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Octavia Hill Birthplace House

Octavia Hill Birthplace House is a historic house museum located in South Brink, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire England. It is an independent museum and a Grade II* listed building. History The most well-known owner was the nonconformist James Hill (c.1800–1871), banker, corn merchant and a follower of Robert Owen, the social utopian. James Hill's third wife was the writer and educationalist Caroline Southwood Hill (1809–1902), daughter of Dr Thomas Southwood Smith. Their daughter Octavia Hill, social reformer and co-founder of the National Trust, spent her infancy here, hence the name of the museum. The Octavia Hill Society was established in 1992 and one aim was to create a museum to collect, exhibit, preserve, interpret and document materials that reflect her work and to act as a focal centre for the Society in her birthplace town. The present building After the Hill family moved out, the building was divided and sold, remaining divided until the museum reunited the parts. Peter Clayton MBE was instrumental in establishing this museum. There are two blue plaques on the building, one was placed when the museum was created and the second after the Army Cadet rooms were created. The museum holds an extensive library of books connected with Hill and her family. There are also items both old and new celebrating her work. References
St Mary's Church, Ambleside

St Mary's Church is in Ambleside, Cumbria, England. It was built in the 1850s to a design by George Gilbert Scott in Gothic Revival style (specifically Decorated Gothic). The building is Grade II* listed. Notable features include its stone spire, which is a local landmark and an unusual feature in Lake District churches. The building is constructed of slate, the typical building stone of the locality, and sandstone which is used for dressings and the spire. History The decision to build the church reflects the coming of the railway to Windermere in 1847 and the subsequent expansion of Ambleside because of the increased opportunities for tourism. A north-east choir vestry was added in 1889 to the designs of Paley & Austin of Lancaster. Interior Wall-painting There is a 26-foot mural on the west wall depicting the traditional ceremony of rushbearing (which still takes place on the first Saturday in July). The mural was created by Gordon Ransom of the Royal College of Art when the College was evacuated to Ambleside during the Second World War. The vicar of Ambleside, Henry Adamson Thompson, is depicted on the right hand side of the mural. Bells The tower contains a heavy peal of eight bells cast by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough in 1901. With the tenor weighing 32 and a half long cwt (1,652 kg), they are the fourth heaviest ring of eight in the United Kingdom and the heaviest ring of eight outside of the West Country. The bells can be heard from across Lake Windermere and are considered to be amongst the finest rings of their kind in the UK. Burials Burials include Mary Louisa Armitt, the founder of Ambleside's Armitt Library. Her sisters Annie and Sophia are also buried there. References External links
St Mary's Church, Rydal

St Mary's Church is in the village of Rydal in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. The church, built in the Gothic revival style, is situated off the A591 road between Ambleside and Grasmere and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. History The church was built by Lady le Fleming of Rydal Hall, at a cost of £1,500. The foundation stone was laid in 1823 with the chapel opened in 1824, and consecrated in 1825. The architect was George Webster. Poet William Wordsworth helped to choose the site, which was originally an orchard. See also Rydal, Cumbria Listed buildings in Lakes, Cumbria References
Johnby Hall

