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A morning walk around Earlswood Lakes in Solihull.
Earlswood Lakes is the modern name for three man-made reservoirs which were built in the 1820s at Earlswood in Warwickshire, England, to supply water to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. They still supply the canal, and also provide leisure facilities, including sailing, fishing and walking. The northern banks of the lakes form the county boundary with the West Midlands.
The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal runs from Kings Norton Junction, where it joins the Worcester and Birmingham Canal to Stratford-upon-Avon, where it joins the River Avon, with a junction about halfway along at Kingswood, where it joins the Grand Union Canal. The initial 9.75 miles (15.6 km) to Hockley Heath is level, but after that, the canal drops through 55 locks on its way to Stratford-upon-Avon. In order to supply water to the system, the Earlswood Lakes were constructed in the 1820s. Construction took nearly 5 years to complete, and the labour force included prisoners of war from the Napoleonic wars. Some people say that lying at the bottom of all the lakes are the dead bodies of people who died while being forced to make the pools and they had no place to be buried so they were left there, either in groups or alone. Also the cost of construction was £297,000.
Being so near to Birmingham, the lakes proved attractive to visitors from the city from the early 1900s, and their popularity has been maintained, with recent improvements to the facilities which they provide. The Lakes railway station was built to bring tourists to the area and is on the Birmingham to Stratford line.
The three reservoirs are called Engine Pool, Windmill Pool and Terry's Pool, and a Grade II listed engine house is located beside the Engine Pool. The lakes cover 25 acres (10 ha), 25 acres (10 ha) and 20 acres (8.1 ha) respectively. The lakes are fed by tributaries of the River Blythe, and in turn outfall into that river also.
The Earlswood Engine House. It is near the Engine Pool.
Grade II Listed Building.
Engine House (Pumping Station), Earlswood Lakes
Listing Text
HOCKLEY HEATH VALLEY ROAD
1.
5108
Engine House (Pumping
Station), Earlswood Lakes
SP 17 SW 4/344
II
2.
C19. Redbrick, low pitched Welsh slated roof with brick cornice, end gables. 3
storeys, 2 closed windows with glazing bars wunder cambered relieving arches. Tall
and narrow with low single storey addition to south west side.
Included largely for historical interest for its connection with the Stratford upon
Avon Canal.
Listing NGR: SP1129874384
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Built in 1821 to house a steam engine which pumped water from Earlswood Lakes to the nearby Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
Kentwell - a very different experience: a romantic, completely moated, mellow redbrick Tudor mansion in a tranquil parkland setting - but so much more.
A 30+ years Restoration Project
In 1970 Kentwell stood neglected. No-one was prepared to take it on - except Patrick Phillips. He fell for this wonderful House in its magical setting and was not deterred by its condition. Ever since then he has, with his wife and family, sought to bring Kentwell back to life. Their works have taken part of the House and its 15th Century Service Building back to the 16th Century. Elsewhere changes reflect their own preferences. House, Gardens & Farm have an unrivalled ability to captivate the visitor.
Take a glimpse into both the past and present of this unique House. Enjoy its delightful Gardens. You can do this whenever you come but especially if you visit during one of the award-winning Re-Creations of Tudor or WWII Everyday Life and (recently) Victorian life. Kentwell pioneered Tudor domestic Living History Events in the UK, and nearly 30 years on the Re-Creations are as magical as ever.
Was short on time today but still wanted to photograph something. Got something better planned for next day or 2.
In 1866 the original St Jude's Church of England was simply a temporary wooden structure erected for worship on a triangular block of land between Lygon, Palmerston and Keppel Streets in the busily growing working class suburb of Carlton, in Melbourne's inner north. However, between 1866 and 1867 the church's chancel, four bays of the nave, and vestry of the church that we see today were erected. St Jude's Church of England was built to the designs of Melbourne architects Reed and Barnes. The contractor awared the building of St Jude's was John Pigdon. Between 1869 and 1870 the remaining four bays of the nave, balcony, narthex and crypt were erected. In 1874 the south porch and steps and area wall were erected, and the iron railings and Lygon Street gates were erected in the same year.
Designed in Gothic style so popular with the Victorians, St Jude's Church of England is a beautiful polychromatic brick ecclesiastical building erected on a bluestone plinth with dark hawthorn brick walls and red and cream brick quoining, diaperwork and window surrounds. The plastered interior includes a western gallery, an 1868 George Fincham pipe organ, and stained glass by several prominent glass designers and makers, including Melbourne based stained glass window manufacturers Ferguson and Urie, Rogers and Hughes, Brooks Robinson, and William Montgomery. St Jude's Church of England is of architectural significance as it is an early example of Gothic-polychrome and one of the first fully polychromatic brick churches in Australia, and the building is heritage listed.
In 2009, after much fundraising from the parish, St Jude's Church of England went under a full restoration at the cost of one million dollars, which included painstaking picking out of the bricks with newly laid mortar and a renovated slate roof. On the 18th of October 2014 in the wee hours of the morning, a fire was deliberately started in St Jude's basement. The fire was noticed around four o'clock in the morning when flames were seen engulfing the roof, chancel windows and basement. Fifty Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade trucks were required to bring the blaze under control, which they managed to do in around an hour. Whilst the fire was contained to the chancel and did not burn down the vicarage built against the chancel, St Jude's Church has lost several of its largest and most stunning original Victorian windows which were installed in the chancel. The damage bill is still estimated to be around $500,000.00 and the congregation has been forced to temporarily give up their beautiful place of worship. At the time of writing this, an appeal has been established to raise funds to restore the church and the congregation is meeting in various places within close proximity of St Jude's.
