By the Rev. Canon W. H. Jones, F.S.A. 313 



summit of the window-bays is adorned with open parapets. 



The last of the Hall family left all his property to Rachel Baynton, 

 of Chaldfield, who was married to Evelyn Pierrepont, son of the 

 Marquis of Dorchester, afterwards first Duke of Kingston. Their 

 only son, who became second and last Duke of Kingston, succeeded 

 in due course. It is from that noble family that this house came 

 to be called Kingston House. On the death of the second Duke 

 without issue, subject to a life interest to his Duchess, the property 

 descended to his sister, the wife of a son of Sir Philip Meadows, 

 the ancestor of the Manvers family. It remained the property of 

 the last-named family till 1806, wl'en it was sold to Messrs. Divett, 

 who turned it into a storehouse for wool, and allowed it to go to 

 sad decay. In 1848, happily for all who would fain preserve ancient 

 buildings, especially those of interest and beauty, it was sold to the 

 late Stephen Moulton, Esq ., and it was to his generous enterprise, 

 and exquisite taste, that a building equal to any in the county as a 

 specimen of domestic architecture is seen by us in its original form 

 and beauty. 



10. We pass through the grounds of Kingston House and come 

 into a lane — now called Kingston Road, but formerly, as it would 

 appear, Frogmere Street — till we arrive at the Old Market Place. 

 It was at this spot that one Trapnell — a name familiar enough to 

 us in connection with Chaldfield — was burnt publicly for so-called 

 heresy, in denying the King's supremacy, in the year 1533. Against 

 the wall of what is now the Royal Oak stood the Old Market 

 House; the lines of the roof-gable may still be traced. I have 

 been favored by one whose early youth was spent in Bradford with 

 a description of this old building. He says, " The Old Market 

 House was originally of what might be termed three storeys. The 

 basement or cellar was on a level with the street opposite the shop 

 now occupied by Mr. Budget Jones, the entrance joining the Royal 

 Oak, and was used some sixty years ago as a crockery store, The 

 second storey was an open colonnade looking up Coppice Lane, and 

 was full of butchers' stalls — whence the name of ' The Shambles' 

 occupied by the country butchers. The entrance was on the level 

 of the Shambles, and the storey itself consisted of three plain round 



