# Dorlestone Hall

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{{Short description|Manor house in England}}
thumb|300px|Dorlestone or Darlaston Hall<br />(from 'Staffordshire Past-Track' website)
'''Dorlestone Hall''' was a manor house at [Darlaston](/source/Darlaston%2C_Stone), a locality also known as Dorlestone, near [Stone, Staffordshire](/source/Stone%2C_Staffordshire), England, on the Trent. 

The Hall was built prior to the [Reformation](/source/Reformation).  Prior to 1503, the Hall was leased by Jacobus Colyar, who had probably fought in Spain during the Reconquista, as he was given a letters patent with symbols of prowess in the Crusades.   In 1503, the Hall was leased by his son, Robert Colyar.  He became a wool trader and married Agnes Venables de Kinderton.  His son, Thurston, also leased the Hall.  In 1537, its ownership passed from [Burton Abbey](/source/Burton_Abbey) to Thurston's son, James Collier.  The abbey was dissolved two years later.  In 1685, a descendant, James Collier, sold the Hall to William Jervis.

The property is associated with [Richard Barnfield](/source/Richard_Barnfield), who is one of the candidates for Shakespeare's "[Rival Poet](/source/Rival_Poet)".<ref>Leo Daugherty, ''William Shakespeare, Richard Barnfield, and the Sixth Earl of Derby'', Cambria Press, 2010</ref> A "Richard Barnfield of Dorlestone in the Countie of Stafford Esquire" who died here in 1627, was formerly believed to be the poet,<ref>For example, this was the view taken by [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature](/source/A_Short_Biographical_Dictionary_of_English_Literature) [s:A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Barnfield, Richard](/source/s%3AA_Short_Biographical_Dictionary_of_English_Literature%2FBarnfield%2C_Richard)</ref> but current thinking is that the death recorded was that of his father whose name he shared.<ref>Sonia Massai, ‘Barnfield, Richard (bap. 1574, d. 1620)’, [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography), Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1487, accessed 20 May 2015]</ref>

In 1880 the estate was acquired by the [Meakin family](/source/J._%26_G._Meakin) from the Jervis family.<ref name=staffcc2>[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=2764 The White House, Darlaston Hall Estate, Stone] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216183052/http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=2764 |date=December 16, 2013 }}. Staffordshire County Council</ref>
The house was demolished after the Second World War.<ref name="staffcc" />

==References==
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<ref name="staffcc">{{cite web |url=http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=2756 |title=Staffordshire Past Track -Aerial View of Darlaston Hall, Stone |author=Staffordshire Arts & Museum Service |year=2003 |publisher=Staffordshire County Council |accessdate=23 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209085213/http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=2756 |archivedate=9 February 2010 }}</ref>

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6.  R. Glover, The Visitation of Staffordshire, 1583, Historical Collections of Staffordshire, Wm. Salt Archaeological Society Publications, Vol. 3-Part 2 at 64.

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Category:Former country houses in England
Category:Country houses in Staffordshire

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