…Churches, Houses, Castles
This was one of the books that I received for my birthday. I also received England’s Thousand Best Houses, England’s Thousand Best Churches (both by Simon Jenkins) and The Garden’s of English Heritage (by Gillian Mawray and Linden Groves). It has been one of my lunch time reads at work and if I [...]
Archive for the tag 'History'
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 1st 2011
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
PhotoHunt – Education
Some education from my archives.
I still haven’t got round to posting my pictures from this visit. Maybe soon
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20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 12th 2011
A fascinating painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger has just come up for sale. The National Trust and the Art Fund are campaigning to purchase the picture which dates back to 1602.
The painting shows Christ being taken to Calvary. If you look closely at the image you can see a conflict of eras which is [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Oct 5th 2010
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, York 2010
PhotoHunt – Letters
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18 Comments CherryPie on Oct 1st 2010
Synopsis from book cover:
Bess of Hardwick, born into the most brutal and turbulent period of England’s history, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed for the first time at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, and died one of the wealthiest and most powerful women the country has ever [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Sep 21st 2010
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Out & About
Wenlock Priory – South Transept
The church was built on a traditional cruciform plan, so if you walk up the nave of the church you will come to the point where where the two arms of the cross (transepts) meet. The south transept is very imposing at over 70 feet high.
In the second photo to the left of the photograph [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 16th 2010
The chapter house was built in around 1140, this is the place where the monks and the prior met each morning to discuss priory business and to issue punishments for disobedience. Inside the guidebook is a lovely reconstruction of how the inside may have looked in the fourteenth century. All the arcading and [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2010
