# Elemore Hall > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elemore_Hall > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Elemore_Hall.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemore_Hall > Source revision: 1228534630 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox building |name = Elemore Hall |location = [County Durham](/source/County_Durham), [England](/source/England), UK |pushpin_map = United Kingdom County Durham |pushpin_map_caption = Location in [County Durham](/source/County_Durham) |image = |image_alt = |caption = |grid_name = [OS grid](/source/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid) |grid_position = {{gbmappingsmall|NZ351442}} |coordinates = {{Coord|54.792|-1.455|display=inline,title}} }} '''Elemore Hall''' is a mid-18th-century country house, now in use as a residential special school, near [Pittington](/source/Pittington), [County Durham](/source/County_Durham), England. It is a [Grade I listed building](/source/listed_building). ==History== The manor of Elemore was owned prior to the [Dissolution of the Monasteries](/source/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries) by the Priory of Finchale. It was sold to [Bertram Anderson](/source/Bertram_Anderson), Mayor and Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne, who built a manor house in about 1550. The estate passed from Anderson to Hall and then by marriage to [Thomas Conyers](/source/Thomas_Conyers) [MP](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [Durham City](/source/Durham_City_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) 1702-22. In about 1700 Elizabeth Conyers, heiress of the estate, married [George Baker](/source/George_Baker_(died_1723)), also MP for Durham City, of [Crook Hall](/source/Crook_Hall), near Lanchester.{{cite web |last1=Simpson |first1=David |title=From one George to another |url=http://www.theclarion.co.uk/the_north_east/history/echomemories/durham/105/190105.html |website=theclarion.co.uk |publisher=Northern Echo |access-date=9 April 2021 |date=19 January 2005 |archive-date=11 August 2007 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070811055728/http://www.theclarion.co.uk/the_north_east/history/echomemories/durham/105/190105.html |url-status=bot: unknown }} (archived) ==Structure== thumb|right|The library, before 1947 Their son George Baker inherited the manor in 1723 and in about 1750 replaced the old manor house with the present mansion to a design by architect [Robert Shout](/source/Robert_Shout) of Hemsley. The house follows the E-plan of the old manor but on a much grander scale. The three storey, seven bayed entrance front has a pedimented three bayed projecting central block and two flanking and projecting pedimented single bay wings. It is a Grade I listed building.{{NHLE|num=1120730 |desc=Elemore Hall School and doorway and archway attached|accessdate=9 April 2021}} ==Baker family== In 1844 Isabella Baker heiress married the son of her aunt and first cousin, Henry Tower. On inheriting the property he changed his name to Henry Baker Baker. He was [High Sheriff of Durham](/source/High_Sheriff_of_Durham) in 1854. The Baker Baker family lived at the Hall until the 1930s.{{cite book |last1=John |first1=Burke |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours, Charles Whittingham: Baker, of Elemore |date=1835 |publisher=Henry Colburn |page=546 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&q=Baker+of+Elemore |access-date=9 April 2021}} ==School== In 1947 the estate was bought or leased to [Durham County Council](/source/Durham_County_Council). S.E.D. Wilson, the vice chairman of the Northern Coal Divisional Board, said, "The estate was formerly leased by a colliery company to protect themselves against claims for subsidence ... The Hall is not convenient for use as area headquarters ... but it might be suitable as a school for other educational purposes".{{cite news |title=NCB to buy estate, offers Ellemore Hall as school |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000640/19470416/109/0007 |access-date=9 April 2021 |work=Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=15 April 1947 |page=7 col.4}} The Hall has since then been occupied by a local education authority day and residential special school. In 1992 a new teaching block, designed by Thomas Weatherald of [Askrigg](/source/Askrigg), was planned at a cost of £357,546 ({{Inflation|UK|357546|1992|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).{{cite news |title=Durham |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002240/19920122/299/0024 |access-date=9 April 2021 |work=Newcastle Journal |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=22 January 1992 |page=24 col.3}}{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}} In 1959 Elemore Hall School headmaster, Alan Little, was cleared of excessively and publicly injuring a disabled pupil by hitting him with a slipper, in spite of school staff, a senior inspector of the [N.S.P.C.C.](/source/National_Society_for_the_Prevention_of_Cruelty_to_Children) and two doctors noting "excessive bruises". The defence counsel, Peter Taylor, submitted that, "It is a very odd piece of corporal punishment that doesn't hurt – that is what it is meant to do". The boy, Michael John Paxton, was aged 12 years.{{cite news |title=I'll stay, says cleared headmaster: his "favourite" pupil tells of caning |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002240/19591105/089/0007 |access-date=9 April 2021 |work=Newcastle Journal |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=5 November 1959 |page=7 col.3}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category-inline}} * {{cite web |title=Elemore Hall, Doorway & Archway, Pittington (Pittington) |url=http://www.keystothepast.info/article/10339/Site-Details/pgDetail.aspx?PRN=D36006 |website=keystothepast.info |publisher=Keys to the Past |access-date=9 April 2021 |date=2021}} (Includes set of exterior photographs). {{Authority control}} Category:Grade I listed buildings in County Durham Category:Country houses in County Durham Category:Pittington --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Elemore Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemore_Hall) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemore_Hall?action=history)). 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