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Ланкастерский университет

Ланкастерский университет или Университет Ланкастера (англ. Lancaster University) — публичный исследовательский университет, расположенный в Ланкастере. История Основан в 1964 году, является одним из лучших исследовательских университетов Великобритании, в котором учатся более 10 000 студентов, причем около 50 % составляют иностранцы. Некоторые факультеты, такие как «Бизнес и менеджмент», «Физика», «Социология и статистика» получили высшую оценку 5 в рейтинге британского образования. Ланкастерский университет расположен в одном из живописнейших мест Великобритании — знаменитом своими пейзажами Озерном крае, на северо-западе Англии. Внешним видом и расположением университет напоминает американский — у него своя собственная, независимая от внешнего мира территория — кампус, который находится в 5 километрах от исторического центра города. Площадь университетского кампуса составляет 100 гектаров. Его можно назвать «городом в городе». Школа менеджмента занимает 3-е место в Великобритании и 39 место в мировом рейтинге Бизнес-школ (2005 г). Бизнес-школа предлагает различные программы в сфере экономики, в том числе программу MBA. Ланкастерский университет объявляет о новом кампусе в Лейпциге, Германия, в 2019 году - Университет Ланкастера в Лейпциге. В 2020 году была построена новая школа инженерии. Структура Ланкастерский университет состоит из 5 факультетов: Естественных наук Инженерных наук Общественных наук Искусств и гуманитарных наук Школа менеджмента
Університет Ланкастера

Університет Ланкастера (англ. Lancaster University) — один із найкращих сучасних дослідницьких університетів Великої Британії. Заснований в 1964 році. В університеті навчаються понад 10 000 студентів, причому 18 % становлять іноземці. Університет Ланкастера складається з 5 факультетів: економіки підприємства інженерних наук суспільних наук мистецтв і гуманітарних наук школа менеджменту. Рівень навчання в Університеті Ланкастера дуже високий. Деякі факультети, як-от «Бізнес і менеджмент», «Фізика», «Соціологія і статистика», отримали вищу оцінку 5 у рейтингу британської освіти. Lancaster University Management School займає 3-тє місце у Великій Британії і 39-те — у світовому рейтингу бізнес-шкіл (2005). Бізнес-школа пропонує різні програми у сфері економіки, зокрема програму MBA. Галерея Примітки Джерела Masterplan 2007—2017 Part 1 Masterplan 2007—2017 Part 2 http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ InfoLab21 Official Site
Rylstone Manor

Rylstone Manor (or Rylstone Chalet) is a manor house and was a museum in Shanklin, on the Isle of Wight, England. The building was originally constructed as a gentleman's residence in 1863 and remained privately owned until 1923. Of Victorian style, it includes Gothic, Tudor and Georgian influences. Rylstone Manor is now a hotel. The building is constructed of stone, and features include a jettied half-timbered projection. It is located within Rylstone Gardens, a public park. The Great Masonic Exhibition of 1886 was held on the grounds and at the chalet of Rylstone. The museum at the Rylstone Chalet was officially opened by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton on 17 April 1935. The collection included Isle of Wight birds, butterflies, mouths, and eggs. References External links Rylstone Manor - official site
Haseley Manor, Warwickshire

Haseley Manor is a Grade II-listed English country house in Haseley, Warwickshire, England. Architecture The house was built from 1875 to 1878, to designs by the architect William Young, for Alfred Hewlett, a coal merchant from Lancashire. It has walls of rock-faced stone and plain tile roofs, and is in the Gothic and Elizabethan styles, including a Gothic turret. It has been Grade II listed since January 1987, giving it legal protection from unauthorised alterations or demolition. Uses In 1930, the house was acquired by the Birmingham Society for the Care of Invalid Children, and put to use as a convalescent home and hospital school for girls. It was then purchased by Birmingham Education Authority and, from 1941, became Haseley Hall Residential Open-Air School For Boys, and was used as a children's home and orphanage. At some subsequent point it was owned by W & T Avery. By the mid-1960s, it was being used as staff college by the British Motor Corporation, and its nationalised successor, British Leyland. It was next used as a business and conference centre. It was acquired subsequently by Spitfire Bespoke Homes who subdivided and converted it into a number of private residences, completed circa 2018, including thirteen one, two and three-bedroom apartments. An additional nine residences, including three garden villas and five terraced houses, were created in its grounds. The project architect was Mike Lapworth. References External links Haseley Manor, Warwick – includes aerial footage
St Paul's Church, Warwick

