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St Andrew's Church, Raveningham

St Andrew's Church is the parish church of Raveningham in Norfolk, England, and in the Diocese of Norwich. It is a round-tower church, dating mostly from the medieval period. The building is Grade II* listed. Description The manor of Raveningham was held by the Castell (originally de Castello) family from the early 13th century; it passed to the Bacon family on the marriage of Mary Castell to Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Baronet, of Mildenhall, in the early 18th century. The church is situated in the grounds of Raveningham Hall. It is built of flint, with a slate roof; the walls are rendered over. The round tower dates from the 12th century, with an octagonal upper part of the 13th century. The south door has fine ironwork of the 12th century, in the form of foliate crosses. Interior The nave, of the 15th century, has a north aisle of four bays, and a wide chancel arch. In the south-west corner of the nave is a marble monument surmounted by an urn, a memorial to Edward Hodge (1782–1815). The 15th-century font is octagonal; the eight panels of the bowl show the Four Evangelists, alternately with their symbols, and around the stem are four seated lions. The chancel dates from about 1300. Along both sides of the chancel are crocketted triangular arches, framing memorials to members of the Bacon family; the earliest is to Sir Edmund Bacon, 8th and 9th Baronet (1749–1820), who built Raveningham Hall. They are styled from the original in the centre of the south wall, a 14th-century tomb recess sculpted with foliage. On the chancel floor are memorials to members of the Castell and Bacon families including, in the west end of the chancel, a brass to Margaret Castyll (died 1483). References External links Media related to St Andrew's Raveningham at Wikimedia Commons
Hospital Block

Der Hospital Block, auch Old Hospital Block, ist ein dreistöckiges Backsteingebäude im inneren Festungsring des Tower of London. Es dient als Wohnhaus für vier Angestellte des Tower of London. Wie jedes Gebäude im Tower ist es als eigenständiges Denkmal geschützt, zusammen mit der Terrasse vor dem Gebäude und dem daran angebrachten eisernen Gitter. Das Gebäude bestand ursprünglich aus zwei Häusern. Diese wurden 1718 zum Preis von £3000 durch das Board of Ordnance als Wohnhäuser für vier Angestellte des Board of Ordnance gebaut. Im Krimkrieg wurden die beiden Häuser zu einem Gebäude verbunden. Es erhielt seinen jetzigen Namen, als Kriegsinvaliden dort untergebracht wurden. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden hier kurzzeitig deutsche Kriegsgefangene, meist U-Boot-Besatzungen, untergebracht, bevor diese in Lager im Norden Englands verlegt wurden. Der letzte dieser Gefangenen verließ den Tower im Mai 1940. Die Deutschen entgingen so den deutschen Fliegerbomben, die den Hospital Block im September 1940 teilweise zerstörten. Der Nordflügel des Gebäudes wurde danach abgerissen. Anmerkungen Weblinks Old Hospital Block auf pastscape.org.uk
Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain

The Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain (also known as the Victoria Fountain) is a Grade II* listed drinking fountain situated in Victoria Park, London. History The fountain was designed in 1862 by Henry Astley Darbsihire and erected by Baroness Burdett Coutts at a cost of £5,000. The fountain is made out of granite, and is a 28 feet (8.5 m) diameter octagon with 60 feet (18 m) red granite columns, in the Gothic style, and is situated near to the Hackney gate of the park. The opening of the fountain in 1862 was attended by 10,000 spectators. The year after the fountain was installed, The Illustrated London News called Victoria Park the best people's park in London, due to its facilities such as the fountain. In his Dictionary of London, Charles Dickens, Jr. described the fountain as "beautiful". In 1975, the fountain was given Grade II* listed status by Historic England. In 2011, the fountain was refurbished as part of a major restoration of Victoria Park. The fountain is no longer in public use. References External links Media related to Baroness Burdett Coutts drinking fountain at Wikimedia Commons Historic England. "Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain (1235552)". National Heritage List for England.
Church of St Mary, Compton Dando

