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Montacute Castle Montacute ![]() Montacute Castle ![]() Castle was a castle built on a hill overlooking the village of Montacute, Somerset, England. [...More...] | "Montacute Castle" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Castle Neroche Castle ![]() Castle Neroche is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle on the site of an earlier hill fort in the parish of Curland, near Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[1]Contents1 Location 2 History2.1 Iron Age 2.2 Norman castle3 Air disaster 4 See also 5 References 6 Further readingLocation[edit]Map of the castle siteThe hill rises to 260 metres (850 ft) on the northern escarpment of the Blackdown Hills. The area is part of a 35 square miles (91 km2) site covered by a landscape partnership, known as the Neroche Scheme which is establishing trails and a public forest [...More...] | "Castle Neroche" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Special Special ![]() Special or specials may refer to:Contents1 Music 2 Film and television 3 Other uses 4 See alsoMusic[edit] Special ![]() Special (album), a 1992 [...More...] | "Special" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Castles In Great Britain And Ireland Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England ![]() Norman invasion of England in 1066. Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 1050s, the Normans Normans began to build motte and bailey and ringworks castles in large numbers to control their newly occupied territories in England and the Welsh Marches. During the 12th century the Normans Normans began to build more castles in stone – with characteristic square keeps – that played both military and political roles. Royal castles were used to control key towns and the economically important forests, while baronial castles were used by the Norman lords to control their widespread estates [...More...] | "Castles In Great Britain And Ireland" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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English Heritage English Heritage ![]() English Heritage (officially the English Heritage ![]() English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.[3] This comprises over 400 of England's historic buildings, monuments and sites spanning more than 5,000 years of history. Within its portfolio are Stonehenge, Dover Castle, Tintagel Castle ![]() Tintagel Castle and the best preserved parts of Hadrian's Wall [...More...] | "English Heritage" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Folly In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of garden ornaments usually associated with the class of buildings to which it belongs. Eighteenth-century English gardens ![]() English gardens and French landscape gardening often featured mock Roman temples, symbolising classical virtues. Other 18th-century garden follies represented Chinese temples, Egyptian pyramids, ruined abbeys, or Tatar tents, to represent different continents or historical eras [...More...] | "Folly" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Scheduled Monument In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a "nationally important" archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change. The various pieces of legislation used for legally protecting heritage assets from damage and destruction are grouped under the term ‘designation’ [...More...] | "Scheduled Monument" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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John Leland (antiquary) Leland may refer to:Contents1 Places 2 People 3 Other uses 4 See alsoPlaces[edit]NorwayLeland, NorwayUnited StatesLeland, Illinois Leland, Iowa Leland, Michigan Leland, Mississippi Leland, North Carolina Leland, Washington Leland, Wisconsin Leland Castle, a building in New Rochelle, New York Leland Grove, Illinois Leland Township, Michigan Leland High School (San Jose, California) Leland River, MichiganPeople[edit] Leland (composer) (born 1991), American singer, songwriter, record producer, and composerGiven nameYung L.A., birth name Leland Austin, rapper Leland Bardwell, author Leland Chapman, bounty hunter Leland D [...More...] | "John Leland (antiquary)" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Antiquarian An antiquarian or antiquary (from the Latin: antiquarius, meaning pertaining to ancient times) is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically, the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient artifacts, archaeological and historic sites, or historic archives and manuscripts [...More...] | "Antiquarian" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Saint Michael Michael (Hebrew pronunciation: [mixaˈʔel]; Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל, translit. Mîkhā'ēl, lit. 