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11 months

Went for a drive today & stumbled upon the absolutely gorgeous St. Mary of Antioch, in Knotting, Bedfordshire…now possibly my favourite church I have ever visited ❤️ A photo thread…

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Kate North

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7 months

I’ve been away this week and got back to a nice clean house, husband and dogs all fine, everything looked ok and as it was when I left… until I went for a shower and pulled the curtain across… 🤔😂

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In an effort to declutter, my parents (who have been holding onto this) have made me take home my cassette player/recorder from when I was a toddler. I now feel ancient as this is about 40 years old…and looks it…it’s so brown!!! 😂🫣 Vintage Fisher Price! 😀

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2 months

Good morning, from flower-filled Cambridgeshire 🥰

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Kate North

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9 months

The amazing Gallery of Kings, sitting over the west door of Lincoln Cathedral 🤩 I was lucky enough to get up on the scaffolding and have a tour of the conservation work back in late 2021. A short photo thread…

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Kate North

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5 months

I’ve never seen such an amazing little bridge! The gorgeous 14th century Trinity Bridge, Crowland, Lincolnshire 😍 Once spanning the river Welland, which was then re-routed, this is now a bridge over nothing much! It’s hard to show it in one photo so here is a short 📷 thread…

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Kate North

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11 months

Spending the day poking about a ruined abbey-turned-country house is one of my favourite things, especially when there’s a very atmospheric undercroft, complete with lined out plaster 😀 Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire ❤️ A short photo thread…

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Kate North

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1 month

Sending you all some Cambridgeshire summer colour and joy 🥰

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10 months

A lovely little face looking out from this timber framed building in Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire ❤️

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2 months

Gorgeous medieval floor tiles at the lovely St. Mary’s Church, Acton Burnell, Shropshire ❤️

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2 years

I do loved a curved corner 😍

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5 months

A really wonderful and unusual 12th century doorway with mermaid depicted! 🧜‍♀️ 🤩 St. Botolph’s Church, Stow Longa, Cambridgeshire.

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1 year

The ancient, and very pretty, church of St. Winifred’s 😍 Branscombe, Devon

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Kate North

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11 months

Spectacular and atmospheric Lowther Castle, Cumbria 😍 A short photo thread…

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Kate North

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8 months

What is it about old farm buildings that’s so appealing? Love the colours of this one in Derbyshire 🥰

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Kate North

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2 months

A very beautiful and evocative doorway at Ludlow Castle, Shropshire 🥰

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Kate North

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10 months

The enigmatic St. Mary’s Passage, Stamford, with Norman arch believed to have been one of the postern gates in the town walls. More photos in comments below.

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Kate North

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9 months

Today I revisited my favourite church, St. Margaret of Antioch in Knotting, Bedfordshire…now decorated for Christmas 🥰 A photo thread…

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Kate North

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9 months

My very cheeky looking Dad, on the family farm in Shropshire, in about 1954 or 1955 ❤️😀 Apparently he loved his hat so much that he refused to take it off, even for bed 😂

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6 months

Excellent mid-14th century tiles on the steps to the chancel in St. Mary’s Church, Higham Ferrars 😍

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Kate North

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2 years

Beautiful details on the west front doorway of Lincoln Cathedral 🤩

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Kate North

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21 days

St. Mary’s, Conington, Cambridgeshire. It’s quite a strange church, externally, but the buttresses and doorway on the tower are pretty amazing 😍 More photos below, in a short thread…

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Kate North

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5 months

These amazing mid-15th century misericords in St. Mary’s Church, Gamlingay, Bedfordshire are such a great survival! The seats are hinged - see thread below to see what’s revealed when you lift them up (and for some more detailed of the hand grips between the seats)… 😃😮

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Kate North

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11 months

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2 months

The absolutely incredible Great Hall at Stokesay Castle, Shropshire 🤩

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Kate North

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8 months

Fragments of windows, within a window 😍🤩 Bushmead Priory, Bedfordshire.

