Raglan Castle

With Mrs BB working an evening shift, I was tasked wth doing the food shop and cleaning the velux windows in the kitchen. That out of the way, I went out his evening to get an aerial landscape.

I last took an aerial view of Raglan Castle here 2.5 years ago so decided to redo it. The view is looking at the castle from the rear - a photo you won't see very often.

Raglan was begun in the 1430s, rather late in the day for castle building. Unfashionably late by some 150 years! Despite this, mod cons such as massive mullioned windows brought the design bang up-to-date, bathing rooms in luxurious light. The oriel window, a bay to end all bay windows, is one of Raglan’s defining features. It lit up the high table at the dais end of the hall. Raglan also boasted a long gallery, the very height of fashionable living in the Tudor period.

The castle held off Oliver Cromwell’s forces for thirteen weeks (siege ended in August 1646) in one of the last sieges of the Civil War. The castle was eventually taken and was systematically destroyed by parliament. Enough remains to still impress. I hope the aerial view impresses you...