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Moot Hall, Wirksworth

The Moot Hall is a judicial building in Chapel Lane in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England. The building, which is used as the meeting place of the barmote court, a body formed to regulate the local lead mining industry, is a Grade II listed building. History A barmote court was established in the town in order to regulate the local lead mining industry in 1288 during the reign of Edward I. The first permanent building erected to accommodate the barmote court was a moot hall in the Market Place which was commissioned by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon, in 1773. After the first moot hall became dilapidated, a later Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Charles Bathurst, decided to commission a new moot hall in Chapel Lane. The new building was designed in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1814. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto Chapel Lane. The central bay, which was approached by a short flight of steps, contained a double-leaf wooden doorway. Above the doorway was a stone panel, which was surmounted by a coat of arms and engraved with the words: "This hall was built by the direction of the Right Honourable Charles Bathurst, Chancellor of His Majesty's Duchy County Palatine of Lancaster in the 54th year of the resign of His Majesty George III AD MDCCCXIV". The outer bays were fenestrated by sash windows, beyond which there were Hopton Wood stone panels, depicting various lead mining tools including a scales, a pickaxe and a trough. These panels had been recovered from the earlier moot hall. Internally, the principal room was the barmote courtroom. The barmote court consisted on a chief barmaster, the deputy barmasters and 24 jurors: they met twice a year in the moot hall to determine the allocation of mines and sought to resolve any disputes. King Henry VIII presented a bronze dish, capable of holding 38.5 kilograms (85 lb) of lead ore, to the barmote court in 1512. It was kept in the moot hall and was used by barmote court officials to ensure that the miners' dishes conformed to the required dimensions. The barmote court also acted as a coroner's court, investigating mining accidents, and also acted as a criminal court: the penalty for stealing from a mine was to have a hand nailed to the stowce (winch), giving a miscreant the choice of tearing himself loose or starving to death. The building remains in the ownership of the Duchy of Lancaster, which is a private estate of the British sovereign. See also Listed buildings in Wirksworth References
St Anne's Church, Over Haddon

St Anne's Church, Over Haddon is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Over Haddon, Derbyshire. History The church was built between 1879 and 1880 by the architect H Cockbain of Middleton, Greater Manchester. The foundation stone was laid by Miss M. Nesfield, daughter of R.W.M. Nesfield of Castle Hill, Bakewell on 26 June 1879 The contractors were Messrs. J.R. and A. Hill of Tideswell and Litton. It was constructed in Ricklow Dale stone, with windows, doors and arches of wrought freestone from Sheldon Moor. Maw's tiles were laid in the nave, aisle and porch. The chancel and baptistry floors were paved in polished marble Mosaic, the steps being of Bardilla. The bell was case by Mears and Stainbank, the benches by J. Heywood of Manchester, and the stone carving by Mr. Ash of Buxton. The wrought iron entrance gates were made by Messrs Thomason of Birmingham and Manchester. The church was consecrated by the Bishop of Lichfield on 26 July 1880. Parish status The church is in a joint parish with: All Saints’ Church, Bakewell Holy Trinity Church, Ashford-in-the-Water St Katherine's Church, Rowsley St Michael and All Angels' Church, Sheldon Organ An organ was installed in 1988 by the Johnson Organ Company A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. See also Listed buildings in Over Haddon References
St James's Church, Pokesdown

St James's Church is a Grade II listed church in the Pokesdown area of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. History The church was completed in 1858 by George Edmund Street. The nave extension was the work of Charles Marriott Oldrid Scott from 1930 to 1931. The church is constructed with coursed Purbeck rubble. References See also List of churches in Bournemouth List of Anglican churches List of new churches by G. E. Street
St George's Church, Langham

St George's Church is a Church of England church in Langham, Gillingham, Dorset, England. It was designed by Charles Ponting and built in 1921. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1985. Today the church is used for occasional services, and is maintained by the Manger family trust. History St George's was erected as a chapel of ease to the Gillingham parish church of St Mary the Virgin. The idea of building a small church at Langham, a hamlet to the west of Gillingham, originated with Mr. Alfred T. Manger of Stock Hill House, who was aware of the inconvenient distance of the parish church for residents of Langham and its surrounding farmhouses and dwellings. He intended to erect a small church on his estate, but died in 1917 before his plans were realised. In accordance with his wishes, Mr. Manger was buried in a vault on the site of his intended church on 29 January 1917. The site was consecrated by the Bishop of Salisbury, the Right Rev. Frederick Ridgeway, prior to interment. With his death, the family of Mr. Manger announced their intention to build a church in his memory once World War I ended. The church, designed by the diocesan architect Charles Ponting, was built in 1921 over the tomb of Mr. Manger and his wife, who died in 1919. It was dedicated by the Archdeacon of Sherborne, the Right Rev. Albert Joscelyne on 22 May 1921. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Harwood Manger, the eldest son of Mr. Manger, had the church dedicated to Saint George, the patron saint of soldiers, in memory of his brother, Lieutenant John Kenneth Manger, cousin, Private George Bredin Kitson, and brother-in-law, Second Lieutenant Robert Lancaster, who all fell during World War I. Architecture St George's is built of coursed and squared rubble stone, with a thatched roof and bellcote at the west end, containing one bell. Designed to accommodate up to 40 people, it is made up of a nave, apse, north transept and north porch. The original fittings and ornaments are largely of oak, including the lectern and altar. A marble slab in front of the altar marks the tomb of Mr. and Mrs. Manger. References External links Media related to St George's Church, Langham, Dorset at Wikimedia Commons The Churches of St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham & St Simon and St Jude, Milton-on-Stour website
St Luke's Church, West Orchard

