Picturesque ruins of a large priory of Cluniac monks, whose love of
decoration is reflected in the glorious carving of its 12th-century
chapter house and rare 'lavabo' - a tiered washing fountain in a
topiary bedecked cloister garden.
Parts of the great...
The vast and immensely impressive ruins of a palatial medieval
manor house arranged round a pair of courtyards, with a huge
undercrofted Great Hall and a defensible High Tower 22 metres (72
feet) tall. This monument to late medieval...
A hundred years ago, Witley Court was one of England's great
country houses, hosting many extravagant parties. Today it is a
spectacular ruin, the result of a disastrous fire in 1937.
Restoration work to the West Wing has made several new...
Wroxeter (or 'Viroconium' ) was the fourth largest city in Roman
Britain. It began as a legionary fortress and later developed into
a thriving civilian city, populated by retired soldiers and
traders. Though much still remains below ground, today the...
The extensive ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle, a moated and fortified
15th-century manor house, are a testament to the rise and fall of a
prominent Norfolk family, the Heydons. Over 200 years, successive
generations of this ambitious family built, then...
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk,
of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history. The nave,
with its splendid 13th-century west front and great bricked-up
window, is now the parish church, displaying a screen with...
The massive ruins of Henry II's 12th-century tower keep, set within
the earthworks of a Roman fort guarding the strategic Stainmore
pass over the Pennines.
The extensive remains of the wealthiest and most powerful
Benedictine monastery in England, shrine of St Edmund. They include
the complete 14th-century Great Gate and Norman Tower, and the
impressive ruins and altered west front of the immense church.
The only surviving remains in England of a priory of Canons of the
Holy Sepulchre, who aided pilgrims to Christ's tomb: the ruined
nave of their 14th-century church, later used as a barn.
The dramatic riverside ruins and extensive earthworks of a Welsh
Border castle, its tall 13th-century keep unusually set on the side
of its mound.
New information panels tell the story of the castle and the nearby
town.
The charming ruins of a small monastery of Premonstratensian 'white
canons', picturesquely set above a bend in the River Tees near
Barnard Castle. Remains include much of the 13th-century church and
a range of living quarters, with traces of their...
The romantic ruins of a once royal castle overlooking the Essex
marshes. Hadleigh was begun in about 1230 by Hubert de Burgh, but
extensively refortified as a strong royal residence in 1360-70 by
Edward III. The barbican and the two striking eastern drum...
The elaborately decorated ruins of a 14th-century chancel and
chapter house (viewable only from the outside), attached to the
still operational cathedral-like minster church.
The ruins of a mid 16th-century coastal artillery fort, later
garrisoned - hence the name - by Civil War Royalists. Reached from
New Grimsby by footpath.
The siting of this ruined medieval church at the centre of a
Neolithic ritual henge earthwork symbolises the transition from
pagan to Christian worship.
Extensive ruins of an Augustinian abbey, later a Civil War
stronghold, in a deeply rural setting. Much of the church survives,
unusually viewable from gallery level, along with the lavishly
sculpted processional door and other cloister buildings.