Minsteracres

Minsteracres is an 18th-century mansion house, now a Christian retreat centre, in Northumberland, England. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]

The house was built in 1758 by George Silvertop.[2] Originally erected with two storeys, a third storey was added in 1811 and a new North wing was built in 1865.[2]

The Silvertops were a Roman Catholic family.[3] George Silvertop was in 1831 the first Catholic appointed High Sheriff of Northumberland following the repeal of the penal law.[4] His nephew Henry Charles Silvertop, High Sheriff in 1859[4] built a Catholic chapel adjoining the hall, and dedicated to St Elizabeth of Hungary in 1854.[1][2] The chapel is a Grade II listed building.

The Silvertop family sold the House in 1949 for conversion to a Passionist Monastery.

References

  1. 1 2 Keys to the Past
  2. 1 2 3 English Heritage, Images of England
  3. ↑ Burkes Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of England and Ireland (1835) Vol 3 pp300-2 Google Books
  4. 1 2 Archaeologia Aeliana CH Hunter Blair (1943) p47 and 51 Google Books

Coordinates: 54°53′43″N 1°57′47″W / 54.89528°N 1.96306°W / 54.89528; -1.96306

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