St Luke's Church is a Church of England church in West Orchard, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1876–77 to the designs of Thomas Henry Wyatt, but the chancel is 15th-century. The church is a Grade II listed building. History The earlier church at West Orchard was described in the 1859 Post Office Directory of Dorsetshire as a "small Gothic structure". In 1650, it was recorded as being a chapel-of-ease to St Andrew's Church at Fontmell Magna. In 1876–77, the church was rebuilt at the expense of Lady Westminster and Lord Wolverton. Lady Westminster also donated an adjoining plot of land for an extension of the churchyard. The approximate cost of rebuilding the church was £1,500. Plans were drawn up by Thomas Henry Wyatt of London and Mr. T. B. Miles of Shaftesbury was hired as the builder. The east end of the earlier church was retained to form the chancel. The church reopened with a public dedication on 17 July 1877. An early Holy Communion was held and both Rev. R Lowndes, the Canon of Salisbury Cathedral and rector of Sturminster Newton, and the Archbishop of York, William Thomson, preached during the morning service. In 1952, West Orchard was transferred to the parish of East Orchard. Repair work was carried out to the church in c. 1958. Architecture St Luke's is built of green stone from Semley Hill, with Bath stone dressings. The roofs are covered with Donhead tiles and embellished with stone copings and finials. The church is made up of a nave, north and south aisles, chancel, south porch and north-east vestry. The west end of the church has a double bell-cot of Bath stone. The chancel has been dated to the late 15th century. The east wall of the vestry contains a reinserted 15th-century window of the same design as those in the chancel. The church's windows are filled with Cathedral glass. The chancel is paved with encaustic tiles from Maw & Co of London and contains a reredos of mosaic work. Many of the fittings are contemporary with the 1876–77 rebuild, including the stone pulpit, the font of Caen stone and the brass lectern. The seats in the nave are of stained and varnished deal, and the choir and chancel seats of carved pitched pine. The altar railing is of oak, on polished brass and iron standards. The churchyard has two fonts by its gate piers; one of round shape, dating to the 12th century, and the other of octagonal shape, dated to the 15th century. References
The Jolly Sailor, Bursledon

The Jolly Sailor is an 18th-century public house on Land's End Road in Bursledon in Hampshire, England. It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since December 1955. The pub can be approached on foot or by boat via a pontoon onto the River Hamble. The pub faces Swanwick Marina across the water. It is owned by Hall and Woodhouse brewery. It is two storeys in height with an attic and made from brick with a red tiled roof. The rear of the pub is made from Flemish bond brick with the front made from alternate bands of blue header and red stretcher bricks. The pub has two ships figureheads displayed on the exterior. It has been a pub since 1845, having originally been built as a vicarage. The interior of the pub features various maritime paraphernalia such as ship's lanterns. The Jolly Sailor was included in the Daily Telegraph's Pint to Pint: A Crawl Around Britain's Best Pubs. In 2007 Country Life listed it as one of 'Six Classic Sailor's Pubs'. It has been included in The Good Pub Guide. It was featured as the local pub in the 1980s BBC television drama Howards' Way. References External links Official website Howard's Way locations - The Jolly Sailor
Edinboro Castle

The Edinboro Castle is a Grade II listed public house on Mornington Terrace in the London Borough of Camden. It was constructed in 1839 and was named after Edinburgh Castle in Scotland, with the original spelling of the pub being the same. It once housed a small museum, art gallery and tea gardens. It was listed in 1973.In 1984, a fire damaged the pub but it was refurbished in its original Victorian style by Charringtons. References Bibliography Woodford, Peter (ed.) From Primrose Hill to Euston Road. Camden History Society, 1995.
Mount Vernon House, Hampstead

