Penrose Almshouses by wjames

Photography • Architecture • posted on Jul 23, 2010

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Description

These Almshouses now considered of great architectural intrest, were built by John Penrose a merchant and Mayor of Barnstaple, North Devon, over 350 years ago. The pump in the courtyard still works and the holes in the bottom left hand side of door (bottom left picture) were made by musket balls during the civil war

Comments (22)

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alessimarco

10:28AM | Fri, 23 July 2010

Excellent collage of this wonderful medieval architecture!

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mininessie

10:36AM | Fri, 23 July 2010

fantastic houses!

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jayfar

10:38AM | Fri, 23 July 2010

Great little set of four Wally. I am always afraid of calling this a collage because it could be a sort of montage, no doubt someone will put me right. I expect more balls than that have gone through that door!!

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awjay

11:07AM | Fri, 23 July 2010

i love almshouses...

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tennesseecowgirl

11:10AM | Fri, 23 July 2010

great to see.

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willpee

11:41AM | Fri, 23 July 2010

Wonderful collage and history. beautiful place

MrsLubner

1:06PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

Wonderful sight...the sturdiness of the stone is really interesting. So is your information.

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durleybeachbum

1:07PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

Wonderful montage..(!)

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jascorpio

2:20PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

Beautiful scenes!!!

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anitalee

3:53PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

Very nice

alanwilliams

3:58PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

nice bit of history Wally well portrayed

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kbrog

4:26PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

It is always a pleasure to see such wonderful old architecture, well captured and a great collage!

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MrsRatbag

4:52PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

Great shots of this old structure; I love these stone buildings!

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jmb007

7:36PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

bonne photo!

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jocko500

7:56PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

wow they build places to last there. wonderful shots

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Richardphotos

9:43PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

I am crazy for old doors and enjoyed working on them.the oldest I worked on was from an abbey in the 16th century Europe that was brought to Dallas.stunning architecture and collage

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bmac62

11:25PM | Fri, 23 July 2010

Building of this age still standing in good order just drive us Americans crazy. LOL. Hooray for your caretakers and historians.

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Hendesse

1:58AM | Sat, 24 July 2010

Fantastic collage of interesting shots. Thanks for the informations too.

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dochtersions

10:47AM | Sat, 24 July 2010

A very great impression, Wally!

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myrrhluz

8:29PM | Sat, 24 July 2010

I just loved this when I lived in England. You take a simple walk and history leaps out at you at every step! Wonderful images! The door must have been pretty new when the musket balls went through it. I imagine there were other things of a more pressing nature to worry about at the time, but I can imagine the owner being a bit irritated at the holes in his new Almshouse door.

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