View of "new" wing from the garden |
Childrens' playhouse, beautiful thatching, wood-work, paneling, stone hearth, etc. Let them eat cakes. |
...recounts the retirement travels of Mark and Vicki Sherouse since 2008...in Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the US and Canada. Our website, with much practical information, is: https://sites.google.com/site/theroadgoeseveron/.Contact us at mark.sherouse@gmail.com or vsherouse@gmail.com.
View of "new" wing from the garden |
Childrens' playhouse, beautiful thatching, wood-work, paneling, stone hearth, etc. Let them eat cakes. |
Site of the "Mere"--from King John's time, Kenilworth had a great lake or mere, a hundred acres or more, created by a huge earthen dam |
On the earthen dam, used for jousting tournaments from King John's time |
View of interor buildings |
The Gatehouse, itself a mansion |
Dudley's crest, Robert (of) Leicester, now in a beautiful hearth in the gatehouse |
Original great hall |
Ruins |
The Hall Dudley built for Elizabeth |
Baddesley Clinton House
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One of the priest-holes
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Garden, grounds
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Stained glass windows all around the house, mostly
celebrating the various coats of arms associated
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A day at the races...
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Altar; so far so good
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Door...no religious imagery...at least that religion...
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Beautifully carved sandstone, but no obvious
religious symbolism |
After this, however, things start to get a little weird
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Creature from the Black Lagoon
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Birds? Of a feather?
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Lovers...I really like this one
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Dog and bunny show? My sense of Norman art and architecture is forever
changed... |
Then it gets really weird
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And weirder
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The fine print
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Books in chains |
West face |
Nave |
West window |
Ribbed vaulting |
Altar and choir |
Choir practice; note boys choir members in blue robes |
City square, Hereford |
The "Old House," city square, ground zero, Hereford; part of the city museum, it is crammed with 16th and 17th century furnishings |
Among the furnisings...beautifully carved |
A toddler lap-walker... |
16th century dog door |
"The Lawsuit"--16th century humor |
Stokesay castle
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Inside the great hall
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Beautiful 15th century hearth in the family quarters
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The tower
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Some residual fighting did occur, which damaged the little 11th century church,
then rebuilt in the 17th |
The church is notable, we thought, for its boxed or gated
pews, including the high boxes afforded some members;
today's equivalent of "sky-boxes," I suppose
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