afterwards Speaker of the House of Commons, who built his house there in 1553 on the site of an earlier monastic grange. The manor passed down in the Brooke family. In 1727 Basil Brooke died a minor and the manor was divided between his two sisters, Catherine and Rose. When Catherine died her half passed to her husband John Unett Smitheman and from him to their son John who sold it in 1774 to Abraham Darby III. In 1781 Darby sold it to his former brother-in-law Rich ...
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Madeley Court Car Park View (geograph 3508213)
Madeley may refer to: Places * Madeley, Shropshire, a town, now part of the new town of Telford * Madeley, Staffordshire, near Newcastle-under-Lyme * Madeley, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Australia Other uses * Madeley (surname) * Madeley Wood Company, company * Madeley Old Manor, medieval manor * Madeley Old Hall, historic building * Madeley High School See also * Madeley railway station (other), for all stations named Madeley * Madely (other) * Madley Madley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire. It is located six miles west of the city of Hereford. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,200. Other settlements The parish includes the hamle ...

Richard Reynolds (ironmaster)
Richard Reynolds (November 1735 – 10 September 1816) was an ironmaster, a partner in the ironworks in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, at a significant time in the history of iron production. He was a Quaker and philanthropist. Early career Richard Reynolds was born in Bristol in 1735, the only son of Richard, an iron merchant, and wife Jane. He was great-grandson of Michael Reynolds of Faringdon, Berkshire, an early Quaker. After his education he was apprenticed in 1749 to William Fry, a grocer in Bristol. After serving the apprenticeship in 1756, he was sent on business to Coalbrookdale, and there he became a friend of Abraham Darby II. He married Darby's daughter, Mary, at Shrewsbury on 20 May 1757. He was in charge of Abraham Darby's ironworks at Ketley, near Coalbrookdale, and in 1762 he bought a half share in the Ketley works. When his father-in-law died in 1763, he moved to Coalbrookdale and took charge of the works there, until Abraham Darby III came of age in 1768; he ...
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Buildings And Structures In Telford
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Grade II* Listed Houses
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Country Houses In Shropshire
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Grade II* Listed Buildings In Shropshire
The county of Shropshire in England is divided into two unitary authorities: Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire Council. As there are 361 Grade II* listed buildings in the county they have been split into separate lists for unitary authority. *Grade II* listed buildings in Shropshire Council (A–G) * Grade II* listed buildings in Shropshire Council (H–Z) * Grade II* listed buildings in Telford and Wrekin See also *Grade I listed buildings in Shropshire Grade most commonly refers to: * Grade (education), a measurement of a student's performance * Grade, the number of the year a student has reached in a given educational stage * Grade (slope), the steepness of a slope Grade or grading may also ref ... ReferencesNational Heritage List for England
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Listed Buildings In Madeley, Shropshire
Madeley is a town and a civil parish in the district of Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England. It contains 54 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, seven are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. Most of the listed buildings are grouped in or near the town centre, and these include houses and cottages, the earliest being timber framed, two larger houses with associated structures, churches, a presbytery, a school, and a war memorial. To the north of the town centre is Madeley Court, now a hotel, which is listed together with associated structures. Outside the town centre are more listed houses, two public houses, and former industrial structures, including an inclined plane, a bridge, and the remains of a brickworks and an ironworks, the latter two forming part of the museum at Blists Hill Victorian Town ...
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Jim Roberts (architect)
James A. Roberts (29 April 1922 – 28 June 2019) was an English architect, best known for the Rotunda in Birmingham, from which he ran James A. Roberts Associates. His grandson is the acclaimed British Indian actor of Sikh profession Jassa Singh Ahluwalia. Roberts was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham. He was the son of Ernest S. Roberts (d.1945), a Birmingham-based architect responsible for many cinema designs. James Roberts was educated at Stanley House School, Edgbaston, later studying at the Birmingham School of Architecture where he became a senior lecturer. He set up on his own account in Edgbaston in 1952 and eventually had a large practice in the Rotunda, a grade II listed cylindrical office building, that was designed by him, located in the city centre of Birmingham. He himself took the top two floors of the building. Like many similar concerns James A. Roberts Associates suffered from the building recessions of the 1970s though in a reduced form, it was able to cont ...
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Abraham Darby I
Abraham Darby, in his later life called Abraham Darby the Elder, now sometimes known for convenience as Abraham Darby I (14 April 1677 – 5 May 1717, the first and best known of several men of that name), was an English ironmaster and foundryman. Born into an English Quaker family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution, Darby developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke rather than charcoal. This was a major step forward in the production of iron as a raw material for the Industrial Revolution. Early life Abraham Darby was the son of John Darby, a yeoman farmer and locksmith by trade, and his wife Ann Baylies. He was born at Wren's Nest in Woodsetton, Staffordshire, now part of Dudley, West Midlands. He was descended from nobility; his great-grandmother Jane was an illegitimate child of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley. Abraham's great-grandmother was a sister of the whole blood to Dud Dudley, who claimed to have ...
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Madeley Court - Geograph
Madeley may refer to: Places * Madeley, Shropshire, a town, now part of the new town of Telford * Madeley, Staffordshire, near Newcastle-under-Lyme * Madeley, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Australia Other uses * Madeley (surname) * Madeley Wood Company, company * Madeley Old Manor, medieval manor * Madeley Old Hall, historic building * Madeley High School See also * Madeley railway station (other), for all stations named Madeley * Madely (other) * Madley Madley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire. It is located six miles west of the city of Hereford. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,200. Other settlements The parish includes the hamle ...

Abraham Darby III
Abraham Darby III (24 April 1750 – 1789) was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He was the third man of that name in several generations of an English Quaker family that played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution. Life Abraham Darby was born in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, in 1750, the eldest son of Abraham Darby the Younger (1711–1763) by his second wife, Abiah Maude, and educated at a school in Worcester kept by a Quaker named James Fell. At age thirteen, Darby inherited his father's shares in the family iron-making businesses in the Severn Valley, and in 1768, aged eighteen, he took over the management of the Coalbrookdale ironworks. He took various measures to improve the conditions of his work force. In times of food shortage he bought up farms to grow food for his workers, he built housing for them, and he offered higher wages than were paid in other local industries, including coal-mining and the potteries. He built the largest cast iron structure of his era ...
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Country House
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people, the term distinguished between town and country. However, the term also encompasses houses that were, and often still are, the full-time residence for the landed gentry who ruled rural Britain until the Reform Act 1832. Frequently, the formal business of the counties was transacted in these country houses, having functional antecedents in manor houses. With large numbers of indoor and outdoor staff, country houses were important as places of employment for many rural communities. In turn, until the agricultural depressions of the 1870s, the estates, of which country houses were the hub, provided their owners with incomes. However, the late 19th and early 20th centuries were the swansong of the traditional English country house lifes ...
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