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Bowes Castle is a medieval castle in the village of Bowes in County Durham, England. Built within the perimeter of the former Roman fort of Lavatrae , on the Roman road that is now the A66 , the early timber castle on the site was replaced by a more substantial stone structure between 1170 and 1174 on the orders of Henry II .
Charles E. Hardy – John Bowes and the Bowes Museum (1970, reprinted 1982) ISBN 0-9508165-0-7; Sarah Kane. "Turning Bibelots into Museum Pieces: Josephine Coffin-Chevallier and the Creation of the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle" Journal of Design History 1996 9(1):1–21; doi:10.1093/jdh/9.1.1 (unavailable without subscription online; citation ...
24 February 1950 NZ0481216389 54°32′34″N 1°55′38″W / 54.54274°N 1.927134°W / 54.54274; -1.927134 ( Barnard Castle Bridge (that Part in Barnard Castle Civil Parish) and Attached Wall to South
The Bowes Museum is an art gallery in the town of Barnard Castle, in County Durham in northern England It was built to designs by Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson to house the art collection of John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier , and opened in 1892.
The Roman name for Bowes was Lavatrae. A Roman fort was located there, which was re-used as the site for Bowes Castle. The place-name 'Bowes' is first attested in a charter of 1148, where it appears as Bogas. This is the plural of the Old English boga meaning 'bow', probably signifying an arched bridge. [2] The village church is dedicated to St ...
The Silver Swan is an automaton dating from the 18th century and now housed in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham, England. It was acquired by John Bowes, the museum's founder, from a Parisian jeweller in 1872. [1] The swan, which is life-sized, is a clockwork-driven device that includes a music box.
The Bowes family had been prominent in County Durham, with their ownership of the estate and castle of Streatlam but in 1713, George's father acquired (from his wife's family) the Gibside estate which included some of the area's richest coal seams and led to the family becoming immensely wealthy through the coal trade. [1] George Bowes ...
The firm was established by Robert Bowes (1835–1919), a nephew of Daniel Macmillan (1813–1857) — the founder, with his brother Alexander, in 1843, of a firm which by 1850 was a thriving bookshop with the official name ‘ Macmillan & Co. ’ [1] The same bookshop was eventually owned by Alexander Macmillan in partnership with Robert Bowes.