Anglo-Saxon Stone Iconography: The Pre-Conquest Carvings of Breedon on the Hill near Leicester Perched on an outcrop of carboniferous limestone above the Leicestershire plain, the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill holds what is generally regarded as the largest surviving collection of Anglian carved […]
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Metamorphic Topography: How Pre-Cambrian Quarrying Shaped the Anthropic Settlement of Bradgate Park near Leicester Bradgate Park in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, occupies one of England’s most ancient exposed geological surfaces: Precambrian volcaniclastic rock older than 560 million years, whose quarrying for diorite and slate left enduring marks on the topography, field […]
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Brickwork and Water Defenses: The Unfinished Brick Engineering of Kirby Muxloe Castle near Leicester Begun in 1480 and abandoned three years later at its patron’s sudden execution, Kirby Muxloe Castle in Leicestershire stands as one of the most revealing fragments in English architectural history. What was left unfinished is, paradoxically, […]
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The Pre-Cambrian Sanctuary: Geometrical Alignment and Monastic Isolation at Ulverscroft Priory near Leicester Rising from one of England’s most ancient rock formations, Ulverscroft Priory in Charnwood Forest occupies a geological landscape older than almost any other exposed surface in the British Isles. Founded as an Augustinian hermitage before 1153 and […]
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