Location The Anglican Church of St Mary in Compton Dando within the English county of Somerset dates from the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. History and features The Gothic style church was originally built in the 14th century, but has been revised several times. It has a west three stage square tower supported by diagonal buttresses. There is a peal of six bells in the tower. There is a date of 1735 in the chancel, which is probably from one of the revisions, however most of the current fabric is from a Victorian restoration. Inside the church is a piscina. The font and pulpit are from 1833. The churchyard contains a sundial. The parish is part of the benefice of Publow with Pensford, Compton Dando and Chelwood within the Diocese of Bath and Wells. In popular culture The church and churchyard are also the scene for the fourth series of the ITV Bath-set crime drama McDonald & Dodds. See also List of ecclesiastical parishes in the Diocese of Bath and Wells References
St Edward the Confessor's Church, Leek

St Edward the Confessor's Church is an active Anglican church in Leek, Staffordshire, England. The building, which dates back to the 13th century, is listed Grade II*. It is Leek's original parish church, although the parish now includes other churches such as All Saints which were built as the town's population increased. Restorations Much of the church's appearance reflects two 19th-century restorations. The first was by Ewan Christian, who in 1847 was appointed consulting architect to the Lichfield Diocesan Building Society. He went on to carry out many more restorations as architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The church's second restoration was by George Edmund Street, a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival. Glass, memorials and textiles There is stained glass made by Morris and Co, including designs by George Frederick Bodley (north and south rose windows), Edward Burne-Jones (north aisle east window) and John Henry Dearle (south aisle window). The church owns examples of the work of the Leek School of Embroidery which was founded in 1879/1880 by the embroideress Lady Elizabeth Wardle and her husband Sir Thomas Wardle. One of the windows is a memorial to her. Within the church are the Leek Air Crews WWII Memorial Board and the Pte H. A. Tudor Memorial. Churchyard The wall surrounding the churchyard and the lychgate are listed Grade II. The churchyard contains two early medieval (11th century according to one source) crosses which are listed Grade II and are also protected as scheduled monuments Cross, south Cross, southeast Double sunset The churchyard is notable as a place for viewing a double sunset on and around the summer solstice. The sun has been observed to set twice behind a hill some six miles from Leek. The phenomenon was first described by Robert Plot in a 1686 publication. It is still visible from Leek, depending on the weather. By the time Plot publicised it, this double sunset would have been visible for centuries. The relevant alignments change over time, but it has been calculated that the double sunset predates the arrival of Christianity in Roman Britain. There has been speculation that the site was regarded as a holy place in pagan times and that the construction of a church was done to Christianise it. See also Grade II* listed buildings in Staffordshire Moorlands Listed buildings in Leek, Staffordshire Notes and references Notes 1.^ A shortened version of Kilburn's article can be accessed at Dr. Plot and the Amazing Double Sunset. References External links website
St John's Church, Silverdale

