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Nostell Priory, the Glossary

Nostell Priory is a Palladian house in Nostell, West Yorkshire, England, near Crofton on the road to Doncaster from Wakefield.^[1]

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1540 disestablishments in England
Buildings and structures in the City of Wakefield
Country houses in West Yorkshire
Gardens in West Yorkshire
Grade I listed churches in West Yorkshire
Historic house museums in West Yorkshire
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Angelica Kauffman

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann (30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.

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Augustinians

Augustinians are members of several religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo.

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Bedroom

A bedroom or bedchamber is a room situated within a residential or accommodation unit characterised by its usage for sleeping.

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Butler

A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household.

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The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are priests who live in community under a rule (and κανών, kanon, in Greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a partly similar terminology.

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Cockfight

Cockfighting is a blood sport involving domesticated roosters as the combatants.

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Crofton, West Yorkshire

Crofton is a village in West Yorkshire, England, about south-east of Wakefield, some to the west of the town of Pontefract, and from the town of Featherstone.

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Cue sports

Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Doncaster

Doncaster is a city in South Yorkshire, England.

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Draper

Draper was originally a term for a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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Free festival

Free festivals are a combination of music, arts and cultural activities, for which often no admission is charged, but involvement is preferred.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Grade I listed buildings in West Yorkshire

There are over 9,000 Grade I listed buildings in England.

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Grandfather clock

A grandfather clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock, with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case.

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Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger (Hans Holbein der Jüngere; – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century.

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Henry I of England

Henry I (– 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135.

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Honour of Pontefract

The honour of Pontefract, also known as the feudal barony of Pontefract, was an English feudal barony.

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Ice house (building)

An ice house, or icehouse, is a building used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy

James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy (c. 1533 – 1582) was an English peer.

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James Paine (architect)

James Paine (1717–1789) was an English architect.

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John Field (astronomer)

John Field or Feild (1520/1530–1587), was a "proto-Copernican" English astronomer.

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John Harrison

John Harrison (– 24 March 1776) was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.

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Leeds Bradford Airport

Leeds Bradford Airport is located in Yeadon, in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England, about northwest of Leeds city centre, and about northeast from Bradford city centre.

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Listed buildings in Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell

Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

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Longitude

Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body.

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Menagerie

A menagerie is a collection of captive animals, frequently exotic, kept for display; or the place where such a collection is kept, a precursor to the modern zoo or zoological garden.

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National Trust

The National Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol; Iontaobhas Náisiúnta) is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.

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Nostell

Nostell is a village in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, near Hemsworth.

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Obelisk

An obelisk (from ὀβελίσκος; diminutive of ὀβελός obelos, "spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.

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Oswald of Northumbria

Oswald (c 604 – 5 August 641/642Bede gives the year of Oswald's death as 642. However there is some question of whether what Bede considered 642 is the same as what would now be considered 642. R. L. Poole (Studies in Chronology and History, 1934) put forward the theory that Bede's years began in September, and if this theory is followed (as it was, for instance, by Frank Stenton in his notable history Anglo-Saxon England, first published in 1943), then the date of the Battle of Heavenfield (and the beginning of Oswald's reign) is pushed back from 634 to 633.

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Otley

Otley is a market town and civil parish at a bridging point on the River Wharfe, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.

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Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).

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Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Pieter Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger (between 23 May and 10 October 1564 – 1637/38) was a Flemish painter known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work, as well as original compositions and Bruegelian pastiches.

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Pontefract

Pontefract is a historic market town in the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England.

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Prior (ecclesiastical)

Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders.

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Priory

A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress.

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Robert Adam

Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.

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Rowland Lockey

Rowland Lockey (c. 1565–1616) was an English painter and goldsmith, and was the son of Leonard Lockey,Lewis, p. 8-9 a crossbow maker of the parish of St Bride's, Fleet Street, London.

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Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald

Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald (19 February 1820 – 19 January 1893) was an English industrialist and Conservative Party politician.

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Royal Observatory, Greenwich

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostell_Priory

Also known as Nostal priory, Nostall Priory, Nostell (National Trust).

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1540 disestablishments in England

Buildings and structures in the City of Wakefield

Country houses in West Yorkshire

Gardens in West Yorkshire

Grade I listed churches in West Yorkshire

Historic house museums in West Yorkshire

National Trust properties in West Yorkshire

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