buildings

From St Nicholas to Sir Christmas to Old Father Christmas to Santa Claus….

Dec 23, 2021

art, buildings, culture, Events, religion, The play’s the thing

Bacchus, carols, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Coca Cola, Coventry plays, Ebeneezer Scrooge, Father Christmas, Father Time, Green, King Frost, King Winter, Norse gods, pagan festivals, Puritans, red, St. Nicholas, Winchester Cathedral

“….the beautiful, unspoiled Mediterranean town of Patara is the birthplace of the bearded gift-giver, who we look out for with such excitement on Christmas Eve. Or rather, the birthplace of the third century Christian saint whose life of kindness and miraculous do-goodery created a legend which has evolved down the centuries, and given us the…
Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick – Wife to the Kingmaker

Dec 22, 2021

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, sources

Abergavenny Castle, AJ Pollard, Barnet, Beauchamp Pageant, Beaulieu Abbey, Bisham Abbey, Calais, Caversham, Cecily Neville, Countess of Warwick, Despencer estates, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, Edward of Warwick, Elizabeth Berkeley, George Neville, Henry Duke of Warwick, Henry VI, Henry VII, Honfleur, Ireland, Isobel Despencer, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, John Rous, Louis XI, Margaret of Anjou, Middleham Castle, Paul Murray Kendall, Reading Abbey, Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, Rous Roll, Royal College of Arms, Sheriff Hutton, Sir James Tyrrell, Tewkesbury, Wars of the Roses, Warwick Castle, William Catour

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Anne Beauchamp and her husband, Richard Neville, ‘The Kingmaker,’ Earl of Warwick. From the Latin version of the Rous Roll. Donated to the College of Arms by Melvyn Jeremiah. Anne Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick, daughter of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and his second wife Isobel Despenser, was born…
Fatal Match (alternative version)

Dec 13, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy, religion

Henry VI, Jules Jones, Margaret of Anjou, Pageant of Torbay, royal marriages, The Legendary Ten Seconds, Titchfield Abbey

Here is an alternative version of “Fatal Match”, the Legendary Ten Seconds’ song about Henry VI‘s marriage to Margaret of Anjou (left). This version is sung by Jules Jones as part of the Pageant of Torbay.
MARKENFIELD HALL AND THE MARKENFIELD BROTHERS, THOMAS AND ROBERT.

Dec 11, 2021

battles, buildings, genealogy

“Perkin”, AJ Pollard, Barons Grantley, Battle of Bosworth, Buckingham rebellion, Chapel of St. Michael the Archangel, Coldridge, Edward V, Elizabeth I, excommunication, executions, Falklands Play, funeral effigy, Iain Curteis, John de Merkynfeld, knights of the body, licence to crenellate, Markenfield Hall, piscina, rape, Ripon Cathedral, Rising of the North, Robert Markenfield, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Sir Thomas Markinfield, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Yorkshire

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Markenfield Hall viewed through the Gatehouse. A 14th century moated manor house and one time home to the Markenfields. Photo National Garden Scheme. Markenfield Hall, near Ripon, Yorkshire is surely the epitome of a survivor of medieval manor houses. The building of the Hall begun in 1230 and was…
A Cheshire Wetherspoon’s link to Richard III (via Shakespeare)….

Dec 10, 2021

buildings, religion, The play’s the thing

Augustinian Friars, Cheshire, Friar Penketh, JD Wetherspoon, pubs, Richard III, Shakespeare, Warrington

Here is an article about the histories of some Wetherspoons pubs in Cheshire. One of them, the Friar Penketh in Barbauld Street, Warrington, is said to stand on the site of a 13th-century Augustinian friary, and nearby Friars Gate and St Augustine’s Lane are reminders of the long-gone religious house. Why am I posting about…
London’s Greatest Bridges (continued)

Dec 8, 2021

art, buildings, Science, television reviews

Albion Mill, almshouses, arson, Belgium, bribery, Canaletto, cement, Channel Five, Charles II, Company for the Strand Bridge, Company of Watermen, concrete foundations, Cornish granite, craft guilds, Frost Fairs, House of Commons, iron, John Rennie, Ladies’ Bridge, Lambeth, London Bridge, lotteries, Palace of Westminster, Pathe News, Portland stone, protests, River Thames, roads, Rob Bell, Second World War, slum clearances, Southwark, steam power, Strand, Suffragettes, Sutton Hoo, Thomas Page, timber, Waterloo, Waterloo Bridge, Westminster Bridge, windmills, Wool staple

This series finally resumed on Channel Five at the beginning of October, to cover two of the newer structures over the Thames, neither of which are in the original form. As usual, Rob Bell’s enthusiasm is infectious and his programmes are highly informative. Episode Three covered Westminster Bridge. By 1700, the population of London was…
First, take your royal sturgeon….

Dec 7, 2021

buildings, culture, religion

cookery, Edward II, Edward III, fish, mediaeval food, mediaeval life, Ouverture de Cuisine, pies, River Severn, St Albans Abbey, sturgeon

It’s always rewarding to find a site that is helpful with medieval research. By this I mean everyday research, not the highly specialised work of historians. This site was stumbled upon because I needed to find out how sturgeon would have been served in the medieval period. Yes, it had been a royal fish…
Meet Branwen, the Tower’s new raven….

Dec 6, 2021

buildings

Bran, Branwen, Celtic myths, Edgar, Ireland, legends, Matholwch, ravens. Tower, Wales, White Hill

The new raven at the Tower of London is to be called Branwen! According to Wikipedia : “….The earliest legend that connects the Tower with a raven is the euhemerised Welsh tale of the war against the Irish leader Matholwch who had mistreated the princess Branwen. Branwen’s brother Brân the Blessed (King of the Britons)…
THE TAILOR’S GUILD OF SALISBURY

Dec 3, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, religion

Bishop Beauchamp, Bishops of Salisbury, burials, craft guilds, Edward IV, Henry of Buckingham, Morris dancing, Salisbury, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury Giant, Salisbury Greyfriars, Salisbury Museum, St. Osmund’s Eve, St. Thomas churchyard, tailors, weavers

In Salisbury Museum, a dimly-lit display exhibits the Tailor’s Guild charter of incorporation granted by Edward IV in 1461. The beautiful illumination of Edward’s Latinised name leaps out in all the vivid colours it was originally painted with in the 15thc. In this charter, confirmed the following year by Bishop Beauchamp, the King grants various…
MAD, MURDEROUS MABEL

Dec 2, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, sources

“Poisoned Chalice”, Arnulf, Arundel Castle, books, Bridgnorth Castle, Bure Castle, Earl of Shrewsbury, Ela of Salisbury, Eleanor of Castile, Giroie family, Haburga, Hugh Bunel, Mabel de Belleme, marriages, Matilda of Blois, mediaeval women, murder, Norman invasion, Normandy, Orderic Vitalis, Robert de Belleme, Roger de Montgomery, ships, William I, William Talvas de Belleme, William Talvas IV

Many people still hold to the idea that all medieval women were quiet, timid, and downtrodden, unable to defend themselves and at the mercy of others. Clearly they have never heard of Mabel de Belleme! Mabel was a Norman noblewoman, born sometime in the 1030’s to William Talvas de Belleme and his first wife, Haburga.…