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Engl Heritage Hist Rev 1
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Engl Heritage Hist Rev 1
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English Heritage Historical Review
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1
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Journal
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Author:
Richard Hewlings
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English Heritage
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2006
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http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.18427
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14 Aug 2008
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The Roman amphitheatre at Chester: an interim account
Tony Willmott
Dan J Garner
Stewart Ainsworth
6 - 23
The article summarises the discoveries made by English Heritage and Chester City Council by excavation and landscape study of the remains of Chester's Roman amphitheatre in 2004--5. These included the bases of applied stone columns, of which there were probably two superimposed orders, seldom found north of the Alps, and familiar from the Colosseum and the amphitheatre of El Djem, Tunisia. The excavation revealed the existence of two amphitheatres, both stone-built, and external features which gave some idea of their associated activities. In contrast to the excavation of 1965--9, it recorded all the developments from the Roman period to the present day, and this interim analysis is thus able to assess the effect of the amphitheatre on the growth of Chester over 2,000 years. Includes
Appendix: the Chester Amphitheatre Project 2003--05
23
notes on the organisation of the project
The dating of the Pyx door
Warwick Rodwell
D W H Miles
Derek Hamilton
Martin C Bridge
25 - 27
The former door of the Pyx Chamber of Westminster Abbey has been identified as reused from the earlier abbey built by Edward the Confessor c.1042--65. The dendrochronological investigation concluded that the door is the oldest scientifically dated door in Britain, and immediately sparked a counter-claim that an early medieval door in Essex is in fact older. This short piece reviews the evidence and refutes the Essex claim.
Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and the great gatehouse of Dunstanburgh Castle
Jeremy Ashbee
28 - 35
The article looks at the architecture of the gatehouse to Dunstanburgh Castle, built by Edward II's cousin and rival, Thomas, earl of Lancaster, in particular the upward extension of the front walls, to give the false illusion that the building was five storeys high. It notes that the gatehouse does not face either of the possible approach routes, but out to sea, above what has recently been identified as a man-made harbour. With royal castles within sight along the Northumberland coast, the author concludes that Earl Thomas's gatehouse was simply an exercise in vanity.
Moreton Corbet Castle
Elain Harwood
36 - 45
Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, is a medieval castle that was abandoned in 1680. Between 1578 and 1583 Robert Corbet, humanist and friend of Sir Philip Sidney, built a richly ornamented range facing an ornamental garden. The discovery of a Court Book of 1588 amplifies our understanding of this piece of Elizabethan architecture, while eighteenth-century drawings document its progressive decline, and one proposal to rebuild it.
The staircase from Anderson Place, Newcastle upon Tyne
Martin Roberts
46 - 61
Anderson Place, Newcastle, demolished for the construction of Grey Street in 1834 or 1835, was in appearance a country house within a town, and a leader of seventeenth-century architectural fashion in the northeast. The article analyses its development. In 1980 a letter from the Newcastle architect John Dobson was found, suggesting that the staircase from Anderson Place was reused at Brinkburn Priory, but examination of Brinkburn Priory House failed to identify it. In 2001 the author discovered a magnificent seventeenth-century staircase in pieces, stored in the roof of the priory stables, doubtless the staircase from Anderson Place, and he has now reconstructed the whole staircase on paper. Includes
Appendix A: the Dobson letters
60 - 61
Appendix B: the staircase fragments
61
Thomas Hyde Page and Landguard Fort, 1778--1803
Paul Pattison
92 - 101
The article outlines the career of the military engineer Sir Thomas Hyde Page, and describes the improvements which he made to Landguard Fort at Felixstowe in Suffolk between 1778 and 1785, when Britain found itself isolated and vulnerable to attack during the American War of Independence. The article reveals the temporary transformation of this coastal fort into a defensible camp for a small field corps capable of meeting an invasion force.
Calshot Castle: the later history of a Tudor fortress, 1793--1945
Jonathan Coad
102 - 113
Calshot Castle, at the end of Southampton Water, was one of Henry VIII's distinctive coastal forts, and its history as such is well-known. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it became almost obsolete. But from 1793 to the end of the Second World War coastal defence was once more a priority, and Calshot acquired renewed importance. The article describes the ways in which it was adapted to modern tactics, with quick-firing guns, searchlights, a boom across Southampton Water, a flying boat station and a battery disguised as a seaside bungalow.
