Historic house
Video of the early history of Conishead Priory
Video of the modern history of Conishead Priory
Conishead Priory was founded by Christian monks in 1160 as a hospital for the poor. The present mansion was completed in 1836 as the Braddyll’s family home. Since then it has been a spa hotel, miners’ convalescent home and wartime military hospital.
The Romantic Gothic mansion, dominated by two 30m high octagonal towers, has huge reception rooms with decorative ceilings, a grand staircase, a 53m long cloister corridor, amazing stained glass, and vaulted great hall.
‘There is no house in England like Conishead . . . a fantasy . . . an exercise in pure show set in a splendid park’ Simon Jenkins, England’s Thousand Best Houses
‘. . . a very important Gothic revival country house…it has few peers in the North West . . .’ English Heritage
The house is open for guided tours at various times of the year. Click on the link for opening hours.