Category: Picture of the Week

The stout structure of Chirk Castle in northern Wales. Photo May 2000.

Great keep of Pembroke Castle. Photo May 2003.

Another view of the inner ward buildings seen previously in Picture of the Week #157.

Hatfield House. Photo May 2000.

The Phoenix Jewel of Elizabeth I, in the British Museum. Photo May 1998.

The name of the jewel comes from the images of phoenix in flames on the back. You can see an image of the back (and much better photos of the front than mine!) here at the British Museum website.

Vaulting of the nave of Canterbury Cathedral. Photo May 2003.

Walls and moat of Beaumaris Castle, Anglesey, Wales. Photo May 2000.

Stained glass window of (L to R) Giles Lord Chandos, Elizabeth I, and Edward VI in St. Mary’s Chapel at Sudelely Castle. Photo May 1998.

The Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula at The Tower of London. Photo May 1998.

A sunnier picture of the chapel than from when I visited in 2000 and 2003 (e.g. Picture of the Week #124)

Overlooking Warwick Castle and countryside from the top of Guy’s Tower. Photo May 1998.

Greenwich Park, looking up towards the observatory. Photo May 1998.

The current buildings on the hill post-date the Tudor period, but in Tudor times you would have seen Duke Humphrey’s Tower up there.

Elizabethan garden at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. Photo September 2006.

I had already used up the best of my photos from Stratford a while back, so I decided to use this photo from the Folger since I HAD to use something Shakespeare-related today. So, happy (probable) 450th birthday to the Bard!

And an update on my 2014 Shakespeare Challenge: I’m a little behind where I hoped to be at this point, having only read 8 of the plays so far. But I’m on track with the sonnets, which I’m doing one a day (today was no. 113). I’ll probably catch up some when I take a little time off work in May (I hope!).

Entrance to Harlech Castle in Wales. Photo May 2000.

St. Margaret’s Chapel at Edinburgh Castle. Photo May 2000.

Close-up of some of the decorations on the outside of the Henry VII Chapel of Westminster Abbey. Photo May 2003.

Lawn and the home that is part of the remains of Richmond Palace. Photo May 2000.

Buildings of the Tower of London. L to R: The Bloody Tower, The Wakefield Tower, Henry III’s Watergate, and St. Thomas’s Tower. Photo June 2000.

Raglan Castle in Wales – childhood home of Henry VII. Photo May 2003.

Vaulting over narrow medieval windows in the keep of Dover Castle. Photo May 2003.

Leather shoes recovered from the Mary Rose. Photo June 2000.

Side of Hatfield House. Photo May 2000.

I think I’ve only used photos of the Old Palace and the park prior to this. Technically Hatfield House post-dates the Tudor period but is definitely worth a visit for the art collection alone. There are several well-known portraits of Elizabeth I there, as well as the “Fete at Bermondsey”, and many other interesting artifacts.