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Southend Road, SHEFFIELD, S2 5FS

Former public house on Sheffield's Manor Estate - with residential accommodation above.

This Grade II* Tudor building was the gatehouse to Sheffield Manor Lodge where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned by the Earl of Shrewsbury for 14 years. Once at the heart of a great deer park it now sits somewhat incongruously in the middle of a large housing estate.

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.

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.

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.

The Turret House at Manor Lodge, almost certainly built in 1547. J. H. Brammall painted the Manor Lodge circa 1860. By a strange coincidence his picture also shows a piece of agricultural machinery. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/manor-lodge-sheffield-72645/view_as/grid/search/keyword:j-h-brammall/page/1 . For another photograph linked to other artists' depictions of Sheffield and the surrounding area see Image .

Sheffield Manor Lodge is known locally as Manor Castle but there has never been a castle there. During the period of Mary Queen of Scots’ captivity in Sheffield (1570 – 1584), George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury made many improvements to Manor Lodge. The building was transformed from a comfortable house to one of the finest Tudor buildings in England.

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.

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.