Norbury Manor

Coordinates: 52°58′39″N 1°49′8″W / 52.97750°N 1.81889°W / 52.97750; -1.81889

Norbury church and hall

Norbury Manor is a 15th-century Elizabethan manor house and the adjoining 13th-century stone-built medieval Norbury Hall, known as The Old Manor in Norbury near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a Grade I listed building.^[1]

The manor was owned by the Fitzherbert family from the 12th century and the manor house built by William Fitzherbert in the mid-14th century is remarkably well preserved. The Old Manor is noted for its architectural features including a rare king post, medieval fireplace, a Tudor door and some 17th-century Flemish glass.

The adjoining Tudor house was built by Ralph Fitzherbert in the mid-15th century and rebuilt in about 1680, but retains many of the original features.

The accompanying gardens include a parterre herb garden.

The Hall was badly damaged by Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War and after the death of Sir John Fitzherbert in 1649 was in a ruinous state and fell into disuse.

On the death of John Fitzherbert in 1649 the estate passed to his cousin William Fitzherbert of Swynnerton Hall, Staffordshire who rebuilt the Tudor portion of the property in about 1680.

The Fitzherberts sold the estate in 1881. The Hall has been owned by the National Trust since 1987 and is currently used as holiday accommodation,^[2] having previously been let to tenants.^[3] The Old Manor, however, is open to the public on Friday mornings and Saturday afternoons during the summer.^[4]

Junior branches of the Fitzherbert family had seats at Tissington Hall and Somersal Herbert Hall.

References

Alabaster memorial to Ralph Fitzherbert (d. 1483) in the church

• A History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland , Volume 1 (1835) John Burke pp 78–82 (ISBN 978-0-8063-0742-8)

External links

• The Old Manor information at the National Trust
• Fitzherbert Derbyshire Seats