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CatherineRosamundLowe

1 year

#Hashtags for church crawlers, and anyone with a fancy for such things. This was pinned on my old account, so I am updating my new one as they seem to be much missed. Retweet as often as you like.

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#MonumentsMonday Walking around the beautiful church at Buckland as twilight approached, I was touched by this headstone and its loyal canine attendant. Sometimes simplicity speaks more powerfully than grandeur and prolixity.

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@AnneLouiseAvery Thank you Anne. I still feel, 8 years after my late husband's cancer recurred, that I am living the life he does not have. This means I never put off for tomorrow what can be enjoyed today, and the echo of his presence is often felt poignantly.

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#SundaySermons at St James, West Hanney's pulpit. I loved this energetic fellow, racing past me. Almost wolf like, with swirling fur, sticking out his tongue enthusiastically, & bounding along on such teeny tiny paws!🐺 C17th wood hexagonal pulpit to left of chancel screen.🧵

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Easter windowsill in St Lawrence's, Appleton-with-Eaton. Pretty cusping above, and even prettier flowers arrayed below. I genuinely feel that flowers in jam jars work beautifully in a church.

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#Caturday But Medieval cats were nothing if not versatile; they could turn their dexterous paws to churning butter as well as catching mice! 🐾 Two hard working kitties here, from the magical Rothschild canticles, c1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Beinecke MS 404.

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St Leonard's, Sunningwell #MonumentsMonday These angelic guardians of the dead, in a primrose-strewn churchyard, touched my heart.

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But remember. It could be dangerous to take your kitty for granted! It is an oversight that could come back and bite you on the bottom.🐈‍⬛ #Caturday Rothschild canticles, c 1300. Beinecke MS 404. NB Being nekkid in the margins can be a risky business & it is not recommended.

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There's no doubt in my book that handsome surrounding buildings can really "lift" a church. Here at Fyfield, St Nicholas' church was blessed with some fine architectural companions. #WindowsOnWednesday Grade II* Manor Farmhouse of c.1700 boasts attractive regular fenestration.

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9 months

It feels wrong not to mention a person prominent in my thoughts today. It feels as though he is long gone, yet still a powerful presence in his absence. My late husband Michael in what we did not know would be our last summer together in 2016. We were fond of Nuffield Place.💙

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Splendid gating at Long Compton, with a fine line-up of bins on guard duty. You can just see the stealthy cone peeping out above the furthest bin. The beautiful church provides a handsome backdrop. Cottage, undercut to form a lychgate, c 1600, originally at the end of a row.

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And I have just turned the page on my V & A Ravilious calendar, to find this radiant image of a village with tempting church to visit! This wood engraving by Eric Ravilious was for the cover of 'The Village', a journal published by the National Council of Social Service, 1933.

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Phoar! Just look at these massive flying buttresses at St Mary's, Launton, added in 1891 by R. Blomfield. #SundayStonework

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I don't know what these ladies can be giggling and nudging each other about? The comic potential of Arthurian Romances must be limited surely? 🧵

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Back to Waltham St Lawrence, and the church flower festival. Under the massive ancient yew just beyond the lych gate, I saw this beautiful face. She has dried magnolia petals about her.

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Thank you to everyone who likes, comments and follows me. I sit here in the Thames Valley feverishly scribbling and then scritching out the mistakes in my Tweets as best I can! VERDUN, Municipal Library, 107. @Pericles494BC

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5 months

For my birthday tea, I was cutting no corners. It was a superb affair of several tiers, in the rooftop restaurant of The Ashmolean Museum, with an excellent companion. Good tasty food, not overly fancy, and a pot of tea a-piece!

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If I had an award for "most handsome lane leading to a church in the Vale of the White Horse" it would go to St James, West Hanney. 🏵️🌟 You can just see the roof of the tower, centre. The listed raised footpaths (probably C18th, with stone flags) afford a dramatic approach.🧵

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#IronworkThursday , with a difference. At the church of St Lawrence, Appleton-with-Eaton, we have some alert kitties, clambering playfully on the gridiron of of the saint! Window by Chapel Studios, designed by Alfred Fisher, 1994, in memory of Sir Basil & Christine Blackwell. 🧵

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It was overcast & raining when I arrived at Stanford-in-the-Vale, but two trees conspired with their rich pink blossom to embrace the tower of St Denys. Tower has 3 stages: offset corner buttresses rise to the top of the C13th 1st stage; C14th 3rd storey has crenellated parapet.

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#MosaicMonday I was very fortunate to step on this handsome mosaic floor, in the grand entrance hall of the Examination Schools, Oxford. Jackson's most noteworthy building in Oxford, 1882; a passionate challenge to the University buildings of Butterfield and Scott.

