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ST WULFRAM'S EVENTS
1175 Narrow aisles added to the nave (circa1175)

GRANTHAM EVENTS

1175 Great North Road comes through Grantham. Prosperity from wool trade More info

EVENTS BEYOND GRANTHAM

1135 -1154 Stephen - king
1154 -1189 Henry II - the first Plantagenet king
1164 Constitution of Clarendon curbing power of the church. Clerics to be subject to”normal” law.
1168 Oxford University founded
1170 Thomas a Becket murdered

MONARCHS ON THRONE

Stephen Crowned 1135 Died 1154 1135–1154 War between Stephen and Maud Norman
Henry II Crowned 1154 Died 1189 1170 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, killed Plantagenet