Monthly Archives: October 2010

Temple Newsam House, near Leeds is Tudor-Jacobean. The earliest part dates from the 1500s when it was a four sided manor house built by Thomas Lord Darcy. Darcy was beheaded in 1537 for his part in the Pilgrimage of Grace … Continue reading →

In the Chapter House of Kirkstall Abbey on the 22nd November 1539, the Abbot, John Ripley, and thirty monks one by one signed their name on the surrender deed which read: “To all the faithful of Christ to whom this … Continue reading →

It has become commonly accepted that the castle at Clitheroe was built by the second Robert de Lacy in 1186, but there is compelling evidence that it was, in fact, built by the first Robert de Lacy between 1102 and … Continue reading →