Stonehenge is a prehistoric temple, its great stones raised about 4,500 years ago. It is a masterpiece of engineering, with stones carefully arranged to line up with the movements of the sun.
The ruin that we see today is the end result of many . . . — — Map (db m76858) HM
Evesham Abbey was once one of the most important monasteries in England, but now there is little evidence of its former splendour. The churches of St Lawrence and All Saints, the Bell Tower and the Almonry escaped demolition in 1540, but these . . . — — Map (db m233329) HM
The churches of St Lawrence and All Saints have served as parish churches for the town of Evesham since the 12th century. They were built for the use of the townspeople following the growth of Evesham as a market town. The Abbey Church was reserved . . . — — Map (db m245559) HM
Idleness is the enemy of the soul. So believed St Benedict, whose rules governed life for the Benedictine monks at Evesham Abbey. When they weren't praying, sleeping or reading spiritual books, they were working.
There was plenty to keep . . . — — Map (db m246259) HM
The 1300-year story of Evesham Abbey starts with the legend of a swineherd. Growing from humble beginnings to become one of the most important and wealthiest abbeys in Britain, equal to Gloucester Cathedral, only to be destroyed. How did this . . . — — Map (db m246258) HM
1) During the ice ages huge glaciers covered the land, when they melted they cut out the valley where the river Avon flows and left behind gravel terraces.
2) Travelers carrying salt from the Droitwich area forded the river at a narrow crossing . . . — — Map (db m245527) HM
1) St Benedict founded the Benedictine order of monks. His most famous monastery is at Monte Cassino in Italy. Benedict said monks should have no personal belongings and should divide the day into three parts.
2) The first part was devoted to the . . . — — Map (db m245528) HM
1) 1563 - Pershore had 216 families. Most people were farmers but there were also butchers, bakers, a cooper, and an illegal tobacconist!
2) 1635 - Trade improved when William Sandys of Fladbury made the River Avon a navigable waterway.
3) . . . — — Map (db m245529) HM
Pershore Abbey Chronology
681-689: Ethelred of Marcia gave estates to Oswald to establish a monastery at Pershore.
972: King Edgar's charter confirmed the estate. The Benedictine Rule was introduced.
976-983: An anti-monastic . . . — — Map (db m245530) HM
Saint Alban's Church may have originated in Roman times, although there is no conclusive evidence to support such an early date. However, it is believed that a church was in existence here by c.720. The present building is at least Norman (c.1175) . . . — — Map (db m245565) HM
The Glovers' Needle is the last standing remnant of St Andrew's church. It is still easily the tallest building in Worcester, a total of 245ft (75m) high. The slender spire was named for the many glovemakers of the parish.
The spire was . . . — — Map (db m246257) HM
This Gateway was broken through the Abbey Wall July 1503 in honour of the Princess Margaret, daughter of Henry VII, who was the guest of the Lord Abbot of St Mary’s for two days on her journey to the North as the Bride of James IV of Scotland. — — Map (db m125439) HM
Near this place Constantine was proclaimed Roman Emperor in 306. His recognition of the civil liberties of his Christian subjects, and his own conversion to the Faith, established the religious foundations of Western Christendom.
( . . . — — Map (db m125244) HM
Guy Fawkes
Hereabouts lived the parents of Guy Fawkes of Gunpowder Plot fame, who was baptized in St. Michael-Leonard-Belfrey Church in 1570. — — Map (db m125389) HM
Miles Coverdale
c.1488 – 1569
Bishop of Exeter and believed to be a native of York. He translated and published the first complete printed English Bible (1535) and revised the Great Bible of 1539, sponsored by Thomas Cromwell.
He was a . . . — — Map (db m125432) HM
Our Lady’s Row, Goodramgate
The oldest surviving row of houses in York built in 1316 in the churchyard of Holy Trinity to endow a chantry of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The name Goodramgate derives from Gutherungate (12th century) an Anglicised form . . . — — Map (db m125429) HM
St Martin-le-Grand A mainly 15th century church, pre Conquest in origin, largely destroyed by fire in the air raid in 1942. The tower was completed before 1437. The Great West Window, considered to be one of the finest early 15th century windows . . . — — Map (db m125253) HM
Welcome to St Mary’s Abbey
Once the richest monastery in the north of England, sketched by Turner
JMW Turner visited York several times during his long association with Yorkshire. In 1797 during his first tour, the artist visited St . . . — — Map (db m125339) HM
St. Michael-Le-Belfrey
The only pre-Reformation church in York to have been built all at one time (1525 – 1536) by John Forman, Master Mason to the Minster. Guy Fawkes was baptized here on 16th April 1570. — — Map (db m125211) HM
St. Sampson’s Church
The Church is first mentioned in 1154. Its Tower was damaged by cannon balls in 1644 and the Church was largely rebuilt in 1848. The adjacent door is fifteenth-century. The redundant Church was taken over by the York Civic . . . — — Map (db m125391) HM
The upper storey of this building was the meeting place of York Methodists from 1753 to 1759. John Wesley, Charles Wesley and George Whitefield preached here on several occasions during that time, The actual room which the Methodists occupied was . . . — — Map (db m125392) HM
You are standing in an entrance passageway to St Leonard's hospital, one of the oldest and largest hospitals in medieval England.
Beyond you can see the chapel and, around to the side, the undercroft. Its other buildings reached to what is now . . . — — Map (db m246616) HM
Medieval York was an influential religious centre and St Mary's Abbey was the wealthiest and most powerful monastery in the north of England.
The Abbey was begun in 1089. Buildings catering for the everyday life of its Benedictine monks were . . . — — Map (db m246575) HM
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