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Ashby St Ledgers

Manor house Ashby St LedgersPrincipal 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.

Brixworth

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.
 

Centre André Chastel

The Andre Chastell Centre is dedicated to French art history, including sculpture, architecture, and stained glass.

Children and Monuments from the late medieval period to the 17th century.

Monuments or memorials to children in English churches were extremely rare until the late 18th and early 19th century. In the 16th century one can find the occassional child tomb amongst the aristocracy, such as that of the The Noble Impe at St Mary's Warwick, but otherwise children do not appear to have warranted memorials in their own right.

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture

The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) is a project to identify, record and publish in a consistent format, the earliest English sculpture dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries.

Corpus of Romanesque sculpture in Britain and Ireland

An archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture. Romanesque sculpture marks a high point of artistic production in Britain and Ireland, corresponding to the boom in high-quality building that followed the Norman Conquest in 1066, and reflecting a new set of links with mainland Europe.

Evreux - France


There are two churches in the town of Evreux that contain extensive amounts of medieval stained glass a) the cathedral of Notre-Dame, and b) the abbey church of Saint-Taurin.
 

Fawsley

Fawsley Hall Fawsley Hall was the home of the Knightley Family from the turn of the C15. Where they developed the land for sheep farming. At the end of the C15 the peasants were evicted to make more land available for sheep.
 
The present hall dates from early C16 and was extended throughout the C16, a Georgian classical style wing was added in C18 and the Estate landscaped by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in the 1760s and 1770s.
 

Great Britain's National Survey of Medieval Stained Glass

The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) is the international research project dedicated to recording medieval stained glass. Site contains an archive of more than 23,000 images, dissertations and documents, and also publishes the vidimus journal.
 

International Stained-Glass Centre - Chartres - France

Established in 1980, the International Stained-Glass Centre promotes the study and conservation of stained glass.
 

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