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World famous portrait of Richard III going on display in the region
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Sally Hauser
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Friends of York Walls volunteer Sally Hauser shares all the insider information you need to know about one of Yorkshire’s most prominent historical treasures.
There’s a common saying in York: ‘the streets are gates, the gates are bars and the bars are pubs’. No visit to the city is complete without a wander round the ramparts encircling it. But York’s walls are not just for the tourists. Many residents use them on a daily basis to commute, take exercise or simply soak up the ambience that living so close to almost 2,000 years of history offers.
Middleham is known for its castle as well as its links to horse racing. Picture: Simon Hulme
You could say it’s a great archaeological mystery, and one with which we can easily connect, because we’ve all lost things as we wander through life. In most cases the object is found – or can be replaced. But every now and then, something is lost which is so precious that it has a more profound effect.
There’s an example of that here. Today, we can see this treasured object in the Yorkshire Museum. It is a lozenge-shaped pendant, made of 68 grams of gold, and it has a stunning 10-carat blue sapphire stone. It was made in the late 15th century, but the gem itself (it represents heaven) is thought by many to have come from a much earlier piece of (possibly Roman) jewellery and been recycled into what is known as the Middleham Jewel.
Richard III, King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1483 until his death in 1485, was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty A WORLD-famous late 16th century portrait of Richard III will go on display at the Yorkshire Museum as part of a new exhibition. The painting, which is synonymous with the depiction of Richard III, is on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, London. The loan to the Yorkshire Museum is part of the National Portrait Gallery’s nationwide ‘Coming Home’ project, that will see some of its most iconic works travel to the place they are most closely associated with.
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