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Saltford Manor House
The Saltford Manor is a stone house in Saltford, Somerset, near Bath, that is thought to be the oldest continuously occupied private house in England, and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. The original Norman construction was by William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, and was built on an estate owned at the time of the Domesday Book by Geoffrey de Montbray the Bishop of Coutances. It is contemporary with nearby Horton Court which was a prebendary house, therefore it is likely that Saltford had an association with Keynsham Abbey, and has long been associated with St Mary's Church in Saltford. In 2003, Saltford Manor was the winner of a contest sponsored by '' Country Life'' to find the "oldest continuously inhabited house in Britain". There were hundreds of entrants, many eliminated because they had been built as ecclesiastical buildings and only become available in the housing market after Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries. Other very old dwellings we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saltford
Saltford is a large English village and civil parish in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset. It lies between the cities of Bristol and Bath, and adjoins Keynsham on the same route. Saltford Manor House (built about 1160) claims to be the oldest continuously occupied dwelling in England. Amenities The village lies on the A4 road and on the River Avon, to which the Saltford and Kelston locks provide access. The low-lying area is prone to flooding. There are four public houses in the village: ''The Bird in Hand'', ''The Jolly Sailor'', ''The Crown'' and ''The Riverside''. Saltford possesses a number of listed buildings. In 1948 the residents started a community fund that was used to build a village hall. Saltford Hall was completed in 1961, after residents had given their time free to digging the foundations and building the main hall itself. Since its completion, it has been run by a voluntary charity, the Saltford Community Association. Its fund-rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Life (magazine)
''Country Life'' is a British weekly perfect-bound glossy magazine that is published by Future plc. It was based in London at 110 Southwark Street until March 2016, when it became based in Farnborough, Hampshire. History ''Country Life'' was launched in 1897, incorporating ''Racing Illustrated''. At this time it was owned by Edward Hudson, the owner of Lindisfarne Castle and various Lutyens-designed houses including The Deanery in Sonning; in partnership with George Newnes Ltd (in 1905 Hudson bought out Newnes). At that time golf and racing served as its main content, as well as the property coverage, initially of manorial estates, which is still such a large part of the magazine. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the late Queen Mother, used to appear frequently on its front cover. Now the magazine covers a range of subjects in depth, from gardens and gardening to country house architecture, fine art and books, and property to rural issues, luxury products and interiors. The fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II* Listed Buildings In Bath And North East Somerset
Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon, which had existed since 1974. Part of the ceremonial county of Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of , two-thirds of which is green belt. It stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border. The city of Bath is the principal settlement in the district, but BANES also covers Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the Chew Valley. The area has a population of 170,000, about half of whom live in Bath, making it 12 times more densely populated than the rest of the area. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical, or cultural significance; Grade II* structures are those considered to be "particularly sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures Completed In 1148
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Oldest Buildings In The United Kingdom
This article lists the oldest extant freestanding buildings in the United Kingdom. In order to qualify for the list a structure must: * be a recognisable building * either incorporate features of building work from the claimed date to at least in height and/or be a listed building. * incorporate features of building work of the above nature that date from no later than 1300 AD. Roads are excluded although other structures such as bridges may be included if they otherwise fulfil the above criteria. Before 500 BC 500 BC to 500 AD 500 AD to 1000 AD 11th century 12th century 13th century Ancient chapel of St.Andrew, Maghull, Merseyside. Built in 13th Century. Grade II* listed. See also * List of oldest known surviving buildings in the world * Hillforts in Britain: **List of hillforts in England **List of hillforts in Scotland **List of hillforts in Wales * Newgrange, one of Ireland's oldest buildings dating from c. 3100 BC * La Hougue Bie, one of Jersey's oldest build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dovecote
