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St Germanus' Church, Faulkbourne

St Germanus' Church is an active Church of England church in the village of Faulkbourne in Essex, England. Much of the existing church dates to the 12th and 13th centuries. It has been Grade I listed since 1967. The church is dedicated to Saint Germanus, a bishop of Auxerre in Late Antique Gaul, who visited Britain to suppress the Pelagian heresy in about 429. The church may have been dedicated to Saint Germanus because it was consecrated on his feast day, 31 July. History The original Norman church, dating from the 12th century, was extended in the 13th century and restored in the 19th century. Its walls are constructed mainly of flint rubble and Roman brick, with red-clay tiles on the roof. It has a timber-framed bell turret and spire, with a red-brick porch and vestry, both attached to the south wall. In late 1886, the church was restored by the architect Arthur Blomfield at a cost of £800. A service was held on 21 October 1886 to mark the reopening of the church following its restoration, with the sermon delivered by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Legh Claughton, Bishop of St Albans. The church contains a number of memorials to the Bullock family, who owned Faulkbourne Hall from 1637 to 1897. Parish Today the parish is part of the Witham and Villages benefice. Partial list of rectors ... Rev. John Harrison (1746–1798) Rev. John Watson (1798–1818) Rev. John Bullock (1818–1845) Rev. Robert Burdett Burgess (1845–1847) Rev. Walter Trevelyan Bullock (1847–1853) Rev. Frederick Spurrell (1853–1898) ... Rev. Canon Francis William Galpin (1921–1933) ... Rev. John Michael Hall (1993–2013) References
St Mary Magdalene's Church, Albrighton

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Albrighton is the 12th-century parish church of Albrighton, Shropshire. It is the largest church in the village, and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building since 1984. History Although it is likely that there was a church in Albrighton prior to the 12th century, the current building was constructed in 1181. In the 13th century, the chancel and south aisle were added to the church. To make room for church bells, the roof of the tower was raised in 1549 — the tower itself dates from the 12th century. Between the years of 1852 and 1853, under the direction of H.J. Stephens of Derby, the interior of the church was restored, and the north aisle was built, as well as a porch. Notable features Tomb of Sir John Talbot The alabaster tomb of Sir John Talbot, who died in 1555, and his wife, Lady Frances Giffard, is located within the chancel. They were ancestors of several later Earls of Shrewsbury. Traces of colour are still visible upon the tomb. The Pitchford Tomb The Pitchford Tomb is said to date from the 14th century. Originally, it was discovered beneath the south aisle in 1853, and was moved into the churchyard, only to be moved again, in 1921, back into the church. The tomb is so called because the Pitchford family shield is located on its side; the shields of other families who played a part in the maintenance of the church are also displayed on the tomb. Churchyard Churchyard cross A sandstone churchyard cross, the base of which dates from either the 14th or 15th century, is located within the churchyard. The shaft and head were repaired in the 20th century. The cross is grade II* listed. Chest tomb of Ann Gold The sandstone tomb of Ann Mary Gold, dating from 1805, and located within St Mary Magdalene's churchyard, is a grade II listed monument. War graves Four British service personnel have Commonwealth war graves in the churchyard: two soldiers from World War I and a soldier and Home Guardsman of World War II. References
Baldersby St James Primary School

Baldersby St James Primary School is a former school in Baldersby St James, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The school was commissioned by William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe, and designed by William Butterfield. It was completed in 1854, along with an attached schoolhouse. It operated as a primary school until 2022, when it had only 22 pupils. At the time, it was run by the Hope Sentamu Learning Trust, which decided to close it, given that pupil numbers were projected to further decline. The school was placed on the market for £550,000, for community use. The school and schoolhouse were jointly grade II* listed in 1971. Both the school and house are in stone. The school has a roof of Westmorland slate, and on the house is a tile roof. The school has an L-shaped plan containing two rooms, and a gabled timber-framed porch. In the left gable end of the main hall are two two-light windows, and on the roof are flues in the form of truncated pyramids. The house has a single storey and an attic, and five bays. In the centre is a wooden porch with bargeboards, the flanking windows are three-light sashes with mullions, and above are two-light mullioned windows in half-hipped dormers. Inside is the original wooden staircase, with an open wooden screen at its foot. The boundary wall and gates are Grade II listed. See also Listed buildings in Baldersby References
The Old Deanery, Ripon

