Silly Saturday shot at Farleigh Hungerford Castle

Today we decided to go with Son #2 & his partner to Farleigh Hungerford Castle, which isn't far from Bath. Most of it is in ruins but enough is still standing for it to be quite impressive. It also has an intriguing history of murder and attempted poisoning of spouses, including the disposal of the body of the murdered husband in the large kitchen fire. (In due course, the perpetrators in both cases were brought to justice.)

I wanted to take a silly photo for Silly Saturday, so I put the fisheye lens on and pointed the camera upwards in one of the ruined towers to produce the silly-angle photo in the main blip. (Thanks as ever to admirer for hosting Silly Saturday.)

The extra, taken in the chapel of the castle, is interesting. The mural on the right of the window depicts Saint George slaying the dragon. I think I remember correctly that it's the oldest such mural still surviving in the country, being about 600 years old. It was saved from being destroyed during the dissolution of the monasteries (when anything remotely linked to Rome was to be destroyed) by being plastered over, and was only discovered in 1844 when the plaster began to peel off the wall!