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Durham Town Hall

Durham Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place, Durham, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The current complex replaced an earlier timber guildhall on the site which was built in 1356 and replaced by a stone structure commissioned by Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall in 1535. The earliest part of the current facility is the guildhall which was commissioned by Bishop John Cosin and dates back to 1665. The town hall was extended in 1752, when George Bowes, the mayor, commissioned extensive alterations to the mayor's parlor. The facade of the town hall was completely refaced in 1754. John Fenwick, a leading abolitionist, spoke at an emancipation meeting held in the hall in 1826. The complex was extended to the west, i.e. the rear of the guildhall, to create a town hall, which was designed by Philip Charles Hardwick in the Perpendicular style, in 1851. The Great Hall inside the complex is 72 feet (22 m) long, is richly panelled and has a hammerbeam roof which is 56 feet (17 m) high. The walls of the Great Hall are lined with wooden plaques commemorating some of freemen of the City of Durham including the footballer Sir Bobby Robson, the writer Bill Bryson and the cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The complex also includes the council chamber which was the meeting place of the municipal borough of Durham and Framwelgate until 1974 and then of Durham District until it was dissolved in 2009; it remains the meeting place of the mayor and aldermen of Durham, who are now appointed by charter trustees. The adjoining indoor markets, which were built around and underneath the town hall complex, opened on 18 December 1852. Further alterations were made in 2008 including a new public entrance, disabled access and fire protection throughout the complex installed at a cost of £0.8 million. The facility, which was opened to public viewing in November 2018, includes a case displaying some of the belongings of Józef Boruwłaski, a court dwarf known as "the Little Count" who wrote the "Memoirs of Count Boruwlask", an autobiography of his life. It also contains the original city charter, the city's civic sword and the pikes of the mayor's personal bodyguard. The scabbard of the civic sword is described as being "of purple velvet, the colour of the old palatine of Durham". Gallery References Further reading Morris, R. J. B. (1984). The City of Durham. Its town hall, guildhall and civic traditions.
St Edmund and St Mary's Church, Ingatestone

St Edmund and St Mary's Church is the Church of England parish church in the village of Ingatestone in Essex. It dates to the 11th century and received major modifications in the 17th century. Its west tower is in red brick and is described by Simon Jenkins in his 1999 book England's Thousand Best Churches as "magnificent, a unified Perpendicular composition of red brick with black Tudor diapering. Strong angled buttresses rise to a heavy battlemented crown, the bell openings plain." One of the three pieces of a Sarsen stone is located next to the west door of the church the other two pieces being left either side of Fryerning Lane. A chapel built onto the chancel contains several family tombs of the Petre family, which lived locally at Ingatestone Hall - these include the monuments of William Petre, his second wife Anne Browne, John Petre, 1st Baron Petre and his wife. The tower is 83 feet (25 metres) high. Sources "Illington - Ingatestone | British History Online". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2017. "Plate 63: Ingatestone, Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Edmund | British History Online". British-history.ac.uk. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2017. References
Marisco Castle

Marisco Castle är ett slott i Storbritannien. Det ligger i grevskapet Devon och riksdelen England, i den södra delen av landet, 300 km väster om huvudstaden London. Marisco Castle ligger 61 meter över havet. Det ligger på ön Lundy. Terrängen runt Marisco Castle är platt. Det finns inga samhällen i närheten. Kommentarer Källor
St Mary's Church, Wath

St Mary's Church is the parish church of Wath, a village near Ripon in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the 13th century and a vestry was added in the 15th century. The roofs were lowered and the chancel and transept arches removed in 1629, then a tower was added in 1812. The church was restored in 1873, and the roofs were replaced in the 20th century. The building was grade II* listed in 1955. In 2026, a new stone and glass porch was added to improve accessibility and heat retention. The church is built of stone with cobbles, and consists of a nave, a south transept, a chancel with a north vestry and organ chamber, and a west tower. The tower has five stages, string courses, clock faces, two-light bell openings, and an embattled parapet with corner finials. Fragments of Saxon crosses are embedded in the north wall of the organ chamber. In the south transept, there is a 13th-century piscina, 15th-century brass monuments, and a tomb recess. The chancel has a double piscina, three sedilia, and a 14th-century wooden chest. See also Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire (district) Listed buildings in Wath (near Ripon) References
St Wilfrid's Church, Ripon

