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Leading to this is a short, since 1989 bypassed, winding lane from the High Street to Church Square, flanked by Shepperton Manor and the cricket ground, with some listed walls. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described the view looking towards the south-east of the square with its now listed buildings and river opening as "one of the most perfect village ...
The castle underwent many periods of construction, with an outer bailey, new towers along the inner bailey, new structures within the castle walls, and a new gatehouse all added in the 13th century, during the Welsh Wars. [28] Chester Castle was given by William I to the Earls of Chester and it served as the administrative centre of the earldom ...
It was founded by William Peveril, he was granted the new castle at Nottingham by William the Conqueror, who was in the process of subduing the Midlands and northern England. The castle, curtain walls and fragmentary foundations survive. Sutton Scarsdale Hall: Country House: 1724–1729 Ruins
Brick, interior dismantled in 1777, restored 20th century, former home of Royal Greenwich Observatory, now Study Centre. [181] Lewes Castle: Keep and bailey 12–14th century: Ruins Unusual in having two mottes [182] Pevensey Castle: Keep and bailey 12th century: Ruins Castle built within surviving walls of Roman fort of Saxon Shore. [183]
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 ...
Kitchen range at Canons Ashby House. The interior of Canons Ashby House is noted for its Elizabethan wall paintings and its Jacobean plasterwork. It has remained essentially unchanged since 1710 and is presented as it was during the time of Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden (1818–1899), a Victorian antiquary with an interest in history.
Scottish renaissance painted ceilings are decorated ceilings in Scottish houses and castles built between 1540 and 1640. This is a distinctive national style, though there is common ground with similar work elsewhere, especially in France, Spain and Scandinavia. [1] An example in England, at Wickham, Hampshire, was recorded in 1974. [2]
Appleby Castle is in the town of Appleby-in-Westmorland overlooking the River Eden (grid reference). It consists of a 12th-century castle keep which is known as Caesar's Tower, and a mansion house. These, together with their associated buildings, are set in a courtyard surrounded by curtain walls. [ 1 ]