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Rushall Hall
In the civil parish of Walsall.
In the historic county of Staffordshire (Modern Authority of Walsall, 1974 county of West Midlands).
C19 house incorporating an older building including C16 gatehouse and C14 wall and moat. Partly demolished circa 1830-40. Curtain walls of c1300 with gatehouse of c1500, incorporating gateway of c1300, with second floor added and windows altered c1600, partly demolished c1830-40. Gatehouse of limestone rubble with some sandstone dressings and brick flues. One storey, with lower part of first floor walls surviving and with part of south wall surviving to above second floor level. West wall battered, with string course above chamfered gateway with segmental arch. Above the arch, and below the lower part of a blocked window opening, is the carved shield of arms of the Harpur family, who owned Rushall Hall from 1430 until 1540. The east wall has a gateway chamfered in two orders, with segmental arch and hood. Interior: the passageway has a rubble barrel- vault. In the north-east corner is a circular stair to the first floor. In the south wall is a, chamfered fireplace with shallow segmental head. At the upper level the south wall has two moulded fireplaces, formerly serving the first and-the second floors. In the north-west corner are the remains of a garderobe. The curtain walls are of limestone rubble and enclose a rectangular area of 5383 square metres used as a garden. They survive to a height of over 6m and are mostly crenellated. At the north-west corner of the site they are incorporated into Rushall New Hall. Fireplaces, presumably heating now-demolished buildings inside the enclosure, are built into the walls. They are chamfered, with canted herds and some brick dressings: to each side of the gatehouse one is visible, and there is a further one in the south wall.
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 219101)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP02559989
PastScape number;
329433
Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p431
Salter, Mike, 1997, Castles and Moated Mansions of Staffordshire (Malvern) p40-1
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p229
Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p66 [plan]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p453
Pevsner, N., 1974, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire (London, Penguin) p295
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Page, Wm (ed), 1908, VCH Staffordshire Vol1 p366
Willmore, 1892, Records of Rushall (Walsall) p6, 29-30
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p234-5
Shaw, Stebbing, 1801, The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire (J.Nichols abd Son) [Republished 1976 by EP Publishing] Vol2 p62-6
Journal Articles
- Larkham, P.J., 1983, Moated Sites Research Group report Vol10 p31
Larkham, P.J., 1982-3, Transactions of the South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol24 p15,20
Barker, N.J., 1981-2, Transactions of the South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol23 p79-99
Youngs, S.M. and Clark, J., 1981, ‘Medieval Britain in 1980’, Medieval Archaeology Vol25 p219
Hammer, M., 1974, Staffordshire Archaeological studies, [new ser] Vol3 p40
Palliser, D.M., 1972, 'Staffordshire Castles: A Provisional List' Staffordshire Archaeology Vol1 p5-8
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