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A visit to perhaps my favourite church, St John the Baptist at Inglesham, Wiltshire with Sir Tony Robinson for a Ch 5 prog a couple of years ago. It was saved by William Morris @spab1877 & is today carefully looked after by the @TheCCT #churchgoing @ProfileBooks
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I'm researching Knowlton Church, Dorset and its enclosing Henge for a new project and have found the perfect image where you can even make out the linear boundary of its Anglo Saxon cemetery (Credit - Philip Auld, )
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Quietly gaunt yet sublime Anglo-Saxon Escombe, Co Durham. Built around 670 with stone robbed from a nearby Roman Fort. Check out the megalithic cornerstones & Crowstep gable. Phwoar.
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The Tomb of a wool merchant, Edmund Blanket who died in 1371 at St Stephenโ€™s, Bristol, guess what he inventedโ€ฆ
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Peter the churchwarden brought this piece of copper alloy to show me as I was sweeping up yesterday. โ€œMy son found this in yon field and I thought you should see it before you goโ€ @findsorguk reported that it was from a Limoges enamel Reliquary dated about 1180.
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Tall & gaunt Anglo - Saxon St Lawrences Bradford on Avon, Wilts. Unusual for churches of this time as it was built by Saxon masons without robbed out Roman material in the 1050s.
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Just been to see the Holbein portraits of the #Tudor court at the @RCT - a real highlight of the year - how was it that he managed to boil down the essence of his sitters with just a few pencil lines. I wonder if he had equivalents in other European courts or was he unique?
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Lucky to have Wells Cathedral to ourselves & time to sit & enjoy the mighty Strainer arches which were added 1338-48 to support the tower crossing. Built by William Joy who succumbed to the โฌ›๏ธ๐Ÿ’€
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C15th St Winefriedโ€™s holy well at Holywell, Flintshire. A truly wondrous place, the icy waters cured my hangover.
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Oddaโ€™s Chapel, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire This Anglo-Saxon chapel contains a dedication stone that, records its building in 1056 by Odda, an Anglo-Saxon earl and kinsman of King Edward the Confessor (1042-66), to pray 'for the soul' of his brother Aelfric.
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My wife will easily win this years Christmas crisp packet recycling decoration competition.
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Iโ€™ve been obsessing over the Angel roofs of East Anglia, but my favourite is closer to home at St Michaels, Somerton where the King posts are accompanied by giant Dragons, well, Wyverns to be precise that look far more exotic than what one would expect to see in Somerset. C1510
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Iโ€™ve visited thousands of churches and seen hundreds of wall paintings, but the recently revealed scheme at St Cadocs, Llancarfan are about the most thrilling and vivid Iโ€™ve yet seen and much more awaits discovery on the other walls.
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Medieval blacksmith made door furniture still doing its job after 600 or so years. SS Peter & Paul. Salle, Norfolk. #Churchgoing
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It took many hours overland & 3 ferries to get to St Clements, Rodel, on the Isle of Harris which is the most remarkable Medieval Church in the Western Isles. It is built from local Lewisian Gneiss, one of the oldest stone types on the Planet at a couple of BILLION years oldโคต๏ธ
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A gap in todays mist at in the undedicated church in the fields at Low Ham Somerset. Probably the last Gothic church to be built in Britain - 1620.Brilliantly maintained by me ๐Ÿ˜‰for the @TheCCT
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St Nonnas, Altarnun, Cornwall - the 1150s font & 1520s benchends.
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Architect: "Do you know how to build a spire?" Mason: "Well, err yeah, up to a point."
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I'm sorry to post such a shocking pic from the church roof that we are currently repairing. Is it a socio/anthropological/apotropaic/ritual protection-Witchesโ€™ mark perhaps.. JM initials are inscribed in a an adjacent shoe but I was too shocked to take a snap of that.
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๐Ÿฆ‡ in a church
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St Ellyws, Llanelieu, lingers amongst damp trees at the foot of the Black Mountains. Iโ€™d come to visit its C14th Rood Loft once a feature of every Parish, but now few remain The flagstones around the loft's eight legs was dusted with bat droppings and dead black flies. โฌ‡๏ธ
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All pleased with myself today having safely fixed the Mahoosive chancel cross back into position๐Ÿ˜ฌ
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A busy couple of days securing the south transept parapet and fixing a new heavy-duty handrail at Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, where I'll never tire working. #churchgoing
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Iโ€™ve got a new favourite Church door discovered at St Maryโ€™s, Gedney, Lincolnshire. C14th. Itโ€™s so magnificent there is even the remains of a small Ivory Cross in the centre panel beside the wicket Door.
