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Manor Lane, SHEFFIELD, S2 1UH

Manor Lodge is a Tudor Gatehouse to Sheffield Manor Castle, now ruined, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned for 14 years. She is reputed to have spent much of her time in this lodge.

The motto (Deo Adjuvante Labor Proficit) may roughly be translated as “With God’s help our labour is successful”. The coat of arms was granted to Sheffield Borough Council on 16 July 1875, and subsequently to the present City Council on 1 September 1977. The building beyond the gates is The Turret House - the only complete building left on the site of historic Sheffield Manor.

Sheffield Manor Lodge, once the centre of a vast medieval deer park (over 2000 deer). In the early 16th century the Earl of Shrewsbury remodelled the medieval hunting lodge into one of the grandest manor houses in the North of England. Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in the Manor House from 1570 until 1584. Only the gatehouse remains although there are plenty of ruins.

An Imperial crown lily growing in the grounds of the now ruined, Sheffield Manor Lodge. The plant is likely to be from an old garden.

The ruins of Manor Lodge, Sheffield approached from the Manor Estate.

Seen between houses on Southend Road. In the nineteenth century the idea was put forward that The Turret House was built as a prison for Mary Queen of Scots, but its location on the garden boundary wall adjacent to the entrance gate would make such a purpose unlikely. The building's architecture and ornate internal plaster-work have been discussed in detail in various publications. A building account in the notebooks of William Dickinson dated to 1574 may refer to its construction. Mary was detained at Sheffield Manor between 1570 and 1584.

Detail on the gatehouse of Manor Lodge, Sheffield. Originally built about 1516 in what then was a large deer park east of Sheffield to provide a country retreat and further accommodate George Talbot, the 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and his large family. The gatehouse is the only remaining intact building.

This significant archaeological site has seen its surroundings change through the centuries. Once a hunting lodge in the centre of a vast medieval deer park, it is now surrounded by working people's houses, including a local authority estate. Between 1570 and 1584, Mary Queen of Scots was held here under the authority of the Earl of Shrewsbury.