On a personal note, I was very fortunate to have visited St Jude's Church of England on my birthday, just over a month before the fire, after being granted a special request to photograph their stained glass windows in detail. I am very grateful to the staff of St Jude's for granting my request, even more so now that some of the windows are no longer there to admire. It is to the staff and congregation of St Jude's Church of England that I dedicate this set of photographs of their beautiful church; both inside and out.
Jordan Rd, Kowloon.
At a time when being Anglican equated to being part of the British colonial establishment, the Union Church was founded on the principle that Christians of all denominations and nationalities could worship together. The ecumenical or non-denominational movement in Christianity was popular in the post-WWI period and provided an alternative Christian form of worship to the perhaps stricter traditions.
Incorporated in 1927 under Hong Kong's laws, s.8 of the Kowloon Union Church Incorporation Ordinance provides that:-
"The services at the Kowloon Union Church shall be regulated and conducted in accordance with the constitution of the said Church and in such manner as to provide that fellowship in public worship and in spiritual communion and service which is the privilege and usance of all Christians and to spread the knowledge of the purpose of God in Jesus Christ and to unite in fellowship Christians of various denominations and of different countries in the worship of God in accordance with the principles and usages of Protestant Evangelical Christians."
The foundation-stone of the Kowloon Union Church was laid on 27 May 1930 by the then Colonial Secretary Sir Wilifred T. Southorn and the Church was completed and opened on 10 April 1931. This redbrick church continues to function in its original purpose.
Kentwell - a very different experience: a romantic, completely moated, mellow redbrick Tudor mansion in a tranquil parkland setting - but so much more.
A 30+ years Restoration Project
In 1970 Kentwell stood neglected. No-one was prepared to take it on - except Patrick Phillips. He fell for this wonderful House in its magical setting and was not deterred by its condition. Ever since then he has, with his wife and family, sought to bring Kentwell back to life. Their works have taken part of the House and its 15th Century Service Building back to the 16th Century. Elsewhere changes reflect their own preferences. House, Gardens & Farm have an unrivalled ability to captivate the visitor.
Take a glimpse into both the past and present of this unique House. Enjoy its delightful Gardens. You can do this whenever you come but especially if you visit during one of the award-winning Re-Creations of Tudor or WWII Everyday Life and (recently) Victorian life. Kentwell pioneered Tudor domestic Living History Events in the UK, and nearly 30 years on the Re-Creations are as magical as ever.
14-15c Church of St John the Baptist Denham Norfolk - there was a church here mentioned in 1086 Domesday . It stands in an isolated spot on the site of a previous 12c -13c building.
Nave (with outward bowing walls), chancel, Victorian vestry and redbrick entrance porch.
Clearly visable on the north side is the blocked arch to a demolished north chapel described in 1731 as having 3 gravestones dedicated to the Bedingfields, the remnants of a screen with defaced angels, and stained glass windows.
The brass of Anthony Bedingfield d1574 3rd son of Sir 14-15c Church of St John the Baptist Denham Norfolk - there was a church here mentioned in 1086 Domesday . It stands in an isolated spot on the site of a previous 12c -13c building.
Nave (with outward bowing walls), chancel, Victorian vestry and redbrick entrance porch.
Clearly visable on the north side is the blocked arch to a demolished north chapel described in 1731 as having 3 gravestones dedicated to the Bedingfields, the remnants of a screen with defaced angels, and stained glass windows.
The brass of Anthony Bedingfield d1574 3rd son of Sir Edward Bedingfield. in ruff and gown, his wives lost, is now in the sanctuary, its reverse shows part of an earlier c1500 flemish brass to Jacobus Wegheschede. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/P0sU65 Indents of his brass with his 2 wives is in situ on the floor where the north chapel once stood. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/28H08k
A tower once set in the middle of the south wall according to a 1725 map, housed 3 bells. In 1744 a faculty was granted to sell two of the bells and use the money to take down the tower and put the building in good repair as well as building a place to hang the remaining bell. By 1747 the one remaining bell was housed in a cupola above the foreshortened west wall.
Outside, below the east window, is a Latin inscription from the previous church, the worn lettering translates “William de Kirksby, Prior of Norwich, placed me here, on whose soul God have mercy.” William was prior in the 1280/90's.
A late 13c lady of the Bedingfield family lies under a nave recess, angels supporting her head, her hands clasping a heart or reliquary.
In 1809 the building is described as “thoroughly repaired and neatly pewed,” . However sometime during the 19c the cupola was removed and replaced by a bell tower, but this fell down within living memory, and now the remaining bell inscribed AD1614 lies at the back of the church.
The building long neglected became desperately in need of help by 2007. The Friends of Denham Church Group, set up in 2009, organised a variety of events in their first year which has enabled them to donate £6,000 towards the repairs and with funds chiefly from English Heritage now well looked after.
Picture with thanks - copyright Adrian Cable CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2699258
The church dates from the eleventh century onwards, although the majority of the church is of redbrick from the 18th century when the stone church was clad in brick, and refenestrated in 1758. The brickwork has decorative features. The roof is of lead and slate.
There is a two stage western tower of redbrick, but at the base there are possible remains of Saxon work inside. The top of the tower has battlemented parapets. The inside of the tower has massive wooden trusses.
The nave has north and south aisles, with three bay arcades dating from the thirteenth century. Much of the interior is in the 18th century Gothick style.
