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Sunderland Aquatic Centre

Sunderland Aquatic Centre is an indoor sports complex next to the Stadium of Light in the city of Sunderland, England. It contains an Olympic-size swimming pool, a diving pool and a gymnasium. It is the only full Olympic-standard pool in North East England between Glasgow and Leeds. The centre was opened on 18 April 2008 with a fireworks and lights display. Anne, Princess Royal visited the Aquatic Centre on 22 January 2009 and gave it a second 'opening' ceremony. A third ceremony was held in the presence of the Mayor of Sunderland Mary Smith later that year. It replaced the swimming pool and gymnasium facilities at the Crowtree Leisure Centre, which was opened in 1978 by Prince Charles. The pool at Crowtree had a tropical beach style with a slide, two diving pools and a wave machine, and was not an Olympic-standard pool. The centre was closed to the general public in October 2011 and demolished in 2013. On 16 June 2012, the Olympic torch was carried through the Aquatic Centre as part of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay. In February 2017, Sunderland City Council announced that the centre would have to be closed for up to nine months to make structural repairs to the roof, after leaks were reported. They also confirmed they were taking legal action against builder Balfour Beatty. In August 2018, an out-of-court agreement was reached, and Balfour Beatty committed to carry out a programme of work to repair the roof. See also List of Olympic-size swimming pools in the United Kingdom References External links Sunderland Aquatic Centre website BBC Wear's features and pictures of Sunderland Aquatic Centre Achtformpool
Sunderland Minster

Das Sunderland Minster (offiziell Minster Church of St Michael and All Angels and St Benedict Biscop) in der nordostenglischen Küstenstadt Sunderland (ehemals Bishopwearmouth) im Metropolitan County Tyne and Wear ist eine unter dem Patrozinium des Erzengels Michael stehende Pfarrkirche der Church of England. Der Kirchenbau ist als Grade-II*-Bauwerk eingestuft und gehört zum Major Churches Network. Lage Die knapp 300.000 Einwohner zählende Großstadt Sunderland liegt an der Mündung des River Wear in die Nordsee ca. 115 km (Fahrtstrecke) nördlich von York bzw. gut 20 km nordöstlich von Durham in einer mittleren Höhe von etwa 10 m. Die Kirche liegt im Stadtzentrum südlich des Flusses. Geschichte Ausgrabungen in den 1930er Jahren belegten die Existenz einer Kirche im 10. Jahrhundert, welche gemäß alten Dokumenten das Patrozinium St Michael & All Angels trug, aber über Jahrhunderte gemeinhin nur Bishopwearmouth Parish Church genannt wurde. Der heutige Name Sunderland Minster entstand erst mit der Verleihung der Stadtrechte im Jahr 1998. Im Jahr 2007 wurde noch der Name des im 7. Jahrhundert lebenden Abts und Klostergründers Benedict Biscop hinzugefügt. Architektur Die ursprünglich romanische Kirche war dreischiffig und hatte ein hölzernes Dach; um das Jahr 1300 wurde der Chorbereich in gotischem Stil erneuert. Weitere Veränderungen folgten, doch wurde die Kirche im 19. Jahrhundert zu klein und so entschloss man sich um das Jahr 1850 zum Anbau von Querschiffen, die – wie zuvor schon das Langhaus – mit vermieteten Kirchenbänken ausgestattet wurden. Nach dem Auftreten von Rissen infolge des Einsinkens ehemaliger Kohleschächte wurde die Kirche zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts unter Einbeziehung älterer Steine weitgehend neuerbaut. Ausstattung Die Kanzel (pulpit) enthält Teile eines Vorgängers. Die Fenster entstammen dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Weblinks Sunderland Minster – Fotos + Infos (englisch) Einzelnachweise
Sunderland Minster

