Uh well. I guess this works? (Yarnton, Oxfordshire)

Fun at Finchale Priory, Co. Durham, using geospatial survey data and some digital 3D wizardry. We've installed some brand-new interpretation panels on site. Free Entry. #DigitalHeritage #DigitalReconstruction #3D #HistoricalReconstruction #GeospatialData #GeospatialHeritage #Blender3D

Being a vet in the C12 was always such a faff, especially when your equine patient has an elephant on his back. (Castor)

I keep thinking about this font I encountered at Monmouth Priory ⛪️ I hope it's okay 😭 #Wales #FontsOnFriday

Late #FontsOnFriday The C15 #FontCover at Middleham, St Mary and St Alkelda,Yorkshire likely came from Jervaulx Abbey, discarded in likely in the 1720s. Found in a hayloft of Middleham Deanery in 1895, was reconstructed by 1898. Top & base gone, middle survived.

Having fun going through historicengland.org.uk/images-books... and looking at earlier photos of #FontCovers many of which have been restored/added to/subtracted from. Hemingstone, Suffolk had a whole architectural level added below while East Malling, Kent lost its top.

We #churchcrawler s live life on the edge of the law! All Saints, Staplehurst.

Simple and commonplace. There’s charm to foliate designs in medieval wall painting.

The chancel was cut off from the rest of the church by a screen and became the preserve of the clergy. Congregants clamoured to see the Elevation of the Host in particular and peepholes were fashioned into the screen enable them to do so. (Raunds)

Very very occasionally I come across a gem. At Liddington, Wilts, I found myself signing a visitors book that had started its life in WW2. There is something rather romantic abut signing alongside visitors some 80+ years to whom the world was a dark place and worrisome.

St Mary the Virgin, Silchester for #SaturdaySteeples #SteepleSaturday

Early 12th century fabulousness for #fontsonFriday. St Peter's, Coton #medieval 📷 my own. More info in alt text

900 year old font in the Church of St Mungo, Dearham, Cumbria. Listing says it appears to have been a cushion capital, carved with dragons and symmetrical designs in scrolled panels. #FontsOnFriday

JUG "MERMAN" designed by Richard Teschner, 1906-1910. Mold-blown glass jug, handle with green comb, long, green mustache, eyes and pupils of yellow/red glass. H 18.5 cm. Sold at auction in 2020. So much attitude w so few visual elements. www.beletage.com/images/catal...

Some elegant flat medieval #FontCovers survive in the UK, but not many. Odcome, Sts Peter and Paul, Somerset; Carhampton, Somerset; Llanfair, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, The Vale of Glamorgan, Wales -- all from C15

Very fond of this chunky font by #Butterfield because I was baptised in it. At SS Peter & Paul, #Caistor, Lincs. Part of Butterfield’s restoration of this splendid building (too much of his work there has been effaced by time / changing tastes). #FontsOnFriday

St Thomas's in Salisbury today—a 21st Century font in a 15th Century building with a 16th Century painting of the last judgement.

On interesting bits and bobs, the church just between Southam and Cheltenham, Prestbury (all a bit gone-over by G.E. Street in the 1860s) there's this clearly old predella panel that no one seems to mention, not the 2002 BoE or C. Grossinger's catalogue. Late 15thc, German?

Ancient parish chest in All Saints Church East Budleigh. Each warden had a key to one of the locks, all must be there to open it. Is it old enough for Walter Raleigh senior, church warden here c.1560, to have held a key to this very chest? #woodensday

This is Leo. Leo is not our cat. Leo belongs to the family at No 1. Leo likes our garden. Leo is a lovely boy.

There's a lot of roadworks in Wiveliscombe at the moment, roads closed, traffic chaos, so the post box yarn bombers are bang on this month!

Bizarre miniature creature in a C14th Dominican Antiphoner - a bedraggled cat, perhaps? (V&A 8997G) #MedievalSky

Some months ago, a collection of articles edited by Grzegorz Pac, myself, &Jón Viðar Sigurðsson was published by Brepols. The book is in open access, & can be found here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-....

And related to the connection between materiality & power - & a reminder that power always needs an audience - I give you this detail from a baptismal font carved in 1114, stating the names of Juan & Maria, the donors of the font. [Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid; San Pedro de Villanueva]

This mysterious structure in Richborough Roman Fort is thought to have been a baptismal font! A rare find, it dates to around 400 AD and suggests that baptisms happened here, probably inside a wooden church #RomanFortThursday 📸 Mine #archaeology #romanbritain #history #photooftheday 🏺

Step into Yorkshire’s past with June's History & Heritage Yorkshire magazine! From a medieval bridge chapel to the liquorice of Pontefract and from the resort of Ravenscar that never was, to the life of engineer John Smeaton. Lots more besides. Available SUNDAY

#FontsOnFriday #Tytherington

Two new issues of Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture. Open and free access, as always. 🙂 digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/... digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/...

