deMontfort University

Where Richard’s body lay after Bosworth….

Feb 18, 2016

buildings, Uncategorized

deMontfort University, Hawthorn Building, Leicester, Newarke Church, Richard III

Some more news about the Leicester church (the Newarke) to which Richard’s body was taken after Bosworth. You have to look for it in the following article, but it is there. http://www.dmu.ac.uk/…/two-more-dmu-buildings-are-placed-on… And as we of the 21st century, gaze back to that sad time, perhaps we can imagine the ghostly battle taking place again, in…
A much overlooked landmark

Jan 3, 2016

buildings

deMontfort University, Gabriel Newton, Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower, Jane, Leicester, Leicester cathedral, reburial, Richard III Visitor Centre, schools, Simon de Montfort, St. John’s College Oxford, St. Mary De Castro, Thomas White, William Wyggestone

Those of you who attended part of Richard III’s reburial week, or visited St. Martin’s Cathedral and the Visitors’ Centre subsequently, may have wandered off into the east of the city centre along Cank Street, Silver Street by the old arcades, or even the High Street, past. At the end of High Street, into which…
Richard’s first resting place

Aug 23, 2015

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion

Bosworth, deMontfort University, Earl of Leicester, Hawthorn Building, Henry of Lancaster, Leicester, Newarke Church, Richard III

… was the Newarke Church in the 1331 Hospital of the Annunciation, in which he laid from August 22-25 1485, also described here. The Earl of Leicester at the time of the construction was Henry of Lancaster, son of Edmund Crouchback. This is the Hawthorn Building of de Montfort University, on the same site today.…

deMontfort University

Where Richard’s body lay after Bosworth….

A much overlooked landmark

Richard’s first resting place