The Old Deanery is a historic building in Ripon, a city in North Yorkshire, in England. In the Saxon period, St Wilfrid's Monastery was built, including what became Ripon Minster. The buildings to the north of the minster were cleared and replaced by the Bedern, accommodation for the vicars choral. This became disused in 1604 when James VI and I replaced the vicars choral with canons. The current building was constructed by the middle of the century, to house the Dean of Ripon. It originally had an H-shaped plan, but was extended in the rear centre in 1799. The building was altered in the 19th century, and a staircase extension was added in the early 21st century. The building has long served as a hotel, but in the 2020s it described itself as a "restaurant with rooms", and was listed in the Michelin Guide. The building is constructed of limestone with a hipped stone slate roof. It has two storeys and attics, and three bays, flanked by projecting gabled wings with chamfered coping on cut stone kneelers. The central doorway has a four-centred arch, a two-light fanlight and a hood mould. The windows are mullioned and transomed, and there is a small gabled dormer containing an achievement and an inscription. On the wings are two-storey canted bay windows with string courses and parapets. Inside, it has a 17th-century staircase described by Historic England as "extremely fine", numerous ceilings with 17th-century plasterwork and others with plasterwork from 1799, and a couple of 18th-century fireplaces. The wall which runs along the north side of Minster Road, in front of the building, was built in about 1500 and is grade II listed. It is built of limestone, on a moulded chamfered plinth, with moulded coping. It contains a pair of gate piers with moulded cornices, a gateway with a moulded surround and a segmental cusped head, and a door with ogee panelling. See also Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire (district) Listed buildings in Ripon References External links Official website
St Mary the Virgin's Church, Great Bircham

St Mary's Church, Great Bircham dates from the 12th-century, and is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in Great Bircham, Norfolk. History The earliest parts of the church are the Norman tower dating from ca. 1200. The tower door is 12th century and the north door and Purbeck marble font date from the 13th century. The chancel is early 14th century and the nave mid 14th century. The chancel exterior wall is covered in cement render. The 15th century screen survives. The church is noted for its box pews which date from 1850 and are decorated with poppyheads. In 1939, the church sold a crimson cope of about 1480 given by Roger Le Strange in 1505 to the St Peter Hungate Museum in Norwich to fund repairs to the church. Parish status The church is in a joint benefice with: All Saints’ Church, Bircham Newton St Mary's Church, Docking St Mary's Church, Sedgeford All Saints’ Church, Stanhoe All Saints’ Church, Fring Organ In 1869, the church is recorded as having a barrel organ. A new pipe organ was installed in 1882 and was built by E Norman. It was restored in 1926. The current organ dating from 1940 is by Gray and Davison and was originally in Emmanuel Church, Broad Street, Chesham, Buckinghamshire. It was moved to Great Bircham around 1998 and was installed by Kenneth Canter of Bury St Edmunds. A specification of the organ can be found in the National Pipe Organ Register. Bells The tower contains a ring of 5 bells. Two date from the late 17th century and were cast by Charles Newman. The middle bell dates from 1878 by John Warner and Sons. The two heaviest bells are by Mears and Stainbank and date from 1923. References
St Laurence's Church, Winslow

