The spireless parish church of Trimingham is called St John the Baptist’s Head. This strange dedication to John the Baptist’s head dates from the medieval period. During this time a life size alabaster head of the saint was kept at the church and pilgrims in this country came to the church to the shrine altar, [...]
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The Church of St John the Baptist’s Head, Trimingham
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 2nd 2023
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
Castle Rising
Castle Rising Castle is one of the most famous 12th Century castles in England. The stone keep, built in around 1140ad, is amongst the finest surviving examples of its kind anywhere in the country and, together with the massive surrounding earthworks, ensures that Rising is a castle of national importance.
In its time Rising has served [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 23rd 2023
The current structure was originally the church of the Benedictine Priory, established under Hamelin de Balun the first Norman holder of the title Lord Abergavenny, which in the 1090s became Baron Bergavenny. At this time it was a cell of the Abbey of Saint Vincent at Le Mans in France. Henry de Abergavenny was a prior here and later at Llandaff in the late 12th [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 19th 2023
Filed under Gloucester 2023, Heritage, Holidays
Raglan Castle
The unmistakable silhouette of Raglan crowning a ridge amid glorious countryside is the grandest castle ever built by Welshmen.
We can thank Sir William ap Thomas, the ‘blue knight of Gwent’, for the moated Great Tower of 1435 that still dominates this mighty fortress-palace. His son Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, created the gatehouse with [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Sep 18th 2023
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Monmouth Castle
Monmouth castle is tucked away in a lane off Monmout’s main shopping street.
Strategically located at crossings of the River Wye and River Monnow, only a few fragments – ruins of the 12th-century Great Tower and 13th-century hall – remain of this once-important castle.
It was founded in the 11th century by Norman lord William fitz Osbern, [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2023
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Cloisters, Lavatorium and Fan Vaulting – Gloucester Cathedral
6 Comments CherryPie on Sep 2nd 2023
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Petworth House
Petworth House in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England, is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin.[2] It contains intricate wood-carvings by Grinling Gibbons (d. 1721). It is the manor house of the manor of Petworth. For centuries it [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 14th 2023