The chancel arch has been replaced by an 18th century three bay screen with ogee arches and gilt decoration and finials. There is a Royal Coat of Arms above the screen.
The north aisle contains three old bells which are quite large for a small church. They were taken down around 1950 when considered unsafe.
The nave has several hatchments to the Clinton and Lievesey families. There is a vault and memorial slabs to the Clintons in the chancel.
At the south west end of the nave is a large ledger slab to John Eland d.1473, and his two wives.
The chancel is entered by three steps up from the nave, and is typically Georgian. The altar is another three steps higher and there is no east window.
The church was restored in 1891-2 by W. Scorer.
In the north aisle there is a small organ by Clark & Sons of Kirton Lindsey.
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Pictures of some of the gardens in the grounds of the Castle.
Come and enjoy Herstmonceux Castle Gardens & Grounds, set within 300 acres of carefully managed woodland with themed formal gardens to the rear, the 15th century moated castle embodies the history of medieval England and the romance of renaissance Europe.
Starting at the front of the castle, visitors have the perfect opportunity to take some photographs before walking around to Chestnut Tree Walk and heading towards Chestnuts Tea Room and the Visitors Centre where you can refresh yourself, learn a little about the history of the castle and relax before taking a gentle stroll around our formal gardens.
As you head through the themed gardens you will work your way towards the woodland trails where you can enjoy a peaceful stroll and take in the carefully managed flora and fauna of the estate. Discoveries such as Woodhenge, 300 year old Chestnut Trees, the Folly and Secret Garden as well as our Lake and Moat Walk all add to the escapism of everyday life.
www.herstmonceux-castle.com/explore-gardens-grounds/
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Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex
Grade l listed.
List Entry Number: 1272785
Statutory Address 1: Herstmonceux Castle, Herstmonceux Park
Listing NGR: TQ6463810388
National Grid Reference: TQ 64652 10335
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/04/2020
TQ 61SW 13/406
HERSTMONCEUX HERSTMONCEUX PARK Herstmonceux Castle, with attached bridges to north and south and causeway with moat retaining walls to west.
GV I Castle/country house. c1441 (when licence to crenellate was granted) for Sir Roger Fiennes; further embellished mid C16 for Baroness and Lord Dacre; altered mid-late C17 for Lord Dacre; part demolished 1776-1777 for Robert Hare; restored and rebuilt early C20, mostly 1911-1912, for Lieutenant Colonel Claude Lowther and 1930s for Sir Paul Latham.
Red brick in English bond with some blue header diaper work; stone dressings; plain tile roofs. Square on plan with inner courtyard, this originally divided into four courts and containing Great Hall, but these and the internal walls of the castle demolished C18; south range and south ends of east and west ranges restored by Lowther, the remainder restored by Latham. Two storeys with attic and basement in parts; five x four wide bays with tapering polygonal towers at corners and between bays, taller at angles and centre. Built and restored in C15 style: exterior has one-light or two-light windows, some transomed; courtyard has more wider windows and some with cusped or round-headed lights; four-centred-arched or segmental-arched moulded or chamfered doorways with C20 studded board doors; tall plinth with moulded offset; moulded string below embattled parapet with roll moulded coping; rainwater pipes with decorative initialled heads; stacks with ribbed and corniced clustered flues; steeply-pitched roofs with roll-moulded coping, some with hipped ends.
South (entrance) elevation: three-storey central gate tower has tall recess containing wide, panelled door, window of two cusped, transomed lights above, and grooves for former drawbridge arms; on second floor two transomed windows of two round-headed lights flank coat of arms of Sir Roger Fiennes; flanking towers have gun ports at base, looped arrow slits, machicolated parapets with arrow slits to merlons, and towers rising above as drums. Projecting from gate tower is long bridge (mostly C20) of eight arches, that to centre wider and shallower, with cutwaters, stone parapet, and central corbelled embrasure with flanking tower buttresses.
North side: central gate towers formerly had rooms on lower floors, of which truncated walls and first-floor fireplace fragment remain; machicolated parapet; at left end of range C17 window openings with later eighteen-pane sashes. West side: attached causeway containing basement room and with three half-arched bridge on south side, walling returning as moat retaining walls; main range has a basement doorway with side-lights in chamfered embrasure.
East side: the second tower has C16 first-floor bow window; tall windows to central tower (which contains chapel); right half of range has older windows blocked and larger C17 replacement openings with later eighteen-pane sashes.
Courtyard: seven-bay arcade to north side and central corbelled stack with clock; three-bay 1930s Great Hall (now library) on west side with decorative tracery to windows and offset buttress; gable of former chapel on east side, has perpendicular tracery to window, a two-storey bay window and two crow-stepped gabled attic windows to its left; several doorways and a two-storey bay window to south side; hipped-roofed dormers; brick-lined well in south-west corner.
Interior: some original features survive, including fireplaces, privies, doorways, dungeon and brick-lined dovecote in south-east tower; other old features were brought in from elsewhere, including doors, fireplaces, panelling. In south range: porter's room has old fireplace and relocated linenfold door (found in cellar); reused traceried wood panelling in rebuilt dining room fireplace; stair hall has fine early C17 wooden stair (brought from Theobalds, Herts) with strapwork roundels between square vase balusters, elaborate relief decoration, and lion finials holding shields; at head of stair; elaborate doorcase of same period ribbed ceiling with pendant finials. Drummers Room has reused panelling, part dated 1697, with fluted pilasters and frieze and elaborately arcaded and fluted-pilastered overmantel. Green Room, on second floor, has restored fireplace with crests and beasts on hood; moulded beams and bosses; and reused traceried panel below courtyard window.
