Hill Hall, Essex

An extract from ‘Old England. A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial and Popular Antiquities’, edited by Charles Knight. In Two Volumes – Volume II.

“Hill Hall, Essex ... is commodious, handsome, but common-place, in comparison at least with the Tudor style, which the architect seems to have so determinedly renounced.

The founder of Hill Hall was Sir Thomas Smith, principal Secretary to the youthful Edward VI.”