Postcard - Mono (Document ID: 100248)
Exterior view of New Hall, Elland, West Yorkshire.
Author: H.P. Kendall
Date: not dated
Location: Elland
Format: Postcard - Mono
Document ID: 100248
Library ID: 34560196
Built by Nicolas Savile in the late 15th century, New Hall was originally a timber-framed building, encased in stone in the mid 17th century by John Foxcroft. The window above the front door is known as an "Apple and Pear Window" that is distinguished by a circular central window surrounded by 6 pear-shaped ones.
The photographer, Hugh Percy Kendall, was a founder member of the Halifax Antiquarian Society in 1900 and a frequent contributor to their transactions. He was also a former president of the Halifax Photographic Society. He died in 1937 at the age of 62.
Still standing 2003. Elland New Hall is a Grade I Listed Building.
