Category: Picture of the Week

Blickling Hall and Gardens. Photo May 2015.

The Nutcracker Christmas Shop, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

I was trying to think of something seasonally-appropriate to post today and then I remembered the Christmas store I saw in Stratford! (The photo above was taken out of the window of the Shakespeare Birthplace.)

Banners above the grave of Catherine of Aragon in Peterborough Cathedral. Photo May 2015.

The foreground banner is the Royal Arms and the background banner are Catherine’s arms showing the symbols of her parents’ combined kingdoms.

The Tudor front of Hampton Court Palace. Photo May 2015.

Robert Dudley’s marble fireplace in Leicester’s Gatehouse at Kenilworth Castle. Photo May 2015.

Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon – burial place of William Shakespeare and family. Photo May 2015.

Junction of the Tudor/Elizabethan section (left) of Hampton Court Palace with the William and Mary section (right). Photo May 2015.

Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shottery (near Stratford-upon-Avon). Photo May 2015.

17 years after making a quick stop at the cottage and promising myself to come back and fully visit someday, I did!

Astronomical Clock at Hampton Court Palace. Photo May 2015.

The colors on the clock looked a bit brighter than the last time I had seen them in person (June 2000) since it had a refurbishment in those 15 years!

The Norman Keep of Kenilworth Castle, viewed from the gardens next to Leicester’s Gatehouse. Photo May 2015.

Crossing of Peterborough Cathedral. Photo May 2015.

The combined arms of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour outside the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace. Photo May 2015.

King Edward VI School, Stratford upon Avon. Photo May 2015.

Entrance to Framlingham Castle. Photo May 2015.

Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. Photo May 2015.

Oxburgh has many (most?) of the needlework pieces done by Mary Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick and they allowed photographs, so look for those sometime down the line!

St. Mary’s Church, Bury St. Edmunds, burial place of Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk. Photo May 2015.

Hampton Court Palace as seen from the Rose Garden. Photo May 2015.

Portcullis with Dragon and Greyhound supporters (and a Tudor rose hiding in the shadow) on St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. Photo May 2015.

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

Bosworth Battlefield memorial sundial, Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country Park. Photo May 2015.