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29th January 2006
This Grade II
listed property, sits next
to the church. It was originally called 'The Friary' but subsequently had its name
changed to 'Glebelands'.
It
is one of Cragg's original houses, characterised by the extensive use of Iron
- in this case, door frames, window lattices, fireplaces, balustrades and staircases.
This was originally the vicarage to the church and was tied to the church
but it was gifted to his widow after 1857, without entail. In the 1940s a well
was found beneath the floor and until the 1960s a robber bell hung outside.
Roberts Griffiths details 'Robber Bells' as a means to alert the neighbourhood to thieves, who saw this, then properous, part of Liverpool as a target.
Occupants:
1822-1857 Rev.
William Hesketh.
1881 Henry
Clarkson
1911 Frederick Smeaton, butler;
Thomas Simpson, gardener; William Clarkson JP; Herbert G Clarkson, solicitor.
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(1)
St Michaels Hamlet, Liverpool, Christopher Kerr, The St Michaels
Hamlet Society, 1984, ISBN 0 9509597 0 7
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Glebelands
(The Friary)