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Medieval architecture was the art of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages. Major styles of the period include pre-Romanesque, Romanesque, and Gothic. The Renaissance marked the end of the medieval period, when architects began to favour classical forms. While most surviving medieval constructions are churches and military ...
Medieval Scandinavian architecture. Borgund stave church, in Borgund, Lærdal, Norway, built in the 12th century. The major aspects of Medieval Scandinavian architecture are boathouses, religious buildings (before and after Christians arrived in the area), and general buildings (both in cities and outside of them).
This list of lost settlements in the United Kingdom includes deserted medieval villages (DMVs), shrunken villages, abandoned villages and other settlements known to have been lost, depopulated or significantly reduced in size over the centuries. There are estimated to be as many as 3,000 DMVs in England. Grid references are given, where known.
Painstaking research has related it to the Gillethorp listed in the Leicestershire Survey of about 1130 and located it between Somerby and Newbold Saucey, [21] the latter itself a Deserted Medieval Village. Leicester. Many people have not considered the possibility of deserted or lost places amongst the complex of buildings that cover a major city.
List of lost settlements in Norfolk. There are believed to be around 200 lost settlements in Norfolk, England. [1][2] This includes places which have been abandoned as settlements due to a range of reasons and at different dates. [3] Types of lost settlement include deserted medieval villages (DMVs), relocated or "shrunken" villages, those lost ...
Bold text'Italic text Athelhampton House - built 1493–1550, early in the period Leeds Castle, reign of Henry VIII Hardwick Hall, Elizabethan prodigy house. The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture in England and Wales, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to Britain.
A medieval, Augustinian monastery, was closely associated with the FitzAlan family, who became Earls of Arundel, and some of their wealthier vassals and allies. It was a substantial and wealthy house until evidence of abuses appeared before its dissolution in 1539. The buildings fell into disrepair and the church was largely destroyed. Iron Bridge
The modern village is at the same location as the reduced medieval village; earthworks of the medieval church and village were scheduled as an ancient monument in 1994. [6] The 'Old farmhouse' at Glebe farm, Octon, a cruck framed longhouse dating from the 17th century is a Grade II* listed building. [7]