Another image from our Scottish holiday. When we spent many an evening exploring the area. This photo is from Auchencairn. Watching the tide come in.
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The Parish Church of Ludlow is crammed behind surrounding buildings so that although you can see the impressive tower from miles around, the actual church is quite hidden.
Inside it is full of history, a perpendicular Gothic delight with medieval stained glass, choir stalls and misericords, chapels and tombs and even the burial-place of Prince Arthur’s heart, who died in Ludlow and altered the course of history.
The West Window, showing the Lords of Ludlow Castle and ending with the unfortunate Prince Arthur.
The Palmers Window in St John’s Chapel shows a version of the legend of King Edward the Confessor and St John the Evangelist. The story is told in eight panels and centres round the Ludlow Palmers making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Detail from the Jesse Window (restored to the original colours and design) in Lady Chapel
The Annunciation or Golden Window with St Catherine and her wheel (L) and St Christopher (R)
Window in St Catherine’s Chapel
And finally a window in the unusual octagonal porch
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S4 – representing womanhood, possibly a mother and daughters
We are quite lucky in Ludlow to have a very impressive Parish Church – St Laurence, which is so big that it can be seen from miles around and is known as ‘The Cathedral of the Marches’. Now none of this has to do with the letter X, but inside the church you can find twenty eight misericords dating from the XV century.
S13 – this could be a pupil or schoolmaster at the school run by the Palmers’ Guild in Ludlow.
Now I don’t propose to show you all 28, but here are a few of my favourites.
S5 – the owl in medieval times was a dark symbol. Here it is being mobbed by two birds looking inwards, possibly eagles.
St Laurence’s Church has twenty eight misericords in the choir stalls which are of a quality usually associated with great cathedrals such as Worcester or Gloucester.
N2 – a Harpy (young woman’s head with the body and wings of a bat) with her supporters (bats) creatures of darkness and symbols of evil.
Carved on the underside of the hinged choir seats each misericord is fashioned from a piece of timber some 26 inches (660 mm) long, 12 inches (300 mm) deep and 6 inches (150 mm) thick.
N13 – Falcon and Fetterlocks, the personal badge of Richard Duke of York (1411 – 1460)
The misericords have a wide variety of themes and with Ludlow then being a royal stronghold there is a royal influence shown in a number of misericords. Wikipedia
N8 – since the mid-16th century the three ostrich feathers have been the personal badge of the Prince of Wales.S6 – Swan flanked by leaves, the badge of the Bohun family though without the crown collar.
The header misericord is N4 – a mermaid holding a mirror in her right hand, a comb missing from her left. Two dolphins flank her.
Evenings in Kirkcudbright tended to be the best time of the day. Even on cloudy or drizzly days the sun broke out by mid-afternoon and because the sun didn’t set until late (after 10 pm) we had the most lovely evenings. Decided to return to the cottage via Carrick Bay after a visit to The Gatehouse of Fleet and got there just before 7 pm to see a lone windsurfer out on the bay. Lisa of the blog NorthWest Frame of Mind has decided to run a different project over the next 24 weeks. To try to show what is happening in different parts of the world (if you all join in) at a particular time of day. If you would like to participate you have until next Saturday midnight to post a photo or write about what is happening in your part of the world between 18:00 – 19:00 this week. I hope you’ll join in! See links for more details.
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