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1 month

The slightly constrained, but extremely atmospheric, porch and doorway into the wonderful St. Mary’s Church, Shelton, Bedfordshire 🥰

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Kate North

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6 days

The amazing 10th century tower of the Church of All Saints, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire 🤩 Other elevations / angles in a short thread…

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Kate North

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6 days

Such a gorgeous south porch and doorway into St. Mary’s Church, Everton, Bedfordshire! 😍🤩

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Kate North

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4 months

Fragments of the old door, reminiscent of angel wings, hanging above the new door…🪽🪽☺️ The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Brampton, Cambridgeshire.

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Kate North

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8 months

The absolutely amazing aisled barn at Wingfield Manor, Derbyshire 🤩 ❤️More photos in a thread below… *Please note the site isn’t currently open to the public. These photos were taken during a site meeting & I’m just sharing for info…as with a previous post on the Manor.

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Kate North

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4 months

Arch action galore at beautiful Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk! 😀

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Kate North

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3 months

I’ve never seen a church doorway quite like this…12th century, very elaborate and intricate - just stunning! 😃🤩 St. Leonard’s Church, Southoe, Cambridgeshire

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Kate North

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3 months

Not sure there are enough superlatives to adequately describe this amazing doorway in lovely Lavenham, Suffolk, but I’m going with super-duper-gorgeous! 😍❤️ Perhaps it was once painted…the intricate details, including those figures, would really stand out then 😀

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Kate North

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11 months

The very quirky and intriguing Rushton Triangular Lodge, Northamptonshire 😃 Built by Sir Thomas Tresham in the late 16th century, as a testament to his Roman Catholicism…everything here is in 3’s, representing the Holy Trinity. More 📷 below…

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Kate North

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5 months

One of the many historic and beautiful homes to be found here in Cambridgeshire, although I think this one is extra- gorgeous! It dates largely from the mid-late 15th century, with some 16th century additions 😍

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Kate North

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25 days

St. John’s, Duxford, Cambridgeshire - I’ve been meaning to visit for ages…today I finally did & it is absolutely incredible! ❤️ Serene & atmospheric, with an array of beautiful architectural features & stunning 12th & 13th century wall paintings 🤩 A photo thread…

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Kate North

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5 months

The enigmatic and atmospheric Abbots Bridge, Bury St. Edmunds - a monastic bridge dating to the 12th century, with 14th century additions. Such a fantastic survival! 🤩

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Kate North

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7 months

There’s something very pleasing about the chunkiness and stepped-design of this chimney… and the chimney-cottage ratio is impressive! 😮😃❤️

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Kate North

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24 days

A journey back in time starts as soon as you step into the fantastic porch, and then on through the doorway, of the Church of St. John, Duxford, Cambridgeshire…🥰

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Kate North

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2 months

Stunning panelling and unusual window design at beautiful Stokesay Castle, Shropshire 🥰

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Kate North

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5 months

The completely amazing and unique arrangement of what was once the west front of the old abbey church at Bury St. Edmunds - which had its facing stone removed after it closed in the 16th century, and then in the 18th century, houses were built into the rubble corework 😮🤩

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Kate North

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7 months

What a gorgeous doorway! 😍❤️ Lyddington Bede House, Rutland

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Kate North

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10 months

The top floor of lovely Lyddington Bede House, Rutland 😍 A short photo thread…

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Kate North

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11 months

St. Margaret’s, not St. Mary’s! A mistake but no edit option 😬

Church of St Margaret of Antioch, Knotting, Bedfordshire

A rector defrocked for betting and cock fighting

www.visitchurches.org.uk

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Kate North

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6 months

The absolutely gorgeous 16th century Willington stables and dovecote, Bedfordshire. Two of the many architectural gems in this area, but these have to be some of the best! A photo thread…

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Kate North

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5 months

The incredible Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire, one of the real gems of The Fens 🤩 A photo thread of the exterior and interior…

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Kate North

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7 months

The incredible roof structure in the kitchen of Gainsborough Old Hall 😍😃

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Kate North

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3 months

Lincoln Cathedral has some really amazing decoration…I think these faces on the west front are amongst the most unusual and intriguing though! 😀 This is just a snapshot - they go all the way around one of the innermost arches of the west doorway!

