Friday 6 July 2018

Squares and octagons

The medieval church at Croft, Herefordshire, stands only a few yards from Croft Castle, a former medieval castle that was converted into a stately home. Like all such churches it speaks of the well-to-do owners next door through the state of its general fabric and its tombs. When I visited the building I took a lot of shots of the the more conventional subjects. However, the one I want to post first shows the, to my mind, attractive worn tiles of part of its floor. This pattern of squares and octagons was popular in the eighteenth century and my guess is they date from a restoration at that time.


photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10