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    IMAGES OF LATE MEDIEVAL SECULAR ARCHITECTURE 

    Bristol
    City of Bristol

    CAVENDISH
    (Suffolk), The Red House

    Now a private home, the building shows several levels of sophistication.  The carved doorway and ceiling beams of the dining room are well worked, showing a central beam with circular strapwork and secondary beams with grooved molding.  The living room's beams show grooves and the secondary beams flatter with a single groove at the edges.  The kitchen’s beams are simply hewn with no effort at decorative finish.  © Raguin/MMK

    ELY 
    Ely Porta, The great gate of the monastery   Ecclesiastical compounds comprised excluded spaces and also points of juncture.  Often at these points of juncture, such as porches or gates, administration of justice took place.  The great gate to Ely’s monastic enclose was constructed from about 1390 to 1410 and was the place where manor courts were held.  The chapel of the prior, or the gate building, represents the medieval structures where a laywoman such as where Margery Kempe would be interviewed and judged by ecclesiastic authorities.  Image from  1817, after W. D. Sweeting, The Cathedral Church of Ely (London: George Bell & Sons, 1901). 

    LEICESTER 
    LEWH1: Leicester, Wygston House, 18 Highcross Street, c. 1480. © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH2: Leicester, Wygston House, 18 Highcross Street, c. 1480. Original placement of windows. © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH3: Leicester, Wygston House, windows installed c. 1500 by Roger Wygston, full window of Adoration of Magi and Shepherds, Newarke Houses Museum. © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH4: Leicester, Wygston House, windows installed c. 1500 by Roger Wygston, detail of monograph of Roger, son of William, builder of the house. Newarke Houses Museum. © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH5: Leicester, Wygston House, window of St. Catherine, c. 1500, Newarke Houses Museum © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH6: Leicester, Wygston House, window of St. Margaret, c. 1500, Newarke Houses Museum. © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH7: Leicester, Wygston House, window of St. George, c. 1500, Newarke Houses Museum. © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH8: Leicester, Wygston House, window of St. Christopher, c. 1500, Newarke Houses Museum. 
    © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH9: Leicester, Wygston House, Corporal Works of Mercy Series, giving drink to the thirsty c. 1500, Jewry Museum. © Raguin/MMK 

    LEWH10: Leicester, Wygston House, Corporal Works of Mercy Series, clothing the naked, c. 1500, Jewry Museum. © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH11: Leicester, Wygston House, Corporal Works of Mercy Series, visiting the sick, c. 1500, Jewry Museum. © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH12: Leicester, Wygston House, Corporal Works of Mercy Series, burying the dead, c. 1500, Jewry Museum. © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH13: Leicester, Wygston House, Seven Sacraments series, confirmation, c. 1500, Jewry Museum. © Raguin/MMK

    LEWH14: Leicester, Wygston House, Life of Christ series, Resurrection, c. 1500, Jewry Museum. © Raguin/MMK

    LONDON Lambeth Palace 
    Seat of the Archbishops of Canterbury when in London, On the river Thames, predominantly 15th century exterior.  Margery Kempe received dispensations from the archbishop at Lambeth.
    View across the Thames from Lambreth Palace to Westminster Abbey and the houses of Parliament (Gothic revival, replacing medieval buildings burned in 19th century 

    LYNN 
    Hanseatic Warehouse c. 1475 between St. Margaret’s and the river, used until 1751 as depot for the Hansa, the northern European merchant league.  Rebuilt late 18th century, in 1951 converted to offices. 

    KL45 King’s Lynn, Old House on High Street, exterior, mid 15th-century residence of Walter Coney, destroyed 1816. Coney (+ 1476) was four times mayor of Lynn and had a memorial brass in St. Margaret’s. After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844). 

    KL46 King’s Lynn, Old House on High Street, exterior, mid 15th-century residence of Walter Coney, details of exterior carvings, destroyed 1816. After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844). 

    KL47 King’s Lynn, Old City Walls, areas dating to 12th century, majority destroyed in 19th century.  After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844). 

    KL48 King’s Lynn, South Gate of City, rebuilt 1436-40s.  After William Taylor, The Antiquities of King’s Lynn (London, 1844). 

    *KL48a  King’s Lynn, South Gate of City, rebuilt 1436-40s. 

    YORK 
    Merchant Adventurers Hall

    The Shambles, Medieval Street, York  EXTERNAL LINK © Stephen Alsford, 1999 

    Bootham Bar Medieval Fortified City Gate,  EXTERNAL LINK © Stephen Alsford, 1999 

    Walmgate Bar Easternmost Fortified City Gate,  EXTERNAL LINK © Stephen Alsford, 1999