Southwell
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Southwell books (3 available)
Newark Photographic Memories
Paperback
Nottinghamshire Living Memories
Hardback
Nottinghamshire Pocket Album
Paperback
- 8 photos on Southwell appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Southwell
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Southwell and Nottinghamshire
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Family History
My parents married in this church on 10th December 1960.
I was christened here in 1962. My father's ashes were scattered in the churchyard in 1993. To my family this is a special place.
A memory of Rolleston contributed by julie morgan
My Grandad
The funeral of my grandad, Joseph Cobb, was the last one to take place at St Leonard's Church before it was demolished.
A memory of Newark contributed by Wendy Scatcherd
Burton Joyce memories
My grandparents Bill and Ada Greenfield lived at 31 Bridle Road for many years - I remember that there was a farm across the road. They had over 1000 rose bushes at the front of the house and at the back there was a big lawn and a flower garden. my grandad had a greenhouse where he used to grow vegetables, his tomatoes were out of this world! We stayed with my grandparents quite often - as we had gone to live in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1952 and came back to the Uk on 4 months leave every 3 or 4 years. Before we went to live in Zimbabwe Christmas Day was always a big affair at my grandparents home ...read more here
A memory of Burton Joyce contributed by MARGE SAUNDERS
Family History
My Great Grandparents Albert Wells and Edith Ann Judson married in this church on 24th December 1912. Edith was born Judson and was born at Holme and so may have been Baptised in this church as well.
A memory of Holme contributed by julie morgan
Extracts From Southwell & Nottinghamshire books
Lying three miles north east of the Trent, the Minster was founded by the Archbishop of York in the early 12th
century and is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful Norman buildings in England. Ruins of an old palace dating
from this time are visible to the left of this view.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
The low two-storeyed rendered building on the left in the
middle distance is the 16th-century, timber-framed Saracen’s
Head. Here, in May 1646, Charles I spent his last night
of freedom. Tactfully, the pub changed its name from the
King’s Head to the Saracen’s Head soon after Charles was beheaded.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Pocket Album".
This superb minster church was founded before 956; the present church was started in 1108 by the Archbishop of York, and the west towers were completed by about 1150. Pairs of Norman west towers rarely survive intact; this example is even rarer in having Norman leaded pyramidal roofs. Admittedly, these are replicas dating from 1880 – the originals burned down in 1711. Southwell Minster became the Cathedral Church of the diocese in 1884.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Cathedrals".
How fitting it is to view the cathedral from the bishop’s garden: the Gothic foliage carvings in the chapter house are justly famous. The Bishop’s Palace occupies the west half of the Archbishop of York’s palace, which was rebuilt in the 14th century. The rest of the building is now open to the sky and used as a walled garden.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Cathedrals".
The low two-storeyed rendered building on the left in the
middle distance is the 16th-century, timber-framed Saracen’s
Head. Here, in May 1646, Charles I spent his last night
of freedom. Tactfully, the pub changed its name from the
King’s Head to the Saracen’s Head soon after Charles was beheaded.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Pocket Album".