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This Bodleian Library owl looked a little more cheerful; they had lots of company gazing out at Catte Street. #OwlishMonday Perhaps the gathering of Morris dancers in Oxford on Sunday had attracted its attention; the cracking of sticks & jangling of bells rang through the city.

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#MonumentsMonday The church of St Nicholas, Fyfield's striking monument to Sir John Golafre, d. 1442, with a reclining effigy of Sir John laid on a chest tomb with brattished cornice & heraldic shields. Open arches reveal his cadaver below, lying on a shroud tied at the head.🧵

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11 months

#TextileTuesday I was very lucky to begin & end my Oxfordshire church crawling ramble with the most benevolent of angels. It's not easy to photograph vintage textile art behind glass, but I wanted to try to capture this gentle featured angel in St Nicholas, Forest Hill.

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#AdoorableThursday : the heavenly moment when the church door opens...and a world of wonder awaits. C12th ironwork at St Mary's, Buckland.

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I love historic brick granaries. So I was in luck when given the opportunity to visit the Manor House at Ascott-under-Wychwood. Historic England say: Granary on staddles. Poss C18/prob mid Cl9th. Timber-frame with brick infill; hipped slate roof; staddles in 3 rows of four.🧵

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There were also #PrettyPipes in Christ Church, Ramsdell. I love the colour scheme, and the way they continue in the decoration of the chancel roof above. Glorious! 🧵

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#TilesOnTuesday Delicate snowdrops are given longer lasting life in this pretty 1870 Minton tile design. Border tile with a relief frieze of snowdrops & leaves on a manganese ground. Islamic style with inset motifs in blue (top), & complementary palmettes (bottom). V & A.

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#AdoorableThursday "Don't forget me", said the weedy little door, calling out to the passing church-crawler, in ardent pursuit of massive buttresses. I turned, looked and was charmed. St Mary's, Marshfield, Gloucestershire.

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Saturday's cat is hard at work, catting in the margins, keeping those pesky rodents on their toes! #Caturday Rothschild canticles, c 1300. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Beinecke MS 404.

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"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!" I recently discovered this photograph, and look! A moment of sheer joy in the snow on the Backs at Cambridge c 1981/2, when Mike & I were students at Downing College.

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#MonumentsMonday I had to smile in surprise and delight at this motif on the headstone of an eminent zoologist, in Brill churchyard. John Young, who died on 4 July 1997 aged 90, was one of the most distinguished biologists of the C20th, as his obituary in "Nature" states. 🐙🦑

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An Arts and Crafts #OwlishMonday at The Wilson, Cheltenham. An owl embraced by a halo of oak leaves and acorns. Foolishly I forgot to look at the label, but I believe that this example of Arts & Crafts plasterwork is by Norman Jewson, for Owlpen Manor in the Cotswolds.

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I can't wait until #StainedGlassSunday to talk to about the glass I saw yesterday. The undoubted high point was in All Saints, Farnborough. Friends know I like an element of surprise, & I drifted towards the village with a vague sense of some important stained glass awaiting.🧵

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#SundaySermons There was an intruder in the pulpit at All Saints, Middleton Cheney. Such an impertinence! @WanLooks @manx_maid

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#IronworkThursday On my way to The Wilson in Cheltenham, I kept my eyes open👀 & saw this! Scarlet pillar box, 1866-79, designed by J W Penfold. Hexagonal letter box with elaborate leaf decorated crest & lettering `VR'. Cheltenham has 8 Penfold-type Victorian pillar boxes. ❣️

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#MosaicMonday I was able to take one more photo of the floor of the Examination Schools' hall, in Oxford, before I attracted the polite notice of a member of staff. Hearing the dreaded question, though courteously posed, "Can I help you?" - I felt it *might* be time to depart.

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#TilesOnTuesday Two small Victorian flint churches this morning by R C Carpenter; the 1st in Stubbings & then (gloriously sited) on a hill top above the Thames Valley, at St John the Baptist, Cookham Dean. In St James the Less, Stubbings, handsome tiling in the chancel; 1850-4.

