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The major house in the parish is Crag Hall; this and buildings associated with it are listed. Other listed buildings include farmhouses, farm buildings, churches, a terrace of houses, a bridge, a former post office with a telephone kiosk outside it, milestones, mileposts and parish boundary stones.
Crag Hall is a country house east of the village of Wildboarclough, Cheshire, England and owned by the Earl of Derby. Description. It was built in 1815 by George ...
According to old legend it was the place where the last wild boar in England was killed. [ 4 ] Wildboarclough was formerly a township in the parish of Prestbury , [ 5 ] in 1866 Wildboarclough became a civil parish, [ 6 ] on 1 April 1981 the parish was abolished and merged with Macclesfield Forest to form "Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough ...
A rib vault or ribbed vault is an architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs. Variations were used in Roman architecture , Byzantine architecture , Islamic architecture , Romanesque architecture , and especially Gothic architecture .
Tondo of a Laconian black-figure cup by the Naucratis Painter, c. 555 BCE (). Since the Calydonian boar hunt drew together numerous heroes [5] —among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes into Classical times—it offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around ...
Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.
The 1908 pattern web equipment was the main equipment with which the British and Imperial armies fought the First World War. [8] The inability of the Mills factory to keep up with demand led to the introduction of a leather version, the 1914 Pattern Leather Equipment , which was intended for training and second line troops, but often found its ...
Warriors wearing boar-crested helmets on a Torslunda plate, dated to between the 6th and 8th century CE.. Germanic boar helmets or boar crested helmets are attested in archaeological finds from England, Denmark and Sweden, dating to Vendel and Anglo-Saxon periods, and Old English and Old Norse written sources.