Mount Vernon House (originally Windmill Hill House) is a house in Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden. It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE) since May 1974. The garden wall is separately listed at Grade II. The house was built around 1726 and was altered in the early 19th century. It is rendered in stucco with a mansard roof. The house occupies the site of a windmill. It was constructed between 1725 and 1728 by a local Hampstead timbersmith, William Knight. The surgeon William Peirce lived at the house in the 1770s. General Charles Vernon leased the house from 1781 to 1800. The landscape painter Edmund John Niemann lived at Mount Vernon house in the 1850s. It was the residence of a Captain J.T. Campbell in the 1860s. Mount Vernon House was the residence of the Hospital Secretary of Mount Vernon Hospital from 1903 and subsequently served as the hospital's Nurses' Home. The tenure of the physician Henry Dale at the house is marked by a Greater London Council blue plaque erected in 1981 on the garden wall of the house. Dale and his wife, Elen, lived at the house from 1919 to 1942 and entertained many fellow scientists and researchers at the house including Charles Best and his wife Margaret. Margaret Best attended a dinner at the house during the war with other partners of scientists including Margaret, the wife of A.V. Hill, and Gertrude, the wife of William Bayliss. In his Companion Guide to Outer London Simon Jenkins wrote that Mount Vernon House shares "with most of Hampstead's better mansions the characteristic of hiding behind both a high wall and a thick coating of ivy". The London: North edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides also describes the house as "well hidden". The house was restored and once again became a private house with the residential conversion of the Mount Vernon Hospital site by property developers Marylebone Warwick Balfour and Sincere. References
Farnworth Town Hall

Farnworth Town Hall is a municipal building in Market Street, Farnworth, Greater Manchester, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Farnworth Borough Council, is a grade II listed building. History Shortly after it had been created in 1863, the local board of health established itself in a small office in Darley Street. After population growth associated with the increasing number of local coal mines led to the area becoming an urban district in 1894, civic leaders decided to procure a dedicated town hall: the site they selected was open land between Trafford Street and Rawson Street. The new building, which was designed by Bradshaw Gass & Hope in the neoclassical style and built in red brick with stone dressings, was officially opened by the chairman of the council, Thomas Stanley, on 30 March 1909. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with nine bays facing onto Market Street; the central section of three bays, which slightly projected forward, featured a semi-circular porch with Ionic order columns; there was a three-light mullioned window on the first floor and a Diocletian window flanked by pilasters in the pediment above. The middle bay in the left hand section featured a carved coat of arms on the first floor with a curved pediment above, while the middle bay in the right hand section featured a mullioned window on the first floor with a curved pediment above. At roof level, there was a central cupola. Internally, the principal rooms were the council chamber and the mayor's parlour, both on the first floor; there was a large stained glass window on the staircase depicting the council coat of arms. Civic leaders also procured a Carnegie library which was designed by the same architectural firm, built on open land between Carlton Street and Trafford Street (just to the north of the town hall) and completed in 1911. The town hall was subsequently extended to the north to create an additional bay which was set back to maintain the symmetrical form of the building. After the area achieved municipal borough status in 1939, the building became the headquarters of the new borough council but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Bolton Council was formed in 1974. Although the building was subsequently used for community purposes, it subsequently fell into a state of disrepair. On 2 July 1992, a security guard, Ian Foster, was fatally shot on the front steps of the town hall after being forced to hand over takings he had collected from an office in the building. Two men were subsequently tried and convicted of his murder. After an extensive programme of refurbishment works costing £1.3 million had been completed in June 2013, the building re-opened as additional workspace for the council departments of Bolton Council. See also Listed buildings in Farnworth References
Reading Crown Court

Reading Crown Court is a judicial facility in Reading, Berkshire. It is a Grade II listed building. History The building, which was designed by the county surveyor, John Clacy, in the Baroque revival style and built at a cost of £21,644, was completed in 1861. It became the main venue for the assizes from 1867 when Abingdon County Hall ceded that role to Reading. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto The Forbury with the end bays projected forward; the central section of five bays featured a three-bay portico with Doric order columns; there were round headed sash windows flanked by Ionic order columns on the first floor. The complex included the county police station which was built behind the courthouse. Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, it also became the meeting place for Berkshire County Council. The administrative staff and committee rooms of the county council were accommodated in the Shire Hall next door. Following the implementation of the Courts Act 1971, the former assizes court was re-designated Reading Crown Court. In 1981 the county council moved to a new Shire Hall at Shinfield Park and subsequently it was used solely by the Crown Court. Important cases heard by Reading Crown Court included the trial and conviction of Leslie Bailey for the murder of Mark Tildesley in December 1992 and the trial and conviction of Llewellyn Adams, Indrit Krasniqi, Michael Johnson, Jamaile Morally, Joshua Morally and Adrian Thomas for the murder of Mary-Ann Leneghan in March 2012. It was also the venue for the Munir Hussain case, in which a businessman, Munir Hussain, was tried and convicted of assaulting a burglar, Walid Salem, in December 2009. The initial stages of the trial of Jed Foster for the killing of Andrew Harper were also heard at Reading Crown Court in August 2019, but on 19 September the Crown Prosecution Service said that they had discontinued the case against him. References
University of Reading War Memorial

