Hopwood Hall

Hopwood Hall, near Hopwood, Middleton, now in Greater Manchester, England, was the ancestral home of the Hopwood, later Gregge-Hopwood, family of Lancashire gentry. It is now one of two campuses of Hopwood Hall College. It is also a ward of Rochdale MBC. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 11,604.[1]

The Hopwood family

The family is documented since 1380, when Alain de Hopwood was mentioned. Edmund Hopwood was a magistrate and sheriff during the Commonwealth, and a member of the Bury Presbyterian congregation.[2]

In 1820, the direct line became extinct, and Hopwood Hall was inherited by Edward Gregge (c. 1740-c. 1790) who changed his name, by Act of Parliament in 1773, to Gregge-Hopwood. His son Robert was High Sheriff of Lancashire after 1802.[3]

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Hopwood was the last in the line, and after his death Hopwood Hall was put up for sale. His daughter, Mary Rose, had married Sir James Pender in 1867.

The Hall

Hopwood Hall is a Grade II*-listed two-storey brick-and-stone manor house, built in a quadrangle around a timber-framed hall. The current building dates back to the early 17th century with some late-16th century elements.[4] The 1830s ice house in the grounds is also listed.[5]

The Hall was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation (LCC) during World War II. The corporation used it, in conjunction with Blackfriars House to run the firm during the war years. After the war, in 1946, LCC sold the Hall to a Trust under which it became a training college for Roman Catholic teachers under the De La Salle Brothers. [6] The Brothers built a concrete chapel (1964–65) designed by Frederick Gibberd (architect of Liverpool Cathedral), now deconsecrated but a listed building.[7] It has been retained for use by Hopwood Hall College as the Milnrow Building.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Rochdale ward population 2011". Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  2. ↑ 'Townships: Hopwood.' A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5. Ed. William Farrer and J. Brownbill. London: Victoria County History, 1911. 170–173. British History Online. Web. 22 May 2015. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol5/pp170-173.
  3. ↑ "Portrait of a Lady of the Hopwood Family". Chantry Fine Arts.
  4. ↑ "Hopwood Hall – Middleton". British Listed Buildings.
  5. ↑ "Hopwood Hall Icehouse". British Listed Buildings.
  6. ↑ Hopwood Family
  7. ↑ "Former Chapel at Hopwood Hall College". British Listed Buildings.
  8. ↑ "Full details of Rochdale colleges' £100million investment". Rochdale Online.

Coordinates: 53°34′16″N 2°11′25″W / 53.5711°N 2.1903°W / 53.5711; -2.1903

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