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There are Cathedral Treasuries & then there is Aachen.
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Not churches this time, but Iโ€˜m writing about this C19th building in Trowbridge as part of the proposal for my next book. Itโ€™s a house for drying teasels that were an important part of the old wool processing industry where they were used to raise the nap of the finished cloth.
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Just visited the wonderful @GuildChapel in Stratford on Avon to see its recently conserved wall paintings inc the incredibly fresh C16th Erthe upon Erthe Poem that was only uncovered in 2016
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Blythburgh, Truncated Angels.
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The font at Bridekirk, Cumbria with its Anglo/Norse runes read something like "Rikarth he made me and brought me to this splendour". So not only do we know the name of the mason/carver but also what he looked like from his 'selfie' where he is busy with mallet & (huge) chisel.
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Nutmeg has been thoroughly and politely enjoying the past few years Churchgoing. She's quite the expert now in squints, squinches, parcloses and rood screens and can, I am sure, now tell the difference between alabaster and old marble.
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Durham Cathedralโ€™s Sanctuary knocker that allows a miscreant 37 days to figure out a plan before they were turfed out.
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Iโ€™ve been asked to make a promo video at work by my publisher, so I thought I would do some extra content - shot at St Maryโ€™s, Hemington. Somerset, which we look after for the @TheCCT #churchgoing @SPAB1877
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The gaunt, Ivyed ruins of Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk. Long neglected, its tower collapsed into the nave when an aircraft flew to close during the war. Touchingly, the graveyard is still maintained. #churchgoing .
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St Pirans Cross, hidden amongst the towans at Perranporth is the oldest recorded Cross in Cornwall -mentioned in a charter of King Edgar in A.D. 960
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Iโ€™m looking for a trainee - a youngster preferably - for church conservation work around Somerset mainly - please DM me in here if interested - (Pic - repairs to the Duke of Somersetโ€™s monument - St James Priory - Bristol).
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Gilbert doing his job!
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Apart from the C18th Box Pews that fill St Andrews at Winterborne Tomson, Dorset, little has changed since it was built in Norman times. Simple, bright and beautiful - with uneven limewashed walls and a flagged floor under a wagon roof. It is single celled instead of cruciform
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Saint Enodocโ€™s, Cornwall, with its witches hat like spire, partially hidden by the dunes that it was dug out from In the 18th century
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Listening to grim stats on @BBCr4today about unemployment amongst young people. Why not learn a traditional craft skill? There is a massive shortage of the right skills to work on our old buildings. Lucy our trainee is doing well, just look at her lovely window tracery repairs!
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Hello Boston you beauty! #churchgoing last winter
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The only parish church shrine in England that still has the remains of its Saint inside - on the feast day of St Wite, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset. #churchgoing
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Ancient chalk lime render, flint and a single colour come together to make something special in Salisburyโ€™s Cathedral close.
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Nice that #Thestonemason paperback is out today #WorldBookDay .
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Hill fort.
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An eerie chamber up high in the medieval tower of St Stephens in Bristol. But looking up I was very pleased to see the corner squinches that support the pinnacles๐Ÿ˜‰โš’
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St Marys, Ewelme, Oxfordshire.
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Would love to know more about Sir Humphreyโ€™s (who died in 1380) weird choice of pillow. Heโ€™s available for visits at All Saints, Holbeach, Lincolnshire #churchgoing
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Poor old Jessie, at St Cuthberts, Wells, hacked away as a Superstitious image, by a Mason whose grandfather may have carved the original, compelled to deface what they love.
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3 minutes without comment at St Andrews, Winterborne Thompson, #Dorset . Saved in the 1930s by the @SPAB1877 & cared for today by the @TheCCT .
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Iโ€™ve just sent my second book - CHURCH GOING - to the publisher @ProfileBooks here is the first page - with a pencil sketch of one of the Angels at St Agnes, Cawston, Norfolk by @ClareVenZim ๐Ÿฅ‚๐Ÿฅ‚
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I stop to take a snap of this farmstead at Stourhead every time I pass by. Thereโ€™s never anyone about. The goats playground, the hole in the wall, its greenness, the trees and the single blue camping seat as well as itโ€™s near perfect symmetry.
