The Flare Journal

Medieval

2 stories

Flat Flare illustration of a timber-framed guildhall on oak posts beside a ruined priory arch

History12 min read

Much Wenlock: Priory, Guildhall and Timber-Framed Buildings

Much Wenlock has a ruined Cluniac priory refounded in 1080–82, a Grade II* Guildhall of about 1557 standing on seven bays of oak posts, and timber-framed houses such...

By Gregory TireCraft and materials
Flat Flare illustration of a fortified manor house with a stone tower, hall and timber-framed gatehouse

History12 min read

Stokesay Castle and the Fortified Manor Houses of the Welsh Marches

Stokesay Castle, near Craven Arms, is a fortified manor house built mainly in the 1280s and early 1290s by the wool merchant Laurence of Ludlow, who got a...

By Gregory TireCraft and materials

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