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Arrival at the coach / bus parking area in San Gimignano. It is near a Coop supermarket.
We would follow our tour manager up the hill and into the walled town / city of San Gimignano (not a guided tour).
sign - Via Francigena - something about an old pilgrimage route.
I declined an offer for a private dinner with a senior scholar in my field to take this picture. Career-wise, it was probably a foolish move. But, as I said to him, we just don't have things like this in Los Angeles.
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This English oak medieval style castle door was Designed, made and fitted by SDB Designs. This picture shows the back of a binroyd door, with it's hand forged ironmongery like it's strap and pintle hinges and iron strapped lock box showing the sliding panel of the la jalousie by Sean Broadbent
(Ascenseur panoramique niché au coeur du clocher de l'église Sainte-Marie)
La cathédrale Saint-Sacerdos
The wall towers dating originally to the Roman fortifications have a distinctive U shape, low pitch tile roofs, and courses of brick in the stone masonry. The flat side is to the inner surface of the wall.
Fiddleford Mill House survives well as a good example of its class and listed as Grade I.
Pevsner described it as ‘the most spectacular medieval manor house interior in Dorset’
The main parts of the house are quite grand for its time and the main features give an impression of what a medieval Dorset house may have been like.
It’s unusual in that much of what can be seen represents the original 14th century building, the timber roof is largely original and many of the interior features have been retained.
The 14th century Manorial Residence includes the hall, two storey solar and the remains of the west range. The standing buildings include part of the hall and the solar.
'The roof trusses are standard West Country construction, collar beams arched braces, with two tiers of wind-braces against the rafters.
Bold cusping of wind-braces and decorated panels above the collar, boldly cut out in trefoils and quatrefoils, elaborate the system and many Ogee curves.'
'The solar roof is more elaborate than the Hall with the wind-braces sub-cusped, longitudinal braces spring from the collars and there are horizontal braces too, all arched and cusped.
The solar roof is a 'triumph' creating a complex spatial effect.'
Pevsner