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Region: Britain - W. England

Short guide to the post-Roman and Saxon settlements in South and West Cotswolds including monastic sites, church architecture, burials, Saxon charters, Offa and Wansdykes. Paperback. 36 pages. Bibliography. Minor signs of wear, otherwise good condition. Cat No 3744

Region: France

Extensively illustrated guidebook that tells the history of this Benedictine monastery in South-Eastern France founded in the C11th upon the relics of St Anthony brought by crusaders from Constantinople.

Region: Britain - Midlands

Attractive large guide to twenty-six old houses, churches and monuments in Shrewsbury each illustrated with attractive pen-and-ink drawings by the compiler Margaret Adams.

Region: Britain - S. England

Brief detailed description of the removal and reinterment in 1226 of three of Salisbury's earliest bishops following the cathedrals re-location from Old Sarum to Salisbury itself.

Region: Britain - Wales

Explores the planning, construction, and decoration of medieval buildings in Wales and the working practices of the masons, carpenters, sculptors, wall painters, glaziers and tilers who crafted them.

Region: Britain - Wales

Official guide to the best preserved of the Norman 'three castles' on the Monmouthshire Welsh marches.  Paperback.  22 pages.  Illustrated with b&w photographs and fold-out site plan.  Good condition.  Cat No 3536 

Region: Britain - East Anglia

Full report of the excavations at the C15th hunting lodge illustrated with line drawings, sections and six b&w plates.  Paperback.  118 pages.  Minor signs of wear, otherwise good clean condition. Cat No 3343

Region: Britain - Midlands

Drawing on a wide range of excavation reports, surveys, old maps and historic documents this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the development of medieval Worcester presented as a digest of the material evidence - churches, historic houses, defences and old industrial sites.

Region: Germany/Switzerland/Austria

Fifty-two pages of drawings of the medieval buildings of Regensburg - photogrammetric outlines, ground plans and street profiles - plus five large foldout maps and house illustrations.  One page Introduction (in German).  Paperback.  Good clean condition.  Cat 3218

Region: Britain - N. England

A survey of inland Yorkshire fisheries, principally monastic fish ponds, during the C12th and C13th with a case study of the ponds at Byland Abbey and Appendices covering the construction of medieval fish ponds and the fishing tackle used.  Paperback.  42 pages.  New condition.&nbs