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Brymbo Hall
Brymbo Hall, one of Britain's lost houses, was a manor house located near Brymbo outside the town of Wrexham, North Wales. The house, reputed to have been partly built to the designs of Inigo Jones,〔''Encyclopaedia Britannica'', vol 24, 1911, p.847〕 was noted as the residence of 18th-century industrialist and ironmaster John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson.
==Early history==
The estate was located on the upland moors around north-west of Wrexham. Its early history was relatively obscure, the deeds having been destroyed in a fire in 1794, though it was thought a house on the site had been constructed in the late 15th century for Edward ap Morgan ap Madoc, gentleman.〔Lowe, R. ''Lost Houses in Wrexham'', Landmark Publishing, 2008, p.18〕 Edward's son, Gruffydd, founded the locally-prominent Griffith family in the early 16th century, and a more modern house was built in 1624 for Edward's descendant John Griffith.
A persistent local tradition claimed that not only had Inigo Jones designed the 1624 building, but that he had been born at the old Brymbo Hall (little is recorded of Jones's early life but he is generally thought to have been born in London, though he was of Welsh descent).〔Jones, T. ''The last poems of Thomas Cambria Jones'', Ballantyne, 1865, p.42〕 However, a portico at the house dated 1624 was more firmly attributed to the architect,〔''The Red dragon: the national magazine of Wales'', vol 7 (1885), 7.〕 though it was later noted that the aedicular doorway was in fact a copy of Plate 158 in Sebastiano Serlio's Fourth Book, the ''Regole generali d'architettura'' (1537).〔Sherborn, D. ''An Inspector Recalls'', Book Guild, 2003, p.178〕 Jones was also considered to have designed the chapel set in the grounds of the house.〔 The main 1624 building was later extended by an eastern wing featuring a giant order of Doric pilasters.
In 1649 Brymbo Hall was acquired by Sir Richard Saltonstall, an early settler in New England, on his return to Britain.〔Moody, R. ''The Saltonstall papers, 1607-1815, Volume 80'', Massachusetts Historical Society, 1974, p.23〕 By the close of the 17th century it was again occupied by the Griffith family, being owned by Robert Griffith, Esq, who served as High Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1684-5. Robert's only son John matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1695, aged 18;〔''Chirk Castle Accounts, 1666-1753'' Manchester University Press, p.118n. Robert Griffith died in 1720, aged 78.〕 but appears to have died, without issue, before his parents, as the property was inherited by Robert's daughter Mary. As a highly marrieageable heiress, Mary married Robert Jeffreys of Acton Hall and after his death married again, to Richard Clayton of Lea Hall in Shropshire.〔''Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society'', Adnitt and Naunton, 1892, p.209〕 She then married a third time, to Arthur Owen, a member of the Owen family of Brogyntyn.〔The ''Register of Selattyn'' notes that Arthur Owen, Esq, and "widdow Clayton, of Brymbo" married in Selattyn on 14 January 1728.〕 Her daughter Jane Clayton married Watkin Wynne of Voelas; their daughter, Elizabeth Wynne, married Thomas Assheton Smith I.〔Assheton-Smith's father, Thomas Assheton (1725-1774), is stated to have married a Mary Clayton, "heiress of Brymbo Hall" (see Thorne, ''The House of Commons 1790-1820'', vol. 1, 1986 p.89); if Mary was another of Mary Griffith and Richard Clayton's daughters, Thomas Assheton Smith and his wife Elizabeth Wynne would have been cousins.〕 During the mid-18th century the estate was the subject of several lawsuits between relatives of Arthur Owen and Richard Clayton.
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