Buxton Museum & Art Gallery
Cavendish died 1557, and after another marriage which ended in her husband dying in 1565, Bess married for a fourth and final time to George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury. When he was appointed the custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots by Elizabeth I, between the years 1569 – 1584, Chatsworth also served to keep Mary a prisoner. Her rooms on the east side of the house are still called the Queen of Scots Apartments today, even though the rooms themselves are much changed.
Built either as a banqueting house or a summerhouse, the Hunting Tower was also used by the ladies to watch the hounds whilst hunting, as the name suggests. It also gives views of the deer park. The Tower’s panoramic views are breath-taking and look out onto the park designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown for the 4th Duke during the mid 1700s.
The hall has long been popular, featuring in a series of engravings and prints from the 18th and 19th centuries.
There is evidence of a Saxon church in Bakewell which dates to 920, but the present church dates to the twelfth century in a typical Norman style, of which only the front and west parts of the nave survive today. The rest of what you see before you now was built in the early thirteenth century, with an assortment of restoration taking place in the nineteenth century.
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There’s not much visible today, but you might be standing close to the site of a Medieval motte (a mound forming the site of a castle). The objects below are recorded as being from “the site of an ancient mansion, Castle Field, Crowdecote”.
Crowdecote is nearby to Pilsbury Castle, which is well documented and still visible today in the form of earthworks. It controlled an important crossing point over the River Dove. But did Crowdecote also have a fortified crossing?
The artifacts above were originally in the collections of local antiquarian, Micah Salt, whose activities and collections were recorded in a series of publications by W Turner, who wrote in 1903:
At Crowdicote, near Hartington, there are remains of foundations of an old castle. A passage like a cave had been made under them. In it were found, about twenty years ago, a number of relics … The cottages near the spot are partly built of sandstone, evidently from the ruins