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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 firs , and in front a very extensive hill is covered with firs 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 Thomas Shaw inhabiting the service wing . Calvert had moved on by 1797 , however , when the role was taken over by Matthew Ellison , who first re-named the house Glossop Hall .
The Ellisons were a Staffordshire family and Matthew had three sons , one , Francis , adopted , and four daughters . Whilst the eldest , Thomas 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 Hadfield of Lees Hall nearby and their son was Matthew Ellison Hadfield , of whom more anon .
Bernard Edward FitzAlan-Howard was in occasional residence in 1815 when he succeeded a distant cousin as 12th Duke of Norfolk . At first , having inherited the house , he extended and remodelled it to the designs of London based family architect Robert Abraham ( 1774- 1850 ). This consisted of extending northwards a further five 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 fine 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 finials .
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 satisfied 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 Hadfield ( 1812- 1885 ) as architect .
Hadfield had been articled to Woodhead
and Hurst of Sheffield before working for P F Robinson in London . He returned to Sheffield 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 Hadfields 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
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44a Charles Street , Leabrooks , Derbyshire DE55 1LZ own residence in the town . Hadfield 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 Hadfield ( 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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