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HADDON HALL

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 797 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALL , one of the most famous See also:ancient mansions in See also:England. It lies on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Wye, 2 M. S.E. of See also:Bakewell in See also:Derbyshire. It is not now used as a See also:residence, but the fabric is maintained in See also:order. The See also:building is of See also:stone and oblong in See also:form, and encloses two quadrangles separated by the See also:great banqueting-hall and adjoining See also:chambers. The greater See also:part is of two storeys, and surmounted by battlements. To the See also:south and south-See also:east See also:lie terraced gardens, and the south front of the eastern quadrangle is occupied by the splendid See also:ball-See also:room or See also:long See also:gallery. At the south-See also:west corner of the See also:mansion is the See also:chapel; at the See also:north-east the Peveril See also:tower. The periods of building represented are as follows. See also:Norman See also:work appears in the chapel (which also served as a See also:church for the neighbouring villagers), also in certain fundamental parts of the fabric, notably the Peveril tower. There are See also:Early See also:English and later additions to the chapel; . the banqueting-hall, with the great See also:kitchen adjacent to it, and part of the Peveril tower are of the 14th See also:century. The eastern range of rooms, including the See also:state-room, are of the 15th century; the western and north-western parts were built shortly after 1500.

The ball-room is of early 17th-century construction, and the terraces and gardens were laid out at this See also:

time. A large number of interesting contemporary fittings are preserved, especially in the banqueting-hall and kitchen; and many of the rooms are adorned with tapestries of the 16th and 17th centuries, some of which came from the famous See also:works at See also:Mortlake in See also:Surrey. A See also:Roman See also:altar was found and is preserved here, but no trace of Roman inhabitants has been discovered. Haddon was a See also:manor which before the See also:Conquest and at the time of the Domes-See also:day Survey belonged to the See also:king, but was granted by See also:William the Conqueror to William Peverel, whose son, another William Peverel, forfeited it for See also:treason on the See also:accession of See also:Henry II. Before that time, however, the manor of Haddon had been granted to the See also:family of Avenell, who continued to hold it until one William Avenell died without male issue and his See also:property was divided between his two daughters and heirs, one of whom married See also:Richard See also:Vernon, whose successors acquiredthe other See also:half of the manor in the reign of See also:Edward III. See also:Sir See also:George Vernon, who died in 1561, was known as the " King of the See also:Peak " on See also:account of his hospitality. His daughter Dorothy married See also:John See also:Manners, second son of the See also:earl of See also:Rutland, who is said to have lived for some time in the See also:woods See also:round Haddon Hall, disguised as a gamekeeper, until he persuaded Dorothy to elope with him. On Sir George's See also:death without male issue Haddon passed to John Manners and Dorothy, who lived in the Hall. Their See also:grandson John Manners succeeded to the See also:title of earl of Rutland in 1641, and the See also:duke of Rutland is still See also:lord of the manor. See See also:Victoria See also:County See also:History, Derbyshire; S. Rayner, History and Antiquities of Haddon Hall (1836–1837) ; Haddon Hall, History and Antiquities of Haddon Hall (1867) ; G. le See also:Blanc See also:Smith, Haddon, the Manor, the Hall, its Lords and Traditions (See also:London, 1906).

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