St John's Church is in Emesgate Lane, Silverdale, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Tunstall, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is notable for the high quality of the stone carving in the interior. History There was a chapel in the parish before the Reformation, and this was rebuilt in 1829. The present church was built in 1884–86 and designed by Ball and Elce of Manchester. The chapel was then used as a mortuary chapel. Architecture Exterior The church is constructed in local grey limestone with dressings in buff sandstone. It has a red tile roof. The plan consists of a four -bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a north porch, north and south transepts, a chancel at a lower level, and a west tower. The tower is in three stages, and has a moulded west doorway and angle buttresses. In the middle stage is a three-light window containing reticulated tracery, and in the top stage are two two-light bell openings on each side. At the summit is an embattled parapet with corner gargoyles. The windows are Decorated in style, and those in the clerestory are circular. Interior The interior of the church is in sandstone. The arcades have compound piers and pointed arches, and there is an open timber roof. The carved stonework is by J. J. Millson of Manchester. It includes a statue of Saint John in a niche in the tower wall, roof corbels in the form of angels, and the capitals of the piers, which depict scenes from the Book of Revelation. The reredos was designed by Ball and carved by Millson. In the chancel is a triple sedilia, and the font is decorated with foliage, tracery and shafts. The furnishings in the choir, and the pulpit, are by James Hatch of Lancaster. There is stained glass in the south aisle by H. G. Hiller and Company dating from about 1926, and by Arthur George Moore of Liverpool from the 1930s. The clerestory contains a scheme of windows by Carl Almquist of Shrigley and Hunt dated 1891. The glass in the west window is also by Almquist, it depicts the Nativity and dates from 1886. The two-manual pipe organ was built in 1897 by Abbott and Smith of Leeds. There is a ring of six bells, all cast in 1886 by John Warner and Sons. A glass screen between the tower and the body of the church was installed in 2013, to reduce draughts. It measures 6 metres (20 ft) x 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) and is an art work named "Revelation" by Lancashire artist Sarah Galloway. Appraisal St John's Church was designated as a Grade II* listed building on 2 May 1968. Grade II* is applied to "particularly important buildings of more than special interest". The List Entry Summary states that "the interior is unusual for the high quality of stone carving". Hartwell and Pevsner in the Buildings of England series consider that "the carved work ... makes the interior memorable". See also Grade II* listed buildings in Lancashire Listed buildings in Silverdale, Lancashire References
St Peter and St Paul, Chingford

St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Chingford, London. The church is a Grade II* listed building. History It was built in 1844 by the architect Lewis Vulliamy, and the eastern parts were added in 1903 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. It was paid for with £5,000 of his own money by Robert Boothby Heathcote, the then rector of All Saints, Chingford, who was concerned about the poor condition of that church. On 28 June 1954, the church was designated a Grade II* listed building. Present day The parish of Chingford is in the Archdeaconry of West Ham of the Diocese of Chelmsford. The parish worships in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England. Notable clergy Maxwell Hutchinson, architect, serves as parish deacon since 2016 Gallery References
Gillingham Hall

Gillingham Hall is a Jacobean manor house in the village of Gillingham, Norfolk, England. It is a Grade II* Listed Building. The house has 10-bedrooms and was built in the early 16th century. It was altered and enlarged in the 18th and 19th centuries, including an 18th-century walled garden, and 19th century additions to the stable block. History 16th century: The Gillingham Estate was founded by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Gillingham Hall was built by his son, Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor and the first baronet of Gillingham, in the early 1600s. Gillingham Hall remained in the family, always passing through the female line, until it was sold in 2000. 19th century: Gillingham Hall passed to Admiral Henry Eden in 1849 when he married Elizabeth Harriet Georgiana Beresford, daughter of Lord George Beresford. They had no children, so on Elizabeth's death, the Hall was inherited (much to his surprise) by John George Kenyon, Elizabeth's nephew. Kenyon, a passionate follower of John Henry Newman, had converted to Roman Catholicism in 1870, fought as a Papal Zouave against Garibaldi and was made a Knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great and Papal Chamberlain to Pope Leo XIII and to Pope Pius X. Kenyon immediately set about supporting the Benedictine Catholic mission at nearby Beccles. He helped to build two churches locally: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Gillingham (a private Chapel of Ease which remains in family ownership) and St Benet's Minster, Beccles. 21st century: In 2000, Gillingham Hall was sold to Hassanain al-Nakeeb, a hotel owner and breeder of Arabian horses. In 2005, al-Nakeeb put Gillingham Hall up for sale. It was bought by Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond. On his death in 2014, the house passed to his son Edward Haughey, the current owner. References
Chipping Norton Town Hall

