Domestic Double Exposures

Looking Out the Window

Nighttime visitor

view from our tent at Sidmouth

St Lawrence

unusual golden tower topper on top of the medieval stone tower-apparently it is large enough to allow for dinner parties inside

Hellfire Caves

Dashwood Masoleum

more flint construction

perched on the top of the hill

Wycombe Manor

looking tiny

St Mary the Virgin-Ewelme

surprisingly sprawling but described as "medieval Englang at its most huggable" by Jenkins
the sparing use of brick in the exterior is because in the 15 century, brick was much more expensive than stone

covered door from the almshouses

font cover-presented in 1475

unicorn!

altar

angel ceiling

wall painting in the private chapel (part of Thomas Chaucer's tomb)

Ewelme

now the school

peeking over the almshouses

almhouse corridor timbers

Ewelme was founded by Chaucer and is a great example of what noble patronage in the 15th century looked like thanks to de la Pole.

Dorchester Abbey

old former monastery guesthouse

gotta love the old lady (American donor)

older gargoyle

oh yeah TIMBERING!

14th century wall painting, built 1340 for use as a parish church, there is a burial vault underneath the altar to house the bodies disturbed during the construction

close up of the 14th century painting

11th century knight

even the metal is painted

altar with one of the excellent 1340s English Decorated windows

rare Tree of Jesse 14th century window combining stained glass and sculpture (see the curved branches of the tree?)

the light streaming in gives the wood an orange glow

Dorchester was once a capital of England-controlling as far north as Northumbria. A cathedral was founded here in the 7th century but when the See left for Westminster, Dorchester became an abbey. I missed out on photographing a lot of the interior due to being in a rush but it's definitely worth a go as the English Decorated windows are beyond gorgeous, and the sedilila holds some of the oldest stained glass in England (reputedly, imported from France in the 13th century)

Dorchester

awesome doorknocker

St Mary's of Henley

multiple building phases

screen and wall painting

check it out, painting!

typical Oxfordshire flint and quarried stone construction

basically a 13th century church which underwent remodeling and enlargement in the perpendicular style in the 15th century and again in the 19th century.

Winchester Cathedral-1450s chapel

in the foreground is a saint's reliquary in the midst of the 13th cen retrochoir-chapel in the back

vaulting

every wall is covered with these paintings

acrobats!

Boomtown 2012 Old Towne

library

clinic