Hawkstone Park is a historic landscape park in Shropshire, England, with pleasure grounds and gardens.
Obelisk monument to Rowland Hill, publisher of the Geneva Bible
Eighteenth century view of the landscape
Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton, who bought Hawkstone along with Soulton in 1556. He is associated with the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare's As You Like It.
The Reverend and Right Honourable Richard Hill of Hawkstone (1654–1727)
Soulton Hall is a Tudor country house near Wem, England. It was a 16th century architectural project of Sir Rowland Hill, publisher of the Geneva Bible. Hill was a statesman, polymath and philanthropist, later styled the "First Protestant Lord Mayor of London" because of his senior role in the Tudor statecraft that was needed to bring stability to England in the fall out of the Reformation. The building of the current Soulton Hall, undertaken during the tumult of the Reformation, is therefore associated with the political and social work required to incubate the subsequent English Renaissance.
Soulton Hall
View of the Present Manor House of 1556 with door case of 1668 at Soulton
Sir Rowland Hill: the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London, privy councillor, statesman, scholar, merchant, patron of art and philanthropist active through the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. He built Soulton Hall and published the Geneva Bible.
Soulton Hall as it now stands, Sir Rowland Hill's pyramidal roof, battlements and cupola have not survived and the theatre court configuration has survived, though muted by closing gates, making new openings and making the north face seem more dominant in 1780s reforms.
