View down the link of a model of the Mary Rose. Photo June 2000.
I know I’ve already used a lot of images from the Mary Rose museum, but since they started construction of the new museum yesterday I thought I would use another. This is a view down the length of the model that I featured way back in Picture of the Week #3.
Decorations on the outside of Henry VII’s chapel at Westminster Abbey. Photo May 2003.
In particular, you can see that the Beaufort portcullis is featured many times on this part of the Abbey. There are some Tudor roses and French fleurs-de-lis as well.
Warwick Castle from the banks of the Avon. Photo May 1998.
Colorful buildings along the road outside the entrance to Pembroke Castle. Photo May 2003.
The keep of Dover Castle, built in the reign of Henry II, along with a replica siege engine. Photo May 2003.
Plaque next to the tomb of Katherine Parr in St. Mary’s Church at Sudeley Castle. Photo May 1998.
The inscription on the plaque was copied from the one on Katherine’s casket.
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.
