| The stonework on the mound and around
the inner courtyard of Pickering Castle was built for Henry III as a
necessary defense against the Scots. The outer entrance, the curtain
wall, and its three towers were built on the orders of Edward II in
1323-26.
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| Debbie at the gatehouse. (325kb) | Just inside the gatehouse, looking at the
ruins of Coleman tower, and the mound. (174kb)
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The castle chapel. (234kb) |
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| Info about the example charter granted by Edward I to Roger Pilkington. (131b) | A close up of the charter. (252kb)
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The postern gate, east turret, and Rosamund's tower. (287kb) |
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| The Diate Hill tower. (158kb) | The view of the gatehouse and inner
courtyard from the top of the mound. (183kb)
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Set dramatically on a headland projecting into the North Sea, the magnificent ruins of Whitby Abbey are a monument to on of the most remarkable and venerable religious foundations of medieval England. Whitby as rebuilt in the 1070s, on a site of a previously destroyed monastery, by Reinfrid, a knight who had fought for William the Conqueror. The community followed the Benedictine rule and developed into one the great medieval abbeys of Yorkshire. |
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| A view of the ruins from the south. (123kb) | The great arched windows at the head of the
choir. (244kb)
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Looking down the north column of the nave, towards the church entrance. (219kb) |
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| A view of the north transept. (204kb) | Looking out at the north sea from the
headland. (127kb)
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Looking north across the bay. (153kb) |
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| Interesting part of the north wall.
The different kinds of windows indicate that this wall was built in two
stages. (155kb)
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Another shot of the neat window tracery. (154kb) | A view of the crossing and into the choir. (178kb) |
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| A buckle (for which I didn't get the info) but is from the Saxon period. (149kb) | A flash shot of the buckle. (151kb)
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A flash shot of a really neat strap end. (84kb) |
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| Info on the strap end. (27kb) | The strap end without flash. (116kb)
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Scarborough Castle stands on a massive promontory of rock that rises sheer-sided high above the North Sea. The great keep was built by Henry II, 1159-69, and it stood until the west wall collapsed after bombardment during the English Civil War siege of 1645.
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| The great keep tower. (1891kb) | Another view, looking into the keep. (317kb) | A side view of the keep, showing how much
was destroyed. (186kb)
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| Looking south over the harbor, from a viewing tower on the curtain wall. (176kb) | Looking south east along the curtain wall.
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Looking north along the curtain wall (151kb) |
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| A cool cat leaving the castle gate. (194kb) | The castle gate. (268kb) | Some neat gothic tracery in a 14th century
church just below the castle gate. (280kb)
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