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Lawton Hall – The Realm Of Lawton

As you can see my name is Mark Lawton; hence my website http://www.mark-lawton.com.

This blog isn’t been done for SEO, or anything like this; but simply for interest, and to raise awareness of the rise fall and rise again of Lawton hall! If you do go to this link, then please come back to see the rest of the pictures!

My wife Teresa Lawton; (not to be mistaken for an abstract artist Teresa Lawton in Poole Dorset) and I went for a day out in Cheshire, which is the origin of the Lawton name apparently.

The name Lawton appeared about 1200AD, but not spelled quite how we spell it today, and the Lawton name came about properly around 1500AD.

Lawton Hall was established in Cheshire, and was a glorious hall, but eventually it fell into disrepair, and in 1997 was burnt out in a vandal attack.

However in 2004 it was refurbished, and later on in this blog I have a lot of photos from around the hall.

I’ll first show the old photos copied from the web as above; but the rest of the photos below in the gallery are all my own…

I am now quoting from the site about Lawton hall, and also to help to keep this alive…

“The Hall and surrounding estate has been in the ownership of the Lawton Family since it’s construction. The land on which the Hall is sited has been owned by the Lawton family (except for the odd political/religious hiatus) for many centuries and certainly back to the 12th Century.

Sadly the school closed due to financial difficulties and I have been trying since then to put in place a scheme, firstly for the preservation and more recently for the restoration of the Hall. This I am delighted to say has now been achieved through the sale of the Hall (for £1!) to the Rural Buildings Preservation Trust.

The RBPT are a charitable trust with the objective of saving historic buildings. They have succeeded where others have failed in getting permission for a limited enabling development that will enable the restoration of the Hall. Almost everyone should gain from this scheme although I hastened to add I personally only have significant financial loss and many sleepless nights, I will gain from seeing my family home put back on the map and not lost forever like so many other similar buildings.

The current sad state of the Hall is I am afraid evidence of the hopeless planning system in the UK. It is unfair to blame local planning officers, although I do feel they are partially to blame. The real problem lies in the need to balance the desire of many to maintain historic buildings, with the need to protect the countryside from inappropriate and unnecessary development. To do this needs the wisdom of Solomon and the patience of a Saint! These qualities are not found in many people.

I am delighted that Lawton Hall will now be restored and put to some use. I am very upset that the Hall had to deteriorate to such an appalling condition leading to the loss of it’s unique interior. I am concerned that the Church Lawton community has had to put up with all the problems that the derelict Building has brought and I hope that this will now be brought to an end with the Hall being restored/rebuilt.

John Lawton”

More on the origin of the Lawton name can also be seen below quoting…

“Lawton Family of Church Lawton

The history of the Lawton family began when lands were given to Hugh de Mara, Lord of the Manor of Chester (sometimes known as Hugh Lupus or “Hugh the Wolf”) by his brother-in-law, William the Conqueror in gratitude for his support in the 1066 Invasion of England. Here he built a Norman Church to replace the Saxon one – hence the Church Lawton connection.

The first record of the Lawton name, however, occurs with Adam de Lauton, who lived during the reigns of King John and King Henry III. Legend has it that he rescued the Earl of Chester from an attack by a wounded wolf and in gratitude was granted a thousand acres of land stretching from Congleton to Sandbach. The bleeding wolf can still be seen in the arms of the Lawton family, and is also commemorated in the nearby pub, “The Bleeding Wolf” at Scholar Green. The thousand acre estate became the Parish of Lauton, (later Church Lawton), and is recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086.

During the Reformation period Squire William Lawton bought the church patronage from Henry VIII. Ownership of the estate has considerably diminished over the subsequent centuries, but is still in the possession of the Lawton family, though members now live as far afield as Kent, America and Spain. Lawton Hall, the country seat, built in the 17th century, still stands despite part being destroyed by a fire in 1997.

The last squire to live there left during the First World War when for a time it was used as a hospital, and during the Second World War it was used by the local fire service. Between the wars it also served as a hotel and a school for the disabled. In 1952 it was leased by Mr Harrison and became a private school which ran until it closed in 1986.
For several years thereafter, the property was uninhabited and became derelict and several disputes over ownership placed the property in limbo. By the mid-1990s the Hall had fallen victim to vandalism and theft, with most of its valuable fittings being torn out or wrecked. In more recent times extensive efforts have been (and are being made) to restore and refurbish Lawton Hall.”

I took a series of photos at Lawton Hall…

Here they are…

After our look around the Lawton estate, we went to the “Bleeding Wolf” public house just around the corner.

This pub looks very old having a thatched  roof, and is named the above because of the tale of this “Adam De Lauton” who in around 1000AD supposedly rescued the Earl of Chester from a wounded wolf; hence its appearance on the top of the shield on the coat of arms, showing the wound, and the blood flowing.

The name changed to Lawton “A place on a Hill”, being a possible meaning, and hence the inheritance by reward of all of this land from King John.

Here are the pub photos lower down, and in the gallery just above… Now in this day-and-age of pubs closing down, this pub is something special!

I really enjoyed a nice meal in there with my wife and a couple of drinks; the beer is “Robinson’s”, and they keep a nice pint I’ll say!

http://www.thebleedingwolf.co.uk/

If you have a look at the pub, please pop back here to click on some of the photos and enlarge them…

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