Pics of North Wales (2)
More pics of North Wales!
3 pics of St Mary's Church in Caernarfon, built into the town walls by Henry Ellerton, master mason of the castle, in 1307. He had received a licence some years before from none other than Edward of Caernarfon.
More of the medieval town walls of Caernarfon (could that sky possibly be any more dismal?):
Medieval town walls of Conwy (4 pics). The sun came out a little bit while we were there, amazingly.
This is the Church of St Mary and St Nicholas in Beaumaris on Anglesey, which contains the tomb of Edward II's great-aunt Joan (or Joanna, or Siwan in Welsh), illegitimate daughter of King John, who married Llywelyn the Great in the early 1200s and died in 1237. Joan - heroine of Sharon Penman's Here Be Dragons - was originally buried at Llanfaes Priory.
The south porch of the church, where the tomb stands.
A luxuriantly mustachioed statue of Llywelyn the Great (died 1240) in the centre of Conwy.
The village of Aberffraw on Anglesey, formerly - not that you'd ever know to look at it - a royal court of the princes of Gwynedd; one of Llywelyn the Great's titles was 'Prince of Aberffraw'.
Views from Beaumaris on Anglesey across the Menai Strait to the Welsh mainland, towards Llanfairfechan and Abergwyngregyn. These pics would be far more spectacular without the low-lying cloud obscuring the mountains. (Grrr.)
Posted by Alianore 08 October, 2009 at 4:19 PM