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Bank Hall is a Jacobean mansion in Bretherton, Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II * listed building. The hall was built on the site of an older house in 1608 by the Banastres who were lords of the manor. The hall was extended during the 18th and 19th centuries. Extensions were built for George Anthony Legh Keck in 1832–1833, to the design of the architect George Webster. Legh Keck died in 1860 and the estates passed to Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford. The contents were auctioned in 1861 and the hall used as a holiday home and later leased to tenants. During the Second World War the Royal Engineers used it as a control centre. After the war the estate was returned to the Lilfords whose estate offices moved to the east wing of the house until 1972 when the house was vacated. The building was used as a location for the 1969 film ''The Haunted House of Horror''. The house was vandalised causing rapid deterioration. In 1995 the Bank Hall Action Group was formed to raise public awareness, collect funds, host events, and clear the overgrown grounds. In 2003 Bank Hall featured in the BBC's Restoration television series. Since 2006 the action group and Urban Splash have planned to restore the house as apartments retaining the gardens, entrance hall and clock tower for public access and the Heritage Trust for the North West (HTNW) plans to renovate the potting sheds and walled gardens. ==History== For centuries Bank Hall was the manorial home of a branch of the Banastres, lords of the manor descended from the Norman Roger de Banastre, who built a motte and bailey castle at Prestatyn in about 1164. In 1167 the Banastres fled when Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, destroyed the castle and the family escaped to Cheshire and Lancashire.〔Lopez, N (2009) "Robert Banastre", http://cybergata.com/roots/3619.htm〕〔Medieval Mosaic Ltd "The Battle Abbey Roll. With some account of the Norman lineages. Vol I, Banastre" http://www.1066.co.nz/library/battle_abbey_roll1/subchap56.htm 2007〕〔Jeffrey L. Thomas, "Prestatyn Castle" http://www.castlewales.com/prestyn.html 2009〕〔CastleUK.Net, "Prestatyn Castle", http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_wales/116/prestatyncastle.htm 2009〕 In 1315 Sir Adam Banastre, who had extensive landholdings elsewhere in the county, led the Banastre Rebellion against Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, and was summarily beheaded at Charnock Richard when the rebellion failed. A structure from the time of Elizabeth I is recorded on Christopher Saxton's map from 1579. In 1608 the Banastres built the first phase of the present hall and demolished the old building. The hall was constructed to a Jacobean style, rectangular in plan with two rooms to the east, a room and staircase to the west and a grand hall in the centre containing a screen and fireplace. It is possible that there may have been a timber structure where the east wing stands and other wooden wings that were replaced as the house was extended. Recorded in the 1666 Hearth tax, of the 99 hearths in Bretherton, Bank Hall had 12.〔 The last of the Banastres, Christopher who was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1670, died in 1690 leaving two daughters. The property was inherited by the eldest, Anne who married Thomas Fleetwood. He planned to drain the surrounding marsh lands.〔Lofthouse, J. (1972) "Lancashire's Old Families", Fleetwoods and Heskeths, Pg 121〕 He made the first unsuccessful attempt to drain Martin Mere in 1692. In 1714 the channel was improved and floodgates kept back the high tides.〔Rev. W. T. Bulpit, "Notes on Southport and District" http://www.heskethbank.com/history/bulpit/bulpittltn.html 1908〕 Their daughter, Henrietta Maria, married Thomas Legh of Lyme Park and the estate passed to the Leghs.〔 In 1719 Henrietta Maria Legh donated land on which to build St Mary's Church, Tarleton. George Anthony Legh Keck moved from Stoughton Grange in Leicestershire on inheriting the estate. He was the last resident owner and commissioned a Kendal architect, George Webster, to extend the hall in 1832–1833.〔Bank Hall Action Group, "Bank Hall Record Book" http://www.bankhall.org.uk/documents/BHAG.pdf 2010〕 Legh Keck collected stuffed animals and birds and horns from animal from around the world. He owned a collection of classical style statuettes and casts of figures by the sculptor Antonio Canova. In April 1861, a year after Legh Keck's death, the hall's contents were sold at auction. A catalogue survives and lists the items by room.〔Bank Hall Action Group, "Bank Hall Auction Catalogue −1861", 2005〕 The house and estate passed to his brother-in-law, Thomas Littleton Powys, fourth Baron Lilford,〔'Townships: Atherton', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 (1907), pp. 435–439. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41363&strquery=Bank hall Date accessed: 7 August 2010.〕 whose family seat was Lilford Hall in Northamptonshire.〔Lilford Hall, "Biography of 3rd Baron Lilford" http://www.lilfordhall.com/3rd-Baron-Lilford.asp 2010〕 Bank Hall was used as a holiday home by the Lilfords until 1899. The estate remains part of the Lilford Estates and is managed by a land agent, Acland Bracewell in Tarleton.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bank Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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