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St Johns, Elkstone is a fine Norman Church situated high on the Cotswolds that has an unexpected & remarkable space, a Columbarium hidden away over its Chancel Sanctuary
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#churchgoing lunch on #Iona (keeping with the monastic consumption of small beer on the very spot where St Colmcille/Columba kept his cell)
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My favouritest Isometric view of all time by Prof Stuart Piggott of the #Neolithic West Kennet Long Barrow. Post code SN8 1QH #isometricfriday .
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I am actually at work today - a simple but awkward job in this bell chamber - nice Somerset Tracery btw.
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St Michaels, Stanton Harcourt, Oxon with the remains of the adjacent Manor Houseโ€™s great Kitchen & Popes tower - both C15th. My first job was here 30 years ago & the external repairs are still hanging on in there.
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Where the wild things are - includes the font at St Catherines, Ludham, Norfolk that is supported by a male & female woodwose, The wild ones of the woods.
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Iโ€™ve been staying in the Vatican for a couple of weeks on a book research thing - but made it out to the Capitoline museum where I enjoyed this dedication to the goddess for a safe going (ITUS) & returning (REDITUS). Note the dove in the middle. 3rd century AD
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Todayโ€™s view from the top!
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Working with the angels today.
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A touch of spring-like optimism aided by the evergreens last week amongst the floods at Muchelney #churchgoing
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Alice Poleโ€™s double-decker tomb at Ewelme, is best visited at the end of an autumn day, as the low sun movingly illuminates her likeness in death. Iโ€™ll save her modesty by not sharing her wizened nakedness. Contrast the thin band that holds her hair back with her Coronet. โฌ‡๏ธ
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These slots in the vault are a maternity roost we made for Daubentons or Fishing ๐Ÿฆ‡ at the early C14th Barton Farm Packhorse bridge in Bradford on Avon.
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Finishing touches at Hemington St Maryโ€™s with its newly stone slated porch roof and a few coats of limewash.
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Aspects of Dorchester Abbeyโ€™s โ€œswaggering knight" so called because of his lively posture as he draws his sword. He is almost struggling to escape the block of Caen Stone. Thought to be William de Valence โœ๏ธ16 June 1282 at Llandeilo, Carmarthen, son of the Earl of Pembroke โฌ‡๏ธ
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Yesterday was spent on Wiltshireโ€™s ancient drovers roads and the Vallum of hillforts in the company of skylark, raven and kite.
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Poking out of the sand dunes that once covered the nave and aisles. โ€˜Her spire bent like a crooked witchโ€™s hat, A grave, a stile, a dandelion clock Then the cool silence of St. Enodocโ€™ From โ€˜John Betjeman at Trebetherickโ€™ by John Whitworth #steeplesaturday #churchgoing
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Hello from Boston and the mighty stump. #Churchgoing
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St Nonnas, Altarnun, Cornwall - the 1150โ€™s font & 1520โ€™s benchend that records the names of the church wardens and that it was carved by Robart (sic) Daye. #churchgoing
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Iโ€™m measuring up with the scaffolders at St Maryโ€™s, Steeple Ashton. Itโ€™s one of the finest Perpendicular churches in the country. Pevsner described it as "fairly bristling with pinnacles โ€“ a gay and fantastical sight" Iโ€™ll post a thread of work updates here๐Ÿ‘‡
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The last steps to the top of the tower & ๐Ÿ˜ณ the view of the Mendip Hills.
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A tea break trip up the C15th tower to the bells of St Jamesโ€˜ Cameley, Somerset which is a wonderful palimpsest of oak over painted walls and ancient monuments. Now cared for by us - @MinervaStone on behalf of @TheCCT #churchgoing
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Shadowy Angels up high at All Saints, York.
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Thereโ€™s a no photos rule at the Rosslyn Chapel, but I had it to myself so how could I resist the Siren call of its rather eccentric c14th carvers.
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Sorry about the bombardment of churches today but Iโ€™ve got over 40k images and if I put them on here one at a time theyโ€™ll never get aired. Iโ€™m also experimenting to see if I can get extra traction with the algorithm by posting more. This round tower is at Swainsthorpe, Norfolk.
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Iโ€™m really pleased to be working the now redundant St Maryโ€™s Hemington, Somerset for the next six months. So much so that Iโ€™ve splashed out on a new ash mallet.
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Looking for some help over the spring/summer on various heritage projects - happy to train up the right candidate.
