This was my first visit to Belsay and it has a bit of everything and comprises of three different elements. A hall inspired by the architecture of ancient Greece, a medieval castle with rare wall paintings and magnificent gardens. The hall was enlarged in the early 17th century and subsequently superseded by a Greek Revival [...]
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Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 28th 2011
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Warkworth Castle – Church Foundations
At the bottom of the photo you can see the foundations of a church laid out in a cruciform.
12 Comments CherryPie on Jun 27th 2011
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Warkworth Castle – Little Stair Tower
The Little Stair Tower has a rather distinctive spire. The tower was a secondary porch to the fourth earl’s residence in the bailey:
It served the great chamber much as the Lion Tower served the great hall. It was heavily reconsolidated and partly rebuilt in the 1920s.*
*From the English Heritage guide book.
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 25th 2011
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Warkworth Castle – Great Tower
The great tower was commissioned by Henry Percy after he was made the first earl of Northumberland in 1377. The building is styled in the shape of a Greek cross, with four polygonal wings radiating from a central block. *
*Information from the English Heritage guidebook.
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 23rd 2011
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Warkworth Castle – The Lion Tower
The Lion Tower was built by the fourth earl of Northumberland in about 1480 and was the main porch to the new bailey residence.
Its spectacular display of heraldic sculpture celebrated his dynastic prowess. Symbolic of the Percy family is the great lion over the door. Above this helm with a ‘cap of estate’ and crest, [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jun 22nd 2011
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Warkworth Castle
A brief overview of the castle from the English Heritage guide book:
The castle was probably laid out in its present form by Roger fitz Roger in about 1200 and was developed by its subsequent owners, the Percy family, the earls (and later dukes) of Northumberland. The scale and ambition of this great building embody the [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 21st 2011
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A Week in the Coach House
I have just finished sorting out the photographs that I took during my holiday in Northumberland. As usual it took me a while because there are around 400 of them. Surprisingly the weather was mostly sunny it only rained on one afternoon, with a very brief shower on another day. That being said the journey [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jun 20th 2011
