{"id":3485,"date":"2010-05-05T15:21:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2020-06-06T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:59:34","slug":"picture-of-the-week-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/picture-of-the-week-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture of the Week #70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/potw\/050510.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/potw\/050510-sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Stained glass window in St. Gredifael&#8217;s Church, near Penmynydd, Wales. Photo May 2000.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The lettering around the window translates from the Welsh to &#8220;Unity is like a rose on a river bank, and like a House of Steel on the top of a mountain&#8221;. The Welsh of &#8220;House of Steel&#8221; is Ty Dur, or Tudor.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This was the window that I <a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/23\/north-wales-church-with-tudor-ancestral-connections-vandalized\/\">mentioned back in 2007 had been smashed by vandals<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stained glass window in St. Gredifael&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/05\/picture-of-the-week-70\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13445,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/13445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}