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Kate North

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2 years

The fantastic muniments room at Hardwick Hall 🤓

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Kate North

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4 months

What a thing of beauty!!! 🤩 This door to the Riding House at Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire, is probably my all time favourite ❤️

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Kate North

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3 years

Now that’s a fireplace! 😀 Stokesay Castle, Shropshire

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Kate North

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9 months

Such a lovely little ogee arched doorway to the now inaccessible rood stairs, with neighbouring flower label stop 😍 Pretty! Church of St. Nicholas, Swineshead

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Kate North

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10 months

Such a pretty little building 🤩 No.3, St Mary’s Passage, Cambridge.

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Kate North

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8 months

The interior of the gorgeous 17th century Riding House at Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire 😍

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Kate North

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20 days

Another very unexpected church in a small village in rural Cambridgeshire…All Saints, Knapwell - which looks fairly unassuming from the outside, with its14th century tower and Victorian re-build…then you walk through the door and…wow! 😍 A photo thread…

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Kate North

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2 months

What a doorway! 😃🤩 Mid-12th century loveliness and fun shapes galore at the Church of St. Michael, Toseland, Cambridgeshire.

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Kate North

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2 months

The impressive 17th century roof and painted chancel ceiling of St. Mary’s Church, Bromfield, Shropshire 🤩

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Kate North

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8 months

Wingfield Manor, Derbyshire ❤️ Currently closed to visitors as it needs some conservation work, but I took these photos yesterday and thought I’d share some images of this incredibly beautiful and very significant place 😊 More info & photos in a thread below…

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Kate North

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1 month

As it’s apparently world lion day, here’s a lovely, medieval, one from Denny Abbey, Cambridgeshire 🥰 Nice middle parting in his mane! 😂

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Kate North

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1 year

I wonder what stories this floor could tell… 😃 Bushmead Priory, Bedfordshire

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Kate North

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7 months

Absolutely stunning semi-circular recessed entrance to this Victorian building on Ludgate Hill, London 😍🤩

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Kate North

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2 years

The amazing door to Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, Tattershall 😍

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Kate North

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3 months

The refectory of beautiful Bushmead Priory, Bedfordshire, includes this wonderful partition wall - showing the underlying construction - and amazing 13th century roof structure above 😍

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Kate North

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5 months

Lovely soft light falling through one of the south windows at St. Botolph’s Church, Stow Longa, Cambridgeshire 😍

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Kate North

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3 months

Discovered another amazing church, this one’s v special & now my 2nd favourite! 🤩 St. Mary’s, Shelton, Bedfordshire - mainly C14 but with C12 origins. Rustic, beautiful, a bit wonky & v atmospheric…it even has wall paintings, external lime finishes…& an owl! 😀🦉 A thread…

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Kate North

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1 month

The stunning and highly significant Fountains Abbey, near Ripon in North Yorkshire 😍 Together with the beautiful 18th century gardens of Studley Royal, it forms a World Heritage Site ❤️

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Kate North

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10 months

Sunlight streaming into the beautiful and peaceful Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Knotting, Bedfordshire 😍

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Kate North

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7 months

Stamford, Lincolnshire - could easily be somewhere in France though 😍 It often feels like you’re wandering around a film set. This particular building stopped me in my tracks - really beautiful and the ghosts signs (zoom in) add even more interest 😀

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Kate North

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11 months

Fantastic Brigflatts Quaker Meeting House, near Sedbergh, Cumbria 😍 Late 17th century with some 18th century alterations. Photos of the lovely interior woodwork in comment below…

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Kate North

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5 months

Happy bank holiday Monday, from here at cow parsley central! 😀

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Kate North

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6 months

The excellent door (and door-within-a-door!) at Holy Trinity Collegiate Church, Tattershall, Lincolnshire 😃

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Kate North

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5 months

The gorgeous porch and doorway to St. Mary’s Church, Everton, Bedfordshire 😍

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Kate North

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11 months

A crisp autumn morning walk by the river in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire…with its stunning fifteenth century bridge, complete with a chapel in the middle 😍