St Paul's Church is an Anglican church located in Warwick, England. It is a Tudor Gothic Revival church built in 1844 and serves as the parish church for the St Paul parish. History The land the church sits on began as a burial ground and a chapel. Churchyards at nearby St Mary and St Nicholas churches became full as Warwick's population boomed in the 19th century following the construction of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal. This led to the consecration of the chapel and cemetery on 23 July 1824, which was originally known as St Mary's Episcopal Chapel and served St Mary's church. The church itself began construction on 8 November 1842 by architect Richard Charles Hussey and was consecrated on 26 July 1844 by the Bishop of Worcester Isaac Maddox. Stone for the church was given by the Earl of Warwick. After consecration, the St Paul parish was formed out of the St Mary parish. New burials ceased in the churchyard in 1870. The building was made a Grade II listed building on 19 March 1973. Design The church has a T-shaped plan and the original chapel forms the south end. The south transept end faces the road at Friars Street and is in the Tudor Gothic Revival style. The nave addition by Hussey is in the Early English Gothic Revival style. The north side of the church has seven bays and the south has four. The interior east contains stained glass completed by William Holland's Holland of Warwick firm. References External links St Paul's Church, Warwick
Christ Church, Warminster

Christ Church is an Anglican church building serving a parish on the southern side of Warminster, Wiltshire, England. History The church was built in 1830–31 to the designs of John Leachman, at the instigation of William Dalby, vicar of the parish church of St Denys', as a chapel of ease to serve what was then Warminster Common. It was part-funded by the Church Building Commission and had a large nave with a capacity, including a gallery, of 882. The church is built in yellow brick with limestone dressings; the west tower has pinnacles described by Pevsner as tall and heavy. In 1871 the church was expanded with the addition of the chancel and vestry designed by T.H. Wyatt. In 1881 the ceiling of the nave, which was becoming unstable, was replaced with wooden beams and pillars to form arcades, and the balcony or gallery was removed. The building was designated as a Grade II listed building in 1952. During the late 1960s an attempt was made to modernise the worship in the church, and a nave altar was built. This was a controversial move and led, eventually, to a consistory court. The vicar wanted to symbolically bring the worship of the church to a more central place in the church. However, this move divided the church and a number of the congregation, and those outside the congregation complained that there had been no consultation. Eventually a parishioner appealed to an ecclesiastical consistory court. The case was lost by the vicar and church wardens as the court found that insufficient consultation about the change had occurred. Although the altar was not removed, the affair caused a rift in the church and a number of people felt strongly enough to move to worship elsewhere. In 2004 a major redevelopment of Christ Church began with the complete reordering of the worship space, the addition of a raised dais, the removal of the nave altar and pews, and a new lobby. The second phase of the development project included the utilisation of the mezzanine floor area above the lobby of the church. Creating meeting rooms and more functional space, this work was completed in 2014. Parish At first a chapel of ease within the parish of St Denys, in 1838 a district was assigned to Christ Church which included the Common, Boreham and part of the town. It gained its own parish in 1863, and at the same time Boreham was returned to Warminster parish. There were boundary changes affecting the parishes of Warminster, Christ Church, Bishopstrow and Boyton in 1956, and again involving Norton Bavant and Upton Scudamore in 1959; today the parish covers a segment of the southern half of Warminster, and extends southwest into part of the Longleat estate. List of vicars References
Belstead House

