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St John the Baptist Church, Harleston

St John the Baptist Church is a place of worship in Harleston, Norfolk, England in the parish of Redenhall with Harleston. Located on Broad Street, St John's is a Grade II listed building. It is one of the seven churches that make up the collective Benefice of Redenhall with Scole, which are located across the Waveney Valley. The church caught fire in 2025 and as of December 2025 is undergoing restoration work. History The church was built in 1872 by R. M. Phipson. Harleston, which has existed since the 13th century, did not have a large church of its own up to this point, and as such St John's is a chapel of ease. Its stained glass was from a single commission from the O'Connors. In 2010, the church underwent conservation work. By 2025, it was being used as a community hub, and Waveney food bank operated there. 2025 fire On 1 October 2025, the church caught fire, causing significant internal damage, though firefighters saved a lot of its structure and kept the roof intact. One window near the kitchen was "blown out" by the heat of the fire. An investigation found the fire was accidental and had begun in the church's kitchen. The stock held by Waveney food bank was destroyed, as were its means to organise its distribution such as its tablets. Waveney food bank was relocated into the Methodist Church on London Road, and East of England Co-operative Society donated £1,000 to help it regain its stock. The church's services were moved to St Thomas More on Jays Green in the town. In November a benefice administrator said repairs could take up to three years to complete and stated that while the outside didn't "look too bad", the inside was in a "very bad state"; plaster had come off the wall, and mould was appearing due to the water from the fire brigade. The church's pews as well as the lectern and other furniture were removed on 18 November to be cleaned and repaired. Its large stained glass window was taken to a specialist, Devlin Plummer, for repairs. In December, those working on its restoration under architect Ruth Brennan said this would likely take up to two years, costing "hundreds of thousands of pounds". Repair costs are expected to be funded by insurance. Architecture The church is in a gothic style, and is made of flint with stone dressings. It features a steep slated roof, a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, and a chancel with polygonal apse. It has north and south transepts, with the south transept including a stone bellcote. There is a large traceried west window, and a portal below with a moulded arch. At least prior to 2025, most of the O'Connors glass remained, with the west window of original glass being restored in 2010. Some modern stained glass depicted the local landscape and the church's patron. See also Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Redenhall Media related to St John the Baptist's church, Harleston, Norfolk at Wikimedia Commons References
St Peter's Church, Tollerton

St. Peter's Church is a Grade-II listed church located in Tollerton, Nottinghamshire, England. History There has been a church in Tollerton since before the Norman Conquest but its site is not known. The present church's foundations were laid towards the end of the 12th Century. Little is known of the medieval church except that it had a gabled tower. It was customary for the rector to maintain the chancel and for the villagers – usually the squire – to maintain the nave. Various squires did little or no repair work and the nave became a ruin. Then in 1812 Pendock Barry started a renovation scheme. He rebuilt the nave, constructed the mausoleum and built a brick extension to the west end that contained a porch with vestries and a gallery. The gallery was for his family's use. When the rector died in 1816 the new incumbent was persuaded to give the squire a free hand. He pulled down the chancel and rebuilt it. Restoration work also took place in 1909 to make the church look as it does today. Originally donated in 1909 by WE Burnside of Tollerton Hall and installed at a cost of £595, the organ was overhauled and cleaned in the 1930s by Roger Yates, and a Tremulant stop added to the Swell. See also Listed buildings in Tollerton, Nottinghamshire References
Izaak Walton's Cottage

The Izaak Walton Cottage is a seventeenth-century timber framed building in Shallowford, Chebsey, Staffordshire, England. It belonged to the writer Izaak Walton, best known for The Compleat Angler. The building is designated grade II, and is managed as a museum. History Walton was born in Stafford in 1593. After running a business in London, he acquired some property at Shallowford, including the cottage, in the 1650s. The cottage is near a brook called the Meece (a tributary of the Sow), and the fishing there is believed to be one reason he was attracted to the rural locality. On his death in 1683 he bequeathed the property for the benefit of the poor of Stafford. The surroundings are still rural, but in 1837 the Grand Junction Railway was built through the valley separating the buildings from a section of the Meece. The farm and the cottage became derelict but continued to be tenanted until 1920 when the property was offered for sale. Local Stafford businessmen formed The Izaak Walton Cottage Trust to establish a small museum dedicated to the famous writer. They raised £50 to purchase the site and £500 to repair the cottage. Lord Stafford ceremonially opened the museum on 30 April 1924. In 1927 sparks from a steam train caused a fire that destroyed the thatched roof, and the museum was closed for a year. There was another fire in 1938, and in 1939 the cottage re-opened with a tiled roof. The building was listed in 1952. The trust was wound up in 1965, and the building was taken over by Stafford Borough Council. During the 1990s the thatched roof was restored. The ground floor of the museum is set-out in period, with information boards covering Walton's life, his writings and the story of the Izaak Walton Cottage. Upstairs a collection of fishing related items is displayed, the earliest dating from the mid-eighteenth century, while a room is dedicated to his Lives and The Compleat Angler. Access The Izaak Walton Cottage and gardens are open to the public on Sunday afternoons during the summer. See also Listed buildings in Chebsey References External links historicstafford.co.uk - Main Website Website of Potteries.org - Neville Malkin's "Grand Tour" of the Potteries Retrieved Feb 2017 = Has several old pictures, drawings and historical narrative
Corn Exchange, Ipswich

