Buckden, Cambridgeshire.......

King Henry VIII sent Catherine of Aragon to live here at the Bishop's Palace before she was sent to Kimbolton Castle.

 

St Mary's and the Bishop's Palace.....

 

 

I wonder if she stepped foot into this lovely church which was rebuilt between 1435 and 1440.  Apart from new pews it is almost unchanged since those days apparently, how brill is that! A lady who was visiting the church before us and who was coming out of the church door as we were going in told us that as she was about to open the door she heard a man's voice say "excuse me" and she asked if we had said something that she might have mistaken for somebody apologising.  We had been as quiet as church mice, so all wondered if there was perhaps an apologetic ghost here.  I hoped I might hear him too... but unfortunately not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The two stone columns on either side of the doorway are from the original c1215 entrance.

 

 

 

Angels dating to the late 1430's......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only recently discovered, the carved face of a bearded man.  Said to be of Norman origin!