The Minster Church of St Michael and All Angels and St Benedict Biscop (commonly known as Sunderland Minster) is the minster church of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Formerly known as "St Michael & All Angels' Church", it served as the parish church for Bishopwearmouth, but was renamed in January 1998 after Sunderland was granted city status. In May 2007 the Minster ceased to be the parish church of Bishopwearmouth and the village is now a suburb of Sunderland. Sunderland Minster is part of the Greater Churches Group. History A church dedicated to St Michael & All Angels has stood on this site for over a thousand years. For most of that time, it was known as 'Bishopwearmouth Parish Church'. The parish of Bishopwearmouth, south of the River Wear was founded in around 940AD, with an original stone church being built shortly afterwards. The first evidence of a church on the site arose in a 1930s excavation when Saxon stones were found. Due to colliery subsidence, the church was virtually re-built beyond recognition in the early 20th century, but not all parts of the former church were lost. In 1998, following the grant of City status, the church was redesignated as 'Sunderland Minster': the second Minster church in England since the Reformation (following Dewsbury Minster in West Yorkshire in 1994). In May 2007, with the adoption of Benedict Biscop as Sunderland's Patron Saint, the church was redesignated as an Extra Parochial Place with the addition of St Benedict Biscop in its title. It is a Grade II* listed building. Role of the Minster Until May 2007 the team of ministers carried out traditional parish duties as well as serving the city by hosting services of remembrance, providing chaplaincies for the retail and industrial workforces in the city centre, as well as being used by the University chaplaincy. It continues to play host to special services and worship events for the whole city, as it did for many years as Bishopwearmouth Parish Church. In 2007 the Minster ended its parish role, and these functions were transferred to the Parish Churches of St Nicholas and St Ignatius. Since then the Minster describes itself as "A church for the whole City". See also Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland Bishopwearmouth Rectory References External links Sunderland Minster Website
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of gliding flight. The exhibit was discovered in Eppleton quarry. The museum has a Designated Collection of national importance. History It was established in 1846, in the Athenaeum Building on Fawcett Street, the first municipally funded museum in the country outside London. The first recorded fine art acquisition was commissioned by the Sunderland Corporation, a painting of the opening of the new South Dock in 1850. This may have been the first time that an artwork was commissioned by a town council. In 1879, the Museum moved to a new larger building next to Mowbray Park including a library and winter garden based on the model of the Crystal Palace. U.S. President Ulysses Grant was in attendance at the laying of the foundation stone by Alderman Samuel Storey in 1877. The building opened in 1879. During World War II, Winter Garden was damaged by a parachute mine in 1941 and demolished the following year. A 1960s extension took its place, but in 2001, a lottery funded refurbishment of the museum created a new Winter Garden extension and improved facilities. The Winter Gardens contain over 2,000 flowers and plants. In 2003, the Museum was recognised as the most attended outside London. The Museum contains a large collection of the locally made Sunderland Lustreware pottery. Other highlights of the Museum are a stuffed Lion which was acquired in 1879, the remains of a walrus brought back from Siberia in the 1880s and the first Nissan car to be made in Sunderland. Also featured are the skeletal remains of a male human being and a dinosaur bone which was found in the local area. The library moved in 1995 to the new City Library and Arts Centre on Fawcett Street (occupying part of the former Binns Department Store). The relocation left more space for museum exhibitions. The new City Library Arts Centre also houses the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, renowned as one of the leading forums for emerging artists in the North of England. John Morrison wrote an affectionate memoir of the two and a half years he spent working in the museum as a junior curator, starting about 1918, which appeared in the Australian literary journal Overland in 1968. L.S. Lowry described his discovery of Sunderland in 1960, after which it became his second home: "One day I was travelling south from Tyneside and I realised this was what I had always been looking for." Sunderland Museum, with six works and 30 on long-term loan, have a Lowry collection surpassed only by Salford and Manchester. References External links Media related to Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens at Wikimedia Commons
Shrewsbury Academy

Shrewsbury Academy is an 11-16 mixed secondary school with academy status in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It was established in September 2016 following the amalgamation of Sundorne School and The Grange School, operating across the two former school sites known as Corndon Crescent Campus and Worcester Road Campus respectively. History The Grange School The Grange School was initially a community school and converted to Academy status in 2013 when Sundorne School had also converted and sponsored the school, with both schools coming under the aegis of the Shrewsbury Academies Trust. The school offered GCSEs, BTECs, NVQs, City & Guilds courses and ASDAN awards as programmes of study for pupils. Shrewsbury Academy On 1 September 2019, the academy joined the Marches Academy Trust, a Shropshire Multi-academy trust. Notable alumni The Grange School Bernard McNally, footballer Sundorne School Steve Leslie, footballer Jack Price, footballer References External links Official website
Sunningdale Park

