Reference the ancient buildings around our churchyard - the above pictured is of the Deanery Tower, which is easily the most modern, in that it was completed in 1495 A.D. and is thus of very early, if not quite 'pre', Tudor.;
The Tudors built with a graceful solidity ~ was The Deanery perhaps built as a gate-house to some vast stately mansion? Or was it always a clerical manse symbolising the gateway to the celestial realms?
No. The Dean who was building it in the late 16th century ran out of money, having built the Gate House. It wasn't completed until the reign of King William IV in the 1830s, and then only in a modest version of what had been planned some centuries earlier.
Your Deans do seem to rush into things without due consideration of consequences ~ The episcopal palace of Leicester is a plain and simple thing by comparison.
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The Tudors built with a graceful solidity ~ was The Deanery perhaps built as a gate-house to some vast stately mansion? Or was it always a clerical manse symbolising the gateway to the celestial realms?
No. The Dean who was building it in the late 16th century ran out of money, having built the Gate House. It wasn't completed until the reign of King William IV in the 1830s, and then only in a modest version of what had been planned some centuries earlier.
Your Deans do seem to rush into things without due consideration of consequences ~ The episcopal palace of Leicester is a plain and simple thing by comparison.
file:///C:/Users/Carl/Pictures/Leicester/Bishop's%20Lodge.pdf
above is a link to our Bish's palace at 10 Springfield Road, Knighton, Leicester.
P.s. Sorry; I meant the late fifteenth century, of course.
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