Wardley Hall (The Skull House), near Manchester
Wardley Hall (The Skull House), near Manchester (completed c.1500) - an early medieval manor house and a Grade I listed building in the Wardley area of Worsley, Salford, in Greater Manchester. The skull of St Ambrose Barlow, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, is preserved in a niche at the top of the main staircase. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Lancaster on 10 September 1641 after confessing to being a Catholic priest. According to legend, it is a screaming skull. Extensively re-modelled in the 19th and 20th centuries
Picture No
12586845
Media ID
45764298
Size
4909px x 3425px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Thos. Smith postcard - Ye Olde Manchester' series
Date
circa 1903
