Mermaid

This mermaid capital resides in the seventeenth century Grange Court in Leominster. Whether it dates from that time or is a"Jacobethan" addition of the nineteenth century I don't know. What I do know is that it is a charmingly composed piece with the mermaids hair echoing the volutes of an architectural capital and the net of caught fishes looking very swag-like. Of course, one is bound to ask why, given that mermaids can swim wonderfully well, they need a net with which to catch fish.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Sony DSC-RX100

Grange Court, Leominster

The ornately decorated house known as Grange Court was, unusually and remarkably, created from Leominster's old market house of 1633-4. It was bought and moved to the present location in the 1850s. The open arches of the ground floor were filled in and rooms created in the space. Today it has a modern community building - cafe, meeting rooms, exhibition space, interpretation rooms etc - attached to the structure and much of it is open to the public.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Sony DSC-RX100