St Wilfrid's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. It was built from 1860 to 1862 and designed by Joseph Hansom. It is located on the corner of Trinity Lane and Coltsgate Hill to the north of the centre of Ripon. It is in the Gothic Revival style and is a Grade II* listed building. History Foundation From the Reformation until the end of the nineteenth century, local Catholics in Ripon gathered for Mass in chapels such as in Fountains Hall and Bishop Thornton. In 1850, the priest that served the mission in Ripon was a Fr Garstang. He was the first to say Mass in Ripon at Heath Court in Low Skellgate. He wanted to build a church in Ripon, but local opposition initially stopped this from happening. Construction After seeing opposition to the building of a Catholic church in Ripon, Fr Garstang sought out someone else to buy some land for the church on his behalf. Thomas Bradwell bought the site of the current church. On 21 November 1860 the foundation stone was laid by Fr Joseph Render, the Vicar General of the Diocese of Beverley. The plans were made by Joseph Hansom and included a church, school and presbytery. The reredos was designed by E. W. Pugin. According to Historic England, the chapel at Alton Castle and Church of the Saintes Maries de la Mer influenced the design of St Wilfrid's Church. The cost of the church was £5,000 and was financed by the priest Canon Vavasour and the Vavasour family of Hazlewood Castle. On 23 April 1862, the church was opened by the Bishop of Beverley Robert Cornthwaite, the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle William Hogarth, the Bishop of Nottingham Richard Roskell and the Bishop of Liverpool Alexander Goss. Developments On 2 July 1863 the school was opened. In 1874, George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon became a Catholic and paid for the building of the Lady chapel. In 1909 he died and bequeathed certain fittings from St Mary's, Studley Royal to St Wilfrid's Church. Parish St Wilfrid's Church has its own parish and has two Sunday Masses at 5:30 pm on Saturday and 10:00 am on Sunday. See also Media related to St Wilfrid's Church, Ripon at Wikimedia Commons Diocese of Leeds Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire (district) Listed buildings in Ripon References External links Official website
All Saints' Church, Ripley, North Yorkshire

All Saints' Church is the parish church of Ripley, North Yorkshire, a village in England. History Ripley had a chapel by the 14th century, but it suffered from subsidence. Around 1395, Thomas Ingilby demolished the chapel and built a new church, half a mile north, opposite Ripley Castle. This church was a simple building with a nave, chancel, short west tower, and a two-storey chantry. It reused some of the stones from the earlier chapel. In 1567, William Ingilby heightened the tower and added an external staircase turret, and added a clerestory to the nave. A vestry was added in about 1600, and the church was restored between 1862 and 1863, the work including the replacement of the windows and the rebuilding of the south porch. The building was grade II* listed in 1966. Architecture The church is built in gritstone with grey slate roofs, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, north and south porches, a chancel with a Patrons' Choir to the north, and a south chapel with an organ and vestry to the south, and a west tower. The tower has two stages, diagonal buttresses, and an oblong stair tower on the south. It contains a three-light west window with trefoil heads, two-light bell openings with chamfered mullions, and an embattled parapet. Inside the church is the large chest tomb of Thomas de Ingilby and his wife, dating from about 1369 and moved from the old chapel; the tomb of William Ingilby, who died in 1617; and the Patrons' Choir with several 17th-century monuments. There is a piscina and an aumbry, remains of a 16th-century rood screen, choir stalls and a new rood screen from 1885, and a font installed as part of the 1863 restoration. Weeping Cross Outside the church is the Weeping Cross, a separately grade II*-listed structure which may have been relocated from the old chapel. It is believed to have been used as a stopping point for funeral corteges, with recesses in the base probably used to place their bowed heads. This design was historically found elsewhere, but is now a unique survival. It is constructed of gritstone, is about 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) in height, and consists of two circular blocks of stone. In the lower block are eight recesses with segmental lower edges, and continuous moulding. The upper stone is smaller, it has slightly inward-bowed sides, and on the top is a rectangular cavity. See also Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire (district) Listed buildings in Ripley, North Yorkshire References
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Blockley

