Rotherham's 15th Century chantry bridge from above.

People often don't realise that the original position of the river has now been moved by development such that the chantry now sits high and dry and water no longer regularly runs under the arches of it's medieval bridge.

Rotherham is often the butt of many jokes, but actually it's got some amazing medieval architecture.

#Rotherham #chantrybridge #medieval #fifteenthcentury

A propos de rien. Here’s the #SeventeenthCentury #EighteenthCentury #dovecote inserted into the first-stage chamber of the #FifteenthCentury tower of my #Village #Church. I visited it for the first time last night. It’s lovely. The chamber, with fireplace, may have been part of the benefice of the #Medieval chantry #priest. #Birds
Severn Stoke, #Worcestershire post-#flood. Taking my cue from the #FifteenthCentury building, now the #Pub, it seems right to go #BlackAndWhite on these two. First, some #reportage: the pub’s defences. Secondly, a #DoubleExposure of the flooded crops superimposed by the crop flotsam on the #field lane.
And for the #BookHistory crew here's a relevant recent article by Lisa Demets in journal #UrbanHistory, again #OpenAccess: "#Bruges as a multilingual contact zone: book production and multilingual literary networks in fifteenth-century Bruges" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/bruges-as-a-multilingual-contact-zone-book-production-and-multilingual-literary-networks-in-fifteenthcentury-bruges/37D76CC1620C58C18C698EE3A8AB2223 # #15thCentury #FifteenthCentury #Books #Publishing
Bruges as a multilingual contact zone: book production and multilingual literary networks in fifteenth-century Bruges | Urban History | Cambridge Core

Bruges as a multilingual contact zone: book production and multilingual literary networks in fifteenth-century Bruges

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The late #FifteenthCentury timber-framed gatehouse at Lower Brockhampton Manor, #Herefordshire. #Lino #Linocut #Medieval #Vernacular #Architecture
Suddenly nervous when the time comes to deliver the message

When he was on his way down to carry the message to her, he felt confident that he could deliver it without any difficulty, but after he kno...

In October, Dr Hannes Kleineke delivered the 'Maurice and Shelagh Bond Memorial Lecture' at St George's Chapel. In the 2nd of two blogs, Hannes reflects on the people of St George's Chapel, including the major disagreement between knights and canons...👇 http://ow.ly/BoCC50LuCIZ

@histodons @histodon #FifteenthCentury #Knights #Canons #MiddleAges #Westminster

From Windsor to Westminster: the people of St George’s in Parliament in the later Middle Ages II: Knights vs Canons

The History of Parliament