Wool church
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A wool church is an English church financed primarily by donations from rich merchants and farmers who had benefitted from the medieval wool trade, hoping to ensure a place in heaven due to their larg
Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk, a classic wool church
Roof of St. Edmund's Church, Southwold, Suffolk
St. Peter and St. Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk
Medieval English wool trade
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The wool trade was one of the most important factors in the medieval English economy. The medievalist John Munro notes that "no form of manufacturing had a greater impact upon the economy and society
Wool church
…A wool church is an English church financed primarily by donations from rich merchants and farmers who had benefitted from the medieval wool trade, hoping to ensure a place in heaven due to their largesse. Wool churches are common in the Cotswolds and in the "wool towns" of upland East Anglia…
Shepherd blowing horn in the Utrecht Psalter.
Sheep shearing as depicted in Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
George Walker, 1814
LA2 NSRW 2 0065 trimmed