Johnby Hall is a fortified manor house near Greystoke, Cumbria. It was built in 1583, incorporating the fabric of a medieval tower house, and has been extended and modified a number of times since then. It was designated a Grade II* Listed Building in 1967, and is currently run as a bed and breakfast. Description Johnby Hall is built around a tower house, standing three storeys tall, built of pink sandstone rubble, with a staircase projecting to the south at its east end. It bears an hourglass-shaped inscription over the entrance, recording its construction by William Musgrave and Isabel Martindale, who added apartments and a hall to the original tower, giving the building its current L plan. The ground floor is barrel vaulted, and the roof of the stairway features ribbed umbrella vaulting reminiscent of that found at nearby Carlisle Cathedral. Next to the main building, and linked to it by a later passageway, is a bastle known as Kelly House. Its entrance, reached by an external flight of stairs, is dated 1637 and bears the initials WM and GM, for the widow Winifred Musgrave and her daughter Grace. History Johnby Hall is first mentioned in 1200, and there are records of it being sold in 1300 and again in 1326, which is probably the time when the defensive tower, which now forms the main part of the house, was built. In 1583, William Musgrave and Isabel Martindale had the current house built around the existing tower, adding a vaulted extension and the staircase tower. The building was modified in 1747, with the addition of a new central doorway and sash windows, and in 1783 the building was absorbed into the Greystoke Estate. Further modifications to the building were made in 1897, when Maud Leyborne-Popham installed a new doorway, replaced the sash windows with large moulded windows featuring mullions and transoms, and built the passageway that links the bastle to the main house. The building was designated a Grade II* listed building on 27 December 1967. Current usage Johnby Hall is still used as a domestic building, and is run as a bed and breakfast. See also Listed buildings in Greystoke, Cumbria References External links Official website
Guildhall (Salisbury)

Die Guildhall ist ein denkmalgeschütztes städtisches Gebäude in Salisbury in England. Es dient als Tagungsort des Stadtrates von Salisbury. Lage Es befindet sich im Ortszentrum von Salisbury auf der Südseite des Market Place. Unmittelbar östlich des Hauses verläuft die Queen Street, südlich die Fish Row. Nördlich der Guildhall auf dem Marktplatz befindet sich auf das Kriegerdenkmal Salisbury. Architektur und Geschichte Zuvor befand sich an der Stelle des heutigen Gebäudes die Bishop’s Guildhall, die jedoch wegen Baufälligkeit abgerissen wurde. Das Gebäude wurde zwischen 1788 und 1795 nach einem Entwurf von Robert Taylor durch William Pilkington mit einigen Änderungen gebaut. Der symmetrisch angelegte repräsentative Bau verfügt über einen etwas aus der nördlichen Fassadenfront vortretenden Mittelteil, in dem sich der über vier Stufen erreichbare Eingang befindet. Er wird von sechs Säulen gebildeten Portikus dominiert. Oberhalb der Eingangstür ist das Stadtwappen von Salisbury angebracht. Im Bereich über dem Portikus befinden sich in einem zweiten Stockwerk drei Fenster. Ursprünglich befand sich der Portikus auf der Westseite des Hauses und wurde erst später an seinen heutigen Platz umgesetzt. Links und rechts der Eingangs befindet sich jeweils ein großes als Rundbogen ausgeführtes Fenster. Sowohl die Gebäudeecken als auch die Fensteröffnungen sind mit Eckquaderungen versehen. 1829 erfolgten Umbauten des Hauses, insbesondere wurde ein Saal für die Grand Jury angebaut. Darüber hinaus wurden weitere Räume für Gerichte und Richter geschaffen. Auch in der Folgezeit ergaben sich weitere Veränderungen. Ab 1835 gehörte das Gebäude dann zur kommunalen Verwaltung. Im Juli und September 1884 kam es zu Bombenanschlägen an der Guildhall, die irischen Republikanern zugeschrieben wurden. Im April 1885 wurden lokale Täter ermittelt und festgenommen, die angaben, dass die Bomben nur die Öffentlichkeit alarmieren sollten. In den Jahren 2010/11 fand eine umfangreiche Sanierung des Hauses statt. Dabei wurde auch die öffentliche Zugänglichkeit verbessert. Seitdem ist im Gebäude der Stadtrat mit Büros und Sitzungssaal untergebracht. Als denkmalgeschützt wird es seit dem 28. Februar 1952 geführt und wird als besonders bedeutendes Bauwerke von allgemeinem Interesse in der Kategorie Grad II* der englischen Denkmalliste geführt. In der Guildhall sind diverse historische Gemälde, Kunst- und Einrichtungsgegenstände erhalten. Weblinks THE GUILDHALL auf historicengland.org.uk (englisch) Internetseite der Guildhall (englisch) Einzelnachweise
Salisbury Guildhall

