This first photo is of a wall built outside the gate of the Tower, on Tower Hill. The area is being redeveloped to accommodate a new Tower ticket office, gift shop, and restaurant, so there is a wall built around the area to hide the construction. This was on the wall.
This one is of Traitor's Gate, the entrance off the Thames River used to bring John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and Jane's father, into the Tower after their arrest. The building above it is the St. Thomas Tower, built in 1280. The crowd is obviously a bunch of tourists listening to a yeoman warder giving a tour.
A photo of the Gentleman Gaoler's Quarters in the southwest corner of the Tower precincts. Jane's room during her imprisonment was in the white Tudor half-timbered section, third floor, right hand end, directly above the pale blue door. The building is used now as a private residence for some of the people employed inside the Tower, so the public cannot go inside or even near it.
Beauchamp Tower, where Guildford Dudley, his father John Dudley, and his brothers were all held prisoner. The room they occupied is behind the small window in the middle, just above the hedge. Unfortunately the trees were casting a dark shadow across the building.
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The Gentleman Gaoler's Quarters and the Beauchamp Tower in the same frame, showing how they are situated compared to each other.
"Jane" engraved beside the window within the Beauchamp Tower and the room where Guildford was imprisoned after July 1553. As you may know, tradition has it that Guildford engraved it either in remembrance of his wife or his mother, who was also named Jane.
Beauchamp Tower Window with Jane Engraving to Right.
The name "Jane" engraved on another wall of the room, this time with a shield below it displaying the incomplete Grey family arms.
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The Dudley family arms engraved in the same room in the Beauchamp Tower, this time near the fireplace. The engraving is not complete, but has been dated to 1553, so it is certain that one of the brothers created it (it is attributed to Robert) while they were being held prisoners in late 1553. Further, around the central arms of staff with bear and lion rampant is a border of plants, each of which refers to one of the Dudley brothers (eg: a rose for Ambrose Dudley). The incomplete inscription below the engraving reads, "Know that the se beasts do wel behold and se mayde me withe ease wherefore here made they be with borders wherin...[incomplete]...Brothers names who lyst to serche the Crown." [Know that these beasts do well behold and see, made by me with ease, why they are made with borders within which.....brothers names who want to serve the Crown.]
The Dudley arms are on the upper right of this fireplace (gives a sense of perspective), and on the wall opposite the window.
The commemorative plaque marking the site of the scaffold on Tower Green where Jane (and others) was executed.
The site of the scaffold. If you look back at the photo of Beauchamp Tower, you can just make out the scaffold marker in the shadow falling across the grass.
In the background is the St. Peter-ad-Vincula (St. Peter-in-Chains) Chapel, the place where Jane, her father, John Dudley, and Guildford Dudley are all buried. She is buried under the left side of the altar, which is on the right hand end of the building. The exterior of the chapel was built in the 1300s, but the interior was significantly remodeled in the late 1800s.
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