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A man after my own heart

Way cool!

From This Is London:

[F]or 68-year-old Walter, who has spent the last four years painstakingly hand-crafting mullioned windows, stained glass, medieval-style carvings, you name it – it’s the realisation of a lifelong dream.

… Walter’s pride and joy is the only faithful recreation of a Tudor home in Britain, right down to his piece de resistance – the Oriel window, or two-storey bay window that pokes out into the road at the front and necessitated quite a lot of smoothing of ruffled neighbours’ feathers.

At the moment, there are no stairs, no proper floors, no loo – there will be modern plumbing – but there are mountains of wood and notebooks full of his immaculate drawings everywhere.

Full article (with pictures)

Apethorpe Hall Restoration and Opening to the Public

From the BBC:

A 15th Century hall once owned by Henry VIII has opened its doors.
Work to rescue the dilapidated Grade I listed Apethorpe Hall has been carried out by English Heritage after it was labelled an “irreplaceable treasure”.

The comment was made in 2004 by then Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell after the Northants site was recommended for compulsory purchase by the government.

Tours around the hall for visitors are being run by English Heritage, as it nears the completion of

North Wales Church with Tudor ancestral connections vandalized

This is just sickening:

A church’s Elizabethan Tudor Rose window has been smashed to bits by thieves just a fortnight after clergymen proudly showed it off to the Prince of Wales.

They climbed in through the remains of the stained glass window at St Gredifael Church in Penymynydd, Anglesey, seized an ancient cannonball and hurled it through another Elizabethan window.

Full article (2 pages)

This is the window that was smashed, which some of you might recognize as the image that used to be on the front page of the website:

Click on the image to go to a page with a little bit more about the window and a link to the full sized picture. I’ve also got a few other pictures of the church itself, which I visited in 2000. (I’m in the process of re-doing all my photos from the negatives, so at some point I’ll have some nicer and bigger versions of the church photos up.)

Tower of London Memorial

Here’s another story that has gotten lost in the shuffle over the past couple of months…

From 24 Hour Museum:

TOWER OF LONDON UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO THE EXECUTED
By Richard Moss

English Queens, nobles and a trio of unfortunate Scottish soldiers are amongst the names commemorated on a new permanent memorial, unveiled at the Tower of London on September 4 2006.
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Comprising two engraved circles with a glass-sculpted pillow at its centre, the larger circle of dark stone bears a poem – written by the artist – around its rim, whilst the upper glass circle bears the engraved names of the ten famous and not so famous individuals executed in front of the Chapel Royal.

Full article

New 3-D computer model of Nonsuch Palace unveiled

I haven’t seen any photos of it yet, but I’ll search around and post any if I find them.

The magic of modern 3D imaging has resurrected Henry VIII’s fabulous “hunting lodge”. KEVIN BARNES reports.

Several problems surfaced as Anthony Spreadborough began recreating the stuccoed palace that stood in the 16th century as an elaborate monument to Henry VIII’s ambition.

Full article

(original links have expired and have been removed)

Archive Post: Manor Lodge in Sheffield

I received a letter from the Manor Lodge in Sheffield, a property with Tudor connections, about their efforts to save parts of the Manor and the Turret House. If you can help or are interested in getting the word out on their plight, check out their website: https://sheffieldmanorlodge.org/

You can also download a PDF of the letter with more information and contacts.

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