Swythamley Park |
| Hob Uid: 78063 | |
Location :
Staffordshire
Staffordshire Moorlands
Heaton
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| Grid Ref : SJ9726064570 |
| Summary : Swythamley Park, formerly Swythamley Hall, is a 19th century mansion on the site of a Mediaeval grange of Dieulacres. The old house was burnt down in 1813 and nothing survives of the grange. The house is set in parkland. There is documentary evidence that the park was a deer park from the Elizabethan period , perhaps into the 19th century. |
More information : (SJ 97266457) Swythamley Hall (NAT) (1)
Swythamley was a Grange to Dieulacresse Abbey (SJ 95 NE 1) "The old part of the house was destroyed by fire on December 26 1813". (2)
Deer have always been kept at Swythamley and "the parkland" near it. (3)
Fenced with a high stone wall: formerly there were oak pales round one side. This park dates from the time of Henry VIII. (4)
The present house is almost entirely 19th c and no ancient work survives within it. It is now known as Swythamley Park. The wall to the modern park was erected in the 19th c; nothing is known of the earlier park.(a)
No evidence of antiquity was seen in the present house. No evidence of a medieval park was seen. (5)
Swthamley Park is a country mansion entirely of the 19th c. (6)
The Listed Building entry suggests that there was a hunting lodge here. However, since it was a grange in the Mediaeval period, it is unlikely that there would also have been a hunting lodge there in the Mediaeval period, although there may have been one in the Post-Mediaeval period. (7) |