St Laurence's Church is a Church of England parish church in Winslow, Buckinghamshire. It is a grade II* listed building. History The earliest parts of the church dates to the 14th century. It was altered and extended in the late 15th century. It was restored from 1884 to 1889. On 19 August 1959, the church was designated a grade II* listed building. Present day St Laurence's Church is part of the Benefice of Winslow with Great Horwood and Addington in the Archdeaconry of Buckingham of the Diocese of Oxford. The church is a corporate member of the Prayer Book Society. Notable people Jamie Allen, first Dean of Taranaki Cathedral, was an honorary curate from 2003 to 2005 Frank Johnston, formerly Chaplain-General to the Forces, served as priest-in-charge from 1987 to 1991 and rector from 1991 to 1995. See also Winslow War Memorial References External links Benefice website A Church Near You entry
St Michael's Church, Copgrove

St Michael's Church is an Anglican church in Copgrove, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A church was recorded in Copgrove in the Domesday Book, and it is possible that the lowest courses of sandstone in the south nave wall may survive from this building. The church was rebuilt in the 12th century, in limestone, and by 1216 it belonged to the Knights Hospitallers. In the late 17th century, it is believed that a tower and short steeple were removed, and replaced by the current bellcote. The building was restored in 1889, and then more thoroughly by C. Hodgson Fowler in 1897, when the roof was raised and floor lowered. From 1911 until 1919, the rector of the church was Henry Major. The building was Grade II* listed in 1966. It church built of limestone with a stone slate roof, and consists of a nave with a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry. On the west gable is a bellcote with a segmental arch and a moulded pediment. In the chancel is a Norman window, the other chancel windows are Decorated or Perpendicular in style, and the nave windows date from the restoration. In the north-east exterior corner of the vestry is a carved stone, either Saxon or early Norman. It is known as the "Devil's Stone", and depicts a Sheela-na-gig. Inside the church, the altar is a 12th-century slab rediscovered during the restoration. The chancel arch is also a 12th-century survival, with chevron and dogtooth motifs. The nave walls are panelled with wood reused from 17th- and 18th-century pews. There is a brass inscription from 1637, and a board with the arms of Queen Anne of Great Britain, painted over those of Charles II. There are numerous wall memorials from the 18th and 19th centuries, to the Duncombe family, who lived at Copgrove Hall. See also Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire (district) Listed buildings in Copgrove References
Scow Hall

Scow Hall is a historic building near Norwood, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The farmhouse was built as a timber framed aisle hall in the 16th century, and rebuilt in stone in the 17th century. It was further altered and extended in the 19th century. In 1900, it was purchased by Leeds City Council as part of a waterworks scheme, but continued to be let out as a farmhouse until 1926, when a replacement was built. It was thereafter used as a blacksmiths' shop, cow house, dovecote and chicken coop in increasingly poor condition. In 1952, local historian Fred Morrell convinced the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England to study the building, and it was grade II* listed in 1966. In 1976, Leeds City Council sold it to Ann Skelton, who restored the property as a house. The remainder of the farm is owned by Yorkshire Water, which lets it to young farmers for five-year periods as part of a scheme to train them in sustainable agriculture. The house has a timber-framed core encased in gritstone, and has a stone slate roof. There are two storeys and five bays. The doorway has chamfered quoined jambs, a triangular head, and a hood mould. Most of the windows are mullioned. Inside, much of the timber framing remains. See also Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire (district) Listed buildings in Norwood, North Yorkshire References
St Andrew's Church, Naunton

St Andrew's Church is an Anglican parish church in Naunton, Gloucestershire, dedicated to St Andrew the Apostle. History Dating from the 13th century, the church replaced a Saxon church on the same site. It was rebuilt in the 15th, when a tower was added, and restored in 1878. It was named a Grade II* listed building in 1960. It has two 18th-century sundials, one inscribed in Latin Lux Umbra Dei: "Light [is] the shadow of God." The Renaissance playwright and poet Ulpian Fulwell was Rector of Naunton from about 1570 until his death in about 1586, but seems to have neglected his clerical duties. An episcopal visitation in 1572 concluded that the church building was decaying. Four years later Fulwell was fined when his clerk was found to be illiterate and that parents had ceased to send their children to catechism classes. Another Rector, from 1660, was the prolific author and translator Clement Barksdale (1609–1687), who held the parish in plurality with Stow-on-the-Wold. Present day At present the parish of Naunton is part of the Archdeaconry of Cheltenham in the Diocese of Gloucester. The church has opted to continue using the 1662 Book of Common Prayer for its services. References
Ingatestone Hall