The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in King Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The structure, which is currently used as a public events venue, is Grade II listed building. History Until the early 19th century, corn merchants in the town traded in the open at stalls on the Cornhill. In 1793, some merchants relocated to The Rotunda, a building designed by George Gooding and modelled on the Halle aux blés in Paris. However, in the around 1810, Ipswich Borough Council decided to commission a purpose-built structure in the southeast corner of Cornhill. It was designed in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £33,000 and was completed in March 1812. It was originally open behind the façade, although a glass roof was added in 1849. In the late 1860s, Ipswich Borough Council decided to commission a more substantial structure: the site they selected was on the north side of King Street. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by mayor, David Henry Booth, on 22 October 1880. It was designed by Brightwen Binyon in the Renaissance Revival style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £25,000 and was officially opened by the then-mayor, Frederick Fish, on 26 July 1882. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of nine bays facing onto King Street with the end bays slightly projected forward. The central section of three bays, which was also slightly projected forward, was fenestrated by a central tripartite window flanked by single sash windows with architraves on the ground floor, a central Diocletian window flanked by segmental headed windows with architraves and Corinthian order columns on the first floor, and a pair of round headed windows with Corinthian order columns flanked by single round headed windows also with Corinthian order columns on the second floor. The bays were flanked by full-height pilasters supporting a modillioned cornice. The wing sections of two bays each featured wide openings separated by Corinthian order pilasters on the ground floor and balustraded parapets placed in front of recessed blind walls on the first floor. The end bays were fenestrated in a similar manner to the central section. Above the cornice the central section and end bays featured dormer windows and mansard roofs. Internally, the principal room was a Grand Hall. 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, it became a public events venue: early speakers included the President of the Board of Trade, Joseph Chamberlain, in January 1885. Following a major programme of restoration works costing £800,000, the building was re-opened by Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester on 22 September 1975. The building hosted the Antiques Roadshow in March 1986, and the rock band, Blur, in June 1991. It was also the venue for the political debate programme, Question Time, in May 2013 and, again, in May 2016. See also Corn exchanges in England References
Kirkstall Road Viaduct

Kirkstall Road Viaduct is a Grade II listed railway viaduct carrying the Harrogate line over the A65 Kirkstall Road, the River Aire, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Burley, Leeds, West Yorkshire. It was built in 1849 by the engineer Thomas Grainger for the Leeds and Thirsk Railway. The viaduct, which is approximately 440 m (0.27 miles), is a significant local landmark due to the wide, shallow nature of the valley it crosses. In addition to passing over the Aire, canal and road, the viaduct also passed over working class back-to-back accommodation in the river valley. The Kirkstall Viaduct remains in use today, with sections of the former Leeds Northern Railway line linking Leeds and Harrogate and connecting to York. However, its immediate surroundings are mostly 20th century industrial buildings and industrial parks, which replaced the residential back-to-backs. Grainger supervised the construction of the whole the line from Leeds to Stockton-on-Tees via Harrogate and Thirsk; his design features twenty-one segmental arches on large rusticated piers, with chamfered voussoirs and a moulded cornice and parapet. At its south end, over the canal, is a low elliptical arch. The viaduct used local Bramley Fall sandstone in the form of rock-faced ashlar, the light colour of which is distinctive compared to the many red brick and dark buildings which surrounded it on construction. The viaduct was completed on 23 March 1849 and began operation from 9 July. Kirkstall Road Viaduct is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed structure, having been designated on 22 September 1975. Grade II is the lowest of the three grades of listing, and is applied to "buildings that are nationally important and of special interest". In 2020, as part of the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme, works were proposed to build a new flood wall with a hydrophilic seal around a single pier immediately north of the River Aire. This is in response to the floods in the Aire Valley on Boxing Day 2015. References Media related to Kirkstall Road Viaduct at Wikimedia Commons
Haverhill Arts Centre

