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| A misleading sign- it went to one large room |
Judging from the last several blog postings, you can tell that we spent a lot of time in the gardens of Sudeley Castle, or in the chapel where Queen Katherine Parr is entombed. Why? Because the exhibits inside the castle were awful.
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| View of Sudeley Castle from the Tithe Barn ruins |
EXHIBITS NOT WORTH EXHIBITING - The castle proper isn't open to the public. The only areas open for public viewing were two large rooms on two separate floors. The room upstairs had a lace exhibit. There was one small fragment cut from Katharine Parr's gown, scavaged from when they kept opening her coffin to check in on her. The walls of the room are painted with large cartoon-like forms of notable figures from the Tudor Era. There was a short 15 minute documentary-style film about the life of Katherine Parr, which was about the only thing worthwhile inside the castle.
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| Rob at the Tithe Barn garden |
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| Tom at the Tithe Barn garden |
The guidebook states that the castle was deteriorating, and the Dent family (fourth generation in the house) had to "regretfully" open the castle to the public to raise much needed funds. Sadly, it showed. The exhibit downstairs consisted of Dent family memorabilia, framed family photos, and samples of the gloves that made the Dent family fortune. We did, however, enjoy the gardens.
NEXT: THE CRAZY DRIVE BACK AND PERFECT TIMING
