On our recent visit to Worcester Cathedral we passed several elephants that are part of a current art trail.
Each sculpture has been sponsored by a business and individually designed by an artist – either well-known or just starting out, from the Worcestershire area or further afield. They marched into the city on Tuesday, 13th July and will leave again from 5pm on Sunday, 5th September 2021. After this, there will be the chance to say a final ‘goodbye’ at a Farewell Event, before each elephant is auctioned to raise funds for St Richard’s Hospice.
The sculptures are delightful, although due to their popularity proved difficult to photograph.
Tags: Charity, Elephant Art Trail, Elephants on Parade, Vacation, Worcester, Worcester Cathedral
The Church has been at the heart of Ledbury life since Anglo-Saxon times but the bell tower was not built until the early 13th century.
Tags: Bell Tower, Herefordshire, Ledbury, St Michael and All Angels Church, Vacation
Ledbury is a market town and civil parish in the county of Herefordshire, England, lying east of Hereford, and west of the Malvern Hills.
It has a significant number of timber-framed structures, in particular along Church Lane and High Street. One of the most outstanding is the Market House,[2] built in 1617, located in the town centre. Other notable buildings include the parish church of St. Michael and All Angels,[3] the Painted Room[4] (containing sixteenth-century frescoes), the Old Grammar School, the Barrett-Browning memorial clock tower[5] (designed by Brightwen Binyon and opened in 1896 to house the library until 2015),
Tags: Herefordshire, Ledbury, Market House, St Michael and All Angels Church, There's Always One, There's Always One Two, Vacation
People are always looking for something, and it is right there under their noses.
Travels Through an Unwrecked Landscape, Candida Lycett Green
Tags: Cherie's Place Thought, Hodnet Hall, Hodnet Hall Gardens, Shropshire
Eastnor Castle, Eastnor, Herefordshire, is a 19th-century mock castle. Eastnor was built for The 1st Earl Somers, who employed Robert Smirke, who was later to work at the British Museum, as his architect. The castle was built between 1811–1820. Major schemes of interior decoration were carried out by A.W.N. Pugin in 1849–1850. Eastnor remains a private home, and is currently the residence of James Hervey-Bathurst, the grandson of Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers. It is a Grade I listed building. The surrounding gardens and parkland are designated Grade II*.[1]
Tags: Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire, HHA, Vacation
