Agecroft Hall is an ancient Tudor English manor house overlooking the James River in central Virginia. This handsome building was actually built in Lancashire, England, in the late 15th century, and then sold and shipped across the Atlantic to Virginia in 1925.
Mr. and Ms. T.C. Williams Jr. of Virginia purchased the decaying hall and had it rebuilt at Windsor Farms in Virginia. Under the supervision of architect Henry G. Morse, the Williamses did not attempt to rebuild the entire quadrangle of buildings around the court. Instead they took the beautiful finest fifteenth and sixteenth century elements of the manor house and put them together in a single fine facade. The result was architecturally consistent and structurally impressive. Agecroft Hall is now open as a museum that exemplifies life in Tudor and early Stuart England.
Guests Richard Moxley
Executive Director, Agecroft Hall
URL:
www.agecrofthall.com
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