Posted By drsao on February 8, 2011
On Friday I get to go on a field trip to AGECROFT HALL with my 5th grader grandangel, Sarah. I have never been and I am REALLY looking forward to it. I LOVE LOVE LOVE all homes with interesting social history! I LOVE being with my grandangel too…..so Friday is looking like a PERFECT DAY!!!!
 
n the rolling banks of the James River stands a remarkable Tudor estate. And by Tudor, we’re not simply referring to an architectural style. This manor house was actually built in Lancashire, England in the late 15th Century.
For hundreds of years, Agecroft Hall was the distinguished home of England’s Langley and Dauntesey families. At the end of the 19th century, however, Agecroft fell into disrepair, and in 1925 it was sold at auction.
Hearing of this tremendous opportunity, Richmonder Thomas C. Williams, Jr. purchased the structure, and had it dismantled, crated, and shipped across the Atlantic, and then painstakingly reassembled in a Richmond neighborhood known as Windsor Farms.
Today, Agecroft Hall stands beautifully re-created, in a setting reminiscent of its original site on Lancashire’s Irwell River.
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From Elizabethan England, to the banks of the James. Built in England about 500 years ago, Agecroft Hall now overlooks Virginia’s James River.
A landmark of history, framed in beauty. Agecroft’s Elizabethan knot garden.
England’s past. Crated, shipped, and carefully reassembled in Richmond, Virginia.
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