Category: Picture of the Week

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.

St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. Photo May 2015

I’m sure my choice of place for this week’s picture doesn’t surprise a lot of readers… 🙂

Peterborough Cathedral. Photo May 2015.

Entrance to Blickling Hall. Photo May 2015.

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

Mmmmmm, I can almost still smell the wisteria…

The Arden Family Farmhouse in Wilmcote, near Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

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

Blue lupines in the gardens at Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

I had to snap a photo of these flowers since they are the big brother of the Texas bluebonnet, the official flower of my home state!

Tomb of Richard III at Leicester Cathedral. Photo May 2015.

This week marks the third anniversary of the reburial of Richard III, so I figured it was finally time to use another one of my photos from my visit to Leicester Cathedral just two months later. (Which also means it has now been almost three years since my last trip to England… too long!)

Harvard House, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

Henry VIII’s cellars at Hampton Court Palace. Photo May 2015.