Heidi The History Mouse
@thehistorymouse.bsky.social
📤 1867
📥 1299
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A mainly medieval mouse with a passion for history and architecture. Historia, Caseus, Somnum!
pinned post!
The end of the road for the
#ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast
. Four legs, 22 churches, four very different winners. All special, all beautiful, but which takes the crown?
#StPaulKewstoke
#StMaryEastBrent
#StMartinFiddington
#StGeorgeDunster
...
29 days ago
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Now that's some serious porchage. It positively demands that Mouse pop in for a poke. But
#WhereIsTheHistoryMouse
?
about 13 hours ago
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As sure as
#FontsMeanFarewell
, Mouse move on to the next church on the
#ScamperUpTheSomersetAvon
. This next place takes Mouse out of her comfort zone in more ways than one. Oh, and it's raining again
add a skeleton here at some point
about 13 hours ago
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C19 copy. Say no more.
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#FontsOnFriday
1 day ago
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Doorway west of tower
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#FridaysFacesInStone
These head stops have fabulous facial expressions. They could be C15 originals but Mouse suspects they are C19 additions or replacements. The masonry certainly suggests they have been re-set
1 day ago
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It's been a while and so it's nice to find a good quality hatchment under the tower
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
1 day ago
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Scallop shells and lions
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
Particularly finely carved freestone arms on the south aisle tomb. The tassels, pellets around the base of the helm, and egg and dart motif to the base are exquisite
1 day ago
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East bay. North aisle. A curious looking organ for
#FridayPipes
from
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
1 day ago
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The things you find in churches! More rat than mus this. They'll nosh anything, even candles. No table manners and they put everything on the slate. Found in the memorial in the south isle
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
1 day ago
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Mouse's
#FridaysBitsAndPieces
from the church of the
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Relief carved fleurons in the cavetto moulding of the C15 south doorway
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Mouse's
#FridaysBitsAndPieces
from the church of the
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Door to tower stair turret set in hollow moulded lancet doorway. The planked filleted door matches south and west external doors
1 day ago
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Mouse's
#FridaysBitsAndPieces
from the church of the
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Chancel roof of three bays, decorated with cusped segmental panels forming a pleasing pattern the length of the central purlin
1 day ago
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Jokes that don't work when you see them written down number 47. Exhibit A: What's a Greek urn? About 50 Euro a day. Exhibit B: What are amphorae? Makin' di sandwiches. Curious pottery in the priest's door, south of chancel
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
1 day ago
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Mouse's
#FridaysBitsAndPieces
from the church of the
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Finely carved tomb with baldachino baring a crest supported by six classical fluted columns. Now just a receptacle for the random
1 day ago
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South door (interior)
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#AdoorableThursday
Large horizontal planks showing that the door is of double planked construction. Although this looks authentic, there is a bevel between each plank which suggests that it's more modern than C15
add a skeleton here at some point
3 days ago
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You'd be surprised too if you woke up one morning and suddenly one eye was vastly bigger than the other...
#SurprisedChurches
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#AdoorableThursday
3 days ago
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South of chancel
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#AdoorableThursday
Tiny planked priest's door more suited to a farm building than a church perhaps. The pseudo-4-centred deeply moulded doorway has been re-set
3 days ago
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Lovely blue and gold clock face above a fine
#WestDoorAndWindowCombo
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#AdoorableThursday
As an aside the dressing of the stone has a C19 feel although it's dated to mid-C15. Quite unlike the rubble fill of near neighbour
#StMaryPortbury
3 days ago
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West of tower
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#AdoorableThursday
Filleted door, very similar in design to the south door with the addition of a thick bottom ledge. It is more likely than not a modern replacement. The
#RichlyMoulded
pointed doorway dates to mid C15
3 days ago
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Hooray! A gate with a church behind it. What more could you want?
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#Thursgate
#IronworkThursday
3 days ago
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South porch interior
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#AdoorableThursday
Rather beautiful filleted door with styles extending to a pointed arch around the head. The quality and patina of the wood suggest age and good maintenance. Only the inside will tell
3 days ago
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Lovely examples of C15 pointed windows. 2 and 3-light respectively
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#WindowsOnWednesday
4 days ago
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South aisle and chancel
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#WindowsOnWednesday
It doesn't matter how many lights it has, Mouse just cannot resist a C15 square (headed) window with label and head stops. These have pointed cusped lights and hollow spandrels. Pukka as a pie
4 days ago
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North aisle
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#WindowsOnWednesday
This aisle was added during the renovation and repair following the extensive fire mid-C19. The windows are fairly faithful copies of their medieval forebears. Decorated or Perpendicular?
4 days ago
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South and east chancel elevations
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#WindowsOnWednesday
Contemporaneous C15 or C19, or is one a C15 original and the other a later copy. The way the windows are set gives a clue. Or does it?
4 days ago
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The elaborate mid-C19 nave timbers of
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#Woodensday
Double quatrefoil pierced 2-centred trusses and cusped pointed windbeams. The less said about the dormer windows the better
4 days ago
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Tuesday's missed Mouse posts due to the Blue Sky Wobble: Somebody watching me... and my anxiety... (niche) The hallmark of a good tracery window is the eyes follow you around the churchyard...