Belstead House is a Grade II listed 16th/17th century house in Sprites Lane, Pinewood, Suffolk. It was bought by Major Quilter in 1901. Until 1920 it was known as Hill House and lay at the centre of a 102 acre farm. The building was remodelled by Harold Hooper and Garrard in 1936, during which much of the original building was lost, although it was in some ways expanded using material from other period houses available locally. Belstead House was bought by East Suffolk County Council in 1948 to provide accommodation for High Court Judges visiting Ipswich. It was also used as venue for adult education, a use which increased when it was no longer used by the judges after 1974. Aside from use as a venue for residential courses, it was also used by Suffolk County Council. Redevelopment However in 2012 Suffolk County Council bought Landmark House, in Whitehouse, Ipswich and then put Belstead House and other premises on the market. In 2015 the developer, Rural Community Housing Limited, expressed interest in the property, submitting a planning proposal to Babergh District Council to redevelop the building as part of a major redevelopment also including neighbouring land. Their plans included turning Belstead House itself into four large homes, which would be sold on the open market. However local residents and politicians expressed concern about the development creating problems due to limited local facilities and potential traffic problems. Despite the Outline Planning Permission initially being rejected, it was subsequently granted on 25 November 2015. In 2019 Rural Community Housing Limited applied for Detailed Planning Permission. References
Sudbury Town Hall

Sudbury Town Hall is a municipal building in Gaol Lane in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. The building, which was the headquarters of Sudbury Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building. History Following the passing of the Sudbury improvement bill, which received royal assent on 20 May 1825, the new town commissioners decided to procure a new town hall: the site they selected had been occupied by the Exchequer Inn. Construction work on the new building started in 1828. It was designed by John Johnston in the neoclassical style, built in red brick with a stucco rendering by Thomas Ginn at a cost of £2,500 and completed in June 1830. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing the top of Market Hill; the central bay, which slightly projected forward at ground floor level, featured a doorway flanked by brackets which supported a cornice. On the first floor, there was a sash window flanked by pairs of Ionic order columns supporting and an entablature and a pediment which originally contained a coat of arms in the tympanum. Internally, the principal rooms on the ground floor were the courtroom, in which the quarterly assizes were held and the mayor's parlour; there was a large assembly room on the first floor. A gaol, large enough to hold four prisoners awaiting trial, was established at the rear of the town hall. Following significant population growth, partly associated with the expansion of the local silk weaving industry, the area became a municipal borough with the town hall as its headquarters in 1892. The 1st Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment received the freedom of the borough from the mayor, Councillor C. E. Grimwood, at a ceremony in front of the town hall attended by the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, the Earl of Stradbroke, on 29 April 1953. The building continued to serve as the meeting place of Sudbury Borough Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government when Babergh District Council was formed in 1974. A tourist information centre was subsequently established in the building, and the assembly room became the regular meeting place for Sudbury Town Council. The gaol at the back of the town hall was converted into a heritage centre in 2006 and six silk wall hangings made and donated by local silk weaving companies were hung in the assembly room in 2011. After the tourist information centre moved from the town hall to the public library on Market Hill, the heritage centre took over the room that had been vacated and installed a digital touch-screen system for the use of visitors in 2015. The room was then taken over by the district council for use as a customer advice centre in 2017, but fell vacant again when the customer advice centre also moved to the public library in spring 2021. Works of art in the town hall include a painting by Robert Burrows depicting cattle watering and a painting by George Washington Brownlow depicting a moorhen's nest. References
St Helen's Church, Ipswich

St Helen's Church, Ipswich is an Anglican church in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The church is built from knapped flint rubble with additional stone and white brick dressings. Although some of the building dates back to the medieval period, the building was substantially altered in the nineteenth century. History William Swarston, a married minister, was incumbent when Queen Mary succeeded in seizing the throne in 1553. However, when the government initiated a campaign against married clergy, and in 1554 he was replaced by William Barker. Then in 1556 the erstwhile protestant propagandist turned ardent Catholic, Richard Argentine was the incumbent here following his taking Holy Orders. He is mentioned in Foxe's Book of Martyrs in relation to the persecution of Agnes Wardall in July 1556. References
Corn Exchange, Fakenham

