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Between 1222 and 1235, Henry III, who was born at Winchester Castle, added the Great Hall, built to a "double cube" design, measuring 110 ft (33.53 m) by 55 ft (16.76 m) by 55 ft (16.76 m). The Great Hall was built of flint with stone dressings; originally it had lower walls and a roof with dormer windows .
The Winchester. The Winchester is a public house in Highgate, London. It was built in 1881 as the Winchester Tavern, and later became the Winchester Hall Hotel. The name derives from Winchester Hall, a nearby late 17th-century mansion. [1] The pub has featured on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. [1]
Winchester (/ ˈ w ɪ n tʃ ɪ s t ər /, /-tʃ ɛ s-/) [2] [3] [4] is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England.The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, at the western end of the South Downs National Park, on the River Itchen.
Wolvesey Castle (Old Bishop's Palace), Winchester: Castle: 1130 Ruins A castle erected by the Bishop of Winchester, Henry of Blois. It was the scene for the Rout of Winchester in which the Empress Matilda assaulted the Bishop Henry in 1141. The castle was destroyed by Roundheads during the English Civil War in 1646.
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 ...
Winchester Great Hall is the only surviving part of Winchester Castle. The route passes through the towns of New Alresford , Hartley Wintney , Sandhurst , Bracknell and Ascot and the villages of Martyr Worthy , Itchen Abbas , Abbotstone , Upper Wield, Ellisfield, Bradley, Greywell, North Warnborough and Odiham .
Quadrangular castle c. 1392: Intact Hotel / Earl of Scarbrough: Altered c. 1580 and 1721. [56] Mortham Tower: Fortified manor house 14–16th century: Intact Private 15th-century tower, formerly in Yorkshire. [57] Raby Castle: Castle 12–14th century: Intact Lord Barnard: Altered in the 18–19th centuries. [58] Raby Old Lodge: Tower house ...
Winchester had been the capital of Wessex and England in Anglo-Saxon times, but became a backwater after the Norman Conquest of England. Built for King Charles II of England by Sir Christopher Wren from 1683 to 1685, the King's House stood on a site adjoining the castle it was to replace, and modelled after the Palace of Versailles , though on ...