Ecclesfield Hall, 1967
The view from Ecclesfield Church tower before the development of Priory Close. The Priory and Ecclesfield Hall are in the foreground and Shroggs Wood and Whitley valley are in the background.
This five-bay hall was built as an extension to the Priory in 1736 to provide more commodious accommodation for a farm tenant. It replaced an earlier extension to the priory built in the Tudor period. The hall was the scene of strange accidental deaths in 1859 when the occupier, 80-year old Samuel Greaves, and his 76 year-old wife, Mary, died from the effects of eating monkshood which Mary had picked, it is assumed, thinking that the poisonous roots belonged to an edible vegetable.
Image Details
| Archiving Reference Number | K464/a/B |
|---|---|
| Date | 1967 |
| Search Year | 1967 |
| Type | Photograph |
| Photographer/Artist | |
| Publisher | |
| Contributor/s | Unknown |
| Area | Ecclesfield |
| Collection Holder | C&HGA |
| Date Donated to the EDA | 1st September 2024 |
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