The University of Reading War Memorial is a clock tower, designed by Herbert Maryon and situated on the London Road Campus of the University of Reading. Initially designed as a First World War memorial and dedicated in June 1924, it was later expanded in scope to also serve as a memorial of later wars. History and design Memorials to servicemen who died in the First World War were erected soon after the end of the conflict. Plans to build a permanent memorial at the University of Reading unfolded in 1919, when William Macbride Childs, the principal of the college, printed a pamphlet suggesting several ideas. The final design was ultimately made by Herbert Maryon, a teacher of sculpture at the university; he would later gain broad recognition in a second career at the British Museum, where he conserved many of the finds from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, termed "the most important single discovery in British archaeology." His initial proposal, made in 1919, was for a tower of 120 feet (37 m) that would have cost between £5,000 and £10,000. The funds could not be raised, and in 1923 Maryon proposed a structure of half that height. Construction began that November, and the memorial was dedicated the following June. The finished memorial, which cost £2,750, is a 60-foot-tall (18 m) brick tower with a clock, a bell, and a bronze roll of honour listing the names of more than 140 people who died in the war. The scope of the memorial was expanded following the Second World War, and in May 1953 a panel with more than 70 names of the dead from that conflict was unveiled. It now also commemorates those who died in the war in Afghanistan; in 2012 a plaque was unveiled honouring Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, , a 1991 graduate of the University whose 2009 death made him the highest-ranking officer of the British Army killed in action since the Falklands War. On 12 February 1987, the memorial was designated a grade II listed building, a status given for its special architectural or historic interest. On 9 November 2018, the University of Reading announced plans to add nine additional names of servicemen who died in the First World War to the memorial. References
Stotfold Mill

Stotfold Mill, formerly Randall’s Mill, is a Grade-II listed watermill in Bedfordshire and it is on the River Ivel. Mill Fire On 15 December 1992, Stotfold Mill was destroyed by a fire, the Stotfold Mill Preservation Trust subsequently rebuilt the watermill. Restoration was completed in April 2006 and the mill returned to operation after a 40 year hiatus. Architecture Stotfold Mill, a Grade-II listed building, had the widest waterwheel in the UK at a width of 14 ft (4.3 m). It is recorded as an early 19th-century structure of gault bricks, with additions and alterations made in the late 19th-century. The earlier parts of the building have weatherboarding to the upper floors. References
Old Town Hall, Leighton Buzzard

The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Square, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England. The town hall, which is currently used as a restaurant, is a Grade II listed building. History The first municipal building in the town was a timber-framed market hall which dated back to the 16th century. It was arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets could be held, with an assembly room known as the "jury loft", which was used for petty session hearings, on the first floor. The building had a clock on the gable at the west end and was surmounted by a bell tower. It was owned by the lord of the manor, who, in the 16th century, was Sir Christopher Hoddesdon, master of the Company of Merchant Adventurers: it subsequently passed through inheritance to Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey and his successors. After the old market hall became dilapidated in the mid-19th century, the then lord of the manor, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hanmer, decided to commission a new structure. The new building was designed in the neoclassical style, built in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £1,182 and was completed in 1851. The design involved a broadly symmetrical main frontage with a single bay facing west along the High Street; there were originally two round headed doorways on the ground floor, a three-light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor and a gable above. On the south elevation there were seven bays which were fenestrated with arched windows with brick archivolts and keystones on the ground floor and with arched windows with stone architraves on the first floor. At roof level there was a small clock tower and a weather vane. The ground floor continued to be used as a venue for markets and the first floor continued to serve as a courtroom. Following the formation of a Local Government District for the area in July 1891, the new Local Board held its meetings in the building, which became known as the town hall. However, in March 1892, the board started to use the Corn Exchange on Lake Street instead. In 1894, the area was advanced to the status of urban district and, in 1897, Joseph Truman Mills, became lord of the manor. In February 1914, just before the start of the First World War, the town hall became the temporary home of a detachment of B Company, the 5th (Territorial) Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment, and, in 1918, Mills agreed to sell the building to the Leighton Buzzard Urban District Council for use as a fire station. The fire service moved to a new fire station in Lake Street in 1963. The building was subsequently refurbished and made available for community use until 2008, when the then local authority for the area, South Bedfordshire District Council, decided to let the building for commercial use: it was subsequently converted into a restaurant, initially under the ASK brand, and since 2014, as a PizzaExpress outlet. A Shand Mason fire engine, of the type previously used by the local fire service, was placed in the restaurant on public display. References