Portal:England/Did you know/04 2009

... that the unusual layout of bays in the aisles of St Luke's Church, Brighton (pictured), was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "curious" and "disturbing"?
... that Cheshire landowner Rowland Egerton-Warburton arranged for his house, Arley Hall, to be designed in Tudor style while the chapel was designed in Gothic style?
... that Robert Elliott-Cooper lived for 12 more years after the journal Nature described him as "among the oldest of English engineers"?
... that before the chancery records began around 1200, the Pipe rolls were the only continuous records kept by the English government?