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#SteepleSaturday I stumbled across this unaltered Victorian country church, built in 1866/7 by J Colson; the steeple is by J B Colson 1889/90. The clock had gone from the slender tower (left), at Christ Church, Ramsdell, Hampshire. Perhaps time had stood still here? 🧵

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Turville and Fingest are next door neighbours in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, but their church towers could not be more different. #SteepleSaturday St Mary's Turville is a delightfully dumpy affair, with the tower being completely rebuilt in the early C16th. 🧵

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#StaircaseSaturday at the University Examination Schools, built in 1876-8 to the design of Sir T G Jackson in the style of a Jacobean mansion in Clipsham stone. Emerging from Professor Goldacre's inaugural lecture, the staircase was distinctly dazzling! 🧵

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I saw another Tree of Life on Friday, @bethenachannel , by John Piper in the East window of St Batholomew's, Nettlebed. This window was my first encounter with Piper's stained glass in 2017, & the village is near to Fawley, where he lived, worked and is buried in the churchyard.

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#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi Oh! What a surprise: stained glass by John Haywood (1984) in the chapel of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. I must try to see these windows in person when I next visit Cambridge! @rosie_rejoicing I've just noticed the cricket stumps - so much detail to enjoy.

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I did an (almost) emergency stop when I saw this lychgate at Chilton Foliat. All thoughts of heading straight to Ramsbury disappeared immediately! #Woodensday

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#TilesOnTuesday at Fyfield & Tubney. The handsome tiles provide a fine foil for the much restored early C14th sedilia with late C19th shafts. Also the finely-carved piscina set in Decorated canopy & the C15th credence table set on octagonal shaft with trefoiled blind panels.

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#AdoorableThursday - at St Mary's Redcliffe's North porch, looking remarkably cool in yesterday's baking Bristol heat. One of the finest medieval parish churches in England; this was a brief visit and I will definitely return to spend more time here.

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#IronworkThursday #AdoorableThursday Heavenly double doors admitted me to the church of St Lawrence, Appleton-with-Eaton, with its early C17th north porch & fine studded double-leaf doors. A dainty Easter tableau can be partly glimpsed left.

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"Steady on!" I thought, seeing this poor #TinyLion roughly handled by the shepherd, levering open his mouth. Then I looked more closely.👀 Mr Lion, remove your gnashers from that tiny lamb! That's quite out of order. #StainedGlassSunday at St Agatha's, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell.

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#StainedGlassSunday at All Saints, Farnborough, Vale of the White Horse. This rather lurid disgruntled dragon is to be found in the East window.🐉 He's defiantly showing his impressive teeth though, so down but not out.

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#VernalEquinox Kick up your heels, for the hares in Forest Hill, near Oxford, have Spring fever!

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#Woodensday Pevsner admires this "pretty pyramid-roofed timber bell-turret" at St Luke's, Garford, in the Vale of the White Horse. The church was almost totally rebuilt by Edwin Dolby in 1878-80. And it takes some finding! 🧵

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Born on 25 March 1862, May Morris. 'Fruit Garden' portière or hanging of plain weave silk with embroidery in silk, designed by May Morris in 1885, worked by Theodosia Middlemore, England, 1894. In the collection of the V & A.

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#FontsOnFriday at Warborough, St Laurence, Oxfordshire. The Romanesque lead font has arcaded sides and stands on a C14th stone base with traceried panels: decorated with rosettes & wheels above, and below, small figures of bishops.

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She was content in her initial at first, but after a while, her #TinyLion companions seemed to be more supercilious and less modestly averting their gaze from her. The next 700 years might pass painfully slowly. Latin 1173, f.15v; C15th. @Pericles494BC

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#AdoorableThursday This is a barn-storming doorway - attached to the Old Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, 1678-83 by Thomas Wood, master mason. This is the ceremonial entrance, facing the Sheldonian Theatre. The large portal with pairs of Corinthian columns is very imposing! 🧵

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When #MementoMoriMonday falls on May Day...a shepherd leaping lightly over a gravestone, bearing a skull, seems just right. This is the illustration for May, by David Gentleman, for The Shepherd's Calendar. I am older, so ponder the skulls I see in churchyards very deeply! 💀

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#AdoorableThursday We were racing around the churchyard looking at tombs as the church was locked, but I did look up & take respectful note of this slender door at St Michael's, Shotteswell, Warwickshire. Ogee-arched priest door of 2 moulded orders with integrated boot scraper!

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#AdoorableThursday at St Nicholas, Fyfield & Tubney. A doorway with no door, & capitals, handsome as they are, rather lacking *something* underneath! Blocked round-headed doorway of c.1200 to the north aisle with keel-moulded arch & trumpet-scalloped capitals (no shafts!).🎺🎶

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I was bowled over by the stained glass by Douglas Strachan, in the chapel of Westminster College, Cambridge. He was commissioned to design the windows on the theme of the Benedicite - 'O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye'. His work is full of bold colour, & dynamic movement.

