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A mid-19th-century engraving of Norwich Castle from Charles Knight's Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845). The castle provided sanctuary to Jews fleeing the violence that erupted against them across East Anglia in Lent 1190, and which reached Norwich on 6 February (Shrove Tuesday). Those Jews unable to find safety inside the castle were ...
Name Location Photograph Date Notes Grade Mamhead House: Mamhead, Devon: 1827–33 A country house, later Dawlish College.Also designed by Salvin, and listed separately at Grade II* are the stable yard and service buildings, and structures in the garden, namely the terrace wall, the terrace steps and urns, a sundial, and a pool with a fountain.
Norwich Castle. Norwich Castle is a Norman building, originally built as a royal palace for William the Conqueror at a time when most buildings were small, wooden structures. The huge stone keep was a symbol of the king's power. The castle mound (motte) is the largest in the country, and from the 14th to the 19th century, the keep was used as a ...
Norfolk Museums Service (NMS), formerly Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service (NMAS), [1] is a county-wide museums service that presides over ten museums in Norfolk, operated by Norfolk County Council and headed by the council's Director of Culture and Heritage, Steve Miller. [2] It notably runs Norwich Castle Museum, Strangers' Hall, and the ...
St James the Less possibly replaced an earlier building [1] —archaeologists have found a clay boundary wall, possibly built in the 11th or 12th centuries, under the foundations of the present building. [2] As with most of the medieval churches of Norwich, little of the building dating from the middle medieval period or earlier has survived. [2]
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Edward Boardman (1833–1910) was a Norwich born architect. He succeeded John Brown as the most successful Norwich architect in the second half of the 19th century. [1] His work included both civic and ecclesiastical buildings, in addition to private commissions. [2]
Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England in 1066. . Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 1050s, the Normans began to build motte and bailey and ringwork castles in large numbers to control their newly occupied territories in England and the ...