Ruins Of The Medieval Thornhill Hall In Moated Enclosure, In Rectory Grounds is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1949. Ruins.
Ruins Of The Medieval Thornhill Hall In Moated Enclosure, In Rectory Grounds
- WRENN ID
- rusted-screen-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1949
- Type
- Ruins
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DEWSBURY CB CHURCH LANE SE 21 NE (Thornhill) SE 256 189
6/29 Ruins of the medieval Thornhill Hall in moated 30/6/49 enclosure, in Rectory grounds
II
Fragments of a manor house. 1450. The moat, also 1450 is still well filled with water. The ruins comprise a fire-place of rubble, lined in brickwork, and part of a wall containing the sill of a large 2-light window and part of the moulded surround. Two, much erroded, limestone eagles on the edge of the water moved in the C19 but said to have been on the site of the gatehouse to the hall.
In August 1648 troops of Lady Anne Savile, under Capt. Thos. Paulden defended the hall against the Parliamentary forces under Col. Sir Thos. Fairfax. They were forced to surrender but the hall was accidentally blown up and destroyed.
B. Nuttall, A History of Thornhill, 1970.
Listing NGR: SE2563518920
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