Winster Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Winster , Derbyshire .
8-682: The original hall was said to have been built between 1628 and 1629 for Francis Moore, a proprietor of several local lead mines. The stone used in the construction is said to have come from the Stancliffe quarries in Darley Dale, being transported on pack horses. The hall was rebuilt by the Moore family around 1720. It passed by marriage to the D’Ewes Cokes, and then to the Maxwells, by whom it
16-531: A few more years and the hall was again up for sale in 1896. It was lived in by William Marsland until 1903 and then his widow until 1926 when it was sold for £750 (equivalent to £55,000 in 2023) to Mr. Butler of Wingfield. In the 1970s the hall became Winster Hall Hotel run by Derek and Pauline Wood, but this closed in 1999. It reverted to a private dwelling and is let out as a self-catering holiday let. John Joseph Briggs John Joseph Briggs (6 March 1819 – 23 March 1876), naturalist and topographer,
24-829: The Midland counties of archaeological and antiquarian interest. His History of Melbourne included references to Robin Hood , John Wesley 's early journeys and how the Duke of Bourbon was imprisoned in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI . He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and a member of the British Archaeological Association . In 1869 he married Hannah Soar of Chellaston . Shortly before his death he had retired upon an ample competency, but his health failed, and he died at
32-727: The Rev. Solomon Saxon, of Darley Dale . He was apprenticed to Mr. Bemrose, the head of the printing firm of William Bemrose & Sons, Derby , but ill-health compelled him to give up his indoor occupation, and continue his ancestors' occupation of farming at Elms Farm in Kings Newton. He became the faithful chronicler of the seasons, and recorded all the facts and occurrences coming within his observation during at least thirty years. He kept these notes carefully bound in manuscript volumes, and shortly before his death they were announced as ready for publication. He utilised his notes regularly in
40-558: The location of an early performance of a mummers play by the Winster Guisers from a photograph taken ca. 1870. In 1880 the hall was sold to Messrs Heathcote Brothers, who converted it into a hydropathic institution. However, this business was not successful, and it was put up for sale in 1882. It was purchased by Captain Tom George Metcalfe in 1883 who owned it until his death in 1890. His widow lived there for
48-566: The magazine The Field , in which as early as 1855 he had originated "The Naturalists" column,' and entered into correspondence with the leading naturalists of the time. In 1863 he was in correspondence with Charles Darwin concerning the regrowth of fishes' fins. His notes in the Zoologist , Critic , Reliquary , Sun , Derby Reporter , and Leicestershire Guardian (edited by his old schoolmaster, Mr. Potter), were full of picturesque descriptions of nature and sketches of places and objects in
56-511: Was born in the village of Kings Newton (or King's Newton), Derbyshire on 6 March 1819. His father, John Briggs, who married his cousin, Mary Briggs, was born and resided for 88 years on the same farm, at Kings Newton, which had been the freehold of his ancestors for three centuries. In 1828, John went to the boarding school of Thomas Rossell Potter , the historian of Charnwood Forest at Wymeswold in Leicestershire , and in 1833 to
64-467: Was sold in 1873 to John Joseph Briggs the naturalist. Until the construction of the Vicarage, the hall was occupied by the various incumbents of Winster, notably, Revd. Shirley, Revd. Harvey, Revd. Dyke and Revd. George Mason. Whilst in the ownership of John Joseph Briggs , it was occupied by Llewellynn Jewitt from 1867 to 1880, the eminent antiquary and archaeologist. The hall is noted as being
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