Here be dragons

Went with H to Tewkesbury yesterday.  I don't normally go to these organ recitals but H is still feeling a bit off colour and a occasionally a bit dizzy so I went as driver.  There are so many fantastic buildings in Tewkesbury that you're spoilt for choice (lots more photos here) but it was quite busy and crowded on the pavements so I confined myself to just a few.  Firstly, doors from the Abbey - see the site above for pictures of the beautiful interior:

Then, wandering into the town to get some items for M from Boots, we suddenly noticed this:

Not a wonderful photo because to step back further I would have been in the road on a blind corner,  but I did get a bit more detail of the door frame:

And what, I hear you ask, is behind this impressive doorway?  Well if you've already enlarged the first picture, you'll know.  It's the outer door to a dentist's surgery!

I've been looking for gates and doors and door furniture to photograph for an art project .  I thought I was fairly familiar with Worcester city centre, but it's amazing what's there when you really look - especially through a camera lens.

I loved the way this little public right of way leads through a door of a medieval house.

This lovely little courtyard links to several others full of shops and cafes.  This still a bank -

But these aren't quite so lucky:

But this shop is still serving its purpose

And, unlike St Swithuns which is being lovingly preserved, this Georgian church has become a restaurant

Though it has been cleaned and some of its stonework preserved.

It has quite an interesting history - perhaps just as well if diners don't know about the body in the tower?