It feels a bit self serving to say: us but in our defence - we rule so...
I could sing ☺️☺️ about 15 years ago i caught a morning at #Bournemouth cliffs like this ...but my camera at the time had a pixel resolution that would embarass a ZX Spectrum but this morning 😳 the most perfect conditions on the coast from Southbourne towards Hengistbury Head
#RuinedPrioryFriday & its Dale Abbey, just to the east of Derby While mostly just a single gothic arch standing now & some ruins of the chancel being grazed by sheep, you can also see a chunk of masonry thats been incorporated into a local house
#MedievalMonday & its the church that usually leads any article or advert for Ohrid 🇲🇰 The church of Saint John the Theologian, built sometime before mid c15
#MedievalMonday & the beautiful romanesque Church of Saint Sofia, Ohrid 🇲🇰 Construction some time between c9-10
#MedievalMonday & thought we could do a few from Ohrid 🇲🇰 today, the beautiful lakeside town in North Macedonia, beginning with the perhaps the most striking: the Fortress of Tsar Samuel at the top of the town, serving as the capital of the Bulgarian empire in c11
Its #RuinedPrioryFriday & something a little different this week: a contender for largest barn ever built in England! The St Leonards Barn, linked with Beaulieu Abbey a short way up the road, built between c13 & c14 before a more modest barn was built in its footprint in c16