Lovely day out today with The Rev, Minzalu and Minz’s boyfriend who is over from Spain for a visit.
We went to Belsay Castle, though there’s also a Hall and a wonderful quarry garden, more pics to follow in the coming days.
Belsay Castle is a 14th century medieval castle situated at Belsay, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building.
The main structure, a substantial three story rectangular pele tower with rounded turrets and battlements was constructed about 1370, and was the home of the Middleton family. In 1614 Thomas Middleton built a new manor house attached to the tower. A west wing was added in 1711 but was later largely demolished in 1872 by Sir Arthur Middleton when the remainder of the house was considerably altered.
The castle was abandoned as a residence by the family in the early 19th century when Sir Charles Monck built Belsay Hall close by. It is administered by English Heritage and is open the public. The interiors were largely removed and it was then used as a ready-made folly, as was fashionable among the aristocracy at the time, serving as setting for garden parties and other entertainments.
It was a bit cold, but loads to see and photograph, and we’ll definitely be doing a return journey when the weather is warmer.
On the way home we stopped at a posh Italian bar/café/restaurant called Frattelli’s and had some wonderful pizza’s and it was dead cheap. Anyway’s it was nice to get out and see some history.
Now to face the coming week, it’s got to be better than last week!!
Herky report:- no change, all is well at the moment!
We went to Belsay Castle, though there’s also a Hall and a wonderful quarry garden, more pics to follow in the coming days.
Belsay Castle is a 14th century medieval castle situated at Belsay, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building.
The main structure, a substantial three story rectangular pele tower with rounded turrets and battlements was constructed about 1370, and was the home of the Middleton family. In 1614 Thomas Middleton built a new manor house attached to the tower. A west wing was added in 1711 but was later largely demolished in 1872 by Sir Arthur Middleton when the remainder of the house was considerably altered.
The castle was abandoned as a residence by the family in the early 19th century when Sir Charles Monck built Belsay Hall close by. It is administered by English Heritage and is open the public. The interiors were largely removed and it was then used as a ready-made folly, as was fashionable among the aristocracy at the time, serving as setting for garden parties and other entertainments.
It was a bit cold, but loads to see and photograph, and we’ll definitely be doing a return journey when the weather is warmer.
On the way home we stopped at a posh Italian bar/café/restaurant called Frattelli’s and had some wonderful pizza’s and it was dead cheap. Anyway’s it was nice to get out and see some history.
Now to face the coming week, it’s got to be better than last week!!
Herky report:- no change, all is well at the moment!
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