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Blockley, Gloucestershire, England. The church is a Grade II* listed building. In addition to being an active Anglican parish church, it appears in the television series Father Brown as the village's Roman Catholic church. History The Church of England parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul is late Norman, built in about 1180. The chancel is of three bays but only one of the six Norman lancet windows, that at the east end of the north wall, survives unaltered. At the end of the 13th century a two-storey extension was added on the north side of the chancel. The upper floor is a chantry chapel and the lower is a vestry. In about 1310 the east window of the chancel was inserted and at least two of the windows in the south wall of the chancel were enlarged in the Decorated Gothic style. At the end of the 14th century the north aisle was added, linked with the nave by an arcade of four bays. The large Perpendicular Gothic window in the middle of the south wall of the chancel was inserted in the 15th century, replacing the Norman original. The south porch was added in 1630, the clerestorey was added to the nave in 1636 and the north arcade was probably rebuilt in the same century. The bell tower was built in 1725, probably replacing an earlier one. The west gallery was inserted in 1735. The church was restored and the north porch added in 1871. By 1854 the tower had a ring of six bells, of which the two oldest were cast in 1638 and the remainder in 1679, 1683, 1729 and 1854. The bells were increased to a ring of eight, and in 2016 an appeal was launched to replace the bell frame and to increase the number of bells to ten. Present day The ecclesiastical parish now forms part of the Vale and Cotswold Edge team of Church of England churches, with the Team Vicar remaining responsible for Blockley and its outlying villages of Paxford, Draycott and Aston Magna, as well as the parish of Bourton-on-the-Hill. Dalziel and Pascoe episode Sins of the Fathers was filmed in the church. The church is used as St Mary's Roman Catholic church in the Father Brown television series and the vicarage transformed into presbytery for Father Brown's residence. In 2017 the bell frame was replaced by John Taylor of Loughborough. At the same time all the bells were removed and cleaned. The tenor bell was recast, two new trebles added, and all the headstocks and other equipment replaced. Notable people Erasmus Saunders, (1670–1724) a Welsh priest and writer, curate and then vicar at the beginning of the 18th century Thomas Wilson, vicar, later Dean of Worcester (1571–1586) Thomas Henry Morgan (1898-1957) buried in churchyard, alleged original Welsh composer of Welsh standard "We'll Keep a Welcome" Gallery References External links Church website A Church Near You profile
Clifton House, King's Lynn

Clifton House is a Grade I listed building on Queen Street, King's Lynn, in Norfolk, England. A house has stood on the site since the 13th century. The current facade was constructed in 1708. The doorcase has Solomonic columns with modified Corinthian capitals. There is a mid 14th-century, four-bay undercroft beneath the street. At the west end of the property is a late 16th-century look-out tower. It was built of brick and is of five storeys, with a six-storey polygonal staircase tower. On each floor is one room. References External links Clifton House at Norfolk Heritage Explorer Clifton House at Historic England
St Michael and St Lawrence's Church, Fewston

St Michael and St Lawrence's Church is an Anglican church in Fewston, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A church was first built in Fewston in the 12th century, and the mediaeval tower survives. The remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1697, from which time the font also dates. The tower was restored in about 1800, while the church was further altered later in the century. It was grade II* listed in 1987. The church is built of gritstone with a stone slate roof, and consists of a five-bay nave, a north aisle, a south porch, a three-bay chancel and a west tower. The tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses, round-arched bell openings with an impost band, a coved cornice, and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The porch has a shallow segmental arch, pilasters, a projecting band, and a dated keystone, above which is a pulvinated frieze, a cornice, a coped gable with shaped kneelers, and a cross at the apex. See also Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire (district) Listed buildings in Fewston References
St Margaret's Church, Burnham Norton

St Margaret's Church is a round-tower church in Burnham Norton, Norfolk, England. Likely to have been built in the 11th century, the building retains many medieval architectural features, and is Grade I listed. It also retains an elaborately decorated 15th-century pulpit, considered one of the finest surviving examples of its type. Architecture The village of Burnham Norton is one of the Norfolk Burnhams, a group of villages in Norfolk, England. Approximately 6 miles (10 km) west of Wells-next-the-Sea, it is separated from the sea by tidal marshes. Burnham Norton's parish church, St Margaret's, is one of 129 surviving round-tower churches in Norfolk. Opinion differs as to its date of construction. Most historians conclude that the tower and at least part of the main building is Anglo-Saxon in origin, built between 1000 and 1066 AD. However, no church is listed in Burnham Norton in 1086's Domesday Book, leading some historians to believe that the building is of early Norman construction. The building was gradually altered in later years, and is not internally symmetrical. The north arcade is supported by 13th-century round columns, while the south arcade is supported by more elaborate 14th-century octagonal columns. The east window of the church is an ornate stained-glass window installed in the late 1920s, depicting saints Margaret of Antioch and Margaret of Scotland. The church building is Grade I listed, the highest level of recognition available to a historical building in England. Internal elements Internally, the church retains many of its medieval architectural elements, including an unusually large stone font. A recess near the north door was once the wafer oven used to bake communion wafers. St Margaret's also retains its rood screen, donated in 1458 by William and Johanne Groom; the screen's panels originally depicted images of saints and the Grooms, but these images were defaced during the Reformation. St Margaret's has two pulpits. One is in regular use, and was built in the 19th century to a plain design, using early 17th-century paneling from the church. The other is no longer in use, and was gifted to the church by John and Catharine Goldale in 1450. The latter is considered one of the finest surviving examples of its style. A "wine glass" shape, a hexagon tapering at the base to a narrow point, it is heavily decorated; its six panels depict the Goldales, Pope Gregory I, Augustine of Canterbury, Saint Ambrose and Saint Jerome. Burials David Jamieson VC is buried in the churchyard Lady Margaret Douglas-Home (great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales) Richard Woodget, master of the Cutty Sark Notes References Bibliography Sterry, Jack (2003). Round Tower Churches: Hidden Treasures of North Norfolk. Kenilworth: Jack Sterry. ISBN 0-9544948-0-6. External links Official website
St John's Well