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Kate North

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5 months

Some lovely big, old roof timbers in All Saints Church, Little Staughton ❤️

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Kate North

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11 months

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such a very long terrace of thatched cottages! Couldn’t even fit them all in the photo…goes on and on 😄 Melchbourne, Bedfordshire

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Kate North

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1 year

Glorious Fountains Abbey, near Ripon 🥰

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Kate North

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2 months

The very special & atmospheric Church of St. Mary in Yelden, Bedfordshire…dating mainly to the C13 & C14 but with some later additions, it’s home to some fantastically sloping walls, medieval & C18 wall paintings, ancient pews and impressive recessed tombs 🤩❤️ A photo thread…

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Kate North

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7 months

It’s all going on at beautiful Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk 🤩

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Kate North

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3 months

The roof structure in the kitchen of Gainsborough Old Hall is just stunning! 🤩 One of my favourite sites that I cover for work…shhh, don’t tell the others 🤫 😂

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Kate North

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8 months

What a window! One of the many stunning features of Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire ❤️

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Kate North

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3 months

One of the gorgeous cottages in Stamford - and what a chimney! 😍 Lots of evidence still surviving that this once had a lime coating (see close up below for an example…) 🤩

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Kate North

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2 months

Parts of the beautiful Lavenham Guildhall, Suffolk. Dating from the 1500’s, this impressive and sprawling building still dominates the market area of the village.

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Kate North

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11 months

Amazing early fourteenth century wall paintings at Longthorpe Tower, near Peterborough 🤩 More 📷 and link to further info below…

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Kate North

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9 months

Had an unexpected adventure yesterday - a visit to a church led me past some abandoned buildings including; a manor house (with ha-ha) coach house & stables, all largely 1870’s, & an early C20th motor house! I don’t know why they’re so appealing but they are! Photo thread below.

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Kate North

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10 days

The incredible late 16th century interior decor of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire 😍 The painted decorative plaster is particularly fine, and so amazingly detailed 🤩 More photos of the plaster in a short thread…

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11 months

Elegant and enigmatic Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire ❤️ More 📷 below…

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1 month

The absolutely gorgeous 15th century Percy Chantry at Tynemouth Priory, Tyne and Wear 😍

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27 days

The very special Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, within the walls of Ludlow Castle, Shropshire. Built by Gilbert de Lacy in the 12th century, this is the circular nave of what was once a larger chapel. Patches of external lime plaster remain and the doorway is very beautiful too 🥰

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The very pretty porch and doorway into St. Mary’s Church, Aspenden, Hertfordshire 😍 The porch windows also have some lovely stained glass - see below…

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Kate North

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5 months

I just love this simple but pretty little doorway and section of the north elevation - with large amounts of lime render surviving - at St. Nicholas’ Church in Swineshead, Bedfordshire…one of my favourite churches (and villages) in this area ❤️

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3 years

Hardwick Old Hall 😍

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1 year

Exploring the amazing cantilevered staircase in the ruined part of Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire, today 😍

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9 months

Might Ely Cathedral be the ‘archiest’ cathedral?! 🧐😀 I’m sure there are other contenders out there, but it’s pretty jam packed!

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8 months

Stunning Houghton House, Bedfordshire ❤️ The ruin of an early 17th century home, thought to be the inspiration for the ‘House Beautiful’ in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. The 2 loggias & front porch are thought to be by Inigo Jones, the rest by John Thorpe. A photo thread…

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8 months

Constantly amazed by the amount gorgeous houses to found throughout my local area in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire! This one certainly made me stop and stare at it for a minute or two 😍

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Kate North

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1 year

Astonishing Bushmead Priory, a rare survival of a complete Augustinian refectory (with some later alterations) and fantastic C14th century wall paintings 😍❤️I have created a thread for photos as so many!

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2 months

Looking out from the battlements of Caernarfon Castle. Now a somewhat more peaceful and quiet place to spend time than it was in centuries gone by.

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