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🐰Best bunny display on a font yesterday, in the Vale of the White Horse.🐰 The final church that I visited, St James at West Hanney, had a treat for me. The Norman font, decorated with neat vertical bands of rosettes, boasted a vibrant bunny fest on top!🧵

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I had a lovely day church visiting today, but there was a moment when I winced. Am I over-sensitive, or is this really no way to treat a handsome historic brass in the sanctuary? I know churches are working buildings, not museums, but...

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My heartfelt sympathies lay with this poor woman, left. #MonumentsMonday The ordeal of childbirth endured no less than...could it really be 19 times? Peter Dormer, her husband, d 1555, is shown right. I wonder how he regarded his 8 sons & 11 daughters? St James, Newbottle.

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Every church has a story or stories to tell. I was quite surprised to see such frank expression of sentiments on behalf of the villagers of Wotton Underwood. But their anger and indignation is recorded here in All Saints, and it sounds as though the villagers had good cause.

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#TilesOnTuesday in the Berkshire Downs; behind the altar and covered in carpet: so I called immediately for @Portaspeciosa to liberate these tiles, if only briefly! In a trice, the job was done. #TinyLion

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St Brigid and her young lambs...for #StBrigidsDay From a lovely article on how St Brigid was celebrated in the visual art of Cuala Industries, a female run arts and crafts cooperative in the early 20th century. @churchartnature

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#OwlishMonday Embracing your owl, or putting it into a marginal pincer grip? It's a fine line! Arthurian romances; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Beinecke MS 229. 🦉🦉

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#AllMetalMonday #MonumentsMonday Something a little different caught my eye in the churchyard of St Lawrence's, Appleton. There seems to be a musical theme, with lyre and bells above...

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#IronworkThursday I was welcomed to this Oxfordshire church by a fine piece of Victorian engineering. An Indian ruler friendly with the Reade family paid for a 125ft well at St Mary's, Ipsden, in 1865. In the C20th, the well fell out of use, but the superstructure survives.

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#LesArmoiresDuVendredi Sir John Golafre is resting recumbent in St Nicholas Fyfield, but his #TinyLions remain as vigorous as ever, prancing for all they are worth. 🧵

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#MonumentMonday in the churchyard of St Mary's, Wargrave, Berkshire. This is the entrance to the Hannen Mausoleum, designed by Lutyens, 1906-7. 🧵 For the first time, the setting sun lit up the interior, and I dared to peep inside.

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Eco-friendly transport for 2024. It's the only way to do a group church-crawl in style. (Bodleian, Douce 264)

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#AnimalsInChurches A treasure of the Ashmolean, a funeral pall for Henry VII, superbly preserved. The dragon to the left is a fine beast, but both he and the dog have curls to their tails that greatly please the eye.

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#StGeorgesDay is as good an excuse as any to post a tremendous purple dragon looking defiant, in a war memorial window, in St Thomas', Salisbury. Saint George is shown below. IWM gives the artist as G F Hutchinson (Artist) for James Powell and Sons of London (Manufacturer). 🧵

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#FontsOnFriday in the church of All Saints, Wroxton, Oxfordshire. A pretty combination here of a C14th font recarved in 1845-6, and a jaunty floral topping of bright yellow pansies.

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Primroses in churches; nothing has surpassed this enchanting decoration of the font cover in St Helen's Church, Berrick Salome. @Pericles494BC

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Windowsill, North aisle, St Mary's Turville, in one of the most beautiful parts of the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire. 🕯️🕯️ @Pericles494BC #AllMetalMonday

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#MonumentsMonday I felt a sense of shock at seeing this infant on a windowsill, in the chancel of St Mary's, Chilton Foliat. FRANCIS HUGH LEYBORNE POPHAM, a child of 6 months on a cushion, by E. I. Popham. Born and died in 1861.

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The bookshop of your dreams! Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1, f.91v.

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#TinyLion in Trinity College chapel, Oxford. Waiting for a concert to start, I was temporarily overcome by the glamour of this pair. Lion to the left, and unicorn to the right. They are out of focus, but that could be blamed on the extreme discomfort afforded by the seating!🧵

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This owl tried to rest upon its manuscript laurels, but it proved to be a painful business. Motto: if you plan to perch on a pinnacle, be sure to check before you sit down. #OwlishMonday Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; Romance of Alexander; Illustrator: Jehan de Grise.

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A second John Haywood window in the chapel of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Several splendid #TinyLions , and much rich but wonderfully delicate detail. @Pericles494BC I will be sure to visit if I can. Both pictures from the RIBA archive.

