Wiverton Hall

Has been described as a Possible Fortified Manor House

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

NameWiverton Hall
Alternative NamesWelton; Warton
Historic CountryNottinghamshire
Modern AuthorityNottinghamshire
1974 AuthorityNottinghamshire
Civil ParishWiverton

Small 19th century country house, built as a gatehouse in the late 15th century. It was converted in 1814 in Tudor Revival Style: ashlar with 19th century rendered brickwork and a hipped slate roof. Wiverton Hall was destroyed during the Civil War. The attached chapel of St Lawrence, now vanished, was in ruins in 1677. (PastScape)

Built by Thomas Chaworth about 1448. All except the gatehouse was destroyed in the Civil War. The gatehouse was standing in 1905, having been incorporated into the modern house (Musters 1903; 1904).

The hall was burned after the rebellion.

Sir Thomas Chaworth's large new manor house was built c.1448. A plan of John Smithson shows an extensive complex of manor house buildings to which the then owner George Chaworth wished to make some alterations. The building complex covered about 0.4 of an acre behind the present Hall. The whole complex was pulled down and ruined by Parliamentarians in 1645, with the exception of the gatehouse. (Coleman 1979) Taking the other areas of archaeological interest into account such as the moat to the N and the site of the hall itself, perhaps the SAM area should be extended to include c 3Ha centring on the existing hall.

A stone quoin and foundations of the earlier building (identified with one shown on Smythson's plan) were found immediately beneath the SW corner of the present gable end (of the brick cottage) (Lindsey Archaeological Service). (Nottinghamshire HER)

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number
Historic England Listed Building number(s)
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Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSK713363
Latitude52.9197692871094
Longitude-0.940469980239868
Eastings471300
Northings336300
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Books

  • Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 96
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 381 (possible)
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1951, Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire (London) p. 206-7
  • Mackenzie, J.D., 1896, Castles of England; their story and structure (New York: Macmillan) Vol. 1 p. 459-60 online copy
  • Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol. 3 Part 2 p. 225 online copy

Antiquarian

  • Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p. 351
  • Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1909, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (London: Bell and Sons) Vol. 4 p. 19 online copy

Journals

  • Wilkinson, Reginald Felix, 1942, 'The ruined and lost churches of Nottinghamshire' Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire Vol. 46 p. 69, 72
  • Musters, L.Chaworth, 1904, 'Some account of the family called in Latin Cadurcis, in French Chaources, and in English Chaworth' Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire Vol. 8 p. 71 online copy
  • Musters, L.Chaworth, 1903, 'Some account of the family called in Latin Cadurcis, in French Chaources, and in English Chaworth' Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire Vol. 7 p. 128-9, 133

Other

  • Naomi Field, 09/1990, Wiverton Hall Nottinghamshire. Geophysical Survey and Evaluation (Lindsey Archaeological Service)
  • Coleman, S.R., 1979, Archaeology and Landscape in the Vale of Belvoir - A survey, October 1978 - March 1979 p. 17-18 (Unpublished document).