The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in the Market Place, Fakenham, Norfolk, England. The structure, which is currently used as a cinema, is a Grade II listed building. History In the early 1850s, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, known as the "Fakenham Corn Exchange and Public Rooms Company", to finance and commission a purpose-built corn exchange for the town. The investors included Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, whose seat was at Holkham Hall, and who took a personal interest in the project. The site they selected, in the centre of the Market Place, had been occupied by a market cross and sessions hall which dated back to 1649. The sessions hall was arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets could be held; it also had an assembly room, which was used as a school, on the first floor, but it was demolished in 1801. The current building was designed by John Brown of Norwich in the Italianate style, built in red brick with ashlar stone dressings at a cost of £4,000 and was completed in 1855. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing west onto Old Post Office Street. It was originally fenestrated by five sash windows with architraves, window cills and keystones on each floor. The corners, which were rounded, contained doorways with fanlights flanked by pilasters and brackets supporting cornices. The side elevations, of three bays each, featured two-bay projections, with rounded corners, which were fenestrated by pairs of round-headed windows. At roof level, there was heavy cornice, supported by brackets, and a parapet. Internally, as well as the main hall, which was used by traders, there was a courtroom for the magistrates and a library. The use of the building as a corn exchange declined significantly in the wake of the Great Depression of British Agriculture in the late 19th century. Instead, the building was converted into a cinema, capable of seating 700 people, in 1930. The cinema was branded as the "Central Cinema" in 1937 and a plaque, inscribed with the inscription "Central", was installed above a new doorway in the central bay. After serving as the headquarters of the local Home Guard during the Second World War, the cinema closed in 1976. The building was re-purposed as a bingo hall in the late 1970s but became vacant in the mid-1990s. After an extensive programme of refurbishment works, carried out to a design by Nicholas Hills, it was then reopened as the "Hollywood Cinema" in July 2000. It subsequently changed ownership in 2009, and, again, in 2017. See also Corn exchanges in England References
Blisworth Arch

The Blisworth Arch is a railway bridge in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, in eastern England. It was designed by Robert Stephenson for the London and Birmingham Railway and completed in 1837. It is a grade II listed building and a significant local landmark. History The name "Blisworth Arch" is a local name given to the bridge, which crosses the main Northampton to Towcester road just north of the village of Blisworth. The arch was built by 1837 for the London and Birmingham Railway (LBR), whose chief engineer was Robert Stephenson. The LBR was one of the first long-distance railways and its route became the southern section of the West Coast Main Line. As such, the Blisworth Arch remains in use. It featured in several contemporary illustrations of the construction of the LBR, including one by Thomas Roscoe. Description The bridge is built from red brick and faced with grey lias stone. The round-headed arch is 32 feet (10 metres) tall to the crown. It has a keystone in the centre and is flanked by pilasters and imposts where these meet the arch. On either side are 10-foot (3-metre) wide tapering buttresses. A moulded cornice runs the length of the bridge above the arch and below a parapet, which is finished with stone coping. The bridge has vertical wing walls running parallel, and similar perpendicular retaining walls supporting the embankment. The bridge has undergone little alteration since it was built as neither the road nor the railway have been widened—the A43 was rerouted to bypass Blisworth and the bridge is just west of the point where the Northampton loop deviates from the main line. Up to this junction, the line was quadruple-tracked in the 1880s but the Northampton loop added capacity, negating the need to modify structures between Roade and Rugby, including the Blisworth Arch. The National Transport Trust describes it as "an elegant and lofty arch". E. A. Labrum, in the Eastern and Central England volume of Civil Engineering Heritage, calls it "a fine example of the attention to detail in bridge design which was typical of the early railway engineers". References
Thrum Mill, Rothbury