Haverhill Arts Centre, formerly Haverhill Town Hall, is a former municipal building in the High Street in Haverhill, Suffolk, a town in England. The building, which is currently used as an events centre, is a Grade II listed building. History The building was commissioned by Daniel and Caroline Gurteen, who were the proprietors of a textile manufacturing business at Chauntry Mills in Haverhill, as part of celebrations for their 50th wedding anniversary. The site they selected was on the southwest side of the High Street, close to Haverhill South railway station. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on 11 April 1882. It was designed by Edward Sharman of Wellingborough in the Gothic Revival style, built in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £5,000 and was officially opened as Haverhill Town Hall on 2 August 1883. The building had a large hall on the first floor, while the ground floor accommodated a kitchen, toilets, and rooms for lectures, committee meetings, chess and billiards. It also included a council chamber and the town's public library. In May 1884, a large organ, designed and manufactured by James Jepson Binns, was installed in the hall. The hall was known for its public dances in the 1950s and 1960s, and for bingo and an annual pantomime in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1990s, it was owned by the St Edmundsbury Borough Council, which converted it into an arts centre and re-opened it as such on 1 December 1994. In 2004, control of the building passed to Haverhill Town Council. In 2023, the arts centre initiated a self-produced pantomime for the first time: the production of Dick Whittington was written and directed by the centre's creative director, Dan Schumann, and starred the actor, Scott Wright. The building also houses the Haverhill Local History Museum, which has a collection of local memorabilia. Architecture The building is constructed of red brick, with dressing of stone and glazed tile. It has two storeys and an attic, with a slate roof. Its main front is three bays wide, and has a projecting three-stage porch rising the full height of the building and surmounted by a gable. There is an arched opening with a hood mould in the first stage, an oriel window in the second stage and a tri-partite arched window with cusped heads and tracery in the third stage. The outer bays are fenestrated by pairs of windows with cusped heads. The side walls each have seven windows. As built, there were also dormer windows, later removed. The building was grade II listed in 1973. References External links Official website
St Matthew's Church, Perry Beeches

St Matthew's Church is a 20th-century church in the Anglican Diocese of Birmingham, in the Perry Beeches area of Great Barr, Birmingham, England. It was designed by Robert Maguire and Keith Murray and consecrated on 21 September 1964. Background St Matthew's parish was established in 1938, in a newly developed residential area that was previously farmland. The first church, known as Christ Church, was a simple, single-storey brick building, completed in 1939, which also served as a community hall. It was retained and is connected to the current church, continuing in its latter function. Land for the church was donated by Douglas James of the James Motorcycle Company. Architecture Building work began in November 1962 and was finished in July 1964, with a total contract price of £29,827 (equivalent to £556,706 in 2025). A foundation stone was laid on 13 June 1963 by the Bishop of Birmingham, Leonard Wilson. The church was consecrated on 21 September 1964. Its architects were Robert Maguire and Keith Murray. It follows their earlier work on St Paul's, Bow Common. The building is constructed of brick and reinforced concrete with a copper roof. Its concrete and mortar have a pinkish hue, caused by the use of locally quarried red sand. It has a bell tower on its western side. The interior floor plan is an irregular hexagon, arranged to so that both the altar and the blue-brick font are visible to the seated congregation. The church has a floor area of 5,930 square feet (551 m2) and is designed to seat up to 400. It retains original light fittings by Murray, using Swedish glass, as well as the original wooden bench-pews, pulpit, lectern, priest's chair and desk. The original altar was replaced in 1978 with one made in English ash by students from the nearby Brooklyn Technical College. The church's interior wooden detailing is also in English ash. A review in the Architects' Journal noted the importance of consultation with its parishioners on the church's design, and said that "the unusual relationship between font and altar is of interest". An organ was installed in 1969. It was replaced in 2011. The church was Grade II listed in 1997, giving it legal protection from unauthorised modification or demolition. Historic England described it as "a fine example of the influence of the Liturgical Movement", and called the pulpit "de Stijl-like". Worship St Matthew's describes its services as being in the "Modern Catholic" tradition. An episode of the BBC Television programme Songs of Praise, recorded at the church on 15 May 1968, was broadcast on 30 June that year. It was presented by Geoffrey Wheeler. A statue in English limestone by Nicholas Mynheer, Holy Family was erected in the church grounds in 2011. In September 2014, a series of 14 stations of the cross artworks by Mynheer were installed inside the church. Near the altar are two icons by Tatiana Nichita. Vicarage In 1960, a vicarage was constructed on Beeches Road, around a third of a mile from the church. References External links Official website
Smith-Dorrien House

