Castle House, Dedham

Colchester / Reino Unido

Castle House in Denham, Essex, England was the home of Sir Alfred Munnings from 1919 till his death in 1959. Architecturally the building contains a mixture of Tudor and Georgian elements.Shortly after his death his widow established The Violet Munnings Trust Fund in 1962 to establish and run an Art Museum in Castle House, in accordance with Munnings' wish that his pictures and estate be left to the nation. In 1965 Castle House Trust was formed whereby the house itself, surrounding land, all of Munnings' paintings still in the possession of Lady Munnings, and further amounts of money and investments were made over to the Trust to form the basis of a museum of his works.

Hollytrees Museum

Colchester / Reino Unido

Hollytrees Museum is a free to visit, publicly owned museum in the centre of Colchester and close to Colchester Castle. It is situated in an eighteenth-century house , which was used as a private residence until 1929, when it became a museum.The first house on the site, known as "Symnells" after its owner, was later bought by the Shaw family, and passed from John Shaw to John Shaw III and John Shaw IV. When he died a minor, the house passed into chancery; his mother Jane Lessingham bought it but soon died. The modern house was constructed in for Elizabeth Cornelisen, who had bought the site from Lessingham's executors and promptly tore down the existing structure in poor condition. Construction commenced on 10 May 1718 at a cost of £630 plus brickwork and tiling; the total refurbishment was estimated to have cost £2000. She died soon after, bequeathing the house to her niece, Sarah Creffeild , who left it to her second husband Charles Gray. It was, at that time, known as "Esqr Creffield's [sic]". Possession of the house reverted to the Creffeilds; through Thamer Creffeild to James Round, who left to his brother Charles, who left it to his son Charles Gray Round, who left to it to his nephew James Round. The Rounds finally sold it to the Corporation of Colchester in 1922, a purchase paid for privately by Viscount Cowdray and his wife. It became a museum in 1929.The house is known as Hollytrees after two holly trees planted in the grounds by Charles Gray in 1729 and is now a free to visit museum serving the centre of Colchester and specialising in local history. It is a grade I listed building.

Universidad de Essex

Colchester / Reino Unido

La Universidad de Essex fue fundada en 1965 y es hoy en día una de las universidades británicas mejor reconocidas por su enseñanza e investigación. En muchos de los ejercicios evaluativos nacionales la Universidad de Essex ha sido colocada entre las doce mejores instituciones del país por la calidad de su investigación. La Universidad también ha sido muy bien catalogada en evaluaciones gubernamentales por la calidad de su enseñanza. La Universidad está organizada en 17 departamentos académicos que ofrecen licenciaturas y cursos de postgrado en Artes y Humanidades, Ciencias Sociales, Ciencias e Ingeniería, y Leyes. Cuenta con una Escuela de Graduados que alberga a 2210 estudiantes de un total de 8780 alumnos. La Universidad está situada en las 80 hectáreas del parque Wivenhoe en Colchester, el pueblo más antiguo registrado en los archivos de Gran Bretaña, y que se encuentra a una hora de Londres, del aeropuerto de Stansted y de los puertos internacionales de Harwich y Felixstowe respectivamente. De acuerdo a los parámetros oficiales de las universidades británicas, los departamentos de Gobierno, Economía y Sociología están considerados como de los mejores del país, siendo el Departamento de Gobierno de la Universidad de Essex el mejor de toda Europa y uno de los mejores del mundo; estableciendo así a Essex como el principal centro de estudios sociales en todo el Reino Unido. El origen del cuerpo estudiantil es muy variado: Un 62% son de Gran Bretaña. Un 10% son de otros países europeos. Un 28% son de fuera de la Unión Europea.Generalmente a los estudiantes extranjeros se les ofrece alojamiento durante todo el curso.

Colchester Castle

Colchester / Reino Unido

Colchester Castle is a Norman castle in Colchester, Essex, England, dating from the second half of the eleventh century. The keep of the castle is mostly intact and is the largest example of its kind anywhere in Europe, due to its being built on the foundations of a Roman temple. The castle endured a three-month siege in 1216, but had fallen into disrepair by the seventeenth century when the curtain walls and some of the keep's upper parts were demolished; its original height is debated. The remaining structure was used as a prison and was partially restored as a large garden pavilion, but was purchased by Colchester Borough Council in 1922. The castle has since 1860 housed Colchester Museum, which has an important collection of Roman exhibits. It is a scheduled monument and a Grade I listed building.