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The Polebarn Hotel in Trowbridge, Wiltshire (formerly Polebarn House) is a building of historical significance and is Grade II * listed on the Historic England Register.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title= Name: POLEBARN HOUSE WITH BRICK BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATES List entry Number: 1021632 ) 〕 It was built in 1789 by John Clark, a local textile mill owner and clergyman. It passed through successive generations of the Clark family until it was sold by auction in about 1920 to Wiltshire County Council, who used it firstly for Children's Services and later as flats. The house became a hotel in 1978. ==John and Catherine Clark== Reverend John Clark (1746-1808) was born in Frome, Somerset in 1746. His father John Clark (1702-1780) had business interests in several fields. He owned a brewery in Frome, a clothier business in Trowbridge and also had half shares in several ships.〔Beckinsale, R. P. “The Trowbridge Woollen Industry” Wiltshire Record Society, Vol 6, 1951, p. ix.〕 The Clark clothier firm in Trowbridge was almost exclusively concerned with the manufacture of cloth from fine Spanish merino wool. John took over this business and greatly extended it. It stretched from Rockley in Wiltshire to Kintbury in Berkshire where he had a dye house and to the many villages in the Avon Valley near Trowbridge. He frequently went to London to sell his cloth which he describes in his memoirs. He became interested in religion and was the first pastor of the Tabernacle Church in Trowbridge which he helped to establish. He also was interested in music and was described by one historian as a “man of deep piety, a musician of no mean order and a fair poet. He was versed in astronomy and had his own observatory at his residence Polebarn House where he built and installed an organ.〔Goodrich, P. J. 1932 “Goodrich and its times”, p. 67〕 John married Catherine Norris in 1779 in Bath. John’s father died the following year in 1780 and he and his brother Joseph inherited considerable wealth. Joseph Clark died in 1793 and John invited his widow and her two sons John and Thomas to come to live with him and his family at Polebank House.〔Beckinsale, R. P. “The Trowbridge Woollen Industry” Wiltshire Record Society, Vol 6, 1951, p. x.〕 In 1801 when his nephews came of age he made them apprentices in the firm and agreed to give them a substantial amount of money after three years if they wished to go into partnership with each other. They did this and formed the company J and T Clark which was a successful clothier business in Trowbridge for many years. In 1808 John died and his wife Catherine continued to live at Polebarn House until she died in 1826. After this their only son John Norris Clark inherited the property.〔Will of John Clark 1809.〕 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「The Polebarn Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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