Cross looking down on the market, reminding all Christian merchants to "trade fairly under the eyes of God." I wonder if this form of ethical self-regulation was any more successful than the recent failed laissez-faire policies in the mortgage and credit markets.
The tilty building is the "wonky house"...next door to the Kings Arms, a pub where Charles I is said to have eaten before a great battle.
They used to lock criminals and "foreigners of an unsavory appearance" in the stocks.
Old water fountain with my host, Andrew.
Water supplied c/o the Thames riverhead.
Allegedly the oldest inn in Great Britain. Royalists supported the king against anti-monarchist Oliver Cromwell in the English civil war in the 1600s. Stow was a royalist stronghold - full of Kings Arms and Queens Courts, etc.
Andrew checking out the old inn.
Andrew ducking in a little passageway to a courtyard.
Close look at the stone building technique.
Old door to the Stow church surrounded by two ancient Yew trees. Said to have significance to Tolkein fans as the inspiration for the Door to Moria.
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