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#TraceryTuesday
Mouse's awful Face
#Pareidolia
add a skeleton here at some point
4 days ago
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Tuesday's missed Mouse posts due to the Blue Sky Wobble: A few moments later... (niche) Don't you just love it when this happens. The sheer majesty of winter light
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
#TowerTuesday
add a skeleton here at some point
4 days ago
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Tuesday's missed Mouse posts due to the Blue Sky Wobble: A fabulous tower and tracery
#TwoFah
and
#MouseEyeView
too from
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
. Pointed 4-light window. Cusped pointed lights. Intersecting tracery above three cusped elongated hexagons.
#TraceryTuesday
#TowerTuesday
4 days ago
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Tuesday's missed Mouse posts due to the Blue Sky Wobble: Clever and unusual tracery effectively shows how
#Ogee
or 4-centred arches are constructed. Three inverted pointed arches create intersecting ogees as well as quatrefoil and daggers
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#TraceryTuesday
4 days ago
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Tuesday's missed Mouse posts due to the Blue Sky Wobble: The
#MouseEyeView
....
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
More tower and turret gorgeousity for
#TowerTuesday
and as ever a
#TinyWindow
or two gratis
#TinyWindowTuesday
4 days ago
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Perpendicular tower
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#TowerTuesday
Polygonal stair turret to north east corner with octagonal spirelet. The upper stages are faced with freestone over the natural sandstone finish of the rest of tower and turret
5 days ago
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Perpendicular tower
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#TowerTuesday
The bell stage has one louvred 2-light opening on each side with trefoil (headed) lights and single quatrefoil tracery.
5 days ago
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MC Tower say it towertime.... (niche) Fine C15 3-stage embattled tower. String courses, diagonal buttresses with offsets, unusually extending to the parapet, surmounted by plain pinnacles with 4-lobed finials
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#TowerTuesday
5 days ago
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Time for a
#NerdyMouseAlert
. Look away now if you don't want minute technical detail: wonderful C15 piers to the arcades. Four thin engaged shafts separated by cavetto (hollow) moulded strips. You can feel the centuries..
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
#StonemasonryMonday
6 days ago
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Memorial tablets are laden with symbols and particular styles are repeated again and again across vastly geographically distant churches. This is one such; plinth, draped urn, mourner leaning on one elbow hand to forehead
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
#MemorialMonday
6 days ago
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The church of the
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
has a pleasing array of memorials and monuments. This C17 memorial probably the very finest. The volutes are curiously uneven which adds to the charm
#MemorialMonday
6 days ago
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Signature Somerset. Signature Mouse... Classic Somerset arch (south aisle) the cavetto moulding separating the engaged shafts of the pier extends through the arch itself with chamfered intrados and roll moulded extrados
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
#StonemasonryMonday
6 days ago
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Chancel arch to tower Tower arch to chancel
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#StonemasonryMonday
The tall C13 double chamfered pointed tower arch framing the west window pre-dates pretty much everything in the church and is a beautiful example of its type
6 days ago
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Tower arch to chancel
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#StonemasonryMonday
Three bay north and south aisles of pointed moulded arches on piers of four engaged shafts each separated by cavetto (hollow) moulding
6 days ago
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Nave to chancel
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
Simple plastered pointed arch, which probably hides rubble voussoir. Mouse wonder if a medieval masonry arch once occupied the space that was damaged beyond repair in the C19 fire
7 days ago
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Over-carved Victorian pulpit with openwork traceried 3-light windows diagonal buttresses with crocketed finials and various floriate and foliate designs to the spandrels and rail. The
#Ogee
motif is its redeeming feature
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#SundaySermons
7 days ago
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Passion...
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
for
#StainedGlassSunday
7 days ago
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Sanctuary...
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
(Mouse don't know what she done with this photo but the chancel looks curiously wonky. Or maybe it is?)
7 days ago
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Now that ladles and jellyspoons is the right kind of lantern to put on a porch. Take note all of ye who favour knock off prison lighting on your churches. Let's pop in for a poke
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
8 days ago
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Another hard to photograph church from the south because of the yew
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
#NorthSomerset
is pure C15 in origin, rebuilt and restored C19 after a fire. Sadly the dormer gives it the look of a camper van. Tower, nave, chancel, north and south aisles, later vestry
8 days ago
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If Mouse honest (she always is) the church of
#StGeorgeEastonInGordano
#NorthSomerset
wasn't packed with photographic delights but the quiet calm and mosaic decoration made this the
#MouseFavouritePhoto
add a skeleton here at some point
8 days ago
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And as
#FontsMeanFarewell
, what of the church of
#StGeorgeEastonInGordano
#NorthSomerset
? A fabulous tower, but too Victorian for Mouse's taste which has swept away any of the medieval architectural mysteries that Mouse love so much
#MusVisit
score 3/5 🐭🐭🐭
8 days ago
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As sure as
#FontsMeanFarewell
Mouse move on to the next leg of the
#ScamperUpTheSomersetAvon
to a splendid looking church with a splendid view from the hill. Welcome to the church of the Holy Trinity in Abbots Leigh
#NorthSomerset
. Still raining
#HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
add a skeleton here at some point
8 days ago
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The font of
#StGeorgeEastonInGordano
#NorthSomerset
in all of its glory and showing the cover winch. The C13 arch of four chamfered orders is beautiful. It was once continuous but now curtailed to rest on short chamfered responds. The inner order has been cut back
#FontsOnFriday
9 days ago
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The font cover at
#StGeorgeEastonInGordano
#NorthSomerset
is a very passable copy of the late medieval style. Pyramid with crocketed vertices, an openwork panel a third from the top. Finial. Tracery wimperg at the base of each face with finial, crocketed pinnacles to each corner
9 days ago
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