Building Battle town : an architectural history, 1066-1750
Martin, David2015
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Place reservation for Building Battle town : an architectural history, 1066-1750If any English town can be said to be a child of conquest it is Battle. Before 1066 this was a bare and desolate ridge of land. William, Duke of Normandy, built a great abbey here, on the site where King Harold fell, in order to commemorate his victory. The town was founded to serve the abbey. By c.1105 there were 109 houses and by 1367, despite the Black Death two decades earlier, the town had almost doubled to 207. Even so, by 1433 the total had fallen back to 156. The abbey’s dissolution in 1538 robbed Battle of its benefactor and challenged its survival as never before. Yet it still had 124 households in 1569, a total which rose modestly to 134 by 1730. It is against this backdrop that Battle’s rich surviving domestic architecture needs to be judged. This volume is a study of that heritage, placed within its historical context.
Main title:
Building Battle town : an architectural history, 1066-1750 / David Martin, Barbara Martin, Christopher Whittick and Jane Briscoe.
Imprint:
Burgess Hill : Domtom, 2015
Collation:
167 p. : ill. ; 30cm
ISBN:
9781906070526 (pbk)
Dewey class:
942.252
Language:
English
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BRN:
2051026
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