North range: very fine late C17 stair (brought from Wheatley Hall, Doncaster; possibly from the workshop of Grinling Gibbons) with baskets-of-flowers and pendant finials to newels, balustrades of open, leafy, scrollwork with flower roundels, and at head of stair two elaborately carved doorcases in similar style with shields in broken pediments. Former ball room has arched ceiling with decorative plasterwork; C17-style panelling; reused elaborately-decorated C17 wooden fireplace overmantel (from Madingley Hall, Cambs.) with two orders of caryatids and embossed panels.
East range: former chapel has reused C15 wooden screen (from France) set in west wall; former Drawing room has elaborate stone fireplace, 1930s in C16 style, and in ante room a reused richly decorated fireplace with griffins and portrait roundels. The C15 castle was well restored in the early C20 and the many fine features which were brought in at that time add to its importance.
Listing NGR: TQ6463810388
Sources
Books and journals
Calvert, D , The History of Herstmonceux Castle
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 534-6
'Country Life' in 18 May, (1929), 702-709
'Country Life' in 7 December, (1935), 606-612
'Country Life' in 14 December, (1935)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 14 East Sussex,
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272785
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Before 1066 Herst (meaning forest or wood) was the name of a prominent local Anglo-Saxon family and ownership of the family's estate passed into the hands of the victorious Normans. In 1131 the manor and estates were transferred to Drogo de Monceux, a great grandson of William the Conqueror . Drogo's son Ingleram married Idonea de Herst, thus founding the Herstmonceux line.
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Herstmonceux Castle Gardens and Grounds is a 300 acre estate including woodland, formal themed gardens and of course a 15th century moated castle.
Made from red brick Herstmonceux Castle is one of the earliest examples of a brick built building in England.
Read more about the history here:-
www.herstmonceux-castle.com/history/
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000231
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HERSTMONCEUX CASTLE AND PLACE
Heritage Category: Park and Garden
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1000231
National Grid Reference: TQ 64645 10713
Details
A C15 castle, surrounded by a medieval park with significant surviving landscape and archaeological features, additional C18 landscape and built features and with new and restored elements from the C20.
HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT
The origin of the park at Herstmonceux is unrecorded but it seems likely that it was in existence by the C12. The estate, including the park, passed to the Fiennes family in 1330 and in 1441 Sir Roger Fiennes applied for a licence to build the present castle and to enlarge the park. In 1449 the estate passed to Sir Roger's son who later became Lord Dacre. The Dacre family sold the estate to George Naylor in 1708 and in 1775 the Hare-Naylor family abandoned the Castle and moved into Herstmonceux Place, in the north-west corner of the park. The Castle was virtually dismantled and became a picturesque ruin in the park. The estate was sold to Thomas Reed Kemp in 1807 and purchased from him in 1819 for John Gillon. He sold it in 1846 to H B Curteis of nearby Windmill Hill Place from whom it passed by succession to Herbert Curteis. The Castle and surrounding park were sold off in 1911, with Herstmonceux Place and Windmill Hill Place becoming separate entities again. Herstmonceux Place was purchased by the James family and retained a significant area of the park. The Castle was partly restored by the new owner, Colonel Claude Lowther. He died in 1929 and in 1932 the Castle estate, plus Herstmonceux Place, was purchased by Sir Paul Latham. He completed the restoration of the Castle and, with his architect, Walter Hines Godfrey (1881-1961), restored and developed the gardens.
Latham sold the Castle and its park to the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1946 which erected a series of buildings to house the telescopes. Sir Paul Latham died in 1952 and in 1958 the remainder of the park was sold for agricultural use. Herstmonceux Place was sold and divided into apartments in 1960. In 1989 the Castle and its park were sold to a development company. The International Study Centre of Queen's University (Canada) subsequently purchased the estate and are the present owners. The Equatorial Telescope Group complex is run as a Science Centre.
DESCRIPTION
LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING Herstmonceux Castle and park and Herstmonceux Place which together comprise the 148ha of the registered site lie just to the south of the A271 Hailsham to Battle road. The site is screened on its west side by a woodland belt along Church Road which runs south from the A271, past the west front of Herstmonceux Place to All Saints' church, which sits just outside the south-west corner of the park. To the west of Church Road and south-west of the park's southern boundary, hedged pasture merges into the flat, open landscape water systems of the Pevensey Levels. The east side of the site is bounded by Wartling Road and partly screened by Wartling Wood on its far side. Wartling village lies about 1km away across bordering farmland to the south-east. The northern boundary merges into farmland with small woods.
While the present east and west road boundaries of the park appear to be of early C15 origin and have remained unchanged since, the medieval park extended further to the south and also to the north and north-west, reaching the villages of Windmill Hill and of Gardener Street on the present A271. The estate had been reduced in size to about 160ha by the time a survey was made in 1570 (BM). The Castle is sited at the south end of a stream valley emerging from the very edge of the Weald onto the Pevensey Levels. The parkland rises to the north and east to sheltering wooded crests. To the north-west a high ridge separates the Castle from the site of Herstmonceux Place.
ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES The present main entrance to the Castle and the park is from Wartling Road in the south-east corner, a drive running c 700m westwards before turning north to the Castle's west-facing entrance front. There is a second entrance in the south-west corner on Church Lane beside West Lodge, built by Godfrey in 1933, the drive from here, known by its post-war name of Flamsteed Road, probably serving as the Castle's principal entrance in the C15 and connecting it with All Saints' church. Both entrances and drives are recorded on the 1570 survey, together with a third gate, Cowper's Gate, on the north boundary north-west of Comphurst Wood. In the C15 the west and east gates were linked by a medieval road which survives (1990s) as a well-defined track lying to the south of the present main entrance drive, which follows a C20 alignment.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING Herstmonceux Castle (listed grade I) stands in the centre of the shallow valley, its principal front facing south. It is square in plan, constructed in the newly fashionable red brick, and is surrounded by two water-filled arms of a moat. It was built from 1441 and replaced the former manor house. Service buildings probably lay to the west on the site of the present C20, cottage-style lodges, one of which serves as a visitor centre and tea room. The present main entrance is on the west. The Castle was largely dismantled in 1777, leaving only its gatehouse and exterior walls intact, and was restored, although to a new interior lay-out, between 1911 and 1932, work from 1929 being carried out by the architect Walter Hines. The central, enclosed courtyard is laid to lawn and an axial flagged path lined by Irish yews, this design being part of Col Lowther's work between 1911 and 1929.
Herstmonceux Place stands on the north-west boundary of the park and commands extensive views over it to the south and east. It has an entrance front of c 1720. Samuel Wyatt enlarged and added two new elevations to the house for the Hare-Naylor family when they moved here in 1775.
East of the Castle, on higher ground, stands the six-domed, former Equatorial Group Telescope building, erected in 1958 by the Royal Greenwich Observatory. It forms a prominent landmark for a considerable distance to the south and west.
GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS The area of formal gardens immediately around the Castle include the moat to the south and east and the extended walled garden to the north.
The present moat arms around the south and east sides of the Castle are part of what was presumably a complete square in the C15. An extension northwards from the eastern arm, into the stream valley to form a broad mere, may also be a C15 feature. The mere, which appears to have been restored by Latham, is now managed as a reed bed with the feeder stream running through two channels of open water southwards into the moat. The moat is recorded as already drained by the survey of 1570 and laid out with gardens by the late C18 (CL 1918). The moat was cleared and re-flooded in 1933 by Sir Paul Latham, the present southern arm having been extended to approximately double its original c 20m width by Col Lowther.
The rectangular walled garden (listed grade II) stretches some 200m from the north face of the Castle, over rising ground. A strong formal axis is maintained northwards through the three main compartments. The first, closest to the Castle, contains a central flagged path, laid in 1995 to replace the previous grass surface, which is flanked each side by five free-standing sections of clipped yew hedge. There are rectangular lawns to either side with a flagged perimeter path and herbaceous borders along the east and west walls. A central set of steps leads up to the second, 50m long compartment, at the mid-point of which the path encompasses a circular rose bed, replacing a former pool. There are lawns to east and west. The north wall enclosing this garden is pierced by a central loggia which gives access to the third compartment which is divided by yew hedges into three smaller enclosures. The central one, beyond the loggia, contains a former lily pool or swimming pool which is now laid out to a box parterre. To the west is the tennis court and to the east, a rose garden. The walled garden appears to have been laid out soon after the Castle was built, but was extended before the C17. In the C18 it was in use as a kitchen garden and orchard and was redesigned by Col Lowther with a central axis flanked by roses and with herbaceous borders along the east and west walls. The present (1990s) formal treatment and the addition of the northernmost compartment and loggia were the work of Walter Hines Godfrey in 1933-5.
North-east of the Castle, the extended moat arm is fed by the stream which runs southwards down the valley feeding a tiered chain of pools and dams en route. The stream is culverted through the valley or 'Temple Field', which is now managed as a meadow. The ponds, which have been (1990s) partially cleared from the silted condition they were in in the early C20, were most likely formed by clay digging for the Castle's bricks and may also have numbered among the four stew ponds referred to in the survey of 1570.
The Temple Field is enclosed by woodland and the folly in the style of a little C18 house at its north-east end was built by Sir Paul Latham to serve as an eyecatcher from his rooms in the Castle. South of the Castle are open, level lawns which replace the arena constructed by Col Lowther. Further south, the present pasture landscape is part of a medieval system of water meadows and reed-bed irrigation for which the earthworks survive. There are extensive views over the Levels.
From the south-west corner of the moat, fragmented, linear groups of sweet chestnut trees follow a course northwards for a distance of 820m to the dam below the pond in Comphurst Wood. The trees line the route of the medieval, northern approach to the Castle but are most likely to have been planted by Sir Thomas Lennard in the C17 (Rodwell 1989). Trees are being restored to sections of the route in 1997.
The present gardens of Herstmonceux Place are laid to lawn with surrounding belts of ornamental shrubbery and trees to the north and south. The terrace on the south-east front was added by the James family in the early C20 and commands extensive views over the park to north, east and south.
PARK The present parkland extends over rising ground to the north-west, north and north-east of the Castle. The open areas are entirely under arable cultivation and virtually none of the scatter of clumps on the north-western slopes shown on the 1st edition OS map surveyed 1873(5 survive in the 1990s. The northern slopes have no parkland trees at all, and only a few individuals are shown on the OS 1st edition. The early C15 manor house was surrounded by a deer park, the survey of 1570 describing the park as bounded by a park pale, laid one third to lawns with 'great timber trees' and stocked with fallow deer. John Norden's map of 1595 shows the oval paled enclosure of the park with a central lake and south-flowing stream. There are few records of the park in the C18 and C19 and by the time of the Tithe survey in 1839, considerable areas of land had already been disparked and laid out to fields.