Ingatestone Hall – XVI-wieczny dwór w hrabstwie Essex (Anglia). Został zbudowany przez Williama Petrego. Jego potomkowie mieszkają w nim po dziś dzień. Królowa Elżbieta I spędziła w nim kilka nocy przed adventus regis w 1561 roku. Ingatestone Hall ma dwie kaplice. W jednej z nich nabożeństwa odprawiał św. John Payne, który został stracony w 1582 roku. Ingatestone Hall jest dostępny dla publiczności. „Grał” Bleak House w telewizyjnej adaptacji z 2005 roku powieści Charlesa Dickensa; pojawił się też w kilku odcinkach serialu „Lovejoy”. Zobacz też Ingatestone John Patrick Lionel Petre, 18. baron Petre Linki zewnętrzne touruk.co.uk page
St Mary's Church, Old Hunstanton

St Mary's Church is the parish church of Old Hunstanton in the English county of Norfolk. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The church was built in 14th-century Perpendicular, and restored in 1860 by Frederick Preedy at the instigation of Henry Le Strange. It is Grade I listed. History The church is 14th-century, and replaced an earlier Norman building. The only remnant of the Norman church is the font. The church is built from flint, with a tower in the north west and north and south aisles. The south porch is a 19th-century addition. Architecture and fittings The Norman font is in the traditional location at the west of the nave. The lower panels of the chancel screen are 16th-century. There is a single tenor bell, by John Stephens of Norwich and dating from 1726. Stained glass windows Most of the stained glass dates from the 1860s refurbishment. The five-light east window is generally regarded as Preedy's greatest work. Preedy also designed the three-light Tree of Jesse east window in the south aisle chapel; there are also windows by Powell and Paul Quail. Organ The organ was built in 1936 by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd; the organ case was built by Sir Walter Tapper. Walkers undertook various refurbishments and modifications; the most recent refurbishment was by W. & A. Boggis of Diss in 2008. Bats The church is home to a roost of common pipistrelle and soprano pipistrelle bats. References
Spring Hall Farm

Spring Hall Farm is a farm in Grewelthorpe, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The farm is centred on Spring Hall, built in 1708 as a yeoman's house; a stone at the rear is inscribed "LJB 1708". The hall was grade II* listed in 1967. When put up for sale in 2015, it was advertised as containing an entrance hall, living room, dining room, breakfast room, five bedrooms and two bathrooms. The house is built of stone, with quoins, and a stone slate roof with shaped kneelers and stone coping. It has two storeys and eight bays. On the front is a full-height porch containing a doorway with a chamfered surround and a hood mould, above which is a rectangular window with a moulded surround, and a coped gable with shaped kneelers. The other windows are mullioned with two lights. At the rear is a lozenge-shaped initialled and dated stone, and inside there is a large inglenook fireplace. The farm buildings to the northwest are separately listed at grade II. They are built of stone with a stone slate roof. The western range contains a large threshing barn incorporating a pigeoncote. At the northwest corner is a two-storey cart shed range with a granary above, and to the left is a stable range with five doorways. To the southeast of the barn is a wall linking with an outbuilding. See also Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire (district) Listed buildings in Grewelthorpe References
St Laurence's Church, Blackmore

