61, ill-health retired from NHS; degree in English Lit; I love churches, historic barns, art, music, history & wildlife. My son Chris is a doctor in the NHS.
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Find your #Hashtags here! Ready and willing to assist church crawlers and the like for another year (see the date added bottom right). 🌟🌟🌟
A glimpse of the poetry of the spruced up and somewhat shabby. Lovely!
This weekend I have a short and peaceful video of lovely doors. House, garden and more. Enjoy!
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Good morning everyone!
My IT chaos somewhat tamed now, I'll be mostly tweeting new photos from my CatherineRosamundLowe account @CathyRLowe, so please join me there if rusty boot scrapers are to your taste. @_captainscience
#FerrousFriday from King's Parade, Cambridge.🧡
#PrettyPipes Adorable decoration, in St Mark's, Englefield.
The sweet little cherubic faces (right)!
More detail of George Gilbert Scott's reredos in St Mark's Englefield.
The Evangelist symbols root the decorative scheme in the familiar for me. The painting of the lower portion of the reredos is very pleasing.
Here's a favourite symbol - St Mark's lion, on the lefthand side of the reredos. #TinyLion
Is he directing a piercingly suspicious eye at me? Or merely being generally watchful and "on duty" at all times?
Watchful! The stone head above, and the eagle lectern below, scan the nave carefully in St Mark's Englefield.
Would risk no shenanigans here!
This was definitely a chocolate box of a church, full of goodies of different eras, contentedly sitting side by side.
#TilesOnTuesday or - the mosaic of Henry Woodyer meets the foot of the reredos of G G Scott, in the sanctuary of St Mark's, Englefield.
Plenty to engage the eye here! @Pericles494BC
#TilesOnTuesday I found the tiling in the sanctuary at St Mark's Englefield to be most attractive.
Pevsner says that this mosaic floor is by Woodyer, 1894.
#MonumentsMonday Reclining in St Mark's Englefield, and nobly supported by a lion (showing us his haunches), this Medieval knight's identity is not known.
#MonumentsMonday in St Mark's, Englefield. My eye was caught by the swan (right).
Detail from memorial to John Powlet, 5th Marquess of Winchester (d. 1675).
#StainedGlassSunday Geometric greenery in St Mary's Upton, Hampshire.
Last of my trio of church gates, c 1900, lych gate by E. Swinfen Harris. Low walls of flint with stone dressings, and timber framed superstructure. Hipped old tile roof with sprocketed eaves.
St Mark's, Englefield, Berks. Bins proudly on display, in the late afternoon sunshine.
Two wooden gates to SE with turned balusters. Inscription on lintel: 'Let it be your care to go humbly to your grave.' I needed no warning on that score!
I noticed the cut-out hearts❤️& that someone had painted a little pebble & placed it carefully in one of them @Pericles494BC
Mark, Liz, I think I have worked out what sprocketed eaves are (it's a new term for me) - that change in angle at the very end of the tiled slope of the roof, which adds a kind of energy and visual fizz.
Is that correct. @RuthRendell1 @todbooklady
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Like many early medievalists (maybe?), I’m a Gregory the Great fan, & today is his feast. Here’s a favorite portrait in ivory from the 10th c, now in Vienna.
The bird on his shoulder represents the Holy Spirit. The detail is so fine you can see stubble on his cheeks