Salisbury Guildhall is an 18th-century municipal building in the Market Place, Salisbury, England. The building, which is the meeting place of the Salisbury City Council, is a Grade II* listed building. History The first guildhall, known as the "Bishop's Guildhall", was built on the initiative of the Bishop of Salisbury, Simon of Ghent, in around 1314. It was so-called because this was the place where the bishop would exercise his feudal rights. A second building, known as the "Council House" was built by the Merchants Guild to the north of the original building in 1585. After the Council House was burnt down in a fire at a banquet, it was rebuilt, with a gift from Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, in 1780. In 1785 the bishop gave up his rights as clerk of the market and in return was released from his obligations to maintain the guildhall. This enabled the old Bishop's Guildhall, which had become dilapidated, to be demolished. The current building, which was designed by Sir Robert Taylor and William Pilkington, was built on the site of the former Bishop's Guildhall and completed in 1795. The design involved a portico with Doric order columns with triglyph frieze above; tall arched windows were inserted on each side of the portico. A grand jury room was added in 1829. In the 19th century, the judicial functions of the county were discharged at Devizes Assize Court in the summer and at Salisbury Guildhall in the lent. There was a bomb explosion outside the guildhall in September 1884; according to the judge, the defendants had been "motivated by a mischievous desire to alarm the public". The building, which had been the meeting place of the municipal borough of Salisbury throughout much of the 20th century, became the headquarters of Salisbury District in 1974. All magistrates' court hearings in Salisbury were held in the courtroom in the west wing of the guildhall. Additional judicial facilities, to accommodate the crown and county courts, were established in Alexandra House in St John's Street in the mid-1980s. Princess Diana visited the guildhall on 14 May 1991. After the abolition of the district in 2009, the guildhall became the meeting place of the newly created Salisbury City Council. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited, in the aftermath of the Salisbury nerve agent attack, on 22 June 2018. Works of art in the guildhall include a portrait by John de Critz of James VI and I, a portrait by Peter Lely of John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset and a painting by George Cole depicting a view of Salisbury from Harnham Hill. The Victoria Cross awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Adlam during the First World War is also on display in the guildhall. References
Jesus Church, Troutbeck

Jesus Church is in the village of Troutbeck in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. The church is situated on the A592 Windermere to Patterdale road and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Its benefice is united with that of St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere; St Anne's Church, Ings; St Cuthbert's Church, Kentmere; St James' Church, Staveley and St Mary's Church, Windermere. History There has been a church on this site since at least 1506, in order to serve the settlements in the Troutbeck Valley. The current church building was built in 1736, but retains many features from the earlier building. Architecture Exterior Jesus Church is constructed in slate stone with freestone dressings and a slate roof. The tower, added in 1736, has three stages, clock faces on the west and south sides, and an embattled parapet with corner merlons. Interior The nave and chancel are under a single roof, with the large beams being from the original church building. There is a west gallery accessed from a steep staircase in the tower. Seating is provided in the way of mid 18th century wooden pews. At the west end of the nave is the font, consisting of a shallow octagonal bowl on a tall stem. The stone pulpit is polygonal, and is decorated with blind traceried panels. A small lean-to extension to the north elevation contains an accessible toilet and kitchen. Stained glass The five-light east window has Perpendicular-style tracery and Pre-Raphaelite stained glass depicting scenes from the life of Jesus. It dates to 1873 and was designed by William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown. There are 6 pointed windows in the south wall and 7 in the north wall along with a small three-light window in the tower. See also Troutbeck, South Lakeland Listed buildings in Lakes, Cumbria St Mary's Church, Windermere References
Friends Meeting House, Kendal