St Laurence's Church is an Anglican church, in the village of Blackmore, Essex, England. It is a former priory church, and is noted for its wooden bell tower. It is a Grade I listed building. The priory Richard, Bishop of London from 1155 to 1162, gave authority for the foundation of Blackmore Priory, and the earliest parts of the building are of the late 12th century. The priory was dissolved in 1527, as part of Cardinal Wolsey's attempts to reform the church & divert some of its revenues to fund educational foundations. As such, this suppression was to form a model for the later Dissolution of the Monasteries, many smaller monasteries being closed in that year, mostly on the grounds of having insufficient numbers to fulfil their original religious obligations. John Smyth, auditor to the King, bought the site in 1540. The nave is that of the former priory; the building once extended further east, but this part was demolished in the 1540s. History of the building It is thought that the priory church originally had a high nave, with lower roofs over the aisles; in the late 14th century, one roof was erected over the nave and aisles. The dormer windows were built in the Tudor period, but it is not known if they predate the truncation of the church. The Smyth family were important in the village, through to 1721. In the south aisle there is an altar-tomb of Thomas Smyth (died 1594) and his wife Margaret. There are floor slabs in the chancel and nave, of the 17th and 18th centuries, of family members. From 1600 there have been no structural changes. The north porch is of the 19th century. There was restoration from 1895 to 1905 by Frederick Chancellor: the north arcade was rebuilt, and the east end of the north aisle was rebuilt. The bell tower There are many timber bell towers in this part of Essex. The construction of this tower is similar to that of the church at Margaretting, and it is thought the same architect may have constructed both. Unusually, this tower is in three stages. There are five bells in the tower, two of them cast by Miles Graye, in 1648 and 1657. In the 1960s Cecil Hewett, by means of radiocarbon dating and with knowledge of medieval carpentry in Essex, dated the bell tower at Blackmore to about 1480. In 2004 Dr Martin Bridge, of the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory, took samples of wood from the tower, so that the age could be determined by dendrochronology. For three of them, the date of felling of the timber was found, the years being from 1397 to 1400. The conclusion was that the tower was built earlier than had been supposed: in 1400 or within the following two years. References
St Giles' Church, Mountnessing

St. Giles' Church is the parish church of Mountnessing, Essex, located about one and a half miles southeast of the village. It was first built in the 12th century, and appropriated to Thoby Priory. It was largely rebuilt in the late 19th century. History The church originated in the late–11th century. In the mid–12th century the church was gifted to Thoby Priory by Michael Chèvre and confirmed by Richard, bishop of London 1152–1162. The north and south aisles were built in the mid–13th century. The east wall of the north aisle incorporates re-used rubble from the former north wall of the nave, including indurated conglomerate, Roman bricks and tiles, and field stones. The north wall has been re-worked but re-uses similar rubble; it has a doorway and two windows with trefoiled heads, all 13th-century. The north arcade is also mid–13th century, the south slightly later; these are composed of two arches. The roof of the nave retains three 15th-century crown posts, but has since been rebuilt. The timber belfry in the west end of the nave was built in the 15th century. The brick west front of the church has a 1653 date plate. The chancel was rebuilt in brick in the early 19th century; a brick in the east wall is inscribed "SB. 1818", probably the master builder and date of construction. The chancel arch may incorporate some 14th-century work. Much of the church was rebuilt in 1889 by partners George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner. The south aisle was rebuilt and the north aisle re-faced. This is also when the south porch, organ chamber, vestry, pulpit and sounding board were added. The south porch was rebuilt 1912-13. A small north extension was built in 2002. The stained glass window on the east wall of the chancel was designed by Henry Holiday and made by James Powell & Sons in 1869; the one on the east wall of the north aisle was made in 1891, by Charles Eamer Kempe. In the church there is a long chest probably from the 13th century, and a 15th-century font from All Saints Church in Hutton. The communion rail is early 18th century. On the east wall there are paintings of Moses and Aaron. These were formerly part of a 1726 reredos in St Martin, Little Waltham, and were installed here in 1888. The church was Grade I listed by Historic England in 1967 because of the "outstanding quality" of the timber belfry. References Media related to St Giles Church, Mountnessing at Wikimedia Commons