ENGLAND’S OLDEST DOOR – TO BE FOUND IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY OPENING ON TO THE CHAPTER HOUSE.
Are doors not fascinating? If somewhere you haven’t been before, do you like me, always wonder what’s on the other side? Of course if the door is ancient even more so. The above is the oldest door in England and it was once thought the remnants of hide on the door were from some unfortunate soul who had been flayed. As it turns out recent investigation has proven its animal hide. Oh the relief!
An intriguing door beckons at the top of a flight of worn steps at Wells Cathedral
More gems from Wells Cathedral
‘ENTER ME IF YOU DARE’..Old photos of the doors of the cell known as “Little Ease’ in the Tower of London
Another old photo of an equally forbidding doorway in the Tower..
The Sacristy door from Tewkesbury Abbey has a terrible tale to tell. It is covered with remnants of horse armour recovered from the Battle of Tewkesbury…
We are fortunate so many ancient doors have survived in churches such as this wonderful example – St Edward’s Church, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire.
Bodiam Castle, Sussex. Two for the price of one!
The details around medieval a door could be wonderful. I have not been able to trace anything more about this door/carving other than it is from an old Manor House. Who could resist a peep inside those doors? Photo taken approx 1880.
Two doors from Rochester, the second one known as the “Gandalf’ door and thought to be just 30 years younger than the oldest door at Westminster Abbey (see above) – well whats in a decade or two?
OLD HALL, LAVENHAM, SUFFOLK. TIMBERFRAMED AND BUILT IN THE 1390s.
Some doors, as above, have survived in more humbler buildings and can still be come across today…..just waiting for someone to give them a gentle push open and wander in.
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