Walton Hall (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Walton.
In the historic county of Yorkshire.
Modern Authority of Wakefield.
1974 county of West Yorkshire.
Medieval County of Yorkshire West Riding.

OS Map Grid Reference: SE36401630
Latitude 53.64201° Longitude -1.45081°

Walton Hall has been described as a probable Fortified Manor House.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law*.

Description

Site of manor house, built before 1333 and subsequently demolished. Only the medieval water gate survives. A licence to crenellate was granted 1333-4. The site is now occupied by a country house built 1767-8. (PastScape)

Water gate. Said to be medieval. Roughly-dressed well-coursed masonry largely overgrown by ivy. Central segmental archway with inner recess for doors leads to flight of 7 stone steps. Flanking central turrets from one of which it is said Oliver Cromwell fired the first swivel-cannon gun in England. The whole is surmounted by large carved wooden crucifix. (Listed Building Report)

A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1334 Feb 28 (Click on the date for details of this licence.).

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1005791, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number wy1168
National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1313226
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 52490.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 2096.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Wikipedia entry
  Waterton Park Hotel > http://www.watertonparkhotel.co.uk/]
Books
- Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 1 Northern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p. 421
  Le Patourel, H.E. Jean, 1973, The Moated Sites of Yorkshire (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 5) p. 129
  Pevsner, N., 1959, Buildings of England: Yorkshire: West Riding (London, Penguin) p. 528
  Walker, J.M., 1934, Wakefield, its History and People (West Yorkshire Printing Co.) p. 626-7
  Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol. 3 Part 2 p. 410 online copy
Periodical Articles
- Wilson, D.M. and Hurst, D.G., 1967, Medieval Archaeology Vol. 11 p. 301 download copy
  Brears, P.C.D., 1966, CBA Group 4 Newsletter p. 9
  Jewitt, L. and Smith, W., 1883, 'Notes on some early castles, manor houses, and homesteads of Yorkshire' Old Yorkshire Vol. 4 p. 113 online copy
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1893, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III (1330-34) Vol. 2 p. 519 online copy

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