Longthorpe Tower

Longthorpe Tower is a fourteenth century, three-storey tower in the care of English Heritage, situated in the village of Longthorpe, now a residential area of Peterborough in the United Kingdom, 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. (See image at [1].)

The site is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Monument protected by law.[1]

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References

  1. ^ "Longthorpe Tower". Pastscape.org.uk. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=364093. Retrieved 2008-01-04. 

Books

  • 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

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
  • Yun, Bee, 2007, 'A Visual Mirror of Princes: The Wheel on the Mural of Longthorpe Tower' Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Vol70 pp1–32

Guidebooks

  • 2001, Longthorpe Tower Cambridgeshire (English Heritage)
  • Rouse, E.Clive, 1949 and 1987, Longthorpe Tower (HMSO)

External links

Media related to Longthorpe Tower at Wikimedia Commons
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