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- Linden Hall was built in as a family residence in 1812 by merchant, banker and former High Sherriff of Northumberland, Charles William Bigge, but the design and construction were overseen by his close friend Sir Charles Monck, who was elected to Parliament to represent Northumberland in 1812.
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In 1813 he built a mansion house on the estate for his own occupation. He retained his friend, Sir Charles Monck, an amateur architect with a keen interest in the Greek Revival style, to design the new house with the assistance of the then newly qualified architect John Dobson. He named the new house after an adjacent stream.
- The Horsley Tower
- The Catholic Church of St. Thomas
- St. Helen's Church of England
- New Church of St. Helen and The Old School
- The Catholic School
- The New School
- The Belmont Building and The Mission
- Thomas Bell and The Be-Ro Works
- The Heroic Story of Emily Wilding Davison
- Cecil Phillip Taylor
The Horsleys gradually increased in possessions and influence and early acquired knightly Rank. It was on their behalf and doubtless by them that the tower of Longhorsley, now-a-days known as the Pele Tower, was built, probably as late as the reign of Henry VII. The existing building is a fine specimen of a strongly fortified tower of the fifteenth...
Edward Widdrington II son of Edward Widdrington I and Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Horsley, married Elizabeth daughter of the third Lord Molyneaux. She left, in her will, a sum of money for the Catholic Church in Longhorsley for the maintenance and support of a priest being of the society of Jesus for ever after in the parish of Longhorsley. The new...
The first Church of England Church was built in a field known as Ellege about a half a mile south of the village. It is not known exactly why it was built so far away from the village as no traces of buildings show that a village ever stood near it. A possible answer to this could be that the sandstone is very close to the surface in the village an...
At a meeting of the vicar, the church wardens and the principle inhabitants of two of the quarters belonging to Longhorsley, on the 18 July 1751, it was unanimously agreed that a new school should be built. A draft was immediately drawn up to show which people were required to bring certain materials for the building. This was built on the west sid...
Louis Eric Ames of Linden had a Catholic school built in Longhorsley, about the time of the early 1880's possibly in memory of his wife Sarah Elizabeth. The stone for this came from a quarry in the area opposite to the site on which it was built. Rutherford the mason quarried the stone and he built the school himself. This school closed at about th...
The new Church of England first school was built and first used in 1966 when the old school became the church. It is larger than the other one, with a total of three class rooms now all being used although there were times when only two were used as there were not enough children attending. The school was nearly closed down at one point but since t...
Where the Newsagents shop now stands two old cottages once stood. These buildings were bought by Mrs. Ann Bell in 1875, to make way for the Belmont building. Even to this day foundation stones from the original cottages are still visible in front of the shop. Belmont is the house where Longhorsley Mission began. It provided an upper room where Chri...
Before the new shop was built Ann Bell's husband, William ran a grocery business from a small shop just across from the two cottages until he died in 1854, then Ann continued to keep it going assisted by her second son, Robert, until the Belmont building was built in 1875. In the shop flour was sold, possibly that which was ground at the village Mi...
The Shop across the Road from the Newsagent's shop, also has a famous background. In 1913, on a fine morning of May, a telegram boy knocked on the door of the stone built corner shop, now the village Post Office. The Post Office message was addressed to the most militant suffragette in England, Emily Wilding Davison. This telegram was to result in ...
Emily Davison is not the only well known person who resided in the village of Longhorsley. Cecil Phillip Taylor was born in Glasgow on 6th November 1929. He was Educated at Queens Park Secondary School, Glasgow. He married Irene Diamond in 1955 and had two Children, Avram and Clare, from this marriage. Then in 1967 he married Elisabeth Screen, and ...
Sir Charles was so taken by Greece that he based aspects of Belsay Hall on the Temple of Theseus. He later extended his parkland and demolished the old village of Belsay. Extraction of the...
It was built as country house for Newcastle merchant and banker Charles William Bigge in 1813, designed by Sir Charles Monck, assisted by John Dobson who had recently qualified and went on the become a renowned architect.
Begun in 1807, it was designed by Sir Charles Monck (formerly Middleton), a man inspired by Ancient Greece and the buildings he had seen on his honeymoon in Athens. Yet despite its austere façade, it had a comfortable interior, arranged round its amazing central two-storey 'Pillar Hall.'
Sep 19, 2016 · Linden Hall was originally a mansion house and the family home of Charles William Bigge. It is of historical significance as it is a fine example of Georgian architecture and a Grade II listed building. Bigge was a successful Newcastle banker. He enlisted the services of Sir Charles Monck in its design.
