List of manor houses - Wikipedia
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system ; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts , communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.
Medieval Manors in England - Britain Express
Major examples of 15th-century manors include Great Chalfield (Wiltshire), Lytes Cary (Somerset), Cotehele (Cornwall), and Great Dixter (Sussex). To generalise about the post-Medieval manor, it is safe to say that buildings became more spacious and elaborate, more ostentatious and ornate.
Manor Houses
A manor house was the dwelling house or "capital messuage" of a feudal lord of a manor. The primary feature of the manor-house was its great hall, to which subsidiary apartments were added as the lessening of feudal warfare permitted more peaceful domestic life.
Manor house - Wikipedia
Such houses as Burghley House, Longleat House, and Hatfield House are among the best known of this period and seem today to epitomise the English country house. During the 16th century many lords of manors moved their residences from their ancient manor houses often situated next to the parish church and near or in the village and built a new ...
The 15th-century country house - Country Life
2022年2月27日 · Ewelme Manor is representative of the finest 15th-century domestic buildings not only for its splendour, but also — sadly — because it no longer exists. It’s important to rescue this and other lost buildings of the period from obscurity, however, because the English have a bad habit of viewing the Tudor age as the horizon of their history.
English Buildings: ...c 1500-1700 - Blogger
Only a handful of his buildings survive, but they have been very influential. The Banqueting House in Whitehall, the Queen’s House in Greenwich and St Paul’s church, Covent Garden, introduced the British to porticoes, properly designed orders, and Classical proportions, and helped set the style for decades, even centuries to come.
BBC - History - British History in depth: Architectural Styles Across ...
A revealing cross-section of Britain's built heritage. Timber-framed houses. The present Little Moreton Hall (pictured) was begun in the mid 15th century and was finally completed in 1610. It has ...
Wingfield Manor: a medieval great house - Historic England
Wingfield Manor was built in the mid-15th century for Ralph, Lord Cromwell, Lord Treasurer to King Henry VI. Its upstanding remains date to four main building phases between 1439 and 1455. In its final form, it is a double-courtyard great house comprising an inner court to the north and a larger outer court to the south.
Houses - Wars of the Roses
Some 15th century timber houses that still survive are now in the care of the National Trust e.g. Great Chalfield Manor and Garden. Others are private homes. Kings and Lords lived in castles or houses built from stone or, by the end of the 15th century, bricks.
Manor house | Medieval Architecture, Feudalism & Landholding
2024年10月31日 · In Normandy the Ango Manor, near Dieppe, reveals some advance in domestic planning in the 15th century, the house standing at one end of a courtyard, flanked by farm buildings and defended by a gatehouse. With increased prosperity and the desire for more commodious dwellings, the 16th-century manor house …