Chipping Norton Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The building, which is used as an events venue, is a Grade II* listed building. History The first municipal building in the town was a guildhall which was built for the Guild of the Holy Trinity in 1520. Following the dissolution of the chantries in 1548, the guildhall was acquired by the town and subsequently used by civic leaders as their meeting place. In the early 1840s, the local member of parliament, James Langston, led a campaign to commission a more substantial structure. The site he selected was occupied by an ancient market house with nine pillars and a pyramid-shaped roof which was demolished to make way for the new structure. The new building was designed by George Stanley Repton in the Palladian style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1842. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with nine bays facing onto the east side of the High Street. It featured a flight of seven steps leading up to a tetrastyle portico with Doric order columns supporting an entablature and a pediment; there were niches in the outer bays on the front elevation. The western elevation was arcaded on the ground floor and was fenestrated by seven tall sash windows flanked by pilasters supporting an entablature; there were again niches in the end bays, which slightly projected forward. The end elevations were arcaded on the ground floor and were fenestrated by rows of three sash windows flanked by pilasters supporting entablatures and pediments. The northern pediment was surmounted by a bellcote; some years later a clock (manufactured by local clockmaker Samuel Simms, c. 1849) was placed in the tympanum below. Internally, the principal rooms on the ground floor were the four cells for the incarceration of pretty criminals, the weighbridge for measuring the weight of goods being traded and the space for the horse-drawn fire engine, while the principal room on the first floor was the council chamber which was also used as a court room. A grand dinner was held in the town hall in August 1855 to celebrate the official opening of the Chipping Norton Railway. A weather vane, designed in the form of a foxhound, was presented to the town by the Heythrop Hunt and installed at the top of the bellcote in March 1950. The building was badly damaged in a fire on 3 March 1950: while the shell of the building survived, much of the interior was destroyed. It continued to serve as the local seat of government until the enlarged West Oxfordshire District Council was formed at Witney in 1974, and subsequently continued to be used as a venue for major events such as the local Brexit debate in June 2016. Works of art in the town hall include a portrait by Walter William Ouless of the member of parliament, Albert Brassey, a portrait by Edward S. Harper of the former mayor, Alderman Henry Field Wilkins and a portrait by an unknown artist of the local politician, James Langston. See also Grade II* listed buildings in West Oxfordshire Notes References
St Barnabas Church, Walthamstow

The Church of St Barnabas and St James the Greater, Walthamstow, is an Edwardian era Church of England parish church in Walthamstow, London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The church originated in 1900 when an iron mission church was erected on a plot of land in the parish of St Saviour in Markhouse Road, and a separate ecclesiastical parish was created for the church in 1901. The land for the church was donated by Richard Foster, a wealthy City of London merchant who had supported the building of several other new churches in the area; he also funded the construction of a permanent church building, church hall and vicarage, intended to serve the residents of the new Warner Estate. The church was built between 1902 and 1903 to the design by W. D. Caröe, in the Arts and Crafts style of Perpendicular Gothic, and was dedicated on 7 November 1903 by Edgar Jacob, the Bishop of St Albans. In 1961 the parish of St Barnabas was united with that of St James the Greater Church in St James Street, Walthamstow, which had closed in the previous year and was subsequently demolished. A new chapel dedicated to St James was formed in the south aisle of St Barnabas, which included the altar from the former church. In 1981, the church was given grade II* listed building status. Gallery References
Bliss Tweed Mill