Kendal Friends Meeting House is a Friends meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Kendal, Cumbria, in north-western England. There have been Quakers in Kendal since the 17th century when the town was visited by George Fox. The present meeting house was purpose-built in 1816 to replace the previous building used by local Quakers. Attendance at Sunday worship in 1816 numbered several hundred. Architecture The limestone building was designed by local architect Francis Webster. In the 1930s Stramongate School, a Quaker institution opposite the meeting house, closed. The building had housed Sunday school classes and it was decided to move them to the Meeting House, where Webster's Georgian design was modified to provide classroom accommodation on the 1st floor. Quaker Tapestry For thirty years the building was the home of the Quaker Tapestry. The tapestry, which was presented from 1994 as a visitor attraction, illustrates the history of Quakerism from the 17th century to the present day. Like the Bayeux Tapestry, the panels are embroidered rather than being tapestry in the strict sense of the word. In 2025 rising costs and low visitor numbers meant that a new home had to be sought for the tapestry. Conservation The meeting house has been designated a Grade II* listed building. References
Farm Hall

Farm Hall ist ein englischer Landsitz in der Nähe des Dorfes Godmanchester, 16 km nordwestlich von Cambridge in der Grafschaft Cambridgeshire. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs nutzte der britische Geheimdienst das Gebäude zur Ausbildung von Agenten. Bekannt wurde das Anwesen vor allem, weil hier im Rahmen der Operation Epsilon des britischen und US-amerikanischen Geheimdienstes vom 3. Juli 1945 bis zum 3. Januar 1946 zehn deutsche Kernphysiker interniert waren, deren Gespräche ohne ihr Wissen abgehört und protokolliert wurden, diese waren: Erich Bagge Kurt Diebner Walther Gerlach Otto Hahn Paul Harteck Werner Heisenberg Karl Wirtz Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Max von Laue Horst Korsching Literatur Jeremy Bernstein: Hitler’s Uranium Club. Springer New York, New York, NY 2001, ISBN 978-0-387-95089-1, doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-5412-4 (englisch). Weblinks Farm Hall bei Historic England Einzelnachweise
Walden House

Walden House is a former municipal structure in Market Hill, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. The structure, which has formerly the headquarters of Huntingdonshire County Council and has since been converted into private apartments, is a Grade II* listed building. History The building was commissioned by the local member of parliament, Lionel Walden I, in the 1660s. It was designed in the Jacobean style, built in red brick with stone dressings and was completed in 1674. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing the High Street. The central bay contained a doorway with a rectangular fanlight flanked by Doric order pilasters supporting an entablature. The other bays on the ground floor and all the bays on the first floor were fenestrated by sash windows with architraves; below the windows on the first floor there were stone panels carved with swags. There were full height Ionic order pilasters at either end and, at roof level, there was a modillioned cornice and three dormer windows. Walden hosted a visit by the Duke of York, and was one of his strongest supporters after the duke became King James II in 1685. The house passed to his son, Lionel Walden II, and then to his grandson, Lionel Walden III; the grandson was a supporter of James Francis Edward Stuart and, after the Jacobite rising of 1715, the grandson fled to France where he died. In the late 19th century, the building was acquired by a banker, Henry Charles Geldart. After Geldart's death in 1912, the house was vacant for two years. In July 1914, at the start of the First World War, it was requisitioned by the War Office for use an officers' mess for the 1st Highland Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, who were billeted locally. In December 1914, it was re-assigned as a military hospital managed by a Voluntary Aid Detachment. After the war it was decommissioned and became the main offices of Huntingdonshire County Council, with all the key officers including the county surveyor, county accountant and county medical officer all based there. It also served as the main offices of Huntingdon and Peterborough County Council from April 1965 until that county was absorbed by Cambridgeshire County Council in 1974. The building continued to occupied by staff from Cambridgeshire County Council until 2004, when it was acquired by a developer. It was then refurbished to a design by Haymills Conservation and converted into six private apartments with the first flat being ready for occupation in November 2008. See also Grade II* listed buildings in Huntingdonshire References
Bear Hotel, Devizes

