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We took GPS co-ordinate readings across the city to ensure that our mapping was accurate, and to help us overlay the many historic maps we had collected (from early OS to Victorian Tithe Maps and Lavaux's 1745 map). The (temporary) location for our GPS base station was the roof on top of St Werburgh's tower. Getting it up all those steps was no mean feat!","tourOrder":3},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-2.890732,53.191385]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"name":"St John's Church","description":"The church of St John the Baptist lies outside the city's eastern gate, on one of the main approach roads into medieval Chester.","style":"transit","projectID":"6","userContent":"As well as this website, the 'Discover Medieval Chester' project includes the new public artwork, 'Hryre', at St John's Ruins. We've held various events at St John's, including a workshop with local people on ideas for the artwork, and the artwork launch. It's been great to be able to work with Fr. David Chesters and his congregation. We also met the modern-day occupants of the medieval hermitage near St John's - an amazing connection to the past!","tourOrder":4},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-2.885075,53.189466]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"name":"Bridge Street","description":"Bridge Street was the main route into Chester from the south, leading up from the bridge over the River Dee.","style":"transit","projectID":"17","userContent":"It was in the Bridge Street Rows, at our 'Mapping Medieval Chester' Festival in 2008, that Geraint Evans (a lecturer at Swansea University, whose voice you can hear on some of our DMC audio recordings) read out the Welsh poem 'A Satire on Chester Beer' for a local Chester audience. A brave man! 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There's a wonderful book, published in Chester in 1749 'for the Benefit of the Bluecoat School' which makes an early attempt to examine the city's Anglo-Saxon (Mercian) past.","tourOrder":6},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-2.89336,53.19371]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"name":"Chester Library","description":"An impressive Victorian building. Again, this is an essential destination for anyone researching medieval Chester, and somewhere which helped with our project work. In particular, there's a wonderful collection of historic images / engravings of buildings and sites in Chester (as of 2013, located on the first floor in box files near the newspaper reading tables). We found some great historic images of St John's Ruins here, which helped us to trace perceptions of the ruins through time and shaped our ideas for the artwork.","style":"end","tourOrder":7},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-2.8925156593322754,53.19235125231445]}}]

Catherine Clarke

Our research journey

This tour reflects our personal journeys as a research team working on medieval Chester. It includes locations which have featured in our research and project work.