The park contains a number of woodlands, the largest areas lying to the north-west and north and north-east of Temple Field. Plantation Wood (to the north-east) contains mature C19 rhododendron shrubberies, winding walks and a cascade and is probably of C18 origin although partly replanted and extended west and south in the C20 by the RGO for commercial forestry purposes. The mixed woodland to the north and north-west is also of mid C20 origin, the north-western block on the ridge between Herstmonceux Castle and Place replacing the probably C18 Egg Plantation.
REFERENCES
Country Life, 43 (2 March 1918), pp 214-21; (9 March 1918), pp 242-8; (16 March 1918), pp 270-3; 65 (18 May 1929), pp 702-9; 78 (30 November 1935), pp 566-72; (7 December 1935), pp 606-12; (14 December 1935), pp 630-5 I Nairn and N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Sussex (1965), pp 534-7 W Rodwell, Herstmonceux Castle, an Archaeological Assessment of the Park (1989) Garden History 17, no 2 (1989), pp 177-8
Maps Survey, 1570 (British Museum Add Mss 5679, fo.266) John Norden, Map of Sussex, 1595 W Gardner and T Gream, A Topographical Map of the County of Sussex..., 1" to 1 mile, surveyed 1795 Tithe map for Herstmonceux parish, 1839 (East Sussex Record Office)
OS Old Series, 1" to 1 mile, 1813 OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1875 2nd edition published 1899 3rd edition published 1910 OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1875 2nd edition published 1909
Description written: July 1998 Register Inspector: VCH Edited: March 2000
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/100023...
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Kentwell - a very different experience: a romantic, completely moated, mellow redbrick Tudor mansion in a tranquil parkland setting - but so much more.
A 30+ years Restoration Project
In 1970 Kentwell stood neglected. No-one was prepared to take it on - except Patrick Phillips. He fell for this wonderful House in its magical setting and was not deterred by its condition. Ever since then he has, with his wife and family, sought to bring Kentwell back to life. Their works have taken part of the House and its 15th Century Service Building back to the 16th Century. Elsewhere changes reflect their own preferences. House, Gardens & Farm have an unrivalled ability to captivate the visitor.
Take a glimpse into both the past and present of this unique House. Enjoy its delightful Gardens. You can do this whenever you come but especially if you visit during one of the award-winning Re-Creations of Tudor or WWII Everyday Life and (recently) Victorian life. Kentwell pioneered Tudor domestic Living History Events in the UK, and nearly 30 years on the Re-Creations are as magical as ever.
A morning walk around Earlswood Lakes in Solihull.
Earlswood Lakes is the modern name for three man-made reservoirs which were built in the 1820s at Earlswood in Warwickshire, England, to supply water to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. They still supply the canal, and also provide leisure facilities, including sailing, fishing and walking. The northern banks of the lakes form the county boundary with the West Midlands.
The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal runs from Kings Norton Junction, where it joins the Worcester and Birmingham Canal to Stratford-upon-Avon, where it joins the River Avon, with a junction about halfway along at Kingswood, where it joins the Grand Union Canal. The initial 9.75 miles (15.6 km) to Hockley Heath is level, but after that, the canal drops through 55 locks on its way to Stratford-upon-Avon. In order to supply water to the system, the Earlswood Lakes were constructed in the 1820s. Construction took nearly 5 years to complete, and the labour force included prisoners of war from the Napoleonic wars. Some people say that lying at the bottom of all the lakes are the dead bodies of people who died while being forced to make the pools and they had no place to be buried so they were left there, either in groups or alone. Also the cost of construction was £297,000.
Being so near to Birmingham, the lakes proved attractive to visitors from the city from the early 1900s, and their popularity has been maintained, with recent improvements to the facilities which they provide. The Lakes railway station was built to bring tourists to the area and is on the Birmingham to Stratford line.
The three reservoirs are called Engine Pool, Windmill Pool and Terry's Pool, and a Grade II listed engine house is located beside the Engine Pool. The lakes cover 25 acres (10 ha), 25 acres (10 ha) and 20 acres (8.1 ha) respectively. The lakes are fed by tributaries of the River Blythe, and in turn outfall into that river also.
The Earlswood Engine House. It is near the Engine Pool.
Grade II Listed Building.
Engine House (Pumping Station), Earlswood Lakes
Listing Text
HOCKLEY HEATH VALLEY ROAD
1.
5108
Engine House (Pumping
Station), Earlswood Lakes
SP 17 SW 4/344
II
2.
C19. Redbrick, low pitched Welsh slated roof with brick cornice, end gables. 3
storeys, 2 closed windows with glazing bars wunder cambered relieving arches. Tall
and narrow with low single storey addition to south west side.
Included largely for historical interest for its connection with the Stratford upon
Avon Canal.
Listing NGR: SP1129874384
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Seen from the car park.
Built in 1821 to house a steam engine which pumped water from Earlswood Lakes to the nearby Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
Redbrick Mill with the Cooperative Wholesale Society's water tank and chimney beyond still gives the valley an industrial feel even though none of the buildings are occupied by their original industries.
Taken from Crackenedge Lane.
Revisiting old haunts today, only to be met by this sad sight - another of our city's many suburban public houses has shut down, after its transmogrification into a Chinese restaurant failed to keep the place going.
Pretty sure I never drank there, but knew it well as a kid since the nearby bus stop took its name from the pub - and, in the mid60s, aged 10 or 11, I'd be asking the conductor for a ticket to "The Mitre" five times a week!
The large site and adjacent bowling green may well be re-purposed, but one wonders what chance the building, a mock-Tudor erection of 1933, might have....
