Burneside Hall
Encyclopedia
Burneside Hall is a converted medieval pele tower in Burneside
, Cumbria
, England
.
The Bellinghams remained the owners until Burnaldeshede 'Castle' was seized by the King in 1461, when Henry Bellingham was attanted for treason, and it was held by the Parr family until Bellingham's general pardon in 1480. During the 1530s it was sold by the Bellinghams to Sir Thomas Clifford, and passed from him to John Fitzwilliam, who in 1552 sold it to John Machell of Kendal and London (Sheriff of London 1555-6). His heirs sold it to the Braithwaite family, who retained it for the next seven generations. During the early 17th century it was the home of the poet Richard Brathwaite. A two-story gatehouse at the front of the property was built in the late-16th or 17th century, with a relatively substantial barmkin
wall, 6 feet (2 metres) thick in places, erected around it. The original open hall was converted into smaller rooms in the 17th century, and additional windows added. The second tower was rebuilt in the 18th century and effectively destroyed in the process. In the late 19th-century, Stephen Brunskill inherited the property and conducted some restoration work on the medieval parts of the property.
considered the Burnside Hall pele tower to be formally at risk of slow decay.
Burneside
Burneside is a small village in South Lakeland in Cumbria, England. It is located to the north of Kendal and to the south east of Staveley, on the River Kent, just upstream from the confluence of the River Sprint...
, Cumbria
Cumbria
Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
History
Documentary records for Burneside Hall extend to 1290, when a property was owned on the site by Gilbert Burneshead, the Under-Sheriff of Westmorland. Richard Bellingham, a member of an influential Northumberland family, married Burneshead's daughter, acquiring the site. Burneside Hall in its current form was originally built in the second half of the 14th century by the Bellingham family.The medieval heart of Burneside Hall was a pair of pele towers, linked by a large, open hall. Only one of these towers still remains, three storeys tall but badly ruined, measuring 20 feet by 35 feet (6 metres by 11 metres). This tower was originally the buttery and pantry, forming the service end of the castle. The second tower was of similar height to the first, but narrower; it was rebuilt in the 18th century and effectively destroyed.The Bellinghams remained the owners until Burnaldeshede 'Castle' was seized by the King in 1461, when Henry Bellingham was attanted for treason, and it was held by the Parr family until Bellingham's general pardon in 1480. During the 1530s it was sold by the Bellinghams to Sir Thomas Clifford, and passed from him to John Fitzwilliam, who in 1552 sold it to John Machell of Kendal and London (Sheriff of London 1555-6). His heirs sold it to the Braithwaite family, who retained it for the next seven generations. During the early 17th century it was the home of the poet Richard Brathwaite. A two-story gatehouse at the front of the property was built in the late-16th or 17th century, with a relatively substantial barmkin
Barmkin
Barmkin, also spelled barmekin or barnekin, is a Scots word which refers to a form of medieval and later defensive enclosure, typically found around smaller castles, tower houses, pele towers, and bastle houses in Scotland, and the north of England. It has been suggested that etymologically the...
wall, 6 feet (2 metres) thick in places, erected around it. The original open hall was converted into smaller rooms in the 17th century, and additional windows added. The second tower was rebuilt in the 18th century and effectively destroyed in the process. In the late 19th-century, Stephen Brunskill inherited the property and conducted some restoration work on the medieval parts of the property.
Today
Burneside Hall is a Grade II* listed building; as of 2010, English HeritageEnglish Heritage
English Heritage . is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
considered the Burnside Hall pele tower to be formally at risk of slow decay.
Biliography
- Emery, Anthony. (1996) Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Northern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521497237.
- Jones, Thomas. (1912) The History of Burneside. Kendal, UK: Atkinson and Politt.
- Pettifer, Adrian. (2002) English Castles: a Guide by Counties. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 9780851157825.
External link
- The memorial chapel of Sir Roger Bellingham (of Burneside, d. 1533) at Holy Trinity church, Kendal, with Bellingham Heraldry, now the memorial chapel of The Border Regiment.