Ledbury's Painted Past

Friday 18 March - Another adventure with Ian's parent's, this time we took a more familiar route and headed north west. We stopped first in Ledbury, a charming market town with lots of nice shops and lovely parks and historic buildings. We wandered up the cobbled street to the church, then back down to the high street. On the way we stopped into the council offices which were open to show the amazing painted room. The council building is an historic building and the painted room was discovered while doing restoration work. The whole room would originally have been painted in imitation of hanging tapestries and these paintings date to the mid 16th century. The paintings that exist today cover most of the walls and are representative of a knot garden. The colours were still lovely and vibrant and the representations of flowers quite quaint. We had an interesting explanation of the room and the buildings history then wandered around a bit before heading out of Ledbury and carrying on towards Hay-on-Wye.