Baptism font in the temple of Jupiter at Cumae. The temple was transformed into a church in the 5th c. 📷 flic.kr/p/ePJvXk #photography #archaeology #Classics #EarlyChristianity #LateAntiquity #Italy

Morning! These happy faces around the Font in St Mary The Virgin, Woodford, are presumably there to stop baby crying when the water starts splashing. #FridayFaces #FontsOnFriday

The magnificent fourteenth century font at St Mary’s church, Ware, with its individual saints on each face. St George is shown here with the dragon at his feet. #FontsOnFriday

📣 "It is guaranteed to be a future classic." Tom Smith selected, Invisible Weapons, by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin as an influential #medievalstudies book. What's your must-read recommendation? buff.ly/jGIsQBL #kzooicms #ICMS #medievalsky #kzoo2025

1190, only to be destroyed again in 1322. The current church dates from around 1377. Renowned for its striking Saxon doorway, the church also boasts a soaring 185-foot tower and spire, visible for miles. Inside, visitors can see a 14th-century font with grotesque carvings, Green

V interesting view of #FontCover Newington, St Mary, Kent. I believe that a good portion of the top is late C15, w the bottom portion mostly mid C16 or even later. The bottom portion has classical details, the top, Gothic details. www.flickr.com/photos/18843...

"Font" comes from "fount", coming from "founding" and "fountain". Founding---casting molten metal, and fountain---wellspring of water. In a church, for example, there is a "fount" or "font" which is a basin of holy water. And in a foundry, there is a pot of molten metal. This is typography.

#GothicArchitecture Here's a great article reinterpreting the shape of the rose window, understanding it in context of the rota diagram seen in many contemporary manuscripts. These diagrams helped explain complex ideas, by looking at "all sides" of things differentvisions.org/it-ought-to-be

Doddington war memorial tablet. St. Mary the Virgin Church, Doddington, Cambridgeshire. First World War. #LestWeForget

#FontsOnFriday at #AreleyKings shaft with #Latin inscription

A 15th century sacramental font which was originally from the Church of St. Mary in the Marsh in Norwich. The church was closed in 1564, and the font is now located in St. Luke’s Chapel at Norwich Cathedral. 📸 My own #FontsOnFriday #Medieval

I'd like to hear if anyone visiting the Siena exhibition agrees with my loopy anamorphosis argument, that Mary's face, and the panel as a whole, looks a lot better if you look at it obliquely from the right, and that fits with a Spiritual Franciscan view that Napoleone Orsini sympathised with, etc

The marvel of long-distance #Viking trade networks: These whole Samanid dirhams were also part of the Storr Rock hoard, meaning they survived a journey from Central Asia to the Isle of Skye in almost perfect condition!

With two fonts within the main body of the church St Mary's Wirksworth is unusual. Here is the #norman rather tubby one. The Wirksworth stone can be seen on the wall beyond. #FontsOnFriday #font

Fantastic engagement again for my post about my new image of the Govan Warrior, a recent member of the early medieval @govanstones.bsky.social collection. It's a huge privilege to be the volunteer Communications Manager for the museum, and a position I cherish.

Stunning! Viking reuse of raided Insular metalwork 'Gilt bronze mount with panels of Celtic interlace later converted into a brooch, found in a Viking grave at Carn a Bhorich, Oronsay, AD 700-1000' (X.FC 183/184) My 📷 from our 2018 Vikings in Scotland 20 Years On @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social visit.

Looking for something else & came across these images of a dragon/beastie from Great Henny, St Mary Essex & the tale of a black (Keddington Hill Suffolk)& a red dragon (Ballingdon Hill EsseX) fought for an hour Sept 26, 1449 on the banks of the Stour. Source in post below.

One of the many Rainbow Lorikeets attacking a Flame Tree in my backyard. I had Lorikeets, Cockatoos and Corellas feeding on the flower buds, the nectar and the large seed pods of the tree doing the day with Fruit Bats/flying foxes taking the night shift.

A well crafted 15 century cover hangs above the font at St Mary’s Richmond #FontsOnFriday

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Archaeologists put together funding bid to conserve medieval wall paintings at St. Peter & St. Paul's, Pickering church, North Yorkshire which date from 1470 👇 BBC News - Funding bid to save rare medieval wall paintings www.bbc.com/news/article...