St Leonard’s Church in Wollaton, Nottingham, has been around since the 1200s and it would have fallen under the care of the Mortein and then the Willoughby families, owners of the nearby Wollaton Hall.
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Throwback Thursday: St Leonard’s Church, Wollaton
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: architecture, church, history, monument, photo post, stained glass, Wollaton, wollaton antiphonal, Wollaton Hall
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York Minster
York Minster is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe and more than half of Europe’s medieval stained glass is in its windows. The first church on the site dates from around 627 but the present building dates from around 1220.
Categories: England, York, Yorkshire
Tags: archaeology, chapter house, church, photo post, Roman, stained glass, statue, tower, view, York, York Minster
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Heathcote Buildings, Nottingham
The Heathcote Buildings were erected in 1881 from a design by the Nottingham architects Walker and Howitt. Then, as now, it was built with shops in mind, though the top floor was a lace warehouse.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: Heathcote building, John Heathcoat, photo post, stained glass
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Paycocke’s House and Garden
Paycocke’s House and Garden is a National Trust property in Coggeshall, Essex. The house was built in 1509 by Thomas Paycocke, a wealthy cloth merchant, one of the richest men in Coggeshall. The wool Paycocke produced, known as Coggeshall white, was said to be one of the best cloths in the country.
Categories: Coggeshall, England, Essex
Tags: Coggeshall, flowers, garden, Paycocke House and Gardens, photo post, stained glass, Thomas Paycocke
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Charlecote Park
Charlecote Park is an impressive 16th century National Trust property on the banks of the River Avon in Warwickshire. Not only are the interiors beautifully decorated, but it is surrounded by a deer park where we were fortunate to get quite close to the deer, and the River Avon is literally on its door step.
Categories: England, Warwickshire
Tags: charlecote park, deer, deer park, Elizabeth I, flowers, garden, national trust, park, stained glass, statue, william shakespeare
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Dr Johnson’s House
Dr Johnson’s House is the 300 year old townhouse where Samuel Johnson lived and worked compiling his dictionary. Built by Richard Gough, a wool merchant, his is the only house to have survived from that time, including being damaged during the Blitz. It is nestled away down side streets off Fleet Street and it was a little tricky to find, though this could equally have been down to me paying more attention to photographing the area as it was to a surprising lack of signage.
Categories: England, London
Tags: black history, cat, david garrick, Francis Barber, london, plaque, samuel johnson, stained glass, stained glass window, statue
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Tyburn Convent
On my last trip to London I decided to head out to Marble Arch and take a photograph of the Tyburn Tree plaque which marks the site where the famous gallows were located. It was while researching its exact location that I discovered the existence of Tyburn Convent which houses a crypt with relics of the martyrs who died at Tyburn.
Categories: England, London
Tags: crypt, london, martyrs, nuns, photo post, plaque, relics, stained glass, stained glass window, tyburn, tyburn convent, tyburn tree
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Cathedral Church of St Barnabas, Nottingham
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.
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Tags: augustus pugin, cathedral, lancet style, st barnabas cathedral, stained glass, stained glass window, statue
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Behind the Scenes at Nottingham Central Library
[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.
Leicester Cathedral
The main focus on a recent trip to Leicester was all things Richard III and naturally that included a visit to Leicester Cathedral where his remains were reinterred on March 26th 2015. After having been to the Visitor Centre and seen displays on how the remains were discovered (blog post here) we were keen to see his final resting place for ourselves.
Categories: England, Leicester, Leicestershire
Tags: cathedral, Leicester, leicester cathedral, pall, photo post, Richard III, stained glass, stained glass window, tomb
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