Chigwell Hall

Chigwell Hall is a Grade II listed Manor House in Chigwell, Essex. It is situated on Roding Lane within 42 acres of grounds. It was designed by the English architect Richard Norman Shaw - his only house in Essex - and was completed in 1876. Shaw's client was Alfred Savill, founder of the Savills estate agency. It has been owned by the Metropolitan Police Service since 1967 and is the current site of the force's sports and social club.
In 1881 Savill, who had bought the nearby Chigwell Manor in Roding Lane, which had belonged to the Branston family for two generations, decided to abandon the medieval building and moved into Chigwell Hall, to the south west of the site, which he had commissioned Shaw to build five years previously. It is located on High Road, Chigwell, and is opposite to the Kings Head, a 17th-century public house made famous by Charles Dickens, who used it as a basis for The Maypole, a tavern in his novel Barnaby Rudge. As well as being the residence of the Metropolitan Police's sports and social club, Chigwell Hall is also used for business functions, wedding ceremonies, and is the venue of a restaurant.

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