Smith-Dorrien House is an office building in Aldershot, Hampshire. It is a Grade II listed building. History The foundation stone for the building was laid by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, the General Officer Commanding Aldershot Command, on 4 March 1908. The building, which was designed by Harry Bell Measures in the Victorian style, was completed circa 1909. It was initially used as a barracks institute, a social facility for soldiers to read, meet, study and play games. It was refurbished by Millgrove Construction to provide the main offices for the Wellesley Project, a major residential development by Grainger plc, in 2013. References
Ahm House

The Ahm House at 44 West Common Way is a house in Harpenden in Hertfordshire, England. It was built between 1961 and 1963 by the structural engineer Povl Ahm, a partner of Ove Arup, for himself to a design by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon. Ahm, Arup and Utzon were working on the design and construction of Sydney Opera House at the time of the house's construction. The house has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since July 1998. In their official listed building report Historic England described the house as "a distinguished and beautifully detailed modern house, in the idiom of an important architect who built relatively little". Nikolaus Pevsner in the Hertfordshire edition of his Buildings of England series described the Ahm House as an "interesting modern house ... [that] makes no concessions to the outsider nor to the genteel facadism of its neighbours. All that one sees from the road is a yawning carport with a rhythm of projecting concrete beam-ends above, and a tall blank yellow brick wall on the right". References
All Saints' Church, East Cowton

All Saints' Church is an Anglican church in East Cowton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A stone church, dedicated to Saint Mary, was built in East Cowton in the 14th century, and largely rebuilt in 1707. It had a nave, chancel, north vestry, south porch, and a small west tower built of brick. The church was some distance from the village centre, and by the early 20th century it was considered to be too small, and in need of major repair. Instead, it was abandoned, and a new church was completed in 1910, to the designs of John Woolfall and Thomas Eccles. By 1966, the old church was described as "a rotting barn-like building with a square brick tower", and it was demolished in 1968. The new building was grade II listed in 1998, and it was extended in 2002. The church is built of red brick with stone dressings and tile roofs. It consists of a continuous nave and chancel, a south porch, and a north vestry. On the roof, at the division between the nave and the chancel, is a hexagonal shingled flèche, with a louvred bell stage and an iron weathervane. Inside is a 12th-century font brought from the old church. See also Listed buildings in East Cowton References
Our Lady of Sorrows, Peckham

Our Lady of Sorrows, Peckham is a Roman Catholic church and parish in Peckham, London. The church, which has an adjacent friary, was founded by the Capuchin Friars in 1859 and is a Grade II listed building. Since 2022 it has been the UK home of the Norbertine canons (Canons Regular of Prémontré). History The last Catholic bishop in England died during the reign of Elizabeth I. Following the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 the church was growing with Anglican converts and Irish immigration. In 1850 Pope Pius IX released a papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae re-establishing the Catholic hierarchy and diocesan structure. Bishop Thomas Grant was the first Catholic Bishop of Southwark and inherited a diocese with 58 churches and 67 priests. By 1869 the diocese had increased this to 159 churches and 183 priests. One of these new churches was the one in Peckham. Bishop Grant invited the Capuchins to found the church in 1854, and the site was purchased in 1856. Initially they set up a small school, and modified a stable to form a chapel. The stable was replaced by a wooden structure and architect E. W. Pugin was invited to design a permanent church. The foundation stone is dated 1859, but due to lack of funds the church did not open until 1866. The adjacent friary opened in 1884 and the now derelict parish hall opened in 1937. The associated school was rebuilt in the 1880s after a fire, and was replaced with new buildings in the 1970s. The Capuchin Friars remained in Peckham until 2000 when the church and parish was returned to the Archdiocese of Southwark. In 2014 the archdiocese invited the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) from Nigeria to run the parish and in 2022 they were replaced by the Canons Regular of Prémontré, who were previously in Chelmsford. The Norbertine Priory of Our Lady of Sorrows, Peckham was formally invested by the Archbishop of Southwark, John Wilson, on 29 September 2022. Building The church was built in a gothic architectural style made out of London stock brick with a pitched slate roof. It has a large rose window at the east end with smaller rose windows in the aisles. There are two side chapels next to the sanctuary; one dedicated to St Francis with stained glass by Mayer of Munich, and one a lady chapel. Pugin's high altar is in situ, with a second forward altar allowing mass to be performed with the priest facing the congregation (versus populum). There is a chapel at the west end dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows which contains a copy of Michelangelo's Pieta. This has marble tiling and slate panels listing the dead of the community. There is also a western gallery housing the organ. The church was made a grade II listed building on 27 September 1972, under the previous name Our Lady of Seven Delours. It is on the Heritage at Risk Register due to problems with the roof tiles and the derelict church hall. The National Churches Trust gave a £40,000 grant for repairs to the church in 2024. The church is one of the 2025 Jubilee pilgrimage churches for the Archdiocese of Southwark. References