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Description: | A sketch of the Hall from the north east, showing the Parish grave yard. Dated 1856The hall was built between about 1460 and 1490. There was an earlier house on the site but it is probable that when Thomas Burgh married Margaret Roos between 1462 and 1464; the occasion was used to build a new manor house more in keeping with Thomas's rising status.In 1469 Thomas helped the Yorkist King, Edward IV, to escape from imprisonment in Middleham Castle. Many other Lincolnshire families supported the opposing Lancastrian cause and in March 1470 they attacked Gainsborough and as John Warkworth recorded in his contemporary manuscript droff oute of Lyncolneschyre Sere Thomas à Burgh, a knight of the Kynges howse, and pullede downe his place and toke all his goodes and cataylle that they might fynde'.Exactly what damage occurred in the attack is not known but it was only a temporary set back. During a period of great political upheaval Thomas managed to find favour with four different kings. By 1487 King Henry VII had created him First Baron Gainsborough and the increasing prosperity that accompanied his political rise enabled him to complete his magnificent house. To the original Hall, Kitchen and Solar block, an East range had been built in the 1470s for ceremonial rooms, some ten years later a West range was necessary to house senior members of the household. In the early 1480s an octagonal tower was constructed, as Thomas became a lord. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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