History & heritage
Two heritages sit inside this region and they barely overlap. Inland it is stone and scale: Lincoln cathedral, the finest building for a hundred miles and forty minutes north of Grantham, Belton House next door to Belton Woods Hotel, Grantham, Burghley and the honey-coloured streets of Stamford. Coventry cathedral deserves far more visitors than it gets. Spence's rebuild stands alongside the roofless shell of the bombed medieval church, with Sutherland's Christ in Glory hanging the full height of the east end and Piper's baptistry window running twenty-six metres up the wall. Go on a bright morning. Warwick and Kenilworth castles are minutes apart. East, it turns older and thinner: Sutton Hoo above the Deben, Norwich cathedral and its cloister, Holkham and Blickling behind the north coast, and Britten's Snape Maltings, where the concert hall still sounds better than most halls in London.
