Lincolnshire

Gainsborough Old Hall was built in 1460…therefore it HAS to be Tudor….!

Jul 2, 2021

battles, buildings, genealogy

“Tudor” era, Anglesey, Battle of Bosworth, English Heritage, Gainsborough Hall, half-timbered buildings, Henry VII, Lincolnshire, mediaeval buildings, Plantagenets, renaissance, Richard III, Sir Thomas Burgh, The Guardian

Well, if Richard III was entertained there, Gainsborough Old Hall can’t have always been Tudor! This article even says as much in a heading: “….Lincolnshire house, built in 1460, has been a theatre, preaching house, pub and masonic temple….” Excuse me, but 1460 was Plantagenet, not Tudor. Maybe it’s a Guardian error. (Perish the thought.)…
THE LOST CHAPEL OF THE PRINCE BISHOPS

Mar 20, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, heraldry, religion

Antony Bek, Archdeacon of York, Auckland Castle, banners, Barnard Castle, Battle of Neville’s Cross, chapels, Constable of the Tower, Crusades, david II, Durham, Durham Cathedral, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, Edward of Middleham, Farne Islands, Lincolnshire, Oxford, Patriarch of Jerusalem, prince bishops, Prior of Durham, Puritans, Richard III, saints, Scotland, Sir Arthur Heselrige, slighting, St. Cuthbert, statues, Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle

Once upon a time, in the 13th century, in the grounds of Auckland Castle, there stood a mighty northern chapel that was almost as large as St George’s at Windsor and bigger than St Stephen’s Chapel at Westminster. The Prince-Archbishop Antony Bek was its founder, a man so powerful it was said by some that…
‘I saw something shining…’ Metal Detecting Finds..

Apr 16, 2020

archaeology, Science

Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxons, Bedale Hoard, Cheshire, coins, crime, helmets, House of Wessex, jewellery, Lichfield, Lincolnshire, metal detecting, Middleham Jewel, Norfolk, Staffordshire Hoard, Vikings, Wales, York Museum, Yorkshire Museum

The Staffordshire Hoard. One of the biggest hoard of Anglo Saxon artefacts every discovered. See more of this hoard below.. A story has broken of four ‘metal detectorists’ who have been convicted of stealing a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins and jewellery worth 3 million pounds, most of which is, tragically, still missing. You can tell from the pictures of…
A HATPIN & A MYSTERY

Sep 4, 2019

archaeology, art, heraldry

brooches, Buckingham rebellion, Edward IV, Gainsborough Hall. Sun in Splendour, Grantham, Henry VII, jewellery, Lincolnshire, white boar, white rose

Edward IV’S Hatpin? A fabulous archaeological find has turned up in a Lincolnshire fields–a beautiful golden hatpin shaped like the Sun in Splendour and bearing an intact amethyst stone. An extremely high status object without a doubt and estimated at £15,000. But whose was it? Unfortunately the article accompanying the find is full of…
Richard’s Christmas Celebrations…and the Croyland Chronicle….

Dec 26, 2017

buildings, Events, religion

Alexander VI, Anne Neville, Christmas, Crowland, Crowland Chronicle, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, John Russell, Lincolnshire, monks, parties, Richard III, Thomas Langton

This article is about Richard, Christmas celebrations, and the Croyland Chronicle. I really enjoyed reading it. It seems Richard’s lavish hospitality met with sour po-faced disapproval! No doubt, if he’d kept a sparse Christmas, he’d have been criticised for not giving himself up to the joy of Christ’s birth. https://meanderingthroughtime.weebly.com/wars-of-the-roses-blog/christmas-1484-with-richard-iii
THE MISSING PRINCES-LOOKING IN LINCOLNSHIRE & DEVON

Oct 11, 2017

art, buildings, travel

“Missing Princes Project”, “Princes”, Coldbridge, Devon, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Eleanor of Brittany, Fotheringhay, Grimsby, Henry III, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John, John Evans, Lincolnshire, Mary Stuart, Old Sarum, Philippa Langley, Richard III, Robert More, Sandra heath wilson, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, windows

Philippa Langley has recently been on the road with ‘The Missing Princes Project’ making inquiries in Lincolnshire as to any local legends or folklore (such stories can often hold a tiny grain of folk memory) relating to King Richard or the two boys. Interestingly, author Sandra Heath Wilson in her novels has the princes hidden…
Did the boys from the Tower escape from one of Yorkshire’s lost coastal towns or villages…?

Aug 13, 2017

anniversaries, Science, travel

“Perkin”, “Princes”, “Tudor, Battle of Bosworth, Harwich, John Earl of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, lost towns, Lowestoft, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Ravenspur, Sheriff Hutton, Spurn Head, Tower of London, Yorkshire

I have often wondered about Richard’s plans for the Yorkist “heirs” he sent for safety to Sheriff Hutton. We know Elizabeth of York was there, because Henry Tudor sent a very swift party to secure her person. She was then escorted regally to London, to be greeted at Lambeth by her husband-to-be. After he’d established…
More remains found, but pre-Richard….

Jun 6, 2017

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archaeology, great famine, Lincolnshire, Thornton Abbey, University of Sheffield

Human remains are being discovered everywhere, it seems. Richard III appears to have started a fashion. But no, I should not make light of it. This poor priest suffered greatly before death.