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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.
The complex was originally designed by Owen Browne Carter [3] in the Elizabethan style and completed in 1833. [1] [2] It was initially used as offices to support the local judicial authorities, who dispensed justice from Winchester Castle, but, following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, it also became the offices and ...
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 ...
Among the fast food giants, McDonald's is making a splash with its new value platform starting on Jan. 7, its first national value offering since 2018.Bernstein analyst Danilo Gargiulo called it a ...
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 ...
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