'Who is like God?'; Greek: Μιχαήλ, translit. Mikhaḗl; Latin: Michahel;Coptic: ⲙⲓⲭⲁⲏⲗ, Arabic: ميخائيل, translit. Mīkhā'īl) is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran traditions, he is called " Saint ![]() Saint Michael the Archangel" and "Saint Michael". In the Oriental Orthodox ![]() Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox ![]() Eastern Orthodox traditions, he is called " Taxiarch Archangel ![]() Archangel Michael" or simply " Archangel ![]() Archangel Michael". Michael is mentioned three times in the Book of Daniel [...More...] | "Saint Michael" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Castle Chapel Castle ![]() Castle chapels (German: Burgkapellen) in European architecture are chapels that were built within a castle. They fulfil the religious requirements of the castle lord and his retinue, sometimes also served as a burial site. Because the construction of such church edifices was expensive for the lord of the castle, separate chapels are not found at every seat of the nobility. Often, a secondary room furnished with an altar had to suffice. According to historian Sarah Speight, "The religious role of chapels was as normal, as routine, and arguably, as integral to castles as any concern for symbolism and/or military strength."[1] Castle ![]() Castle chapels were usually consecrated to saints; especially those associated with knighthood, such as Saint ![]() Saint George or Saint ![]() Saint Gereon [...More...] | "Castle Chapel" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Montacute Priory Montacute ![]() Montacute Priory was a Cluniac priory of the Benedictine Benedictine order in Montacute, Somerset, England.Contents1 History 2 Remains 3 See also 4 References 5 External References 6 External linksHistory[edit] It was founded between 1078[1] and 1102[2] by William, Count of Mortain, in face of a threat that if he did not do so, the King would take the land from him.[3] It was the only Somerset ![]() Somerset dependency of Cluny Abbey ![]() Cluny Abbey until 1407, when it gained independence from France. It was dissolved in 1539,[1] though there was a short restoration under the Catholic Queen Mary.[4] At its height in 1262 there were 25 monks.[5] In 1539 there were a Prior and 16 monks. At the time of the Domesday Book ![]() Domesday Book in 1086 there were five manors in Mudford [...More...] | "Montacute Priory" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Cluny Abbey Cluny ![]() Cluny Abbey (formerly also Cluni, or Clugny, French pronunciation: [klyni]) is a former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France. It was dedicated to St Peter. The abbey was constructed in the Romanesque architectural style, with three churches built in succession from the 4th to the early 12th centuries. The earliest basilica was the world's largest church until the St. Peter's Basilica ![]() Basilica construction began in Rome.[1] Cluny ![]() Cluny was founded by William I, Duke of Aquitaine ![]() William I, Duke of Aquitaine in 910. He nominated Berno as the first Abbot ![]() Abbot of Cluny, subject only to Pope ![]() Pope Sergius III. The abbey was notable for its stricter adherence to the Rule of St. Benedict, whereby Cluny ![]() Cluny became acknowledged as the leader of western monasticism [...More...] | "Cluny Abbey" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Bishop Of Coutances The Roman Catholic ![]() Roman Catholic Diocese ![]() Diocese of Coutances ![]() Coutances (–Avranches) (Latin: Dioecesis Constantiensis (–Abrincensis); French: Diocèse de Coutances ![]() Coutances (–Avranches)) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic ![]() Roman Catholic Church in France. Its mother church is the Cathedral ![]() Cathedral of Coutance in the commune of Coutances ![]() Coutances in France. The diocese is suffragan of the Archbishop of Rouen ![]() Rouen and comprises the entire department of Manche [...More...] | "Bishop Of Coutances" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Geoffrey De Montbray Geoffrey de Montbray ![]() Montbray (Montbrai, Mowbray) (died 1093), bishop of Coutances (Latin: Constantiensis), also known as Geoffrey of Coutances, a Norman nobleman, trusted adviser of William the Conqueror and a great secular prelate, warrior and administrator.Contents1 Career 2 His character 3 Notes 4 References 5 Additional referencesCareer[edit] Geoffrey, from his name, was apparently from Montbrai, Manche, in the arrondissement of [...More...] | "Geoffrey De Montbray" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Somerset Somerset ![]() Somerset (/ˈsʌmərsɛt/ ( listen)) (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England ![]() England which borders Gloucestershire ![]() Gloucestershire and Bristol ![]() Bristol to the north, Wiltshire ![]() Wiltshire to the east, Dorset ![]() Dorset to the south-east and Devon ![]() Devon to the south-west. It is bounded to the north and west by the Severn Estuary ![]() Severn Estuary and the Bristol ![]() Bristol Channel, its coastline facing southeastern Wales [...More...] | "Somerset" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |