Monument record MLI82229 - Eresby Hall: a post-medieval house and gardens, Spilsby
Summary
Eresby Hall: a post-medieval house and gardens overlying a medieval manor house.This is the record for the scheduled and some non scheduled areas of the post medieval phase of this site only. Please see PRN 43577 for the medieval phases.
Type and Period (5)
- GREAT HOUSE (Burnt down 1769, Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1769 AD)
- COUNTRY HOUSE (Burnt down 1769, Post Medieval - 1540 AD? to 1769 AD)
- FORMAL GARDEN (Post Medieval - 1700 AD? to 1769 AD)
- GATE PIER (Post Medieval - 1700 AD? to 1769 AD)
- PARK (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1900 AD?)
Protected Status/Designation
Full Description
PRN 44149
Charles Brandon rebuilt the hall in 1540-41 specifically for a visit by Henry VIII. This is known to have been built on a slightly different alignment to the medieval manor. No trace of this post medieval hall was found during Ethel Rudkin's excavations in the late 1960s. Although they did find pottery and a rare pewter plate, thought to date from 1540-1550. It has two owners marks or 'house marks' which depict a closed helm of the 16th century and a bearded warrior in a helmet. On the reverse it has a makers mark which appears to be T.B which flanks a square containing a Tudor Rose {1}{2}{3}{4}{5}{6}{7}{8}
The hall itself was an H-shaped building, with a carriage sweep to the north, its entrance flanked by the gate piers. Beyond the gate piers, a tree-lined avenue formerly led to Spilsby church. By the 18th century a formal garden had been laid out, of which tree lined avenues are common feature. A sub-rectangular pond known as The Canal was part of the formal garden and a Y-shaped pond known as The Moat may be a post-medieval water feature adapted from the medieval moat The garden still survives as earthworks. The house was accidentally destroyed by fire in 1769 and by the 1790s only a few outbuildings and a pair of gate piers survived. At the end of the 18th century, the two gate piers were made into one and topped by a commemorative urn; this pier, Listed Grade II stills stands. (Please see PRN 45029 for the details of the pier. Although the pier stands on scheduled the land the pier itself is not scheduled.) For details of the exact scheduling area and features contained within it please see the scheduling document and map. {12}
Leland mentions a deer park at Eresby in the sixteenth century and there is a plan of Eresby dated 1750 showing the formal gardens. The remains of some of the garden features were plotted from aerial photographs by the National Mapping Programme in the 1990s. {10}{13}
Sources/Archives (13)
- <01> SLI2745 Index: OS CARD INDEX. SPILSBY. TF 36 NE:7, 1964, FH.
- <02> SLI4098 Scheduling Record: HBMC. 1970. AM 7. SAM 243.
- <03> SLI887 Bibliographic Reference: William White. 1872. History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire - Third Edition. p.177.
- <04> SLI896 Bibliographic Reference: J. Charles Cox. 1924. Little Guide: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). p.282.
- <05> SLI893 Bibliographic Reference: C.W. Foster and T. Longley. 1924. Lincolnshire Domesday and Lindsey Survey. Vol 19, p. lxxvi.
- <06> SLI175 Aerial Photograph: J.K.S. St Joseph. 1945-79. Cambridge University Collection. FV28-30, 1951.
- <07> SLI1062 Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). p.681.
- <08> SLI68 Article in Monograph: MARJORAM, J.. 1984. A PROSPECT OF LINCOLNSHIRE. pp.79-88.
- <09> SLI44 Artefact: 1970. CITY AND COUNTY MUSEUM COLLECTION 1970. LCNCC 131.70.
- <10> SLI3613 Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TF39 65: LI.98.2.1-2, 1993.
- <11> SLI193 Aerial Photograph: 1946-98. RCHME. 5166/11.
- <12> SLI7137 Scheduling Record: English Heritage. 11/10/2001. Eresby Hall: the remains of a post-medieval house and gardens overlying a medieval manor house. SAM 33133.
- <13> SLI13348 Bibliographic Reference: Robert Pacey. 2010. Lost Lincolnshire Country Houses - Volume 6. pp.1-6.
Map
Location
Grid reference | Centred TF 3961 6556 (550m by 1159m) |
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Civil Parish | SPILSBY, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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