page_title: Staveley, Derbyshire
section_title: Staveley Hall
hierarchical_section_title: Staveley, Derbyshire / Staveley Hall
caption_attribution_description: English: 1604 heraldic shield above the front door of Staveley Hall, Derbyshire, showing the arms of the father&#91;1&#93; of Sir Peter Frescheville, MP, ( Azure, a bend between six escallops argent),&#91;2&#93; impaling Argent, two bendlets sable (painted incorrectly here as Or, two bendlets azure), for Kaye of Woodsome, Yorkshire, for Peter's mother Margaret Kaye, daughter of Arthur Kaye of Woodsome, Yorkshire. ( A Display of Heraldry By William Newton, London, 1846, p.50[1]) Guillim, John, A Display of Heraldry, 1724 (6th ed.), p.194, gives the arms of Sir John Kay of Woodsom, Yorkshire as Argent, two bendlets sable[2]. The arms are not, as might be expected, for Fleetwood (Party per pale nebuly azure and or, six martlets, 2, 2 and 2 counterchanged), for his first wife Joyce Fleetwood, whom he married in 1604). More examples of the Frecheville arms in the Church of St. John the Baptist, Staveley. (Images see:[3] )( Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.306-308[4])
context_page_description: Staveley is a former mining town in the borough of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, alongside the River Rother, between Eckington to the north, Barlborough to the east, Sutton cum Duckmanton to the south and Brimington to the west.
context_section_description: Staveley Hall is situated to the northeast of St John The Baptist Church in Staveley, with vehicular access from the Lowgates traffic island.  The Hall in its present form was built in 1604 by Sir Peter Frecheville (c.1571-1634), MP. Before the current building there had been buildings on this site for over 700 years.  A brief history of the building and its ownership follows:
  Hascuit de Musard was awarded the Manor of Staveley after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
  In 1306 the Musard family died out and Ralph de Frecheville became the new Lord.
  The Frechevilles lived in the Hall until they died out in 1682. In 1603 Sir Peter de Frecheville was knighted by James I at Worksop and he wished to make Staveley Hall a suitable residence for a knight and Justice of the Peace.
  The architect of Sir Peter de Frechevilles house is not known but may well be Huntingdon Smithson – the architect employed by the Cavendish's at Bolsover Castle.
  In 1682 and the house was sold to the Cavendish family. James Cavendish died in 1751 and the Hall and Park reverted to The Duke of Devonshire.
  In 1756 the Rector of Staveley managed to persuade the Duke of Devonshire to allow his son (and then a series of clerics) to live there.
  It remained as a rectory until bought by Staveley Urban District Council in 1967.
  The Hall was designated by English Heritage as a listed building (grade II) in 1974.
  Upon Local Government reorganisation in 1974 ownership passed to Chesterfield Borough Council and it was eventually bought by Staveley Town Council.
caption: 1604 heraldic shield above the front door of Staveley Hall, showing the arms of the father[6] of Sir Peter Fretchville (d.1634) ( Azure, a bend between six escallops argent),[7] impaling Kay (for his second wife Margaret Kaye, daughter of Arthur Kaye of Woodsome, Yorkshire) Argent, two bendlets sable (painted incorrectly here as Or, two bendlets azure)[8]
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