Under the Reverend Bradford, Hall Place was a school for sons of the gentry. In the later 19th century it became the Rectory until a new rectory was built in the grounds. Erected in the 18th century, the 'gentleman architect' Henry Woodyer altered the house in the 1870s. He also restored the church and designed the church school, commissions perhaps not unconnected with his relationship to the rector, his brother-in-law.
Author: J Harrison