Ordsall Hall

Ordsall Hall Ordsall Hall & Gardens date back to 1177! Now a museum, cafe & shop also running events and weddings! We look forward to welcoming you!
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Ordsall Hall is a historic house museum and garden, wedding and meeting venue dating back over 820 years. We are near to Salford Quays and Manchester City Centre and are open to visit from Monday - Thursday and Sunday afternoons. Throughout history the Hall has been put to many uses - a family home, working men's club and church hall. The most important period of its life is undoubtedly as the fam

ily seat of the Radclyffe family who resided here for over 300 of those years. We re-opened in 2011 after a 2 year conservation and restoration project.

Come Wassail with us, let's Wassail Wassail away!This Sunday, 19th January, join us for our annual Wassail in the orchar...
13/01/2025

Come Wassail with us, let's Wassail Wassail away!

This Sunday, 19th January, join us for our annual Wassail in the orchard! We invite visitors to join us to toast the good health of our local fruit trees and help ensure a bountiful harvest in Autumn - expect a singalong with our gardens team!

Refreshments will also be offered. All ages welcome. 1-3pm.

This is a free, drop-in event. No booking required.

We're open today 11:30 - 4:00pm ✨We have lots of Ordsall Hall magnets in our shop at the moment for you to take home as ...
12/01/2025

We're open today 11:30 - 4:00pm ✨

We have lots of Ordsall Hall magnets in our shop at the moment for you to take home as a souvenir - some featuring a lovely snowy scene!

Have you ever noticed these bronze objects in our gardens?Each one represent a group of people in the Hall's vast histor...
11/01/2025

Have you ever noticed these bronze objects in our gardens?

Each one represent a group of people in the Hall's vast history - this week they got a lovely frosty dusting!

Any guesses on the periods and people each one represents?

Winter in the grounds of Ordsall Hall ❄️🌨🌬
10/01/2025

Winter in the grounds of Ordsall Hall ❄️🌨🌬

Have you visited our exhibition 'Every Line Is Me: A celebration of Harold Riley’s dogs' yet?It features not only painti...
09/01/2025

Have you visited our exhibition 'Every Line Is Me: A celebration of Harold Riley’s dogs' yet?

It features not only paintings by Riley, but also lots of his sketches and smaller works!

Available to view during our opening hours ✨

Did you get engaged over the festive period?Why not enquire about weddings at Ordsall Hall!💌 Email ordsallhallweddings@s...
08/01/2025

Did you get engaged over the festive period?

Why not enquire about weddings at Ordsall Hall!

💌 Email [email protected] for more details 💌

A rare but beautiful phenomenon at Ordsall Hall 😍
07/01/2025

A rare but beautiful phenomenon at Ordsall Hall 😍

Are you already daydreaming of the weekend ahead? 💭Why not join us on Sunday for a tour of the Hall!Our historic tours s...
06/01/2025

Are you already daydreaming of the weekend ahead? 💭

Why not join us on Sunday for a tour of the Hall!

Our historic tours start at 12:30 and cost just £4 per person! No need to book - just drop in!

The great Flecky Bennett returns to Ordsall Hall next month on Thursday 6th February and there are just a few tickets le...
05/01/2025

The great Flecky Bennett returns to Ordsall Hall next month on Thursday 6th February and there are just a few tickets left!

Experience stories about The Ghost of the White Lady, Guy Fawkes, The Deadly Well as well as haunted bedrooms and servant’s quarters during this exclusive after-hours tour. It will be part history, part theatre and part ghost walk!

Book here 👉https://ordsallhall.com/event/bennett-feb25/

Join us this month for the Ordsall Hall Wassail!The great Twelfth Night tradition of wassailing is alive and well at Ord...
04/01/2025

Join us this month for the Ordsall Hall Wassail!

The great Twelfth Night tradition of wassailing is alive and well at Ordsall Hall!
Every year around ‘Old Twelvey’, aka the 17th of January, we invite visitors to join us to toast the good health of our local fruit trees and help ensure a bountiful harvest in Autumn.

This year’s celebrations will be taking place on Sunday 19th of January so we can make the most of the daylight. We will meet in the Orchard at 1pm and visit various locations nearby where there are orchard trees to be found. Expect a singalong with our gardens team!

Refreshments will also be offered. All ages welcome.

This is a free, drop-in event. No booking required.

We're back!!We hope all of our visitors had a wonderful festive break. We're back open as normal today from 10:00am-4:00...
02/01/2025

We're back!!

We hope all of our visitors had a wonderful festive break. We're back open as normal today from 10:00am-4:00pm if you fancy a visit!

The coffee machine is on and the cakes are out! ☕🍰

✨Happy New Year from Ordsall Hall!✨We look forward to welcoming you back tomorrow from 10am!
01/01/2025

✨Happy New Year from Ordsall Hall!✨

We look forward to welcoming you back tomorrow from 10am!

Is anyone getting dressed up to go out tonight?We love this woman's fancy outfit in this painting from the Salford Museu...
31/12/2024

Is anyone getting dressed up to go out tonight?

We love this woman's fancy outfit in this painting from the Salford Museums & Galleries collection!

Girl with Gloves by Kathleen Walne (1915-2011).

In 1935, works by Walne were included in a show of contemporary watercolours . Salford Museums & Galleries then went on to collect works by Walne throughout her career and gave her a retrospective exhibition in 1986!

This painting made us think of countryside walks in that quiet time between Christmas and the new year. Are you planning...
30/12/2024

This painting made us think of countryside walks in that quiet time between Christmas and the new year.

Are you planning on getting outdoors this week?

A Distant Prospect of Gayton, by Christopher Jon Ellis Fiddes, 1964.

Cormorants Nesting in a Tree, by Iola Spafford.Born in Cambridge in 1930, Iola Spafford studied at Bristol Art School; N...
29/12/2024

Cormorants Nesting in a Tree, by Iola Spafford.

Born in Cambridge in 1930, Iola Spafford studied at Bristol Art School; Nottingham Art School and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She has lived in Wilmslow for many years and is a member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Art. We are very lucky to have Iona's incredible work in our collection!

Here's another painting of a Tudor manor house from our collection, this time Agecroft Hall. Agecroft Hall were once our...
27/12/2024

Here's another painting of a Tudor manor house from our collection, this time Agecroft Hall.

Agecroft Hall were once our closest neighbours, but the great Tudor house now stands in Richmond, Virginia!

In the early twentieth century there was a trend for buying old houses, dismantling them and re-building over-seas, and that became Agecroft's story in the 1920s.

We have some of the furniture from Agecroft Hall on display at Ordsall Hall, in our plaster ceiling room.

This painting is by an unknown artist.

Here's a lovely painting of the Hall for you!Ordsall Hall, by Edward William Finley (1907-1979).The gardens looks just a...
26/12/2024

Here's a lovely painting of the Hall for you!

Ordsall Hall, by Edward William Finley (1907-1979).

The gardens looks just as beautiful in this scene as they do today!

We're lucky enough to have a number of works by Finley in our collection, depicting different scenes around Salford. 🎨

You can view more here 👉https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/venue:salford-museum-art-gallery-6548

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Ordsall Hall, 322 Ordsall Lane, Ordsall
Salford
M53AN

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