The Bayeux Tapestry is attracting great reviews in London. Those who follow this blog know I am a keen admirer and have written numerous posts on the Romanesque masterpiece. But today we were in Angers, a city in western France beside the Maine river at the edge of the Loire Valley. We visited the hugely…
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The Bayeux Tapestry Arrives in London
The Bayeux Tapestry has finally arrived in the United Kingdom. After a few years of debate and uncertainty the historic loan has been realised. It was delivered overnight to the British Museum last week amidst high security. This all follows an historic agreement between France, promoted by President Macron, and the British Government. The 70-metre-long…
Barbara Hepworth at St Ives
Barbara Hepworth, despite being born in West Yorkshire, is synonymous with St Ives, living in that West Cornish town for thirty five years from the outbreak of the Second World War. She was already an established sculptor by then and a pioneer of British abstract art. She set up her studio, Trewyn, in 1949 in the centre…
Forde Abbey in Somerset – My Building for June
Forde Abbey, in Somerset, is the perfect example of a living evolving building. It has seen much change in the last eight hundred years and is still very much alive as a family residence and an example of our national heritage. There was probably a building here before the Cistercian monks arrived in the twelfth…
Medieval Wall Paintings in Kelmscott, Oxfordshire.
Last week we visited the village of Kelmscott and found the wall paintings in St George’s Chapel. The church, a modest limestone building from the fourteenth century, standing quietly beside the Thames meadows is one of the most atmospheric small churches in the county. Its simplicity is part of its charm: a building that has…
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