Virtual tours of Calverley Old Hall

Calverley Old Hall has evolved and changed many times over the years, starting as a smaller fourteenth century medieval first floor hall, expanding into a much larger manor house and later divided into tenanted cottages.

Thanks to a grant from the National Heritage Lottery Fund, we have been able to reimagine how Calverley Old Hall might once have looked in its historcial heyday, as well as documenting how the building appeared before our works began.

Explore 16th-century Calverley Old Hall 

It is hard to imagine how the building might have looked at its peak, when the Calverley family lived here. The 1530s were a time of great upheaval in England due to Tudor King Henry VIII’s Protestant Reformation and separation from the Catholic Church . So who would have lived at Calverley Old Hall during this time? Rather confusingly, most of the Calverley family were named either Walter or William, and during the 1530s, both Walter (IV) and William (V) would have lived at Calverley Old Hall. Whilst Walter fought for Henry VIII in France and was knighted for his services, his son William did not share such good fortune, and was instead briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to give up his Catholic faith after the Reformation. He was released after repenting for his mistakes, and later knighted like his father.

Using archaeological evidence and the latest digital modelling technologies, we can now explore the Great Hall as it was in the 1530s and get a glimpse into what it might have been like to live here when Walter and William called Calverley Old Hall home.

Click on the red hotspots to find out more about sections of the Great Hall, use your mouse or thumb to look around the space, and use the tabs at the bottom of the page to see what the outside of Calverley Old Hall might have looked like at this time. Remember to accept or decline cookies when prompted, to remove the blue pop-up box from your screen.

See how Calverley Old Hall appeared before its repair

Explore the magnificent spaces of the great hall, chapel and the solar as they appeared before works began, or take a fascinating look around the once-derelict cottages at Calverley with our virtual tour below.

Click the play button below to navigate through this digital tour of Calverley Old Hall in Yorkshire.