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Longthorpe Tower is a fourteenth century, three-storey tower in the care of English Heritage, situated in the village of Longthorpe, now a district of Peterborough, about two miles (3 km) to the west of the city centre.
It was added in 1310 to a fortified manor house. The interior contains the best-surviving example of English mediæval wall paintings in northern Europe, which survived under a layer of whitewash. This varied "spiritual encyclopedia" of worldly and religious subjects includes the Wheel of Life, the Nativity and King David.
The site is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Monument protected by law.[1]
[edit] References
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles of East Anglia (Malvern) p21
- Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p272
- Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p167
- Taylor, Alison, 1986, Castles of Cambridgeshire (Cambridge)
- King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p319-20
- Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p256
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1961, Buildings of England: Northamptonshire (Penguin) p284-5
- Downman, E.A., 1906, in Serjeantson, R.M., Ryland, W. and Adkins, D. (eds), VCH Northampton Vol2 p456-7, 459
- Turner, T.H., 1851, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol1 p153
[edit] Journal Articles
- Casagrande, Gino and Kleinhenz, Christopher, 1985, 'Literary and Philosophical Perspectives on the Wheel of the Five Senses in Longthorpe Tower' Traditio Vol41 p311-27
- [Fletcher], 1969, Medieval Archaeology Vol13 p273
- Rouse, E.Clive and Baker, Audley, 1955, 'The wall-paintings at Longthorpe Tower' Archaeologia Vol96 pp1-57
- Country Life Vol101 p604
[edit] Guidebooks
- 2001, Longthorpe Tower Cambridgeshire (English Heritage)
- Rouse, E.Clive, 1949 and 1987, Longthorpe Tower (HMSO)
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[edit] External links
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