Category: Picture of the Week

From along the walls of Framlingham Castle, England. Photo May 2015.

St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St. Edmunds. Photo May 2015.

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

Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

One of the embroideries worked by Mary Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick on display at Oxburgh Hall. Photo May 2015.

Sundial in the Hall’s Croft gardens in Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

Marker for Henry VII at the Bosworth Battlefield Memorial Sundial. Photo May 2015.

Marker for Richard III at the Bosworth Battlefield Memorial Sundial. Photo May 2015.

Ruins of the Abbey of St. Mary, Kenilworth. Photo May 2015.

St. Mary’s was founded in the 12th century and, not surprisingly, was dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII. The ruins are now part of a park that also houses the parish church and is a short walk from the castle.

Remains of Castle Acre Caste. Photo May 2015.

The original motte and bailey castle (parts of which you see here) were built in the early medieval period and had fallen into ruins by the late 14th century. In the Tudor period it passed through the hands of several prominent figures such as Thomas Howard, Thomas Gresham, and Thomas Cecil (son of William Cecil and half-brother of Robert Cecil).

Ceiling of the nave of Peterborough Cathedral. Photo May 2015.

Looking through an arch down the north aisle of the church at Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.

The back of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shottery, near Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

Windsor Castle. Photo May 2015

The Grave of Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk in St. Mary’s Church, Bury St. Edmunds. Photo May 2015.

Framlingham Castle (left) and St. Michael’s Church, Framlingham (right), Suffolk. Photo May 2015.

Carvings under the Anne Boleyn Gatehouse at Hampton Court Palace. Photo May 2015.

When I was continuing the long, slow process of editing all of my photos from three years ago, I finished this one and thought it would be a good choice for the milestone of Picture of the Week #500. I knew I had used a similar one from a previous trip and when I looked it up, low and behold, it was the one I used for the earlier milestone of #100! So here is a new version of that previous photo, this time a more centered view and natively digital and not from a scanned photo negative.

Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.

Figure of Bishop John Fisher at Rochester Cathedral.

This is one of eight statues on the 19th century screen between the nave and quire of the cathedral. John Fisher was Bishop of Rochester and confessor to Margaret Beaufort and was later beheaded in the reign of her grandson, Henry VIII.

Ruins of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds. Photo May 2015.

The abbey was the original burial place of of Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk, but she was moved to the nearby St Mary’s Church during the Dissolution.