Building sights in England
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Holy Trinity Church
At the heart of the Old Town, Holy Trinity Church is a magnificent 15th-century building with a striking central tower, and a long, tall, unified interior worthy of a cathedral. It features huge areas of windows, built to keep the weight of the walls down as the soil here is unstable.
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Vicars' Close
Surrounding Wells Cathedral is a cluster of ecclesiastical buildings that form the medieval Cathedral Close. The Vicars' Close is a cobbled alley of 14th-century houses, thought to be the oldest medieval street in Europe.
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Birmingham Town Hall
To the south of the town centre stands the Town Hall, opened in 1834, and designed by Joseph Hansom (creator of the hansom cab, forerunner to London's black taxis) to look like the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome.
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Friars of the Sack
Cobbled Church Sq is ringed by historic houses, including the Friars of the Sack, which was once part of a 13th-century Augustinian friary but is now a private home.
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King Edward VI School
Next door to the Guild Chapel is King Edward VI School, which Shakespeare probably attended; it was originally the Guildhall.
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Rugby School Tours
Most tour guides are students (yours could be the next Salman Rushdie) and they'll give you a distinctly English education on the school that gave to the world the game of rugby and, by contrast, nurtured sensitive souls such as war poet Rupert Brooke and children's author Lewis Carroll. William Butterfield's Gothic Revival chapel (1875) is worth a look.
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The Brentwood School
Only in England could 'manners' feature in a school motto. In 1557, the very bad-mannered Sir Anthony Browne founded this public school as punishment for burning a man to death. It takes boys and girls - although it was a few hundred years before females were admitted. Among its famous pupils: Douglas Adams, author of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.
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