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Tivetshall St Margaret's Royal arms of Elizabeth I that replaced the Rood Loft. The names of the churchwardens, Jeffrey Neve, John Freeman and Richard Russell are recorded on the bottom LHS and continue bottom right "In there tyme they caused this for to be done" #churchgoing
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Ha Ha me & Mrs Z just been to Kilpeck yet again - our first visit being in the 1140s.
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Am working next to these Medieval Acoustic jars' at St Maryโ€™s,Tarrant Rushton, Dorset. They were placed above the chancel to enhance acoustics & improve resonance. Thereโ€™s an equally ancient birds nest in there & some dusty old pennies no doubt thrown by local kids. #Churchgoing
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The multicoloured wives of St Neots, Cornwall. C1490. Kneeling in prayer with their rosaries. They were the windowโ€™s donors.. They request in the banner over their coifed heads; Sancte Meberede (and Sancta Maria) ora pro nobis (SS Meubred & Mary, pray for us) #churchgoing
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Those hands! At St Enodocs Cornwall
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Just been on a research trip to St Twits at Llantwit Major ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ to see King Houeltโ€™s C9th โ€˜wheelโ€™ Cross with its hypnotic & labyrinthine triangular key pattern.
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Censing Angel in feather suit - Salle, Norfolk.
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2 years
Buy my book. #HistoryWritersDay22
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A trip to grey St Nonnas, Altarnun to see its marvellous C12. Font (with paint)! and early C16 carved benchends that are slowly being eaten by the worm from the bottom up- tsk. #churchgoing #cornwall
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Iโ€™m off to do some scything (as thereโ€™s no power at a couple of my churches for charging batteries for horrible strimmers), before the storms come in.
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Midway between Silbury hill & West Kennet Long barrow rises the Swallowhead Spring with Sarsen stepping stones accross the R Kennet #NeolithicNovember
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The restored but largely medieval Hanging Pyx at St Maryโ€™s, Dennington, Suffolk is a rare survivor of a furnishing that every church would have had prior to the Reformation. It contains the Holy Sacrament and is kept over the holiest place of all, the Altar. The sacramental bread
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@natchjourneyman Thank you. While I adore font covers, what is kind of intriguing is how easily they slot into the other works found in parish churches (rood screens, piscinas, etc.). They function a little differently, but stylistically and iconographically, they belong to the same world.
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The militaristic Norman central tower of St Johnโ€™s, Devizes. Built within the now, long slighted, castle walls. #churchgoing
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My wandering thoughts keep carrying me back here - the C13th shrine of St Wite at Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset - 1 of only 2 medieval shrines to have survived with its occupant intact. I've never been anywhere in Britain that has such a sense of peace.
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Berserkers wield axes and swords on Lindisfarneโ€™s, Viking Raider - Judgement Day' stone. A reminder that the Viking raids were a sign of the coming of the Last Judgement.
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Such good fortune to have finally picked this up for a song. As Stewart Lee put it - 'How I envy you if you are about to read Ithell Colquhoun's gnostic travelogues for the first time, for soon you, too, will be post-Colquhoun, and everything will seem ever so slightly altered.'
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Exploring the approaches to the Holy Island of Iona on the Birthe Marie and the bay where St Columba - Colmcille landed as part of my journey around Britain looking at ancient churches #churchgoing .
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This week we have mostly repairing rotten window mullions.
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A pair of Knightly effigies at Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire- Sir William de Valance (d. 1282) colour can be seen in the mesmerising drapery of his cloak. John de Stonor with the knobbly knee (d. 1354) served Edward III as Lord Chief Justice, his descendants still live nearby.
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Happy Solstice People - only a few stragglers for sunrise and a group of cyclists from Sherborne!
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Steeple Ashtonโ€™s fine Medieval South porch door complete with sanctuary ring.
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Remnants of C17th bell frame and bell headstock at St James, Avebury. It's always sad to see the carpenter's craft treated this way. So many timber bell frames have been needlessly destroyed over the years and replaced with steel frames.
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Am reading...The inscription reads: The trumpet shall sound. The dead shall rise. To meet Christ Jesus in the Skies. The Buchannan headstone - 1737, from Logie Pert old Kirk burial ground in Angus.
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Sir John Harsick has removed his armoured Gauntlet to hold his wife Katherineโ€™s hand +1384 at St Georges, South Acre, Norfolk. There no love in this seemingly touching act as it simply indicates that he was married to an heiress. #Churchgoing
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