Interests - Walking, Cycling, Travel, History, Nature. Retired Head of Humanities, European. 🇪🇺
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Church of St Peter & The Holy Apostles, Wyndham Square, #Plymouth #Devon
The Virgin & Child (detail)
#JamesPatterson
#StainedGlassSunday
St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, #Edinburgh
#Architect - #GeorgeGilbertScott
Central spire at 83.8 metre (275 foot) was to be the only one
The 63.7 metre (209 foot) high western spires are named after Cathedral's patrons, Barbara (south) & Mary (north) Walker
#SteepleSaturday
The Highland Tolbooth Kirk, #Edinburgh
Designed as a meeting hall for General Assembly of the Church of #Scotland.
Used by various congregations 1929 - 1979
Architects - J Gillespie Graham & Augustus Pugin.
Built 1842 - 45
Now The Hub - entertainment space.
#SteepleSaturday
👀 #Peterborough Cathedral
The tower, completed in late 12th C, was originally to be one of a pair.
It once had a spire until 1812.
Today, along with the West Front (1238), there are instead many smaller spires & pinnacles.
#SteepleSafurday
👀 St Peter & St Paul, #WestNewton #Norfolk
@YalePevsner suggests a date of early 14th C, because of Y-tracery in bell-openings. Of note is the ogee-headed niche in the west wall
The church was extensively restored 1881 by #ArthurBlomfield for Prince of Wales
#SteepleSafurday
“Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find” - Walt Whitman
An appropriate message as we “voyage” into 2025.
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year.
Detail from a #HelenWhittaker window - #Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford, #Suffolk
👀 Church of St Mary, #Brancaster #Norfolk
A 15th Century tower with flushwork battlements.
#SteepleSaturday
Malcolm Stoneman retweeted
A tender #ArtsandCrafts #Nativity for #ChristmasEve2024 from Karl Parsons at Hindhead, #Surrey, 1912 to send Christmas greetings to all my friends and followers on here - thank you for all the chat and the churches and the folklore over the year, and may there be much more!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all.
The Angel Gabriel -
The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck
c 1435
Now National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
#AdventAngels
Malcolm Stoneman retweeted
This wonderful #StainedGlassSunday, just right as we pass the #WinterSolstice and head into the light, is by John Piper, 1981, in @WiltshireMuseum. Piper loved the museum, visiting it many times for more than 50 years. The cartoon is now @MuseumandArt, in our UnCommon People exh.
👀 #Honington #Suffolk
The low winter sun 🌞 was casting some beautiful shadows this week.
Decorated west tower, with a brick stair-turret.
Perpendicular porch with nice flint flushwork. Ready for glass to be inserted in 1487.
#SteepleSaturday
Excellent illustrated talk in #DownhamMarket tonight by @johnevigar -
“Little Known Treasures in #Norfolk Churches”
This #mermaid from #Grimston #Norfolk warns against vanity!
John gave us many ideas for future #ChurchCrawling trips.
#WoodcarvingWednesday
@johnevigar is the author of many books on visiting churches & is leading a course in #DownhamMarket in January 👇
👀 St Michael’s Church, #Highgate #London
Brand new #HelenWhittaker window, dedicated 1st December 2024.
The Hope Window is in memory of all our departed loved ones.
The central cross represents faith, the anchor - hope & 3 interlocking circles - Trinity.
#StainedGlassSunday
👀 St Leonard & St Dilph,
#Landulph #Cornwall
Built in a “Lann” or enclosure
Tower base maybe Norman & the rest perhaps rebuilt in the 15th C.
Landulph is one of many #medieval ports on the River Tamar. From here pilgrims departed for Santiago de Compostela?
#SteepleSaturday
🚶♀️🚶🏻♂️ #DownhamMarket #Norfolk
Plenty of publicity on town notice boards (if a little damp 😉) for evening talk at Heritage Centre.
Also, for course in #KingsLynn advertised in Words & Wonder Bookshop.
@johnevigar talking about Norfolk Churches.
St Mary’s Church, #BurnhamDeepdale #Norfolk
A censing angel.
David King (Stories in Glass 📕) dates to c1435 - c1445.
It is unclear where the glass came from, but it was probably inserted in the tower by Frederick Preedy in 1875/6 restoration
#StainedGlassSunday #AdventAngel
👀 St Mary’s Church, #BurnhamDeepdale #Norfolk
A late #Saxon round tower of 1050 - 1100.
The church was restored by #FrederickPreedy 1875-6.
#SteepleSafurday
👀 The #Shakespeare Centre, #Stratford-upon-Avon #Warwickshire
A detail of one of the figures engraved in the glass door by #JohnHutton.
Commissioned in 1964.
#StainedGlassSunday
👀 St Peter’s, #NossMayo, nr #Plymouth #Devon
Church by St Aubyn -1882
Built by Lord Revelstoke (Barings) of the #Membland estate.
“W tower of red sandstone in a commanding position”- @YalePevsner
It replaced St Peter the Poor Fisherman church at Stoke Beach.
#SteepleSaturday