The Bear Hotel is a historic coaching inn in the market town of Devizes in Wiltshire, England. On the west side of the town's Market Place, it is one of many coaching inns in the town that once served the route from London to Bath. It is formed of two distinct buildings and is now Grade II* listed by Historic England. The earliest records of a Bear Hotel on this site are in 1559. The left front is from c.1700 and was given an ashlar facing, considered elegant by Julian Orbach, in around 1810. It has two full-height bay windows, flanked by reeded pilasters; the porch is slender ironwork. Behind the white-painted early-18th-century front of the right-hand building is an earlier structure, probably from the 16th or 17th centuries. A notable resident was the artist Thomas Lawrence, whose father was landlord of the Bear. He lived there between 1773 and 1780 and as a self-taught child artist he depicted travellers who stayed at the inn, many of them notable society figures on the way to fashionable Bath. His success led to him to turn professional, first in Bath and then London. He became a leading portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy. Immediately north of the hotel is the town's Corn Exchange. See also Black Swan Hotel, Devizes, another coaching inn in the town References Bibliography Buxton, David. Around Devizes in Old Photographs. Sutton, 1990. Levey, Michael. Sir Thomas Lawrence. Yale University Press, 2005.
Holy Trinity Church, Darlington

Holy Trinity Church, Darlington is a Grade II* listed Church of England church on Woodland Road, Darlington, County Durham. History The church was designed by the architect Anthony Salvin and built between 1836 and 1838. It was assigned a parish in 1843 and at the same time a burial ground was consecrated by the Bishop of Durham. The chancel was added in 1867 by Ross. Restoration work was carried out in 1883 when the church was repaired, redecorated and reseated under the direction of the architect George Gordon Hoskins. Organ The 3 manual organ was built by Thomas H. Harrison of Rochdale in 1868. A specification of the current organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. It has been awarded a Grade II* listing by the British Institute of Organ Studies. References
Old Town Hall, Devizes

The Old Town Hall is a historic building in Wine Street in Devizes, a town in Wiltshire, in England. The structure, which was completed in 1752 and has seen various commercial uses since it was superseded by a new town hall in 1808, is a Grade II* listed building. History The building was commissioned as a cheese hall for the town. The site selected was on the corner of Wine Street and St John's Street, just to the south of the town's Market Place. Work on the building started in 1750. It was designed by an architect named Lawrence in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1752. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with four bays facing onto Wine Street; on the ground floor, which was rusticated, there were four round-headed openings. These were originally open, but by the mid-19th century had been filled in with windows and doors. On the first floor, there were four sash windows flanked by Ionic order columns, as well as two corner piers supporting an entablature and a pediment with a clock flanked by carved figures of Cupid in the tympanum. The building was largely used as a market hall, with the ground floor hosting the town's cheese market. Between 1785 and 1787 the room on the first floor served as an arsenal for the Royal Wiltshire Militia, while at other times it served as the mess hall of the Devizes Loyal Volunteers, and also as a Sunday school. While the current Devizes Town Hall was under construction, between 1806 and 1808, the room on the first floor was briefly used as a venue for council meetings. It was then let out for commercial use in 1809 and sold in 1825. In 1836, the building was acquired by a firm of wine merchants, Messrs Cunnington, which used the basement and the vaults below for storage of wines and spirits. From 1848, the room on the first floor served as the museum, library and reading rooms of the town's literary and scientific institution. The building accommodated the expanded firm of wine merchants, Cunnington, Williams & Sons, until the mid-20th century. The building was Grade II* listed in 1954. For much of the second half of the 20th century, the ground floor of the building was occupied by a branch of Cheltenham & Gloucester; it was re-branded as a branch of TSB Bank in 2013. After TSB Bank closed its branch in Wine Street in April 2021, the ground floor became the home of a ladies' fashion shop, Hen House, in autumn 2022. Meanwhile, the first floor served as the auction rooms of Henry Aldridge and Son, before becoming the Wine Street Gallery in the mid-1990s: the gallery continued to display the work of local artists until April 2009. In July 2025, Henry Aldridge and Son, a local firm of auctioneers, purchased the freehold of the old town hall. They plan to base their world-famous Titanic auctions on the ground floor of the property. See also Grade II* listed buildings in Wiltshire (P–Z) References