Category: Picture of the Week

The Old Palace at Hatfield. Photo May 1998.

A section of Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick. Photo May 1998.

The Lord Leycester Hospital is named in honor of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who came in to possession of the old medieval guildhall buildings and chapel (which range from Norman to 14th century). Dudley created the Hospital as a retirement facility for old soldiers and their wives, a function it still serves today.

This is another place on my “to visit again” list since I didn’t actually get a chance to go in to the building when I was there in 1998.

Hammerbeam roof of the Great Hall at Edinburgh Castle. Photo May 2000.

Fish Court, leading to the kitchens at Hampton Court Palace. Photo June 2000.

West window of Canterbury Cathedral. Photo May 2003.

The Great Gatehouse entrance to Raglan Castle. Photo May 2003.

The Great Gatehouse was constructed in the 1460s by Sir William Herbert, while the future Henry VII was living there in Herbert’s custody.

Leeds Castle. Photo May 2003.

Landscaping outside the entrance to the Beauchamp Tower at the Tower of London. Photo May 2003.

Carving in the Beauchamp Tower of the Tower of London. Photo May 2003.

This carving was done by John Dudley (the son of John Dudley Duke of Northumberland) while he and his brothers were held in the Beauchamp Tower following the short reign of Lady Jane Grey and the Wyatt Rebellion in the reign of Mary I.

The carving reads: “You that these beasts do well behold and see, may dem with ease wherefore here made they be, with borders eke within [there may be found] 4 brothers names who list to search the ground.”

Wax figure of Henry VIII at the Mary Rose museum. Photo June 2000.

Pocket sundial from the Mary Rose. Photo June 2000.

Watch bell recovered from the Mary Rose. Photo June 2000.

The info card reads:

This cast bronze watch bell, found beneath the aftercastle in June 1982, was one of the last objects to be raised from the Mary Rose. The inscription, in Flemish, reads: IC BEN GHEGOTEN INT YAER MCCCCCX – It was cast in the year 1510 (the year before the ship was launched). Close by, the remains of a wooden bell hanger were recovered. The clapper would have been made of iron but it did not survive.

The bell was probably made by Peter van den Ghein I of Mechlin who cast bells for Iona Cathedral and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Another cannon from The Mary Rose. Photo June 2000.

A cannon from The Mary Rose. Photo June 2000.

Medieval citole in the British Museum, engraved with the arms of Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Photo May 1998.

To learn more about this item, check out this British Museum webpage. You can also see a better photo, without the reflection of the photographer and her striped shirt… ahem. 🙂

Flowers on the marker for Anne Boleyn in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London. Photo May 19, 1998.

View from Edinburgh Castle. Photo May 2000.

Nothing specifically Tudor-related in this, just a view that I like. 🙂

Stained glass window in St. Gredifael’s Church, near Penmynydd, Wales. Photo May 2000.

Penmynydd is on the Isle of Anglesey, off the northwest coast of Wales. The area is ancenstral land of the Tudors and the great-great aunt and uncle of Henry VII are buried at the church.

The lettering around the window translates from the Welsh to “Unity is like a rose on a river bank, and like a House of Steel on the top of a mountain”. The Welsh of “House of Steel” is Ty Dur, or Tudor.

The top part of the window are parts of the royal regalia of England, the middle is a cluster of Tudor roses and the bottom part is a portcullis, which was the symbol of the Beaufort family.

This was the window that I mentioned back in 2007 had been smashed by vandals. If I remember correctly, it has since been restored, and I think they were able to incorporate some fragments of the original back in to the new window.

Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 1998.

Looking across the Avon at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 1998.