Halsway Manor
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| Town | Halsway |
| Country | England |
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| Completion date | 15th century |
Halsway Manor is a manor house in Halsway, Somerset, now used as England's National Centre for Traditional Music, Dance and Song. It is the only residential folk centre in the UK.
The eastern end of the building dates from the fifteenth century; the western end is a nineteenth-century addition.[1] The manor, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book, was built by Cardinal Beaufort as a hunting lodge.[2] At one point it was occupied by insurrectionist Jack Cade.[2] Thereafter it was a family home until the mid 1960s,[3] when it became the folk music centre. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.[4]
In 1859, John Henry Parker wrote in his Account of Domestic Architecture:
The front is nearly perfect, with a parapet battlemented and enriched with quatre-foil panels, two projections having also battlements and pinnacles, a bay-window, and a good small chimney, some curious gargoyles, and a good bell-cot. The front is long and low, and has three doorways; the hall forms only a small part of the house.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ History of the Manor. Halsway Manor. Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
- ^ a b John Lloyd Warden (1895). An Exploration of Exmoor and the Hill Country of West Somerset: With Notes. Seeley & Co., Ltd..
- ^ About Halsway Manor. Pictures of England. Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
- ^ Halsway Manor. Images of England. Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
- ^ John Henry Parker (1859). Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard ii. to Henry vii.. Oxford.
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