Bliss Tweed Mill is a former mill for the manufacture of tweed. It is located on the edge of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. It became a Grade II* listed building in 1980 as a distinctive work of British industrial architecture. The mill was built in 1872 for cloth manufacturer William Bliss and Son, to make fine tweed cloth from locally produced wool. It was designed by the architect George Woodhouse of Bolton, who also designed mills in Lancashire, including Victoria Mill in Miles Platting; Woodhouse was also involved in the construction of Bolton Town Hall. The main 5-storey spinning building is faced with local limestone and styled to resemble a country house, with square towers at each corner topped by stone urns. Unusually, a large chimney for the furnace to power the mill's steam machinery issues from a dome at the top of a circular tower built into one façade. The chimneystack is styled as a tall Tuscan column. Inside, the building is supported by cast iron columns that carry beams bearing brick vaults. An adjacent lower building was used for weaving the tweed cloth. The millworkers went on strike for eight months from December 1913 to June 1914, over the right of workers to join a trades union, but the mill prospered in the First World War after receiving a large order for khaki cloth for the British Army. The mill closed in 1980 and was converted into residential apartments in around 1988. References Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire: Bliss Tweed Mill, BBC, World War One at Home, 6 November 2014 The strike at Bliss Mill, Banbury Guardian, 20 January 2014 Our heritage, William Bliss & Sons Limited
Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge

Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge is a Grade II* listed former hunting lodge, now a museum, on the edge of Epping Forest, at 8 Rangers Road, Chingford, London E4, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, near Greater London's boundary with Essex. History In 1542, Henry VIII commissioned the building, then known as Great Standing, from which to view the deer chase at Chingford; it was completed in 1543. The building was renovated in 1589 for Elizabeth I. The former lodge, now a three-storey building, has been extensively restored and is now a museum, which has been managed by the City of London Corporation since 1960. Admission is free. There is a smaller hunting lodge, "The Little Standing", about a mile away in Loughton, part of the Warren, the Epping Forest HQ. References External links City of London – Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge
Leytonstone Library

Leytonstone Library is a public library in Leytonstone, London and a grade II* listed building. The library was built in 1934 for Leyton Urban District Council, and is now managed by the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The building's ground floor is let out to retail units with the library on the floor above, which allowed for the construction of a much larger building than would have otherwise been possible. This makes Leytonstone Library an early example of a library being constructed as part of multi-function buildings with both municipal and commercial services, according to Historic England who describe it as "a suburban branch library of considerable architectural ambition ". The front of the building and its entrance lobby, however, was still built in a grand art deco style under the instruction of librarian of the borough, Edward Sydney, with the intention that it should "reflect the pride of the local authority in its library service". During the Second World War, The British Ministry of Information commissioned a series of photographs of the library's interior showing patrons freely browsing the catalogues for use in war propaganda to show a stark contrast with Nazi book-burning, making the library a symbol of freedom and democracy. Following a £1.5 million investment from Waltham Forest Borough Council and an 11-month closure ending in September 2015, the library's facilities now include a theatre hall, upgraded ICT facilities and faster wi-fi, and dedicated sections for adults, teens and children. References
Old Battersea House

Old Battersea House is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Battersea, South West London and is Grade II* listed. It was built around 1699, and was once rumoured to have been designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Building Until the 1930s, the building was known as Terrace House. It was built for the "naval administrator" Samuel Pett, and was most likely completed in 1699. John Perry (shipbuilder) had bought the house in 1810 and "Changes to Perry’s will make clear that the Terrace House was intended as his permanent residence, but he died soon after his purchase in 1810, leaving it to his second wife Mary." Between 1840 and 1926, the house was occupied by a teacher training college - Battersea College, later St Johns College. Founded by James Kay-Shuttleworth, it was the first institution dedicated to training teachers specifically for disadvantaged children. St Johns merged with St Marks College Chelsea on the Chelsea site between 1923 and 1926, forming the College of St Mark and St John. It moved to Plymouth in 1973. Battersea Council almost demolished the house in the 1920s and built St. John's estate (now Battersea Village) on the grounds of the house in the 1930s. In 1931 it passed into the possession of novelist Wilhelmina Stirling, who renamed it Old Battersea House. Under her tenure the house served to house a collection of art by her sister, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan, and Evelyn's husband, the potter designer William De Morgan. This collection is now kept by the De Morgan Foundation. The building was listed on 28 June 1954 and became derelict after Stirling's death in 1965. It was acquired by Malcolm Forbes in 1970 and housed some of his family's valuable art collection until 2011. References