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Mr Hare tries out a range of ear poses, from laid back to helicopter (left). By the time Philip Webb's forest animal has come to rest in William Morris' 1887 tapestry, he's settled into an upright alert pose, against a dense cover of trailing acanthus leaves. RIBA; V & A.

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#AdoorableThursday at Burford. A perfect combination of late afternoon sunshine, and the Norman West doorway, with a good array of beakheads, & delicate sprigs of ironwork decorating the doors. @Pericles494BC

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Show me a chonky Victorian font with carving more boldly lavish than this! #FontsOnFriday I was surprised, fascinated & delighted by this font in G E Street's St Michael's, Sandhurst. By Jane Monkton Jones, daughter of the previous rector, 1854 (is there any info about her?).

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#FontsOnFriday The font at Hook Norton was something I'd seen on and off in photographs, so it was a treat to see it in real life recently with @WanLooks Romanesque font with carved figures including Adam and Eve and the signs of the zodiac. 🧵

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My final photo from yesterdays wet and wild ramble through Oxfordshire. I ended my church crawl at Waterperry, and with these gorgeous gates, on the border of the gardens.

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Park Town, Oxford, held a scarlet gem at its heart, in the form of this letterbox at the West end of The Crescent garden. 'Hexagonal Penfold' type, 1865.

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#StainedGlassSunday Part of the Ashmolean's Colour Revolution exhibition, I noticed much more than that sumptuous blue fabric when I saw the painting close up. The stained glass, left, is beautifully drawn. The angel seems to reach out to bless her, but her face is turned away.

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

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#TraceryTuesday I was supposed to be heading straight home from Warwickshire, but the beautiful church of St Lawrence, Shotteswell, became my "just one more church". Here I am inside, looking out. Early C13th tower; early C14 chancel & aisles; late C14 N chapel & clerestory.🧵

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

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#FontsOnFriday Easter special; beginning with sweetly decorated St Lawrence's, Appleton-with-Eaton. Tub-shaped font set on late C12th base with spiral decoration including beaded bands.

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

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I take great heart from welcoming churches. I liked this notice inside the church at Compton very much. The best attitude can be SO good, whether one approaches a church feeling lonely & oppressed, or just keen to see a really interesting font, or indeed both!

Liz Dobson

@todbooklady

1 year

@StroudStory @CarolineIrwin3 @CathyRLowe @chartres_Fiona @churchartnature @DavidMa16901372 @mutley7781 @PosyHill1 @Portaspeciosa @Horatioforever Look! A welcoming 'Church Open' board! They never lie.

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

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#TinyLions Of course the Oxford Examination Schools had to include some lions in its exuberant decoration. And these rainwater goods provided the perfect opportunity. Two pairs of leonine faces looked at each other across Jackson's dramatic 1882 quad open to Merton Street.🧵

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

3 months

#MotheringSunday There's no finer sight than a swan with her diminutive downy cygnets, sailing serenely down the river Thames.

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

1 year

A tribute to #TinyLions in churches drawing on my recent rambles. Well this gorgeous lad was a shock, perched in a friendly way on the C15th screen in All Saints, Wroxton; Historic England maintain that the screen has inset C16/17th woodwork. It certainly looks tacked together!

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

6 months

Richard III fangirl, and absolutely not ashamed of it, at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

1 year

#OwlishMonday via the medium of stained glass, in the Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Compton, Berkshire. Lynn Claydon & Jenny Torch, 1993.

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

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#LookUp in Hampton Court Palace. I admired the ceiling of the Great Watching Chamber, studded with symbols of Tudor power. Our guide told us that the round decorative devices were made of mashed up leather, but I can't find this confirmed anywhere, so perhaps I imagined it.

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

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He was just a #TinyWyvern , but he had aspirations, & at long last, he had risen to the top of the page, & become a finial for a fancy tent (right). But his moment of victory was somehow being undermined by the rabbit at the bottom who just would not stop his incessant strumming!

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

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The Arts and Crafts treasure trove at The Wilson in Cheltenham did not disappoint me. A single gallery full of joy. I began with this mahogany Morris & Co cabinet, made in 1902 as a wedding present.

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

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#StainedGlassSunday Pootling from Fingest to Turville, in the Chiltern Hills, I knew that this 1975 John Piper & Patrick Rentyiens window was waiting for me, if the church were still open. Fortunately, there was a bell-ringing practice & villagers were pouring through the door!

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CatherineRosamundLowe

@CathyRLowe

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Only a complete fool would be driving home from Waterperry yesterday afternoon, & decide that in the teeth of the storm, they had to visit "just one more church" & that it should be situated on an exposed Oxfordshire hill top. So of course I sought out St Mary's, Garsington.

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