A dovecote or dovecot , doocot ( Scots) or columbarium is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Dovecotes may be free-standing structures in a variety of shapes, or built into the end of a house or barn. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in the Middle East and Europe and were kept for their eggs and dung. History and geography The oldest dovecotes are thought to have been the fortress-like dovecotes of Upper Egypt, and the domed dovecotes of Iran. In these regions, the droppings were used by farmers for fertilizing. Pigeon droppings were also used for leather tanning and making gunpowder. In some cultures, particularly Medieval Europe, the possession of a dovecote was a symbol of status and power and was consequently regulated by law. Only nobles had this special privilege, known as ''droit de colombier''. Many ancient manors in France and the United Kingdom have a dovecote st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tudor Style Architecture
The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England and Wales, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to Britain. It followed the Late Gothic Perpendicular style and, gradually, it evolved into an aesthetic more consistent with trends already in motion on the continent, evidenced by other nations already having the Northern Renaissance underway Italy, and especially France already well into its revolution in art, architecture, and thought. A subtype of Tudor architecture is Elizabethan architecture, from about 1560 to 1600, which has continuity with the subsequent Jacobean architecture in the early Stuart period. In the much more slow-moving styles of vernacular architecture, "Tudor" has become a designation for half-timbered buildings, although there are cruck and frame houses with half timbering that considerably predate 1485 and others well after 1603; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1951–74). Life Nikolaus Pevsner was born in Leipzig, Saxony, the son of Anna and her husband Hugo Pevsner, a Russian-Jewish fur merchant. He attended St. Thomas School, Leipzig, and went on to study at several universities, Munich, Berlin, and Frankfurt am Main, before being awarded a doctorate by Leipzig in 1924 for a thesis on the Baroque architecture of Leipzig. In 1923, he married Carola ("Lola") Kurlbaum, the daughter of distinguished Leipzig lawyer Alfred Kurlbaum. He worked as an assistant keeper at the Dresden Gallery between 1924 and 1928. He converted from Judaism to Lutheranism early in his life. During this period he became interested in establishing the supremacy of German modernist architecture after becoming aware of Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hereford Cathedral
Hereford Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Hereford in Hereford, England. A place of worship has existed on the site of the present building since the 8th century or earlier. The present building was begun in 1079. Substantial parts of the building date from both the Norman and the Gothic periods. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building. The cathedral has the largest library of chained book in the world, its most famous treasure being the ''Hereford Mappa Mundi, Mappa Mundi'', a medieval map of the world created around 1300 by Richard of Holdingham. The map is listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Origins The cathedral is dedicated to two saints, Mary, mother of Jesus, St Mary the Virgin and Æthelberht II of East Anglia, St Ethelbert the King. The latter was beheaded by Offa of Mercia, Offa, King of Mercia in the year 794. Offa had consented to give his daughter to Ethelbert in marriage: why he changed his mind and deprived him of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Goodall (author)
John Arthur Annesley Goodall (born 1970) is an English historian, author, and Architectural Editor of '' Country Life'' magazine. Early life and education Goodall attended St Edward's House at Ampleforth College until 1988, and then read history at Durham University. He subsequently took both an MA and doctorate as an architectural historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Career He worked for several years as a freelance writer and scholar, publishing his first book in 2001, ''God's House at Ewelme'', which was joint winner of the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize for 2001 (presented in 2002). He has written several guidebooks for both English Heritage and the National Trust. In addition he has contributed to numerous books and scholarly journals on the subject of historic English architecture. In 2003 Goodall joined English Heritage as a senior properties historian. He acted in 2007 as series consultant for the major BBC 1 series ''How We Built Britain'', presented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wynn (Grange Hill)
James Wynn is a British actor, author and film-maker who currently works for HTB Church in London. He is best known for his role as Mr 'Sooty' Sutcliffe in the British children's TV drama ''Grange Hill''. After leaving the programme in 1983 he gained a place on the BBC film directing course, and he went on to work on '' Comic Relief'', ''Jim'll Fix It'' and ''Songs of Praise''. His film career included roles in ''The Monster Club'' (1981, as a schoolteacher), '' Forever Young'' (1983) and ''Give My Regards To Broad Street'' (1984). In 2009 he wrote the non-fiction book ''The House That Jack Built'', based on his life whilst living in the oldest occupied home in Britain, Saltford Manor House near Bath Bath may refer to: * Bathing, immersion in a fluid ** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body ** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe * Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities Plac .... TV References Grange Hill G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