Built on Burke Road on a rise between the busy shopping strips that make up the Camberwell Junction and the grand catholic Our Lady of Victories Basilica, stands the striking Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England.
Almost since the beginning of 1863, Church of England Services have taken place on the site where Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England stands. In 1863, Camberwell was not the affluent and well established inner city Melbournian suburb that it is today; rather it was a small rural outpost of Melbourne. Therefore the first church, known simply as the Church of England at Camberwell, was little more than a small Victorian Gothic church of brick and stone. However Camberwell, like most of Melbourne, grew as a result of the Gold Rushes and by 1869 an additional chancel had been completed to make allowances for a congregation of around 200 people. As Camberwell's citizenry swelled in number and wealth, so too did their places of worship, and by 1887 Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England was enlarged and added to. There was no shortage of money, as by this time Camberwell was the home of wealthy industrialists, businessmen and pastoralists as well as a backbone of respectable middle class white collar workers, so the church's windows were filled with elegant and costly stained glass from companies like Mathieson and Gibson, Brooks, Robinson and Company and artists like William Montgomery. Further additions were made on the cusp of the Great War in 1914, and finally a towering spire was added after the War in 1924. In 1930 three stained glass windows by Australian husband and wife artists Christian and Napier Waller featuring the Apotheosis of David were added.
By the outbreak of the Second World War, Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England was an enormous brick an sandstone Victorian Gothic edifice, recognised as a local landmark, and a source of great pride for its wealthy and respectable congregation. Seating over 800 people, it continued to be a place of worship and many happy occasions until the night of the 18th of March 1955, when as a result of an arson attack, the grand building was destroyed by fire. Only the bell tower and spire survived, standing defiantly against the odds, pointing to the heavens.
Devastated by the arson attack, the congregation of the church rallied and engaged successful ecclesiastical architect Louis Williams to design a new Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England. The foundation stone for the new church was laid by the then Archbishop of Melbourne, The Most Reverend J. J. Booth on the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels on the 29th of September 1956. Rising like a phoenix from the ashes, the new Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England was completed within two years, finished in November 1957. Sadly, it was discovered several years after its completion, that the belfry and tower of the old Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England were seriously damaged by the heat of the 1955 fire. Constructionally compromised and therefore a danger not only to the congregation, but any passerby on busy Burke Road should the tower and spire fall into the thoroughfare, the remnants of the old church had to be demolished.
The current Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England building is architecturally very striking. The vast red brick facade rises vertically towards the sky with very little external decoration and is a fine example of Post-War Ecclesiastical architecture. In the wake of the Second World War, faced with austerity and building material shortages as well as the decimation of a workforce skilled enough to architecturally enhance revivalist buildings, architects had to re-think their designs to please their conservative clients who did not want the flat-roofed, glass encrusted boxes that were in vogue in architecturally avant-garde post-war America. Their answer was that between 1940 and 1960, they designed simplified versions of medieval churches. This link back to the more peaceful past, whilst managing the current difficulties of labour and building supplies worked beautifully. Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England is an ultra-stripped back, simplified version of a Romanesque church. It maintains a traditional rectangular shape, features a traditional pyramidal roof and has aisles that flank the central nave. Its front facade has a post-war Art Deco feel, particularly around the front porch which has elegant brick detailing and a very stylised Art Deco sandstone eagle - an attribute of Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist - above the door. This link to the past is enhanced by the two Old English Gothic style wrought iron lamps that flank the portico's outer doors. A traditional Gothic window with simplified sandstone tracery appears on the facade and is imbedded into a rounded arch which is more shallow than pre-war examples. The church's slender lancet windows have semicircular heads and feature for the most part, latticed plain glass. This allows the church's interior to be flooded with natural light even on a cloudy afternoon, such as the one when I visited Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England. Some describe the building as elegant, others austere, but the general consensus is that it is one of Louis William's finest architectural works from his very large output of work.
Inside the light filled church, the use of stained glass is at a minimum, yet there are three examples which are a throwback to Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England's glorious stained glass past. When the arsonist attack in 1955 raised the church, so many magnificent, historical and valuable stained glass windows were lost to the conflagration including the three stained glass windows by Australian husband and wife artists Christian and Napier Waller of the Apotheosis of David (shepherd, king and builder) installed in 1930. As part of the church's re-building, Napier Waller (Christian had died by 1955) was commissioned to create three new stained glass windows in memory of those from Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Church of England who served in the two World Wars. Saint Columba, Saint Alban and Saint Aidan were unveiled in 1961. Installed to the left of the narthex, the three windows are set into their own bay with Saint Columbia on the left, Saint Alban in the middle and Saint Aidan on the right. Designed in post-war Art Deco style, Saint Columbia has an inscription which comes from Psalm 107:23 "They do business in the great waters", Saint Alban has an inscription from Psalm 76:8 "The earth trembled and was still" and Saint Aidan has an inscription from Psalm 18:10 "He did fly upon the wings of the wind".
Louis Reginald Williams (1890 – 1980) was born in Hobart, Tasmania and attended school at Queen’s College. His father was a furniture manufacturer, and the family was very religious. Louis’ interest in churches guided him into choosing a career in architecture. He was trained by architect Alexander North, with whom Louis eventually formed a joint partnership when they moved to mainland Australia and set up an architectural firm, Williams and North, in Little Collins Street in Melbourne. Although Louis was commissioned to design commercial buildings and houses, it is for his ecclesiastical buildings that he is best known. He worked mostly in either traditional Gothic or Arts and Crafts styles. Not only was he concerned about the exteriors of his churches, but the interiors as well, and he maintained a group of skilled craftsmen whom he trusted to create his designs for furniture and fittings to harmonise with the buildings he created. He also advised on stained glass, lighting and even mosaic tiling, and no detail was too small for Louis. He designed churches throughout Australia for the Church of England, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists and the Christian Scientists. His career lasted for nearly sixty-five years until he was in his mid eighties.
