Sanctuary #StMartinFiddington #Somerset #StainedGlassSundaySanctuary Vibrant early C20 glass dominates this beautiful, tranquil space. Everything in its rightful place.

Sacrifice #StMartinFiddington #Somerset #StainedGlassSunday

Tomorrow we PIFAP, but don't get over excited about this porch, it's solid C19 #StMartinFiddington #Somerset (nice cross finial though)

North aspect #StMartinFiddington #Somerset This really is a handsome church even though the tower dwarfs the nave and chancel. North aisle, vestry and south porch complete the church plan. Predominantly C14 and C15 with the usual C19 'renovation' hence the north aisle windows

So many candidates for #MouseFavouritePhoto from #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset but Mouse has a real fondness for this Norman font. Something about the light. After all #ItsAllAboutTheLight

Welcome to the church of St. Martin in the small village of Fiddington in Somerset. A small church with a solid low tower braced against the wind from the coast. A mix of Decorated-style and Perpendicular as we shall later discover #StMartinFiddington #Somerset #SteepleSaturday

And as #FontsMeanFarewell what of the church of #AllSaintsOtterhampton? This is a beautiful little church. Light, bright and spiritual and full of interest for Mouse. She wish she scored out of ten so she could give a nine. But as it is, it gets a high 4/5 #MusVisit🐭🐭🐭🐭

As sure as #FontsMeanFarewell Mouse move on to the next church on her #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast. And here it is, with a rather pleasing aspect set amongst the trees

And finally from Mouse, stern advice to all gardeners who work in churchyards. If you do not keep your shrubbery under control, you absolutely positively will lose sight of your church. Be warned #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset

The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings... Priest's door. South of chancel (interior) #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #FerrousFriday. On Thursday Mouse declared with the confidence of the utterly ill-informed that this was an ancient door. The beading says otherwise

The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings... Priest's door. South of chancel (exterior) #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #FerrousFriday. Mouse's suspicions are raised by the screws attaching this pull

A quick addition to one of Mouse's favourite files... #PintlesInAction. Mouse always say; "You gotta love a #Pintle" #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #FerrousFriday

The font at #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset has a bottom lip with a shallow chamfer to the top face. Both faces decorated with saltires set in squares. Mouse favourite Norman optical illusion. Stare hard enough and you'll see eight spokes in a lozenge #FontsOnFriday #Christogram

Font from west end of nave into tower #AllSaintsOtterhampston #Somerset for #FontsOnFriday For more details see earlier post (#ItsNotLinedUp either)

West tower #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #FontsOnFriday Norman tub font on modern plinth. Ribbed early C17 conical cover extending to finial capped with four leaf clusters and a ball with horizontal central fillet (#ItsNotLinedUp with the chancel arch... very annoying)

The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings.... South door (external) #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset #FerrousFriday

South of chancel #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #FridayPipes Rather attractive framed by tracery

Above south door #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi Quick hatchment for you. Made Mouse think of the Queen who ruled for the vast majority of Mouse's life

Just to record what is left... Something must have happened to wipe the smiles off their faces. Label head stops to west door #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset #FridaysFacesInStone

Mouse must have been quite diligent this week, because there is only one of Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset; slowly crumbling plaster revealing the Blue Lias surround of the west window (and a chamfered segmental pointed rere)

A little gatey treat to end Mouse's day... #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset #IronworkThursday #Thursgate

A little late night gate action for #Thursgate (with the promise of more to come) #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset #IronworkThursday

Curious little fenced off area to the south of #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset. Presumably this once enclosed one or more tombs although there is little remaining evidence #IronworkThursday

The door that saw too much... Double planked with wide horizontal planks on the interior. The bottom half of this door really has taken a bit of a beating inside and out. Is this a case of Trigger's broom? #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

South door #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday You can really see the vintage of the door from the inside. Single planked, ledged and with styles that extend to a point to frame the head. The geometry of this is somewhat.. rustic. Nice chamfered circular rere

Chancel #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday C19 door to former north chapel now vestry and (likely) C15 priest's door. The priest's door is double planked with (quite unusually) diagonal planks on the inside and vertical planks outside (from an earlier post)

Only skinny bell ringers may apply (Mouse trigger warning: this reflects the attitudes of the time which may be seen as unacceptable today).... Ovolo moulded pseudo-4-centred doorway with C15 door from #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

