@reblambert.bsky.social Usually the fudge shop at the entrance to Salisbury Cathedral Close has a fudge construction in its window. Tangential to your studies perhaps but amusing.

The tiny church of St Mary at Ampney St Mary in Gloucestershire is a gem. However, one curiosity are the crossed rakes graffiti. Might they have been left by farm workers praying for a good harvest? Of perhaps they were giving thanks for a successful year. Whatever, they were a delightful find.

I suspect that these two sheepish looking chap are actually lions. Shaftesbury Abbey.

St Andrew's Sonning Berkshire. Henry Woodyer's spectacular 1875 reredos comprising saints is unusual for this area. Woodyer had previously engaged in a comprehensive reorganisation of the nave in 1852. The roof painting is by Bodley between 1903 - 1906.

I wish everybody a very Happy New Year 2026

The foot seems awkwardly foreshortened. Toes are there: I see traces of lines between them. The wound is placed further "back". Something did go wrong with the right hand (maybe, as you say, in a repair): it would be odd to omit the wound; we even see blood on Jesus' brow from the crown of thorns.

A variety of medieval tiles behind the Altar at North Morton, Oxon. #TilesOnTuesday

Nothing like a wiggly worm for Twixmas. Here's Ralph Hamsterley d.1518, late Rector of St Andrew, Oddington, Oxon, in all his cadaverous glory.

The altar of the Sword's point, the place where Archbishop Thomas Becket was slain on the 29th December 1170 in Canterbury Cathedral. Many of the miracles associated with his death occurred in the following days and some are commemorated in the Miracle Windows that may be found in the Cathedral.

I have wanted this book ever since @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social recommended it some months ago. Sadly it proved impossible to find. A very very kind friend has gifted it to me for Christmas. I am overwhelmed and utterly grateful. It’s blooming excellent.

As a boy pulling our mouths wide was one way in which we displayed cheekiness. Indeed, the word itself according to the OED since 1838 means ‘Impudent or insolent, esp. in speech; forward or presumptuous, esp. in a way that is amusing or disarming’. These chaps got there 500 years earlier! (Oakham)

13th Century wall painting of the Assembly of the Apostles at St John the Baptist, Cold Overton, Leics.

Not a Della Robbia alas, however, a nice seasonal Virgin and Child from St Kyneburgha's Castor.

A glass panel of men praying at Thomas Becket's tomb shrine at Canterbury Cathedral.

Wishing everybody a very Merry and peaceful Christmas. (C14 Pisa Barnabas of Modena.)

'O star of wonder, star of light, Star with royal beauty bright' (Ely Cathedral Octagon)

Nativity. Francis Spear, 1923. Love the hands...the faces don't move me much but as he worked with Martin Travers from 1922 perhaps the naivety is not such a surprise. (The Stained Glass Museum, Ely)

Jacob with his ladder at the Fishermen's Church in there Gloucester docks. He looks like he's ready to do a little painting and decorating.

Much restored C15 reredos with C20 colour and sculptures in the Lady Chapel at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford by Henry Youngman.

Two rather grumpy cherubs squinting in the late summer sun at St Mary's, Purton. Possibly grumpy because someone's nicked their legs and replaced them with foliated tassels, no wonder they're holding on so tightly. #MonumentsMonday

Bodley's exquisite 1898 pulpit in Canterbury Cathedral. Constructed in memory of Dean Payne-Smith the angels include carvings of the Annunciation and the Crucifixion. The two figures on the balustrades are St Augustine and St Gregory or possibly St Paulinus. #SundaySermons

One of London's unbuilt urban motorways was so unpopular that government officials decided to keep its plans a secret and pretend that they had never planned it at all. Their plan to drive a motorway through Barnes was the worst kept secret in West London. #barnes www.roads.org.uk/ringways/rin...

"You hum it and we'll play it!"

A C15 bench end at Trent, Dorset. This looks as though the bird above has vanquished the Basilisk/wyvern(?) below. But what is that bird, it's not a dodo, a stylised eagle perhaps?

For #AdoorableThursday The Crowning of the Virgin from the C15 (images restored) screen doors at Torbyran on Dartmoor, Devon.

Tom Denny's recently installed East window at Tisbury, Wilts. @roaringmeg.bsky.social

Tiles at St Andrew's Cotterstock, Northants. #TilesOnTuesday

Salisbury Cathedral shining in the rain tonight.

Good Day! Night Owl on a Winter Eve Flight by Walter King Stone c.1900-1939

Oakham School Chapel taken from the church.

Bit of everything going on at All Saints, Nassington, Northants.

A plain tub font, late Norman probably, sits solid in St Oswald Widford, Oxon. Fire extinguishers are often placed close to fonts as babies and small children are especially susceptible to spontaneous combustion. #FontsonFriday

The door to The Hermitage in Frome, Somerset. Note the Epiphany chalking on the door.

Not quite Christmas yet, however, in anticipation, here is the nativity in sculpture in the North Aisle of St Bartholomew Ducklington, Oxon. The sculpture forms part of a C14 frieze depicting the life of the Virgin. As I showed in my recent post of a wallpainting at Cold Overton, Christ is elevated.

Heraldic Shield tiles from the mid C13 assembled beside the altar in 1901 at Dore Abbey. #TilesOnTuesday

Ninian Comper St Luke's, Cardiff

Jane Austen lived in the Hampshire Village of Chawton. Between 1809 and 1817 she regularly worshipped at St Nicholas Church a 5 minute walk from her house. The church we see today she would not recognise. However, I came across the second picture in a video and we can see how much it has changed.

A splash of colour in Castor's angel roof.

St Kyneburgha's, Castor, Cambs, with its famous Norman tower. A lovely church and an all round gem. Photo taken in the Summer!

Apologies if this offends your OCD. A perfectly gorgeous ogee in the C14 stone screen at Broughton, Oxon, through which we see early Decorated period tracery in the East window.

Waiting for the sun to arrive!

For those folk who saw fit to 'correct' me in my previous post! 😘

A very plump, self satisfied puss in the Norman great hall of Oakham Castle. Just look at the wrinkles on that tummy! #Caturday

St John the Baptist, Barnack presents another of her treasures. A remarkable 15th Century image of the Immaculate Conception. Mary is pierced by light rays emanating from a Trinity grouping (God the father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit). How this piece survived the Reformation is miraculous.

A delightful 11th Century Christ in Majesty at St John the Baptist, Barnack, Hunts. Possibly part of a Saxon altar piece.

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Locked! Clearly my time’s not yet!

All Saints church, Crudwell, Wiltshire contains a rare 15th Century window showing Christ and five of the Seven Sacraments.