Aston Hall is one of the last Jacobean mansions to be built. The hall was built by the famous Sir Thomas Holte, who was a man known for his intelligence and the land he owned around several parts of the country, including Warwickshire. As a child, Thomas Holte grew up in a wealthy family as his ancestors had owned land for several hundreds of years before him and he inherited this. He was able to attend college in Oxford and he later went on to attend the Inns Court and it was there that he received the knowledge that he needed for owning land. His father died when he was just 21 years old but that didn’t seem to stop him. When the King came to London from Edinburgh, Thomas Holte was one of the men that came to meet him and for this, he received a knighthood. In 1611, he managed to buy himself a baronet from the King, which meant that his family had more status and power than others. For this, Sir Thomas Holte decided to build Aston Hall to show off how wealthy he was. The hall was designed by a land surveyor from London named John Thorpe. Construction of the hall started in 1618 and despite the hall being incomplete, Sir Thomas Holte and his wife, with several of their sixteen children moved in, in 1631. Four years later, Aston Hall was complete. The Civil War The First English Civil War started in 1642 until 1651 and it caused division among the country as to whose side they were on. The war was a battle between the Parliament and King Charles 1, who was the leader of the Royalists. Conflict between the two had always been there as Charles had never gotten on with the Parliament ever since the start of his reign. The disagreement between the two started in 1621 when James chose to discuss his son, Charles getting mar... ... middle of paper ... ...ompletely. During this attack, two parliamentarian troops got killed and this caused the Parliamentary troops to get even angrier. More of the Royalists got killed from the vicious attacks being made by the Parliament. After three more days of the hall receiving cannon balls to its south end and more Royalists getting killed, Sir Thomas Holte finally surrendered and he was put in prison. As for Aston Hall, it was taken by the Parliament but Sir Thomas Holte managed to get it back from them by paying them a lot of money. Works Cited • http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/parliament-1625-29.htm • http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/charles1.htm • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War • http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/making_history/makhist10_prog11a.shtml • http://www.historyonthenet.com/Civil_War/royalist_or_parliament.htm
The oldest farm-house in the area is Joyce Farmhouse in Valerie Crescent, near Seven Hills. It was built in 1804 by William Joyce, destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1806, and used as an inn between 1811 and 1826. Joyce had received his 30 acre grant in about 1794.
...ught out. Some see it as a class war, whilst others perceive the war’s origins as conspicuous in long-term and/or short-term mismanagement. Interestingly, all claims have been met with pyrrhonism. Perhaps this is a result of the fact that many of the possible causes are not mutually exclusive. Take for example the marriage between religious, economic and political origins. It soon becomes evident that the Civil War was the result of both long and short term causes that encompassed a wide range of factions, which were dealt by a less than competent monarch. That isn’t to say that Charles I was a cause. He did not create religious partition, but exacerbated it through his totalitarian policies. He did not create financial ruin, but, through the penalties he suffered through illegal methods of collecting money, only dug a deeper hole for himself and England.
The Civil War was the bloodiest, most devestating war that has ever been fought on American soil. It began on April 12, 1861, at 4:30 in the morning. The main reason that the war was fought was because Southern states believed that they should have the right to use African-Americans as slaves, and the Northern States opposed that belief.
To begin with, there was a great loss of human lives. Beginning in 1643 England, the closest absolute king Charles I attempted to storm and arrest parliament. His actions resulted in a civil war between those who supported the monarchy, Royalists, and those who supported the parliament, Roundheads, which did not end until 1649. Estimates for this war put the number of casualties at 200,000 for England and Wales while Ireland lost approximate...
The Hive Library, in Worcester, is a four-story building that is made of golden-colour copper aluminium alloy (exterior) and water proof concrete (interior). Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios designed the building, which costs around ‘£38m’(Ijeh, The modern reader, p2). The library was designed for the use of public as well as the use Worcester University student. On the other hand, Christopher Wren designed The Trinity College in 1676-1695 in Cambridge. It’s a single large room, at the first floor level. Several feet below the external division, between the two stories, lies the floor of the library (Hawkes, Origins of Building Science, p87). This gives is a better architecture proportion. The library was designed for the use of Cambridge student only. The use of both libraries explains the difference in size of the two buildings. The Hive was designed for public and Worcester university students, whereas Trinity was only designed for Cambridge university students. The Hive is bigger because larger population is using the library than the Trinity library.
Gonville and Caius was founded in 1348 as Gonville Hall, by the somewhat mysterious Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington St Clements, from the flatlands of Norfolk. There must have been more to Edmund than the records show, because it is doubtful a humble rector could have established a Cambridge college. There has been speculation that he was also a successful businessman with powerful connections, especially with William Bateman, the bishop of Norwich. The good bishop was executor to Edmund’s will and discovered the estate was not really big enough to support the institution, so he took control himself. Bishop Bateman had recently established Trinity Hall in Cambridge and he moved Gonville, (from Free School Lane) on to neighbouring land, renaming it ‘The Hall of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary’, making sure it was endowed with the required buildings.
...stern corner of the site is the School of Pythagoras, which predates the college by some 300 years and was owned by Merton College Oxford until 1959. Originally this was a private house and is reputed to be the oldest building consistently in use by any university in Britain.
Aston Hall was built by Sir Thomas Holte (1571-1645) in the seventeenth century. Construction on the hall began in 1618 and after eighteen years of construction that hall was completed in 1635. It is situated in a small town called Aston in Birmingham. Back when the hall was first built, Aston was known as a small village near the city. It was much more important than Birmingham was. Across the hall was Parish church, which still lies there and today, seven miles away is the Birmingham airport. Also surrounding the hall was Aston Park, which has decreased in size from how it was. The park used to be eight times larger in size that it is today and the River Tames was also near the hall when it was first built.
The English Civil War was a complicated, intellectual war between the two most powerful forces in England: Parliament and the King. Conflicts between the two powers began when King Charles I dissolved Parliament in 1625 because they would not give him the money he demanded to fund his war against Spain. Parliament, who was lead by John Pym, felt that the King was showing favouritism towards the Roman Catholics, especially since Charles had recently married the Roman Catholic French Princess. Although Charles recalled Parliament in 1626, he proceeded to dissolve the second Parliament mainly because it attempted to impeach him. John Pym, who had been prevented from being elected to the second Parliament, was re-elected into the third Parliament and was looking for revenge on King Charles. He refused to give Charles supplies for his war until certain issues such as forced loans, compulsory billeting and arbitrary imprisonment had been addressed. The King attempted to bargain with Parliament, agreeing that Parliament could no longer be dissolved and that it had to be called regularly. When the Irish rebellion broke out, Pym took the opportunity to blame Charles and his administration for the rebellion. Pym stated that the parties at fault should be dismissed and replaced with people approved by Parliament. Charles attempted to impeach Pym and others, but word of his plans leaked out and the individuals got away. This was the beginning of conflicts between Parliament and the King and although discussions between the two groups went on until March of 1641, war was inevitable. When the war began, it was clear that the King held the upper hand. However, after four years of fighting (1642 - 1646), Parliament em...
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...atham Building in 1910, followed by the Thornton Building. Both face the Lawn, adopting a gorgeous red brick Victorian Elizabethan revival style with classical trim. North Court has some surviving original fabric but is now dominated by Gothic work from Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.
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