Nottinghamshire

Cathedral Church of St Barnabas, Nottingham

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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St Barnabas has been on my list of places to visit in Nottingham for a while now, somewhere I kept meaning to visit every time I went to the Playhouse nearby, and I finally found time in November to take a look. Designed by Augustus Pugin, the architect of the interior of the Palace of Westminster, construction of the cathedral began in 1842 and it was consecrated in 1844 when a bishop from Rome brought the relics of St Barnabas with him. When it was opened it was the largest Catholic church built in England since the Reformation.

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Brackenhurst Hall

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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The last place I visited in September as part of Open Heritage Day was Brackenhurst Hall in Southwell, part of Nottingham Trent University that isn’t normally open to the public. I arrived just as they opened so I got to go on the first of the tours that day, which is just as well as there was a fairly constant stream of people arriving throughout my visit.

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St Martin’s Church, Bilborough

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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The second site I visited as part of the Open Heritage Weekend was St Martin’s Church in Bilborough. I’d been planning on coming here anyway, as an exhibition on Evelyn Gibbs, whose mural can be found at the church, had caught my eye on my last visit to Nottingham Castle, so this proved to be a good opportunity to visit.

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Behind the Scenes at Nottingham Central Library

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Louise Jayne

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[Note: This took place before it was announced that Nottingham City Council have sold the library building as office space. At time of writing there is no clear plan as to what they are going to do with the library].

I managed to visit three different sites during Heritage Open Weekend in September,  (yep, that behind with writing things up again!) where places in England open up for free or access is granted to places normally closed to the public. One of the options available that caught my eye was a behind the scenes tour of Nottingham Central Library which is my local library.

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Creswell Crags

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Louise Jayne

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Creswell Crags is one of the UK’s most important Ice Age sites and at only an hour or so away from Nottingham, a relatively local place I’ve been meaning to visit for some time.

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Wollaton Hall Wildlife 2016

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Louise Jayne

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The deer at Wollaton Hall are currently rutting so I thought that would be a good opportunity to take some photographs (being mindful not to get too close, of course!) Below are some of the photos I captured of the stags, plus geese and swans around the lake.

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Nottingham Architecture Special: Watson Fothergill Contd.

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Louise Jayne

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As a follow-up to my earlier post on the work of Watson Fothergill, Nottingham architect, here are some more of his beautiful buildings. The first is the Rose of England pub, built in 1899. I’ve often admired the Gothic look of it and it’s immediately recognisable as Fothergill’s work.

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Nottingham Castle: The Leonardo da Vinci Drawings

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Louise Jayne

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Nottingham Castle is currently displaying (until 9 October) 10 of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, on loan from the Royal Collection. The drawings take in many of Leonardo’s eclectic interests spanning anatomy, botany and engineering and were done in pen and ink, chalk and watercolours.

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Bromley House Library

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Louise Jayne

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Bromley House Library is in a gorgeous Georgian townhouse on Angel Row in Nottingham that was built in 1752 for George Smith, grandson of the founders of Smiths Bank. I’ve passed the front door a countless amount of times and never noticed it was there. I first heard about it a couple of years ago but it was only this year, when the library is celebrating 200 years of continuous operation that I finally got around to going on one of their free tours.

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Nottingham City Centre Architecture

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Louise Jayne

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As part of an ongoing series this post covers some of the more striking architecture of Nottingham city centre which wasn’t designed by Watson Forthergill (for some of those buildings, see here.)

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