Category: Picture of the Week

Decorative plaster at Harvard House, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

As promised back in Picture of the Week #634, here’s a close-up of the plasterwork in the dining room of Harvard House.

Tower of St. Mary’s Church, Bury St. Edmunds. Photo May 2015.

Another view of the English Royal Arms above the grave of Catherine of Aragon at Peterborough Cathedral. Photo May 2015.

The Garrick Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

Framlingham Castle. Photo May 2015.

Sorry I missed posting last week! I was finishing up my move across town and wasn’t able to sit down and prep an image to post.

Leicester’s Gatehouse at Kenilworth Castle. Photo May 2015.

Entrance to Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.

Pond gardens at Hampton Court Palace. Photo May 2015.

This is the other garden next to the Pond Garden I posted in Picture of the Week #439 and looking back towards the Palace so you can see Mary II’s Orangery. These sunken areas were fish ponds in Tudor times and then were drained and made into gardens under William & Mary.

Garden center at Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.

This is another view of the garden that I showed in Picture of the Week #608. I said then that if I had a house with a yard, I would do something like that and… well… I’m about to move back into a house with a yard. I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to started until next fall/winter (summer is too hot in Texas for a lot of landscaping!) but I’m definitely planning to get some gardens going!

Lupines in the gardens at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shottery, near Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

Windsor Castle. Photo May 2015.

House and gardens of Hall’s Croft, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

Gardens at the Arden Family Farmhouse in Wilmcote, near Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

Wisteria at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.

Happy first day of spring to my fellow northern hemisphere residents and happy first day of autumn to our friends in the southern hemisphere!

William & Mary section of Hampton Court Palace seen from the Privy Garden. Photo May 2015.

And you can see some of the Tudor bits to the far left.

English countryside and outer walls of Kenilworth Castle. Photo May 2015.

Bedroom at Hall’s Croft, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

Stone stairs at Castle Rising, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.

Ruins of stairs at Framlingham Castle. Photo May 2015.

I’m not exactly sure what part of the castle this is the ruins of. It was outside the walls and on the way to the beginning of the path around the Mere, but other than that, I’m not sure architecturally what this section was (and the guidebook didn’t have quite enough detail for me to figure it out).

Roof of the Nave of St. Mary’s Church, Bury St Edmunds. Photo May 2015.

The hammer-beam roof and the pairs of angels alternating with the trusses are thought to date from the mid-15th century.