Category: Picture of the Week

Ceiling of Norwich Cathedral. Photo May 2015.

Time for some more lovely cathedral vaulting!

The Norman Tower, Bury St Edmunds. Photo May 2015.

The Norman Tower is next to the entrance to St Edmundsbury Cathedral and just down the street from St. Mary’s Church, the re-burial place of Mary Tudor Brandon, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk. This is one of the few remaining intact structures of the old Abbey of Bury St Edmunds.

Wall o’ Weapons at the Bosworth Battlefield visitor center. Photo May 2015.

A sampling of the types of weapons that would have been used by combatants at the Battle of Bosworth.

Close-up of one of the bosses under the Norman Gate at Windsor Castle. Photo May 2015.

You can see the wider view in Picture of the Week #733

Leicester Guildhall. Photo May 2015.

Looking up at one of the arches on the west front of Peterborough Cathedral. Photo May 2015.

St. Michael’s, Framlingham. Photo May 2015.

This weekend is the anniversary of the death of Henry Fitzroy, so I thought I’d feature a picture of his burial place.

The Tudor section of Hampton Court Palace from the rose garden. Photo May 2015.

Framlingham Castle from across the Mere. Photo May 2015.

470 years ago this week, Mary Tudor rallied her supporters before challenging the proclamation of Lady Jane Grey as Queen after the death of Edward VI.

Woodland walk at Blickling Hall. Photo May 2015.

Plaque next to Mary Tudor’s grave in St. Mary’s Church, Bury St. Edmunds. Photo May 2015.

Even though I recently used a photo from the church, since the 490th anniversary of Mary’s death fell on a Sunday I felt I had to use another!

Gardens at Oxburgh Hall. Photo May 2015.

Outer walls and view from Kenilworth Castle. Photo May 2015.

This is the view to the west on a little hill outside of John of Gaunt’s Great Hall (which was to my back when I took the photo).

Rochester Cathedral pipe organ. Photo May 2015.

St. Mary’s Church in Bury St. Edmunds. Photo May 2015.

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

Tomb of Sir Robert Drury at St. Mary’s Church in Bury St. Edmunds. Photo May 2015.

Sir Robert Drury (d. 1536) was the Speaker of the House of Commons and a Privy Councillor in the reign of Henry VIII.

Cloisters of Norwich Cathedral. Photo May 2015.

You can see part of the labyrinth on the right in the grass. It was laid in 2002 in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee.

Castle Acre Castle. Photo May 2015.

Back of the Shakespeare Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 2015.

Happy Birthday to the Bard!