This Scepter'd Isle

Belvoir Castle overlooking the yellow fields of Leicestershire, England.

Belvoir Castle is a stately home in the English county of Leicestershire, overlooking the Vale of Belvoir. The castle was rebuilt in the romantic Gothic Revival style to designs by James Wyatt between 1799 and 1816 on the site of a once Norman castle (1257).

O England! model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a mighty heart.

William Shakespeare

23 July is Historic County Flags Day.

“Sea of Bells” by | Sarah Kingshott

Lincolnshire Wolds

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Writing about the Church of St. Anthony in Roseland, England.

In dismantling the old Saxon tower to install a steeple about a hundred years ago, the old bell crashed down, smashing the tiles in front of the altar. When examined by experts, it was found that the bell was not even scratched, and was apparently made of wrought bronze, harder than tempered steel. The last people knowing the secret formula for this hardest metal were Priests of Ammon. The bell could have been brought to Cornwall by the Phoenicians. It was reinstalled in the steeple and remains there still. Its note is ‘G’, and unlike other bells it never varies, is never re-cast, and does not fade in semitones.

Snowy days on film

“That morning light” by // Daniel Casson