I have just come back from a visit to Muchelney Abbey in the Somerset Levels (near Langport, Somerset, in the UK). Some of the buildings are perfectly preserved and full of mediaeval architecture. I loved the floor tiles best - such lovely patterns and colours. Muchelney equals 'great island' and the abbey -much of it destroyed by King Henry VIII during his dissolution of the monastries) sits on this tiny highpoint of land, surrounded - then - by wetlands and marshes.
Wild Somerset Child - you've just painted a perfect picture for me (minus King Henry's mania). I too, love the tiles - lions and heraldic images, well-worn and faded with time. It always makes me wonder who walked there before me.
I have just come back from a visit to Muchelney Abbey in the Somerset Levels (near Langport, Somerset, in the UK). Some of the buildings are perfectly preserved and full of mediaeval architecture. I loved the floor tiles best - such lovely patterns and colours. Muchelney equals 'great island' and the abbey -much of it destroyed by King Henry VIII during his dissolution of the monastries) sits on this tiny highpoint of land, surrounded - then - by wetlands and marshes.
ReplyDeleteWild Somerset Child - you've just painted a perfect picture for me (minus King Henry's mania). I too, love the tiles - lions and heraldic images, well-worn and faded with time. It always makes me wonder who walked there before me.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your journey!
Lovely! You are the queen of lovely!
ReplyDeleteJno - Thank you so much!! I think I get help from my shopping mojo.
ReplyDeleteNow I am trying to figure out how to paint designs on all of my garden buckets and watering cans.
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