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Durham looked like a charming city, full of students going to University, and with the river encircling the hill where the Cathedral was built. Durham Cathedral is a fascinating piece of Norman architecture. It was forbidden to take photos inside the building, so I sketched a few columns with spiral and square decorations and the Norman zig-zag arch. I was also impressed by a modern wooden Pietà by Fenwick Lawson. |
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road to Barnard Castle, we were able to have a glimpse of Raby Castle,
the birthplace of Cicely Neville, mother of Edward IV, George of Clarence
and Richard III, hence called "the rose of Raby". Deers were resting
beside the castle.
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| Barnard Castle was one of Richard III's main seats in the north of England. His rather worn boar badge can still be seen over a window next to the Great Chamber (which doesn't exist anymore, and could only be imagined). In the photos below you can see both the badge and its reconstruction in one of the explicative panels, together with a photo of me in the window: the bagde is just above my head. The last photo shows a bench with the usual Percy emblem, the three fishes. In the north-eastern wall there are the ruins of Brackenbury's Tower, named after Richard's treasurer and later Constable of the Tower of London. Rosemary Hawley Jarman, in her novel We Speak No Treason, imagines that Richard had the princes in the tower, Edward of Wales and Richard of York, living here after his coronation. |
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| previous day: Warkworth Castle |
next day: York |