Oak trees.
The house I grew up in and still go back to is this colour of brick, and I’ve always loved it. Whatever becomes of my final destination of living space, I want one wall to be this type of exposed aged red brick and another of layered white oak.
Funnily enough, when I look at this brick it reminds me of trees, which is a really odd thing to say, but it does. It is because I would stare out on to a red oak tree from my homes sunroom everyday. I have the same fascination of trees as John Constable, and enjoy the eloquence of description by William Glipin (the Monty Don of trees in the 1700s) who called oaks the ‘Hercules of trees.’
Oaks produces acorns, can be down dressed or dressed up for your home, and make alcohol delicious in their aged barrels.
I think my all time favourite is the Anseman Oak or McDonogh Oak, followed by the English Oak (Quercus Robur or Pedunculate Oak), but I will take the simple bur oak too!
18 June 2011. We walked to Antwerp city centre via Maria Henriettalei. Ahead, the National Bank building.
Unlike London, none of the cyclists we saw - and there seemed to be thousands - were attempting the land speed record for pedal-powered vehicles. Though they did get irritated and dinged their bells when we gormless tourists strayed into clearly marked and otherwise unblocked cycle lanes.
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§ Aerial view of this location.
§ Photo by Paul Herijgers of this location in 2004, showing the tunnel construction.
This fourth CreativeMornings/Bogotá event was generously hosted by Casa LABLOOM.
Ana Sánchez was our speaker.
The event was sponsored by Brot Bakery and Café and SocialColectivo.
Photos by Adriana Mosquera AMOSS Photography.
The video, soon on Vimeo, was filmed by Alberto Durán ( (ToolKit)).
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The church dates from the mid-fourteenth century onwards and was restored in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
It is built in greenstone and redbrick with limestone ashlar dressings with a concrete tiled roof.
It was built by Thomas de Redying in the mid 14th C. and replaced an Anglo Saxon church.
There is a western tower from the fifteenth century, with brick patching. There are three bells the oldest one dating from the 15th C.
The nave and chancel are in one, the nave having three bays of octagonal piers. The north aisle dates from the late fifteenth century and has been patched in brick. The south aisle is probably late fourteenth century.
There is a 14th C. octagonal font of seven sides with standing figures.
The chancel has a fifteenth century arch originally leading to a chapel, now demolished. This now leads to the vestry.
On the north side of the chancel is an effigy of Thomas de Redying from the fourteenth century. This was found during restoration work in 1912.
The east window is from the fifteenth century and was restored in the nineteenth century.
Most of the furniture and painted ceiling dates from the 19th C.
The rood and screen are from 1913 and incorporate some older panels.
In 1606 Rev. Stubbs was prosecuted by his parishioners when the roof and walls of the chancel collapsed.
The church was restored when redbrick was used to patch the exterior. However by the mid nineteenth century the church was almost in ruin and was repaired by the Rev. Edward Steere and the village carpenter. It was further renovated in 1912. The church was reopened June 28th 1913.
Shiny metal legs on a stack of cafe chairs, out on the redbrick footpath of Gouger Street, Adelaide.
Click here to see the tops of these chairs www.flickr.com/photos/theenmoy/5517269754/.
Taken with iPhone 3GS.
Suffolk Punch Spectacular
Kentwell - a very different experience: a romantic, completely moated, mellow redbrick Tudor mansion in a tranquil parkland setting - but so much more.
A 30+ years Restoration Project
In 1970 Kentwell stood neglected. No-one was prepared to take it on - except Patrick Phillips. He fell for this wonderful House in its magical setting and was not deterred by its condition. Ever since then he has, with his wife and family, sought to bring Kentwell back to life. Their works have taken part of the House and its 15th Century Service Building back to the 16th Century. Elsewhere changes reflect their own preferences. House, Gardens & Farm have an unrivalled ability to captivate the visitor.
Take a glimpse into both the past and present of this unique House. Enjoy its delightful Gardens. You can do this whenever you come but especially if you visit during one of the award-winning Re-Creations of Tudor or WWII Everyday Life and (recently) Victorian life. Kentwell pioneered Tudor domestic Living History Events in the UK, and nearly 30 years on the Re-Creations are as magical as ever.
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Kentwell - a very different experience: a romantic, completely moated, mellow redbrick Tudor mansion in a tranquil parkland setting - but so much more.
A 30+ years Restoration Project
In 1970 Kentwell stood neglected. No-one was prepared to take it on - except Patrick Phillips. He fell for this wonderful House in its magical setting and was not deterred by its condition. Ever since then he has, with his wife and family, sought to bring Kentwell back to life. Their works have taken part of the House and its 15th Century Service Building back to the 16th Century. Elsewhere changes reflect their own preferences. House, Gardens & Farm have an unrivalled ability to captivate the visitor.
Take a glimpse into both the past and present of this unique House. Enjoy its delightful Gardens. You can do this whenever you come but especially if you visit during one of the award-winning Re-Creations of Tudor or WWII Everyday Life and (recently) Victorian life. Kentwell pioneered Tudor domestic Living History Events in the UK, and nearly 30 years on the Re-Creations are as magical as ever.