St John's Well is a spa water well in Harrogate, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The well was discovered in about 1631 by Dr Michael Stanhope, who wrote about it in Cures without Care. It was the second to be identified in the area, after the Tewit Well. It was initially known as the "Old Spaw", and later as the "Sweet Spa". A toilet block was constructed by 1656, then a wellhead was built in 1788 by Alexander Wedderburn. In about 1842, this was replaced by a new wellhead, designed by Isaac Shutt. The well closed in 1973. The wellhead has been grade II* listed since 1949. The wellhead is a pavilion in gritstone, with pilasters, a cornice and a pierced parapet. There is an octagonal plan, with three windows and a doorway alternating with plain panelled sides. The doorway and the windows are round-arched with an architrave and a pediment, the doorway pediment on console brackets. See also Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire (district) Listed buildings in Harrogate (Stray Ward) References
Bourne Mill, Colchester

Bourne Mill is a Grade I listed former fishing lodge and then in turn a fulling mill and cornmill in the city of Colchester in Essex and is owned by the National Trust. Bourne Mill, as a mill belonging to St John's Abbey St John's Abbey was founded as a priory in 1096 and granted abbey status in 1104. By 1311 Bourne Mill belonged to St John's Abbey, and may have been the Abbey's mill from the time of its foundation. Its name is first recorded in c. 1240 and derives from the small stream, or bourne, south of Colchester which drove the mill. It was a corn mill throughout the Middle Ages, and was possibly rebuilt in c. 1326. Its pond was the Abbey's fishpond. Sir Thomas Lucas's fishing lodge At the dissolution of the Abbey in 1539, the mill and pond passed through a number of hands before being sold to John Lucas. John Lucas built a mansion on the site of the Abbey (subsequently destroyed during the Civil War). His son, Thomas, built a fishing lodge in 1591, incorporating elements of the former Abbey and his arms above the doorway. The gable ends are in the Dutch style, and incorporate a chimney at each end. Conversion to a mill In 1640 the fishing lodge was fitted out as a fulling mill and run by Flemish refugees. In about 1840 it then became a cornmill and remained as such until the 1930s. The conversion to a cornmill resulted in the insertion of an upper floor and a sack hoist. Acquisition by the National Trust The descendants of John Lucas continued to hold it until 1917. It was acquired by the National Trust in 1936 from the last miller, Alfred Pulford, after its shaft broke. The early history of the Trust's ownership of the mill was unsatisfactory, and by 1950 it had become derelict. At that point it was Grade I listed. It was converted into a house; the machinery was restored in 1966. References
All Saints' Church, Moor Monkton

All Saints' Church is the parish church of Moor Monkton, a village north-west of York in England. The church dates from the 12th century, when the nave and chancel were constructed. From this period survives some of the stonework, the two south doorways, two windows in the north wall, and the lower part of the chancel arch. The church was largely rebuilt in 1638 by Sir Henry Slingsby, who added a brick tower. In 1879, the church was heavily restored by James Fowler, who replaced the tower, and removed most of the furnishings and stained glass. The church was Grade II* listed in 1966. Lying a mile south of the village of Moor Monkton, it was lit only by candles, oil and gas lamps until 2009, when it was finally connected to the electric grid. The church is built of sandstone and gritstone, with a tile roof. The nave is of four bays, and the chancel of three. The tower has three stages and full-height buttresses. There is a parapet, with gargoyles in the form of animal heads. Built into the porch is a slab which depicts the head and feet of a priest. Inside, there is a small figure with a missing head, and an 18th century memorial showing a figure on a bier. See also Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire (district) Listed buildings in Moor Monkton References