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 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. [cite web |title=Longthorpe Tower |url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=364093 |publisher=Pastscape.org.uk |accessdate=2008-01-04]

References

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

Guidebooks

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

ee also

*Thorpe Hall

External links

* [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConProperty.33 The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England]