From entrance:-

History of family with links to the chapel:-

Side chapel and internal archway:-

Roof:-

Window:-

Arch and window:-

Information about masons’ marks:-

Looking back at tower end. Note intrusion of modern life  by way of fire extingusher at door:-

Looking up inside tower:-

We travelled on from Comrie by way of a misty Loch Earn:-

On the way back via Innerpeffray Chapel we then sought out Tullibardine Chapel, a property in Perth and Kinross in the care of Historic Scotland. It’s located slightly northwest of Auchterarder:-

North gable  end:-

View from east:-

From south(ish.) Stitch of two photos:-

At first we thought the chapel wasn’t open but the door in the photo below was slightly ajar:-

Information board:-

Innerpeffray Chapel lies off a minor road about halfway between Crieff and Auchterarder. It is contiguous to Innerpeffray Library, the oldest library in Scotland.

This is a view of the chapel alone:-

In its graveyard there is a gravestone with a dedication to David McKendrick, missing at Cambrai, 30,11,1917:-

On the opposite side of the B 827 to Comrie’s War Memorial is this turreted building:-

The building corners on to a street called Field of Refuge:-

The plaque seen here  just above the lamppost has the inscription, “In Memoriam, 1914 1918”:-

Comrie is a village in Perth and Kinross, lying almost halfway between Crieff and Loch Earn.

It has on its High Street a Charles Rennie Mackintosh building, complete with corner turret and the sort of external render familiar from Hill House. Not exactly the sort of thing you’d expect to see in a small Perthsire village.

The church in the background above is perhaps Comrie’s most prominent building, best seen from the bridge over the River Earn. For obvious reasons this, the former parish kirk, is known as the White Church. It is dedicated to the obscure saint, Kessog:-

St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Haddington is a fine example of church architecture.

Church from approach path:-

The next two photos are stitches:-

The River Tyne flows past the rear of the church and under the Nungate Bridge:-

I assume at one time nuns passed through the Nungate on their way to and from the church.

The Odeon Cinema is the finest but not the only Art Deco building in Harrogate.

The Harrogate Chocolate Factory Café is right beside the Odeon Cinema. Flat roof, rule of three in upper windows, which have retained the air of Critall Windows though obviously replacements:-

Elsewhere there is Primark. It was formerly a Marks & Spencer then a BhS.

Then there is Barclay’s Bank:-

And Boots, which once housed a Woolworths:-

Wow! Just wow!

My jaw dropped when I turned a corner in Harrogate and found this:-

This must be one of the most stunning examples of Art Deco cinema architecture in the UK.  Most 1930s Odeon cinemas were fine illustrations of Art Deco but this has just about everything. Thin stepped tower with deco fonted lettering on the word ‘Cinema’, the canopy, the cream and green curve above it leading into the curved cream tower with thin line of windows and green streamlining at top, rule of three in the windows on the brick portion.

Side view. Look at those windows and green detailing below roofline:-

The curved tower is beautiful:-

By the door on the cinema’s wall is this plaque outlining its history. It’s even been featured on a stamp:-

As a contrast to Knaresborough Castle I thought I’d post poictures of the two Art Deco style buildings I found in Knaresborough.

Former Woolworths, now a Tesco Express. Very typical Woolworths detailing:-

Cosmetic Dental:-

The good lady had for a few years fancied a look at Knaresborough in Yorkshire.  We finally visited in November last year.

Knaresborough Castle is perhaps the town’s most historical feature.

Castle approach:-

Information Board:-

The first structure you come across, though, is the castle’s Sally Port:-

Information Board:-

It being November the castle was done up in Remembrance Day colours:-

Including this figure of a World War 2 soldier. The figure of the Great War soldier had not yet been set upright:-

Castle ruins:-

King’s Tower board:-

Castle from below:-

The trees in the surrounding gardens were covered in purple poppies and the more usual red ones. The purple ones commemorate animals that died in war:-