# Delves Hall

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**Delves Hall**, also known as **Doddington Castle**, is a fortified structure in Doddington Park to the north of [Doddington Hall](/source/Doddington_Hall,_Cheshire) in the [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) of [Doddington](/source/Doddington,_Cheshire), [Cheshire](/source/Cheshire), England. It is designated by [Historic England](/source/Historic_England) as a Grade I [listed building](/source/Listed_building).[1]

## History

This fortified tower was built by Sir John Delves in 1364,[2] on the site of a former [moated](/source/Moat) [manor house](/source/Manor_house). The tower was initially free-standing and was probably intended as a place of refuge for the family. In the 17th century it was incorporated into a range of domestic buildings known as Doddington Hall.[3] In the [Civil War](/source/English_Civil_War) the hall became a garrison for the [parliamentary](/source/Roundheads) forces. It was taken for the king by [Lord Byron](/source/John_Byron,_1st_Baron_Byron) in January 1644 but retaken shortly after.[2] In 1727 the house and estate passed to the Broughton family.[4] The house was demolished around 1777 and replaced by the new Doddington Hall, leaving the tower as a landscape feature which was possibly used as a [gazebo](/source/Gazebo) or a banqueting pavilion.[3] The external staircase to the former house was retained when the house was demolished and it was attached to the tower.[4]

## Architecture

The tower is built in red [sandstone](/source/Sandstone) [ashlar](/source/Ashlar) with a [slate](/source/Slate) roof on a square plan in three storeys with corner [turrets](/source/Turret_(architecture)). The entrance front is approached by an external ashlar [Jacobean](/source/Jacobean_architecture) [imperial staircase](/source/Imperial_staircase). Its central lower flight leads to a half-landing on which is a crude [Ionic](/source/Ionic_order) column supporting a naked female figure. The undercroft to the lateral flights of stairs has [rusticated](/source/Rustication_(architecture)) [pilasters](/source/Pilaster) on each side of which are large statues representing the [Black Prince](/source/Edward,_the_Black_Prince), [Audley](/source/Baron_Audley) and his four [squires](/source/Squire), who are all dressed in armour. The [parapet](/source/Parapet) of the tower and the turrets are [battlemented](/source/Battlement).[1]

## See also

- [Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire](/source/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Cheshire)
- [Listed buildings in Doddington, Cheshire](/source/Listed_buildings_in_Doddington,_Cheshire)
- [List of castles in Cheshire](/source/List_of_castles_in_Cheshire)
- [Castles in Great Britain and Ireland](/source/Castles_in_Great_Britain_and_Ireland)
- [List of castles in England](/source/List_of_castles_in_England)

## References

1. Lewis, Samuel (ed.) (1848), ["Doddington"](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50923#s2), *A Topographical Dictionary of England*, British History Online, pp. 63–69, retrieved 30 March 2008

1. ["Pastscape: Delves Hall"](https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=74464). [Historic England](/source/Historic_England). Retrieved 30 March 2008.

1. Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011 [1971]), *Cheshire*, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: [Yale University Press](/source/Yale_University_Press), p. 331, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6

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