Editing Leatherhead (section)

===The Mansion===
[[File:The Mansion, Leatherhead (uk geograph 2438831).jpg|thumb|right|The Mansion]]
The Mansion, in Church Street, houses the [[public library]], [[register office (United Kingdom)|register office]] and council offices.<ref name=Potted_Mansion>{{cite web |url= https://www.leatherheadlocalhistory.org.uk/miscellany/potted-history-7.pdf |title= The Mansion, Leatherhead |last= Powell |first= Goff |publisher= Leatherhead & District Local History Society |access-date= 3 November 2021 |archive-date= 3 November 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211103125440/https://www.leatherheadlocalhistory.org.uk/miscellany/potted-history-7.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name=Mansion_NHLE>{{NHLE|num=1028620|desc=The Manison|access-date=15 February 2019|grade=II|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>  A map of the town from 1600 shows a house on the site, which may formerly have been the manor house for the manor of Minchin.<ref name=Benger_1953_Mansion/>{{#tag:ref|It has been suggested that the name "Mansion'" may be a corruption of 'Minchin'.<ref name=Benger_1953_Mansion/>|group= n}} During the late [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] period, it was the home of [[Edmund Tylney]], Master of the Revels, in effect the official censor of the time.<ref name=Potted_Mansion/><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Benger |first1= FB |year= 1951 |title= Edmund Tylney: A Leatherhead worthy |url= https://leatherheadhistoryarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/VOL_1_NO_5_1951.pdf |journal= Proceedings of the Leatherhead & District Local History Society |volume= 1 |issue= 5 |pages=16–21 |access-date= 1 February 2021 }}</ref> and [[Elizabeth I]] is thought to have dined with him in Leatherhead in August 1591.<ref name=Potted_Mansion/>{{#tag:ref|The [[Wetherspoons]] pub on Leatherhead [[High Street]] is named after Edmund Tylney.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/all-pubs/england/surrey/the-edmund-tylney-leatherhead |title= The Edmund Tylney |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= JD Wetherspoon plc |access-date= 7 February 2021 |archive-date= 25 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201125021337/https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/all-pubs/england/surrey/the-edmund-tylney-leatherhead |url-status= live }}</ref>|group= n}}

The external appearance of The Mansion largely dates from 1739, when the house was rebuilt in red brick, although a partial remodelling took place {{circa|1810}}.<ref name=Mansion_NHLE/> From 1846 until some point in the 1870s, the building was used as a boarding and day school for around 50 boys, who were taught using the [[Joseph Jacotot|Jacotot education system]]. In 1949, The Mansion was subject to a compulsory purchase order and was acquired by Surrey County Council and Leatherhead UDC for use as a health clinic and the public library.<ref name=Potted_Mansion/> During a refurbishment in 2000, the library was moved from the ground floor to the south range and the space released was repurposed for the Registry Office.<ref name=Potted_Mansion/><ref name=Mansion_NHLE/>