Tenthredinidae is the largest sawfly family. It has 6000 species worldwide, with 900 European species and some 400 that are found in the British Isles. In size they range from 2.5mm to 15mm in length, and are either black or brownish yellow in colour.
Originally the late medieval wing of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln. By 1600 it had passed to Sir Thomas Cecil, son of Queen Elizabeth's chief minister, who converted it into an almshouse for twelve poor 'bedesmen' over 30 years old and two women (over 45), all free of lunacy, leprosy or the French pox.
This remarkable window (1490-1505), rediscovered packed away in 1932, forms the lower section of the great east window at Stanford-on-Avon. It is one of the most striking survivals of late medieval royal propaganda in stained glass, created to celebrate the accession and legitimacy of Henry VII and the founding of the Tudor dynasty.
Discovered in 1887 this C12 square bowled font has carved scenes from the life of Crist on all four sides.
Nowadays St Peter's church at Wolfhampcote is owned by the Churches Conservation Trust, and remains a consecrated building, although services are only held here once a year.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Melitaea
Species: M. cinxia
Born in Denmark in 1870 at Frederiksborg Castle Denmark Arild Rosenkrantz was the son of the Danish minister to Italy.
Monument to Charles Dixwell (d1591), his wife Abigail (d1635), and their five children William, Edgar, Humphrey, Basil, and Barbara.
Claudius Lavergne was among the foremost figures of the mid-nineteenth-century revival of stained glass in France, a painter and critic whose intellectual formation under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and collaboration with Adolphe-Napoléon Didron positioned him at the intersection of academic draughtsmanship, historical research, and religious reform.
