Study Tours
STUDY DAY AT BARLBOROUGH HALL, DERBYSHIRE
10.30am, Saturday 24th July 2010
Barlborough Hall was built for Sir Francis Rodes (1530? - 1588), a successful lawyer, who became a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1585. The house was almost certainly designed by Robert Smythson and built c. 1582-85 - the date 1583 appears on the porch and 1584 on the chimney piece in the Great Chamber. Though no documentary evidence for Smythson’s authorship survives and no drawings for Barlborough exist amongst the Smythson Drawing Collection, Rodes’ known association with the Earl of Shrewsbury and the building’s similarity to other Smythson designs does strongly suggest that he was the designer. The house was altered in the late 17th century for Sir John Rodes, the date 1697 appears on the overmantel in the hall, and then again in the 1820s for the Rev. Cornelius Heathcote Reaston Rodes by Woodhead & Hurst of Doncaster. In 1938 Barlborough Hall was purchased by Fr. R Baines and the buildings were adapted by the Jesuits as a preparatory school. Barlborough Hall remains the preparatory school to the nearby Mount St. Mary College, Spinkhill, Derbyshire.
Pete Smith will lead the study day with the assistance of local historian, Tony Bak.
Tickets, priced £25 (£15 students), including morning coffee, lunch and tea, are available from Pete Smith, 17, Villa Road, Nottingham NG3 4GG. Please make your cheques payable to SAHGB and enclose a STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE.