So yesterday started off at Tewkesbury Abbey - symbol of lost Lancastrian dreams (but its ok folks henry Tudor revived them. Good solid Norman pillars and the inevitable scaffolding - nearly every cathedral I've visited has it. Although of course as I'm sure some of you would point out Tewkesbury is an Abbey not a cathedral. And in fact of the three abbeys visited its the only one with scaffolding.
Then over to Hereford place of the
mappa mundi, chained library and one of four surviving copies of Magna Carta as reissued by Henry III in 1217. Chained library hundreds of medieval books and manuscripts chained to their shelves by original chains. Seems book stealing has always been a problem - not just modern youth.
After Hereford it was a quicker than expected drive (does anyone stick to the speed limit on the motorways?) over to Oxfordshire for more really visiting. Not successful in the grave finding process but some very pleasant villages. Mind you as we all know from the tellie property programmes those cute cottages all have small rooms with low ceilings perhaps that's why the rellies moved - their diet improved and they got to big for the cottages?
Last night in Woodstock as you've seen.
Today about to head off to Blenheim Palace. Then to a little hamlet called Launton and ancestors called Smith!! Then over to Suffolk.
am very keen on the whole mappa mundi and chained library thing. could they take off here?
ReplyDeleteconcede it could be a challenge in the face of kobo, ipad, etc, but you never know
why the new page design? it's very BROWN... not unattractive, but what was wrong with the last one?
looking very gadgety and cool, tho...
Changes? Low boredom threshold.
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely shade of green, to be sure, to be sure...
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