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The house is now owned by English Heritage and is open to the public on weekends in season. A camera is a subsidiary farm of a preceptory (a medieval monastery of the military orders of Knights Templar or Knights Hospitaller). Camerae are very rare in England with less than 40 known examples.
Castle of Merle (Khirbet el-Burj) near Tantura, 12th century to 1291 with interruption in the late 1180s; Gaza Fortress , 1149–1187; Chastel Hernault , 1150–1179; La Fève, now Merhavia, 1160s to 1187; Amman Fortress , 1166–1187; Castle of Maldoim or Adumim (Rouge Cisterne, Arabic Qal'at ad-Damm) near Khan al-Ahmar, built ca. 1170
The Square du Temple is a garden in Paris, France in the 3rd arrondissement, established in 1857. It is one of 24 city squares planned and created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand. The Square occupies the site of a medieval fortress in Paris, built by the Knights Templar.
Of the two wells, the larger one contains a 27-metre spiral staircase with 23 small niches on the side. The nine flights of stairs could be linked to the Knights Templar, which had nine founders. [3] They might also symbolize the 9 levels of Hell from Dantes’ Inferno. [4] At the bottom of the well is an inland stone compass with the Templar ...
The wheat barn at Cressing Temple. Cressing Temple is a medieval site situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, [1] close to the villages of Cressing and White Notley.It was amongst the very earliest and largest of the possessions of the Knights Templar in England, [2] [3] and is currently open to the public as a visitor attraction.
Temple House is a Georgian mansion set in an estate of over 1,000 acres (400 ha). It overlooks the lakeside ruins of a castle formerly of the Knights Templar, and is now a country guest house. Originally built c. 1825, it was substantially extended and embellished c. 1864. [1] The castle today
Temple Newsam (historically Temple Newsham), is a Tudor-Jacobean house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown.The house is a Grade I listed building, [1] one of nine Leeds Museums and Galleries sites [2] and part of the research group, Yorkshire Country House Partnership.
Between 1221 and 1236 Walter Byset, Lord of Aboyne, founded the Preceptory or College of the Knights Templar on the site of Maryculter House Hotel. [2] [3] [4] The barrel-vaulted basement of the house is said to have formed part of the Preceptor's Lodging. [2] The Templars also built a chapel. [2]