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Baguley Hall: the survival of Pre-Conquest building traditions in the fourteenth century1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

J. T. Smith  and
C. F. Stell
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The timber-framed houses of south Lancashire and Cheshire first became familiar to antiquaries through the publication between 1851 and 1859 of Turner and Parker's Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages. In 1884 the architect Henry Taylor produced a more extended study entitled Old Halls in Lancashire and Cheshire that remains today the best general account of the subject. Subsequently the only important addition to knowledge was the detailed description of the Lancashire halls for the Victoria County History, published between 1906 and 1914. Thereafter little work has been done on them, and certainly nothing comparable to the studies of timber-framed buildings in Sussex, Essex, or the midlands. As a group these northern houses are remarkable for their heavy timbering and a contrasted ‘black-and-white’ effect which is more marked than anywhere else in England.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 3-4 , October 1960 , pp. 131 - 151
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1960

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