1 Congregational. Brick with a rendered front and slate roof. Built 1839. Gabled front with central doorway and windows with traceried cast iron frames.
2 Photograph.
A Congregational Chapel built in the Imperial period, and located in Wood Street, Southam.
(Continued from part one)
The second Earl was not only a collector of art, but seemed to enjoy participating in the creation of it too. It has been noted that both ...
By the year 1816 the walls of Warwick Castle held one of England’s most ambitious collections of Old Master Portraiture ever assembled. Despite the sale of the Castle in 1978 ...
After I graduated from polytechnic in 1991 I got involved with a group called the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (later the BTCV). Although the person in charge was paid, ...
Scaffolding was erected around the building to give access to the workmen who are renovating the exterior, but it was noted that the resident House Martins (Delichon urbica), who have made the eaves of the building their home for many years were still currently nesting, and their young had not yet fledged.
Constance Linda Lucy (known as Linda) was 18 years old when she started this diary. She was the second of four daughters of Henry Spencer Lucy and his wife Christina. ...
In part one of this article, I gave an account of how the diary gives an insight into the everyday life of a daughter of the landed gentry. Among the events ...
1 A grey layer was found at the depth and in the line of the former road or trackway, which can be seen as a hollow way in the adjacent ...
The continuation of Manor Lane, Loxley which is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey mapping, is visible as a hollow way.
2 According to a papal licence of 1400 Spernall was the original site of the Priory of Cookhill and their original buildings here, at that date in ruins, included ...
Documentary evidence suggests that this was the site of the Cookhill Priory, comprising a moat and priory buildings. Of Medieval date, the remains of the priory are visible as earthworks. The site is located 350m north west of Morgrove Coppice, Spernall.
1 Stands on the site of a Cistercian monastery founded in 1150. 1581 The Heningtons of Exton took up residence and were responsible for converting the original house into ...
Site of a country house once occupied by the Heningtons of Exton. The site lies in Combe Abbey Country Park.
1 A 20th century park of c.200ha incorporating 17th, 18th and 19th century park and garden features. Formal gardens round Winde’s remodelled Abbey are shown in an illustration of ...
A landscape park associated with Combe Abbey. The park was established during the Imperial period but incorporates earlier garden features from the Post Medieval period onwards.Recommended a Review of Register entry by Lovie.
I hadn’t associated Warwickshire with menageries, but a blog by Parks & Gardens UK drew my attention to two at Coombe Abbey.
Princess Elizabeth, 1603-1608
The Abbey was purchased by John Harington ...
Dulcie would like to know more about the place her ancestors came from.
1 An approximately square earthwork of about 4 ha, defined partly by modern precipices and partly by artificial earthworks. The latter are weather-worn and altered by cultivation. The rampart varies ...
Corley Camp, an Iron Age hillfort which is visible as an earthwork. It is situated on Burrow Hill, 200m east of Corley.
