Damhouse
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Damhouse or Astley Hall is a Grade II* Listed building in Astley, Greater Manchester, England. It has served as a manor house, sanatorium, and, since restoration in 2000, houses offices, a clinic, nursery and tearooms.
Damhouse in 2011
Ann Radcliff of Winmarleigh, last of the Radcliff heirs to Damhouse. Effigy in the Gerard Chapel, Church of St John the Baptist, Ashley, Staffordshire.
Doorway with Ionic columns, pediment and fanlight
Gilbert Gerard (judge)
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Sir Gilbert Gerard was a prominent lawyer, politician, and landowner of the Tudor period. He was returned six times as a member of the English parliament for four different constituencies. He was Attorney-General for more than twenty years during the reign of Elizabeth I, as well as vice-chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and later served as Master of the Rolls. He acquired large estates, mainly in Lancashire and Staffordshire.
The 3rd Earl of Derby, a key early patron of Gerard.
Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, another of Gerard's political patrons.
Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury 1559–75.