In the next few days I will be getting back to sharing some of the places I visited on my Lucerne Holiday. In the meanwhile I have uploaded my photos to the ‘Cherry on her Travels’ gallery, they can be viewed here.
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Lucerne Gallery
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 24th 2013
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Newcastle Moot Hall
A moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues:
In Anglo-Saxon England, a low ring-shaped earthwork served as a moot hill or moot mound, where the elders of the hundred would meet to take decisions. Some of these acquired permanent buildings, known as moot halls. However, many moot halls are on relatively new sites within later [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 23rd 2013
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Durham Cathedral
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 17th 2013
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Sanctuary Knocker – Durham Cathedral
It is tempting to think of cathedrals simply as places of worship, but theire civic function was as a place of sanctuary. People who had committed a ‘great offence’, for example killing in self defence or escaping from prison, could clame sanctuary within the cathedral for 37 days. after which they either had to [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Oct 16th 2013
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Durham Castle
For some 750 years Durham Castle was the ceremonial palace of the Prince Bishops of Durham. Since the 1980s it has been the home of the University College, the foundation College of the University of Durham.
Within the castle are many interesting features including the Great Hall and the Black Staircase, but the part of the [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Oct 15th 2013
