Share Content Published August 20, 2008 ©Si Barber. Moral rights asserted. The chapel of St. Nicholas in Coggeshall, Essex. It was built around 1220 and is a simple rectangular building (as were all Cistercian gatehouse chapels), but one thing makes this chapel unique and that is the use of locally made brick which is the earliest post-Roman brick in England. Especially uncommon is the use of moulded bricks and fine examples of this early work can be seen around the windows. architecture church cistercian coggeshall england essex medaeval medieval saint st nicholas chapel
Share Content Published August 20, 2008 ©Si Barber. Moral rights asserted. The chapel of St. Nicholas in Coggeshall, Essex. It was built around 1220 and is a simple rectangular building (as were all Cistercian gatehouse chapels), but one thing makes this chapel unique and that is the use of locally made brick which is the earliest post-Roman brick in England. Especially uncommon is the use of moulded bricks and fine examples of this early work can be seen around the windows. architecture church cistercian coggeshall england essex medaeval medieval saint st nicholas chapel
Share Content Published August 20, 2008 ©Si Barber. Moral rights asserted. The chapel of St. Nicholas in Coggeshall, Essex. It was built around 1220 and is a simple rectangular building (as were all Cistercian gatehouse chapels), but one thing makes this chapel unique and that is the use of locally made brick which is the earliest post-Roman brick in England. Especially uncommon is the use of moulded bricks and fine examples of this early work can be seen around the windows. architecture church cistercian coggeshall england essex medaeval medieval saint st nicholas chapel