Sunningdale Park is a country estate centred around a property known as Northcote House in Sunningdale, Berkshire. Northcote House is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England, with the lake, gardens and parkland also separately Grade II listed and on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The lodges, kitchen gardens and stables are also part of the Grade II listing. History The house is thought to have been built by James Wyatt, almost certainly for James William Steuart, a farmer, in around 1787. It was acquired by Sir Charles Decimus Crosley, a former Sheriff of London from the Steuart family in 1859. It then passed to Sir James Thompson Mackenzie, 1st Baronet in 1883, to Major William James Joicey, the then serving High Sheriff of Durham, in 1890 and to Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, an industrialist, in 1930. Northcote House accommodated the Civil Defence College from 1950 until it closed in 1968. The Civil Service College was then established in the building in June 1970. The ill-fated Sunningdale Agreement on power-sharing in Northern Ireland was signed in Northcote House on 9 December 1973. The Civil Service College evolved to become the National School of Government, which provided training, organisational development and consultancy courses for UK civil servants and private individual learners until its closure in March 2012. In March 2015, the College of Policing opened an office in the Albert Day building. Sunningdale Park was then sold to Audley Retirement and Berkeley Homes in December 2016. Architecture In grounds of 65 acres (26 ha) there is a Grade II listed neo-Georgian mansion called Northcote House, which was built in 1930, and in which notable features include the grand staircase and front portico. The landscaped park and gardens are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Gallery References External links Sunningdale Park Estate Audley Website Brief History of Sunningdale Park
Sunny Hill Park

Sunny Hill Park is a park in Hendon, in the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a large hilly park, 22 hectares, mainly grassed, which has extensive views to the north and the west. Together with the neighbouring Hendon Churchyard, it is a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation. The site used to be Sunnyhill Fields, and was owned by the adjoining Church Farmhouse, which housed the Church Farmhouse Museum until 2011. In 1921 Hendon Council purchased 16 acres for a park, which opened in 1922, and in 1929 it was enlarged when further land was acquired. An area with scattered trees in the south-east corner was formerly part of St Mary's Churchyard, an important archaeological site with evidence of Roman and Anglo-Saxon occupation. The park still has hedgerows showing former field boundaries and mature trees. It has a cafe, a playground, various tennis and basketball courts and football pitches. There is access from Church End, Sunny Hill, Watford Way, Great North Way, Sunny Gardens Road, Sunningfields Crescent and Church Terrace. Gallery See also Barnet parks and open spaces Nature reserves in Barnet External links Sunny Hill Park, London Gardens Online Further reading Hewlett, Janet (1997). Nature Conservation in Barnet. London Ecology Unit. ISBN 1 871045 27 4. Notes
Sunnycroft

Sunnycroft is a Victorian suburban villa, located in Wellington, Shropshire, and owned by the National Trust. Location The house is located in the market town of Wellington, Shropshire, England, close to the town centre, on the B5061 Holyhead Road, originally the Shrewsbury to London road, and formerly part of Watling Street the Roman road from London to Wroxeter. History Suburban villas were almost 'country estates in miniature' which attempted to emulate upper class mansions on a middle class budget. Many have either been modernised, renovated or refurbished out of recognition over the last 60 years or so or have been demolished and replaced with later housing, converted into offices or residential care homes, or have been broken up into flats and smaller residences. Sunnycroft was built in 1879 and extended in 1899. It was built by brewer J. G. Wackrill and later owned by Mary Jane Slaney, a local wine and spirit merchant. From 1912 it was owned and occupied by the Lander family, until it was acquired by the National Trust in 1997. Many of the original interior fixtures and fittings remain in place, although electricity was installed by the Lander family. Many original features are still in place and the house therefore has a unique character and intimacy that is often lacking from larger properties but very evocative of its time and place. The National Trust summarises Sunnycroft as a late 19th-century gentleman's villa, a typical creation of Victorian era suburbia, with: a rare unaltered interior, with an elaborate conservatory a mini country-estate, with pigsties, stables, kitchen garden and orchards colourful borders and summertime flower displays a superb long avenue of Redwood trees and lime trees. Access As of 2025 the National Trust opens the property to the public on a limited number of occasions and otherwise by appointment. Gallery See also Listed buildings in Wellington, Shropshire References External links Media related to Sunnycroft, Wellington at Wikimedia Commons Sunnycroft – National Trust
County Hall, Trowbridge

