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14th century cross legged knight - Salisbury Cathedral

By walwyn - November 14th, 2011

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Once thought to be an effigial monument to William Longspee (d1250) the date of the armour places this as a 14th century monument.

Ashby St Ledgers

By walwyn - August 4th, 2009

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Principal home of the Catesby family from 1375 to the first part of the 1600s. The manor was briefly confiscated in 1485 following the execution of William Catesby, a principle councilor to Richard III, who had been captured by Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth (22 August 1485). The manor next came to prominence when Robert Catesby (1573 – November 8, 1605), became the originator of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up James I and Parliament in 1605.

Breedon-on-the-Hill

By walwyn - October 24th, 2009

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This parish church of St Mary and St Hardulph was formerly the church of an Augustinian Priory founded early C12. Formally a fortified hilltop a monastery was established there by the C7. The first Abbot Hedda became the second bishop of Lichfield in 691.

The monastery was destroyed by the Danes and not re-established until the foundation of the Augustinian Priory in early C12, the church was remodeled in the C13 with a long and wide chancel which is today's nave.

Brixworth

By walwyn - November 3rd, 2011

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The Anglo-Saxon church of All Saints, Brixworth in Northamptonshire stands on a hill over looking the village. Built from local ironstone and lias it consists of a west tower, nave, presbytery, south aisle Lady Chapel, and apse. Though restored in the 1860s it retains a number of features from when it was built in 680 AD.

The church is some 140ft long and 30ft wide, making it the largest Angle-Saxon chuch in England, and one of the most important architectural buildings in the country.

Burton Dassett

By walwyn - June 17th, 2009

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The Domesday book records that there was a small Saxon church occupying this site where the current nave is. At that time the land was owned by the saxon Lord Harold of Sudeley who mainly owned land in Gloucestershire.

The present church is built of Hornton stone and dates from the early C12 through to C13, the oldest parts being the Norman doorways in the South and North.

Chesterton

By walwyn - June 1st, 2009

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The parish church of St Giles, Chesterton, is mostly of an early C14 Decorated style, with some remnants of an earlier C13 church. The church itself is in an isolated field some distance from the village, but near to the old Peytos mansion that was pulled down in 1802. Its isolation makes the inscription on the sundial strange, as there were hardly ever anyone around to loiter.

Built in 1632 to a design attributed to either Indigo Jones or his pupil John Stone. The design of this windmill is unique both structurally and mechanically. It is a circular structure which consists of a high open ground floor with six pillars and raking round arches, and an upper floor. There is no staircase and access to the upper floor must have been by ladder.

The machinery was modified in 1860 and last used in 1910.

The Newport Tower (Rhode Island) is a similar construction and is thought to have been modelled on this windmill.

Church of St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness

By walwyn - May 27th, 2009

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A church has been on this site since the 13th Century but the only original part is the base of the tower, the upper part of the tower is 18th century. Most of the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1844.

The interior contains a number of 16th-18th century monuments, dedicated to the Shuckburgh family.

The church itself stands on a small rise in the deer park of Shuckburgh Hall which is a few 100 metres away.
The tower contains 4 bells from the mid 17th century, three of which were made by Henry Bagley.

Gilbert I de Clare

By walwyn - February 10th, 2012

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Gilbert de Clare, 5th earl of Gloucester, and his father Richard de Clare, were among the 25 barons who pledged to enforce the provisions of the Magna Charta, as a result both were excommunicated by Pope Innocent III.