
Aerial Video of Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire
Pershore Abbey is a hidden gem. You can spend a delightful day there exploring the abbey and the town which has some wonderful Regency brick architecture (and a few timber-framed delights).
Treasured places, layered in history
Pershore Abbey is a hidden gem. You can spend a delightful day there exploring the abbey and the town which has some wonderful Regency brick architecture (and a few timber-framed delights).
The Abbey Church of Holy Cross or Pershore Abbey has a wonderful vaulted interior of the C13th with tierceron vaults that explode like fireworks.
The Angel Roof at St. Wendreda in March, Cambridgeshire is breathtaking. It's impact, for me, comes from the doubling up of angels on the jackposts and hammerbeams.
During my visit, I enter the church via the porch which has an angel topped gate that houses a lock and latch that is a shrine in itself - a secular shrine to its maker.
This is a place of transition - between the land and the sea, between heaven and earth and between time and tide.
I love George Pace - for me, he was the only architect that confronted Gothic head on in the C20th - turning his designs into a new evolved form of Gothic that was representative of his age.
MEMBERS ONLY This really is a magical place - more realm, than place. Because of its location - at the head of a glacial valley, surrounded by hills full of pine and conifer. Check out the yew trees on the boundary (which is Bronze Age) - they are over 2000...
It's a remarkable site within the context of the choir stalls
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