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|name=Knowsley Hall
|location_town=[[Knowsley, Merseyside]]
|location_country=England
|architect=[[John Foster (architect)|John Foster]], [[William Burn]],<br>[[W. H. Romaine-Walker]], [[Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore|Claud Phillimore]]
|client=[[Earls of Derby]]
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[[Image:Knowsley Hall.jpg|thumb|260px|Loggia at the south end of the east wing in 2007]]
'''Knowsley Hall''' is a stately home near [[Liverpool]] within the [[Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley]], in [[Merseyside]], [[England]] ({{gbmapping|SJ444938}}).  It is a Grade II* [[listed building]]<ref name=images>{{cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?pid=1&id=436394 |title=Images of England: Knowsley Hall |accessdate=2008-08-23 |publisher=[[English Heritage]] }}</ref> and is the ancestral home of the Stanley family, the [[Earls of Derby]].<ref name=hall>{{cite web |url= http://www.knowsley.com/thehall.asp |title= The Hall |accessdate=2008-08-23 |publisher= Knowsley }}</ref> The hall is surrounded by {{AcreAndHectare |2500| round=0convert|2500|acre|km2}} of parkland,<ref name=hall/> which contains the [[Knowsley Safari Park]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.knowsley.com/s_park/default.asp |title= Knowsley Safari Park |accessdate=2008-08-23 |publisher= Knowsley  }}</ref>  The hall is no longer the home of the Stanley family<ref name=pp222/> but has been restored and converted for functions such as corporate events, conferences and weddings.<ref name=hall/>

==History==

(contracted; show full)[[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] fireplaces and an [[ormolu]] [[chandelier]].  It was reworked in 1890, adding a [[bay window]], a carved [[Dado (architecture)|dado]] and a roof consisting of a large rectangular lantern supported on brackets which is glazed round its sides.<ref>Pevsner and Pollard, p. 221.</ref>  The hall now measures {{convert|53|ft|m|0}} by {{convert|37|ft|m|0}} and is {{convert|50|ft|m|0}} high.<ref name=anon7/>

==Parkland==

This consists of an area of approximately {{
AcreAndHectare |2500| round=0convert|2500|acre|km2}} surrounded by a stone wall {{convert|9.5+1/2|mi|km|0}} long.  The park was landscaped in the 1770s by [[Capability Brown|"Capability" Brown]], who flooded a {{AcreAndHectare |62| round=0convert|62|acre}} lake to feed the water-gardens around the hall.<ref name=anon2/>  The southeast section of the park was made into a [[safari park]] in 1971.  To the east and northeast of the hall is a chain of lakes, White Man's Dam, the Octagon Pond and the Home Pond.<ref>Pevsner and Pollard, pp. 221–222.</ref>  The Octagon was built as a summer house in 1755<ref name=pp222>Pevsner and Pollard, p. 222.</ref> and designed by [[Robert Adam]].<ref name=anon2/>  

The park contains a number of buildings.  These include the New House which was built for the [[Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby|18th Earl]] and his family, by Phillimore in 1963 in Neo-Georgian style, the stables to the north of the hall which were designed by William Burn in the 1840s, the Boathouse of 1837, also by William Burn, The Nest, Home Farm, and a number of lodges.<ref>Pevsner and Pollard, pp. 222–223.</ref>

==Present use==
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Apart from the Safari Park being a tourist attraction, the hall and its grounds are used for a number of purposes.  The hall can be booked for conferences and corporate events<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.knowsley.com/corp_events.asp |title= Corporate hospitality, Exhibitions and Product Launches |accessdate=2008-08-23 |publisher= Knowsley }}</ref> and for private events.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.knowsley.com/private.asp |title= Private Events |accessdate=2008-08-23 |publisher= K(contracted; show full)
==External links==
*[http://www.knowsley.com/gallery.asp Photographs]

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[[Category:Houses in Merseyside]]
[[Category:Grade II* listed buildings in Merseyside]]