![]() The two towers are indeed an unusual feature of the hall. Leland informs us that before Metcalfe got to work on Nappa Hall, there was ‘but a cotage or litle better house, ontille this Thomas began ther to build in the which building 2 toures be very fair, beside other logginges’. ![]() We are fortunate to have a description of the ‘before and after’ in the true manner of a television make-over programme. ![]() Metcalfe’s building project was Nappa Hall in Yorkshire, which still stands today and whose external features remain remarkably untouched. So wrote John Leland, who travelled throughout England in the early sixteenth century recording details about manors and landed estates, concerning Thomas Metcalfe (d.1504), who was in the service of Richard, duke of Gloucester (the future Richard III) and was appointed chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster in 1483. ![]() He ‘was yn those quarters a great officer, as steward, surveier or receyver of Richemont landes, whereby he waxid riche and able to build and purchace’. ![]()
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