Monday 29 March 2010

The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin

Far above shot up red, splintered masses of castellated rock, jagged and shivered into myriads of fantastic forms, with here and there a streak of sunlit snow traced down their chasms like a line of forked lightning; and far beyond and far above all these, fainter than the morning cloud but purer and changeless, slept, in the blue sky, the utmost peaks of the eternal snow.

Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
























Friday 19 March 2010

The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit

They approached the Castle, in which the fair Lady Alicia awaited her deliverers. She leaned from the castellated window and waved her lily hand as they approached. They returned her signal, and retired to seek rest and refreshment at a neighbouring hostelry.

Lavenham, Suffolk













































Monday 8 March 2010

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

The reader will judge, from what we have said, that this building was
a sort of castellated abbey; and it will, probably, occur to him to
inquire if it had been one of the strong-holds of the ancient church
militant.

Garway Templar Church, Monmouthshire