The Thrum Mill is a grade II-listed water mill in Rothbury, Northumberland, England. The water mill dates back to 1665. Media The renovation of Thrum Mill by locals Dave and Margaret Heldey into a home was featured on The Restoration Man (2010–present), a home improvement show presented by architect George Clarke, in Series 3: Episode 4 (2014). Clarke's revisiting of the mill a year later was shown in Series 4: Episode Eight (2015). Gallery References
Fitzroy House

Fitzroy House is a Victorian building on the High Street in Lewes, East Sussex, England. It was originally Fitzroy Memorial Library, designed by architect George Gilbert Scott in neo-Gothic style and built in 1862. In 1897 it became Lewes' first public library, until 1956 when it became offices. It was left empty and decaying for 20 years before being renovated and used as a family home for 40 years, as well as an occasional venue for music and theatre. In 2016 it was sold. The main focal point of the house is the double-height Octagon Room. History Fitzroy Memorial Library was built in 1862 in memory of Henry FitzRoy. FitzRoy represented Lewes in Parliament from 1837 until his death in 1859, age 51. The building was commissioned by his widow, Hannah Meyer FitzRoy, a member of the Rothschild family, and designed by architect George Gilbert Scott. In 1897 it was adopted by the town of Lewes as its first public library and remained so until 1956. After that time it became offices but eventually fell out of use. It was gradually left to decline until 1970, when it was decided to demolish it. Part of the building was demolished before an Emergency Protection Order and Grade II listed building status was obtained at the request of the Friends of Lewes. Unused for two decades, the property became increasingly dilapidated until it was bought by James and Maureen Franks in 1978. The couple, along with the Friends of Lewes, restored and converted the property into their home, which it remained for the next 40 years. During that time the Octagon Room was also used as a performance venue by music and theater groups. In 2016, Fitzroy House was sold by the Franks family to Alison Grant. The building was listed at Grade II on 11 May 1970. Description The building is in neo-Gothic style. It is described in Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove by Ian Nairn, a volume of Pevsner's Buildings of England series, as follows: "Red brick with some decorative black brick and stone and polished marble dressings. Steep roof with prominent chimney stack and clock turret and a tall fleche. Symmetrical facade to High Street with grand gabled centrepiece, a bracketed balcony forming an entrance porch. Two tiers of windows, paired lancets below, circular above, set within a Gothic arcade of polychrome arches on pilasters with carved capitals. Inside, galleried reading room lit by an octagonal lantern [now lost]. Main staircase with Gothic balustrade." It was described in The New York Times that "the main focal point of the house is the double-height Octagon Room. Located on the ground floor, the space, measuring 125 square meters, or 1,345 square feet, has a tiled courtyard, a galleried landing on the first floor and a glass atrium roof." References Further reading Building And Saving Fitzroy Library, Lewes: a Victorian Love Story with a 20th Century Ending. Pomegranate, 2012. By James Franks. ISBN 978-1907242328 New edition. External links Media related to Fitzroy House, Lewes at Wikimedia Commons Official website
St Bartholomew's Church, Burwash

St Bartholomew's Church is a parish church in the village of Burwash, East Sussex, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. Building St Bartholomew's Church is located next to the A265 road. Only the thick-walled tower survives from the original Norman church (built in 1090) with evidence of its origin being discernible by the great width of the mortar in which the stones are bedded and which can be seen from the outside. The church was partially rebuilt and extensively restored in 1856; the chancel was completely renewed, although its 13th-century arch survives. This work also included the lowering of the floor and this in turn necessitated the removal of a considerable depth of earth from the surrounding churchyard. Some of the flooring of the church was again renewed owing to the considerable rotting of the old planks, in the years 1989 to 1990. In the south aisle, an early-16th century cast-iron memorial slab is the oldest in England, as Burwash was a centre of the Wealden iron industry. History The church was originally built in the Norman Era, in 1090, however only the tower survives of this original church. See also List of places of worship in Rother Burwash References Sources