West of tower #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday A #RichlyMoulded doorway with head stopped label housing a door with a bit of an identity crisis. Three generations of plank and just the merest hint of the tracery that once graced the head

South of chancel #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday Chamfered pseudo-4-centred doorway with simple planked and studded door dappled in light and shade. The upper part of the masonry extending from the head are pecked showing that this wall was once plastered

Step inside the ancient porch of #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset and discover even more beauty #AdoorableThursday Pointed arch with arris on chamfered jambs. Planked, filleted door dating to C15

A little architectural amuse bouche for the sumptuous many coursed #Doornucopia that this way comes #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #DoorwayThursday Relieving arch of irregularly shaped Blue Lias voussoir takes the strain for a slowly crumbling pointed arch on rubble jambs

Chancel #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday Fabulous glass in this square set 2-light window with cusped pointed lights (fitted with QR codes?)

Light and shade #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

West window (almost) perfectly framed in the C14 tower arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday Tiny fragments of coloured glass adorn the spandrels

West elevation of chancel (to left) meeting east elevation of nave #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #WallsOnWednesday Sadly somewhat obscured by #SomersetFayries, a curious alteration. Modern red brick laid as stretchers in a C13 wall. A repair? An alteration?

Intersection between tower (left) and west end of nave #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #WallsOnWednesday The dedicated #ChurchChomper can't see narrow courses of red packing without thinking redeployed 'Roman brick'. Well... maybe, but what was this put in for?

What do you do with an in-situ square set trefoil headed light with hollow spandrels, unstopped label and fine ferramenta? (thanks for the word @churchartnature.bsky.social and @cathylowe.bsky.social) Drill a hole for a cable of course Vandals #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

Little known but evidently true fact: #SomersetFayries emit a trail on an invisible part of the EM spectrum but it can sometimes be seen on digital photos. Mouse try to photograph chancel and chapel windows and there were swarms of them! #AllSaintsOtterhampton #WindowsOnWednesday

Which came first, the window or the porch (right)? #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday Authentic square set 3-light window with cusped #Ogee lights, glazed spandrels and (now) unstopped label

Nothing spoils a window more completely than rainwater goods and this is no exception. That said, this is a rather nice square set 3-light window with cusped, shallow #Ogee lights and a square moulded label with head stops #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

Original C15 screen #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset on #Woodensday Pseudo-4-centred arch framing four pointed open panels each enclosing a cusped #Ogee with fleuron terminals to the lower cusps, extending to a bifurcated finial. This creates a dagger in the open spandrels

Original C15 screen #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset on #Woodensday Much damaged and somewhat erratically repaired, it's still good to see a survivor

West of tower #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #TraceryTuesday Fine and largely original 3-light pointed window with cusped #Ogee lights and stopped label. Tracery of two hexagons with cusped heads, and small glazed spandrels. This friable stone is crumbling slowly to dust

Let's take #AlookAroundTheBack at #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset. Quite tidy around here, which is unusual. In the distance the north chapel now vestry. Interesting etymology (C17), it's the place where the priest could change his vest and pants. Why not pantry? It was taken

Nave #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #TilesOnTuesday Simple but attractive C19 tiling. The fact that it's not symmetrical about the north-south axis doesn't affect Mouse a bit. Oh, no. Not one bit (gentle twitching of Mouse's left eye). Not one bit

Mouse eye view #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset on #TowerTuesday A chance to enjoy a #TinyWindow right here on #TinyWindowTuesday

From north #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset on #TowerTuesday Of course there's a perfectly Perp polygonal stair turret, we are in North Somerset after all. The quality of the dressing on tower and turret is very fine

From south #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset on #TowerTuesday Out of control trees and west boundary wall make it impossible to get a distant photo of the tower from those aspects, so this is a natural Mouse eye view. Embattled 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses and strings

The destiny of most niches and hagioscopes is as a holder for flowers just as here in the porch of #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset. It's #Spolia of course, probably a piscina or stoup once upon a time. The bottom stone is a replacement and it's lost its top #StonemasonryMonday

From cancel to tower arch #AllSaintsOtterhampton #Somerset for #StonemasonryMonday The arch, resting on chamfered Blue Lias jambs, is unique in style within the church. It looks as if it has come from somewhere else. Chamfered (outer), cavetto and roll moulded resting on corbels