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The English hundreds of the American colonial period were roughly proportional in population and powers to a colonial American county. [ 2 ] Each English shire and hundred during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries would have contained a moot hall, or meeting hall , where local executive, legislative, and juridical business would have been ...
The present building dates from about AD 1030. Anglo-Saxon features include a tall, narrow nave and chancel, late Anglo-Saxon wall-arcading in the north west aisle and traces of a Saxon door. [4] The building has been altered and expanded over the years but the nave and a tiny window in the north side of the chancel are original features.
The city's medieval bridge was demolished and rebuilt further downstream in 1771-80, [68] and in 1771 a new infirmary was opened on the northern edge of the city at Castle Street. [69] Large stretches of the city walls had been removed by 1796, [28] which allowed for continued urban expansion along Foregate Street, The Tything, and Upper ...
Distinctive Anglo-Saxon pilaster strips on the tower of All Saints' Church, Earls Barton. Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatch for ...
Around 1720, the distinctive gambrel roof was adopted from the English styles, with the addition of overhangs on the front and rear to protect the mud mortar used in the typically stone walls and foundations. [13] Monmouth County in central New Jersey has many surviving examples of a hybrid of the Dutch style termed Anglo-Dutch colonial ...
The Anglo-Saxon city walls were maintained by a share of taxes on a local market and streets, in an agreement reinforced by a royal charter. After the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century a motte and bailey castle was constructed on the south side of the city, but the Norman rulers continued to use the older burh walls, despite the ...
In 1956, the town authorities took over management and conservation of the remaining walls. [35] The Anglo-Saxon defences remain up to 55 feet (17 m) across and 17 feet (5.2 m) high in places, although the southern line along the river have been lost and only minimal parts of the eastern side remain; the south-eastern corner was destroyed at ...
The city walls retained the older system of Roman and Anglo-Saxon gates. West Gate was rebuilt around 1380 by the prominent mason, Henry Yevele, an unusually prominent architect for a city wall programme. [62] As part of this work, Holy Cross Church was moved from over the gate to a nearby site. [63]