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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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tion of Mr. J. Moulton, the excursionists repaired to TheHall, a fine example of early 17th century work. There was at an earlierperiod, and no doubt on the same site, a house belonging to the Halls.Leland says, Hall alias de le Sale dwellith in a pretty stone house at the Bradford-on-Avon. 55 east end of the town, on the right hand of the Avon. The Hall family ofBradford was of considerable antiquity; the name De Curta or De laSale is often met with in very early deeds. William de Curta is frequentlymentioned as a witness to documents 1273—1307. John Hall, the supposedbuilder of the house, married Elizabeth Brune; their son, Sir Thomas, whodied 1663, married Katherine, daughter of Mr. Edward Seymour; theirson John, who died 1711, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thos. Thynn,of Longleat, and their only child, Elizabeth, married Thomas Baynton, ofChalfield, whose daughter and heiress married the Hon. Wm. Pierrepoint,son and heir of Evelyn, ist Duke of Kingston. Wm. Pierrepoint pre-
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THE HALL, BRADFORD-ON-AVON.Photo by W. M. Ashman. deceased his father. One of his two daughters, Frances Pierrepoint,married Philip, eldest son of Sir Philip Meadows, and their son, Charles,assuming the name of Pierrepoint, was created Baron Pierrepoint andViscount Newark in 1796, and Earl Manvers in 1806. He sold this housein 1802. From some remnants of old law papers rescued from this house,it is clear that part, if not the whole, of the Manvers property at Bathhad belonged to the Halls of Bradford. The purchaser of the houseallowed it to get into a very bad state. In 1848, Mr. Stephen Moultonbought it and put it into complete repair. 56 Transactions for the Year 1900. An exact reproduction of this house was erected in the grounds of theParis Exhibition—1900—as a pavilion for H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.The Corporation of Bath also sent a scale model of the Roman Baths, aswell as other objects of interest; these were placed in a room in the house. Having been entertained at tea,

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