Springing is springing - not fully there, but the snowdrops, crocuses, and daffodils are all at various stages in their show.
The Abbey that was turned into a house during the dissolution under Henry VIII. Can you feel the melancholy?
These are the kitchen windows. Can you imagine a house where these are the kitchen windows? It boggles the mind.
A view from the side. The turret isn't original - it was added in the 1500s.
I'm not good at describing the vastness of some of these houses, so I though I'd show you. This is the entrance. It dwarfed me.
Room from the original abbey - built in 1232. I know, 1232, and I stood in there! My American brain still has difficulty fathoming the history.
Cool window looking into a window.
The original cloisters. I'm still not over it - 1232!
I've never seen any of the Harry Potter movies, but for those of you that need a frame of reference, this room was used in several of the films. The cauldron dates to 1500. FYI - this was the warming room - the only room with a fire during the abbey days. I don't know how they stood it. It was freezing the day we were there!
Cool organ from the 1800s (or was it the 18th century . . . I must start writing these things down). I got to play it. The hymn "Have Faith in God" has probably never sounded so poorly done.
Old-timey refrigerator white board. Flip tabs. Very neat.
Stone table carved in 1550 - that's during Henry VIII's time. It has stood in the same place for 462 years. Two factors - it weighs a lot and, after being in that room, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't fit through the door. I don't want to know how it got in there.
View of the archway entrance.
Robert Frost, anyone?
The purple "carpet" is made of crocuses.
It was very fairy-tale-esque.
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