In 1827 the diarist James Butterworth visited the
area and wrote:
‘At a small distance from the village stands an
ancient building called Royle Hall, but now
named Glossop Hall. It serves as a retreat
during the shooting season, there being plenty
of game here; Round it are planted large fi rs,
and in front a very extensive hill is covered
with fi rs of many years growth, through
which are pleasant roads.’
And by the 1780s the house was only
permanently inhabited by the rather aristocratic
agent Charles Calvert with the estate bailiff
Th omas Shaw inhabiting the service wing.
Calvert had moved on by 1797, however, when
the role was taken over by Matthew Ellison, who
fi rst re-named the house Glossop Hall.
Th e Ellisons were a Staff ordshire family and
Matthew had three sons, one, Francis, adopted,
and four daughters. Whilst the eldest, Th omas
sired a long line of Glossop solicitors, and
Frank founded a mill in the town, later living
at Park Hall, Michael succeeded as agent at the
Hall and he by his son, Michael Joseph Ellison.
Meanwhile, one of the daughters, Mary, had
married Joseph Hadfi eld of Lees Hall nearby
and their son was Matthew Ellison Hadfi eld, of
whom more anon.
and Hurst of Sheffi eld before working for P F
Robinson in London. He returned to Sheffi eld
to set up in practice in 1832, taken John Grey
Weightman as partner. One of their early works
is the parish church at Matlock Bath and another
is the Catholic church of All Saints at Glossop
for, like their masters, the Ellisons and Hadfi elds
were devout Catholics. Two years later he built
the Town Hall, followed by the Market Hall and
the handsome railway station with its Howard
lion, a number of other commercial buildings
and a small number of domestic properties were
also designed by him over the years, including his
own residence in the town. Hadfi eld designed
a large number of Catholic churches, too, for
Lord Howard was keen to spearhead a great
Catholic revival in the vast area of his estate
and beyond. To his credit stand St. Charles
Borromeo, at Hadfi eld (1858) – burial place of
quite a large number of Lord Howard’s family in
the 19th century - two in Manchester (St. Chad,
Cheetham Hill of 1847 and St. Mary, Mulberry
Street of the following year), and the particularly
satisfying St. Mary, Hallam built in 1850. He
also designed Salford’s Catholic cathedral and
much of the early Victorian commercial heart of
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Bernard Edward FitzAlan-Howard was in
occasional residence in 1815 when he succeeded
a distant cousin as 12th Duke of Norfolk. At
fi rst, having inherited the house, he extended
and remodelled it to the designs of London
based family architect Robert Abraham (1774-
1850). Th is consisted of extending northwards a
further fi ve bays, the extension to include a new,
grander, staircase, but it was done in matching
style, complete with attic dormers and banding
between the storeys and of small limestone
ashlars with millstone grit dressings. Abraham
also provided a fi ne new pedimented stable block
set around a courtyard, to the west of the house,
embellished with a Wren-like tower and walling
replete with rusticated piers topped with ball
fi nials.
On the Duke’s death in 1842, the estate went to
his second son, Lord Edward FitzAlan-Howard,
later (1869) created 1st Lord Howard of
Glossop. Not satisfi ed with the house his father
had created, he decided to embellish the whole
starting in 1850, and this time employing his
agent’s cousin, Matthew Ellison Hadfi eld (1812-
1885) as architect.
Hadfi eld had been articled to Woodhead
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