After the Norman conquest in 1066, what buildings were destroyed and what was bu

Question: After the Norman conquest in 1066, what buildings were destroyed and what was built!?
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In England, Saxon buildings were generally of timber, stone only being used for a few churches!. Monasteries were all of timber construction!. Many villages had no church at all under the Saxons!.

When the Normans took over control, they began an enormous building programme which lasted throughout the late 11th and the entire 12th centuries!. They replaced (in most cases) existing Saxon churches with new ones in Norman style; where no churches existed new ones were built; they began a programme of building monasteries, cathedrals and nunneries in stone!.

At the time of the Norman conquest there were possibly 1000 monks and nuns in around 60 Saxon monasteries, all of which were demolished and rebuilt in the Norman style!. By 1100 there were around 70 monasteries for men and 12 for women in England and Wales; by 1175 an astonishing 155 more had been founded!.

Castle building was an entirely new concept begun by the Normans, even before the Conquest of 1066 - King Edward was determined to modernise England during the 1050s and invited Norman builders and military advisers to establish a buffer zone along the Welsh border!. Perhaps as many as four or five motte-and-bailey castles were built pre-Conquest, with a great deal of opposition from the English!.

After the Conquest, huge numbers of castles were erected very quickly, almost all of them in timber and earth!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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