Samlesbury Hall
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 Location within the Borough of South Ribble
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| General information | |
| Location | Samlesbury, Lancashire |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 53°46′10″N 2°34′22″W / 53.7695°N 2.5727°WCoordinates: 53°46′10″N 2°34′22″W / 53.7695°N 2.5727°W |
| Completed | 1325 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Gilbert de Southworth |
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Listed Building – Grade I
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| Designated | 25 July 1952 |
| Reference no. | 1361389 |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name | Lodge to Samlesbury Hall |
| Designated | 27 February 1984 |
| Reference no. | 1074096 |
Samlesbury Hall is a historic house in Samlesbury, Lancashire, England, 6 miles (10 km) east of Preston. It was built in 1325 by Gilbert de Southworth (b. 1270) and was the primary home of the Southworth family until the early 17th century.
Samlesbury Hall may have been built to replace an earlier building destroyed during a raid by the Scots, during The Great Raid of 1322. The hall has been many things in its past including a public house and a girls' boarding school, but since 1925, when it was saved from being demolished for its timber, it has been administered by a registered charitable trust, the Samlesbury Hall Trust. This Grade I listed medieval manor house attracts more than 50,000 visitors each year.
Samlesbury Hall is open to the public daily except on Saturdays.
Before being owned by the Southworths, Samlesbury manor belonged to the d'Ewyas family.
Gilbert de Southworth of Warrington acquired half of the manor by marriage to Alice d'Ewyas and is credited with building the Great Hall around 1325. His great-grandson Thomas built the south-west wing. Southworth descendants held their part of the manor until 1677–78, when it was sold by Edward Southworth to Thomas Bradyll. Bradyll never lived at the hall but stripped much of its interior features to use at his main house of Conishead Priory at Ulverston. He then rented the hall out to handloom weavers before it was converted into the Bradyll Arms inn in 1830. The next owner was John Cooper, who bought the building in 1850 and leased it as a boarding school for girls being taught according to the Montessori system.
Joseph Harrison, of Galligreaves Hall, a prominent Blackburn industrialist, substantially renovated the Hall after he bought it in November 1862. William Harrison, Joseph’s eldest son, lived at the Hall until 1879 when he committed suicide. A fall on the ice in January of that year caused traumatic injuries to William’s brain and a leg, resulting in extreme depression. His father, Joseph Harrison, died the next year at Galligreaves Hall, 18 February 1880, "after a prolonged illness". Ownership of the Hall then passed to Joseph’s youngest son, Henry, who resided in Blackburn. He was mayor of Blackburn in 1880–81 and became an Honorary Freeman of the Borough.
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