County Hall is a municipal building in Bythesea Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, completed in 1940. It is the headquarters of Wiltshire Council. History In the 19th century the judicial functions of the county were discharged at Devizes Assize Court in the Summer and at Salisbury Assize Court in the Lent. Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, there was a need to find a meeting place for Wiltshire County Council, and the Victoria County History infers that Trowbridge was chosen by virtue of its railway connections. The County Council acquired Arlington House in The Parade, Trowbridge in 1896; subsequent extensions included a block of offices on land behind the building, completed in 1900, and a block of offices adjacent to the building completed in 1913. After deciding that the facilities at Arlington House and the adjacent properties were inadequate for their needs, council leaders decided to procure a new purpose-built building; the site they selected in Bythesea Road had previously been occupied by the Trowbridge Town football club. The new building, which was designed by Philip Hepworth in the Neo-Georgian style, was completed in 1940. The design has a symmetrical main frontage with thirteen bays facing onto Bythesea Road, the end bays slightly projected forward; the central section features a three-bay portico in antis with Doric order columns; there is a prominent window, framed by an aedicule, on the first floor and a wooden lantern containing a clock at roof level. Internally, the principal room was the council chamber which was polygon-shaped and jutted out to the rear of the main building. During the Second World War, following concerns that County Hall would be a potential landmark for German aircraft, it was covered in camouflage nets. An extension to a design by Alec French & Partners was built to the south east of the main building and completed in 1974. Following the merger of the former non-metropolitan districts of Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury and West Wiltshire in April 2009, a new unitary authority known as Wiltshire Council adopted County Hall as its headquarters. In 2011, following an application from the county council, English Heritage decided not to list County Hall as the building did not meet the criteria for listing post-1945 buildings. The building was extensively refurbished by Kier Group at a cost of £22 million, to a design by Stride Treglown, in 2012. The refurbishment works involved the creation of a new link block to the 1970s extension; it also involved covering over the internal courtyard within the extension with an ETFE roof, so creating a new cafe and exhibition area. Public facilities County Hall has the main office of Wiltshire Council's registration service, and parts of the building are used for ceremonies such as marriage and civil partnership. The building also houses the town's public library. References
County Hall, Preston

County Hall is a municipal building in Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire, England. It is the headquarters of Lancashire County Council. History In July 1877, county leaders identified the need for enlarged accommodation for the county court, which had been based in the Sessions House in Stanley Street, as well as the need for additional offices. They decided to procure a new building and selected a site at Fishergate which had previously been occupied by a row of residential properties. The new building, which was designed by the Manchester architect, Henry Littler, in the Queen Anne revival style, opened on 14 September 1882. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing Fishergate; the right hand section, which slightly projected forwards, featured a doorway with a rectangular fanlight and shield above: the principal room was the council chamber. The new building incorporated a new headquarters for the Lancashire Constabulary as well as a county records office, formed to preserve important documents. Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, the building also became the offices and meeting place for Lancashire County Council. An extension to the west along Fishergate was completed in 1903: this involved the demolition of a street known as Jordan Street whose residents had included the astronomer Moses Holden. A further extension to the north along Pitt Street, with a substantial new structure and entrance, was completed in 1934. As part of a two-day visit to Lancashire, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth attended a lunch hosted by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, Lord Derby, at County Hall before departing for Preston Town Hall in March 1945 during the Second World War. In 2011, as part of a cost-cutting initiative, several hundred staff were relocated to the County Hall from other locations. War memorial Inside the building is a memorial, unveiled in 1921, to eighteen "members of the county offices staff who gave their lives for King and Country in the Great War", including one woman, Isobel Addey Tate. References
Surrey House

Surrey House, in Norwich, England, is the historic home of the insurance company Aviva (formerly Norwich Union) and a Grade I listed building. History It is an example of Edwardian architecture designed by George Skipper and built between 1900 and 1912. Skipper was commissioned by The Norwich Union Life Insurance Society's directors to produce a 'splendid yet functional office space', incorporating Greek influences and the themes of insurance, protection and wellbeing, to reassure policyholders of the company's strength and prosperity. The building has a Palladian exterior and an interior adorned with 15 varieties of marble, classically inspired frescos and a glass atrium. It also contains unusual items such as an 'air fountain' and a chiming skeleton clock made for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Marble Hall, intriguingly, was not part of Skipper's initial design plans; its creation was the result of an unexpected twist of fate. In 1895, the construction of Westminster Cathedral had begun, its interior famously adorned with marble. By the time construction on Surrey House commenced, the Cathedral was on the verge of completion, albeit with costs exceeding the initial budget. According to canon law, a church cannot be consecrated until all its debts are cleared, necessitating budget cuts. Skipper learned about a batch of marble, initially intended for the Cathedral but now available at a significant discount. He successfully convinced the Norwich Union board to acquire it, leading to a revision of his original plans. This decision has left us with the historical marvel of the Marble Hall, a legacy that continues to be admired today. It is one of the Norwich 12 buildings. References