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.
A powerful thick-walled round keep of c.1200, characteristic of the
Welsh Borders, on a large earthen mound within a stonewalled
bailey. Set in the beautiful Olchon valley, with magnificent views
of the Black Mountains.
The ruins and earthworks of a royal castle dating mainly from the
12th and 13th centuries, frequently used as a hunting lodge. The
remains of the medieval cross stand in the centre of the village.
The extensive and picturesque ruins of a 15th-century riverside
manor house, including a fine hall, south-west tower, and complete
nearby dovecote. The home of Richard III's henchman Lord Lovell.
The ruins of the medieval castle and Tudor manor house of the
Corbets are dominated by the theatrical shell of an ambitious
Elizabethan mansion wing in Italianate style, which was devastated
during the Civil War. Fine Corbet monuments fill the...
The most complete surviving Cistercian monastery in southern
England, with almost all the walls of its 13th-century church still
standing, along with many monastic buildings. After the
Dissolution, the buildings were converted into the mansion house...
The impressive ruins of a 14th-century castle with a massive keep,
inner and outer baileys, and towered curtain walls still standing.
It was built by the Abbot of Furness on the south-eastern point of
Piel Island, to guard the deep-water harbour of...
An imposing landmark, the twin 12th-century towers of the ruined
church stand amid the remains of an important Roman 'Saxon Shore'
fort and a Saxon monastery. Richborough Roman Fort is within easy
travelling distance.
The remains of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1148, set on the banks
of the Ribble against a backdrop of dramatic hills. After its
dissolution in 1536, the monks were briefly returned to the abbey
during the Pilgrimage of Grace. They remained in...
The ruined hall and chamber of a fortified manor house of the
powerful Percy family, dating mainly from the 14th and 15th
centuries. Its undercroft is cut into a rocky outcrop.
The extensive remains of one of the most important East Anglian
monasteries, the Cluniac Priory of Our Lady of Thetford. Founded in
the early 12th century, it owed much of its prosperity to a
miraculous appearance of the Virgin Mary, whose statue here...
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 ruins of a 13th-century Premonstratensian abbey, later
converted into a Tudor mansion. The church was rebuilt as a grand
turreted gatehouse. Information panels tell the story of the
monastery and its conversion into a mansion.