Door with lion knocker, Broad Street, Oxford. #oxford #trinitycollege #door #lion #gothic

Lullington, Sussex. Tiny church (actually the chancel of a church once much larger) with tiny steeple. #SteepleSaturday #churchcrawling

Cheltenham’s soaring 19th-century Christ Church. #steepleSaturday #churchcrawling

Stanton, Gloucestershire. Telephone box repurposed as information point.

Stanton, Gloucestershire. #steepleSaturday

Font in the church at Rock, Worcestershire. #fontsonFriday

The glorious Art Nouveau facade of Edward Everard’s printing works in Bristol. Tiles made by Doulton and designed by their chief designer, W J Neatby, c 1900. Johannes Gutenberg at his press on the left, William Morris on the right.

Hales, Norfolk. Highly picturesque Norman church. #churchcrawling #SteepleSaturday

Looking up at the Welsh Back Granary, Bristol, one of the most dazzling bits of architectural patterning I know.

Gwalia Stores, Ross-on-Wye, and its extraordinary collection of enamel advertising signs.

Venetian Gothic in Bristol. Browns, originally museum and library, a building of the 1860s-1870s.

Sun on Dent’s Terrace, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, the other day. Almshouses designed by George Gilbert Scott and and J Drayton Wyatt, 1865.

Snowdrops in the churchyard, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, a couple of hundred yards from where I live.

Font, Halesworth church, Norfolk. #fontsonFriday

Fan vaulting in. Cirencester parish church.

The Vine: a beautifully tiled Victorian pub in Cheltenham.

Chastleton, Oxfordshire. With Chastleton House poking up behind. #SteepleSaturday #churchcrawling

Gloucester Docks. Penfold post box — a Victorian design, although this may be a later replica, as the slot looks rather large for an original.

Another from Gloucester Docks. Biddle and Shipton warehouses.

Gloucester Docks, Llanthony Warehouse, this morning. Dull weather but still a reflection.

Broughton, Oxfordshire. #steepleSaturday #churchcrawling

Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. Font carved with figure of centaur with bow and arrow, inscribed SAGITTARIUS.

Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire. #adoorableThursday

Northleach, Gloucestershire, this morning. Limestone lower walls and roof, timber-framed upper storey. #woodensday

Re-used carved slab (early medieval?) used as door lintel, Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire.

Tewkesbury Abbey. Light from a stained glass window projected on to stone wall and shafts. Warm light on a cold day.

Tewkesbury Abbey, west front a few days ago. Enormous Norman arch framing later medieval window and doorway.

Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Carved door with gothic panelling and angel. A medieval survival that always stops me in my tracks. #adoorablethursday

The great font at Castle Frome, a work of the Herefordshire school of Romanesque sculptors. This one has a baptism scene—complete with fishes. Marvellous. #FontsonFriday

Pershore, Worcestershire. Doorway with Tuscan columns and fanlight with Gothic glazing. A delightful hybrid. #adoorablethursday

A carved critter in Halesworth, Suffolk. Happy New Year. #woodensday

Intricately carved bargeboards, Ludlow, Shropshire. #woodensday

I’m a great fan of traditional hand-painted signs. Here’s one in Bungay, Suffolk. I don’t know how old it is (early 20th century?) but it must be a while since cattle medicines were available from a High Street pharmacy.

Holy Trinity church, Bungay, Suffolk. #steeplesaturday

Another fabulous Herefordshire font, this time at Eardisley. #fontsonfriday

'‘What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?’ Nothing again nothing. ‘Do ‘You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember ‘Nothing?’" -- The Waste Land, TS Eliot

Happy Christmas—and season’s greetings, whatever your festival. Stained glass angel, Yarnton, Oxfordshire.

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar The last window ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin

Charlton-on-Otmoor, Oxfordshire. Light and shadow on some very worn but rather beautiful medieval encaustic tiles. #tilesontuesday

Castle Frome, Herefordshire. Monument of William and Margery Unett, 17th century, Cavalier clothes for him, flowing hair for both. #momentomorimonday

Saxon decoration - an animal head label stop from St. Mary’s Priory Church at Deerhurst in Gloucestershire. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #SundayStonework

Huish Episcopi, Somerset. Nativity window with Madonna and Child, angels and Magi. Designed by Burne-Jones and made by William Morris’s firm. #stainedglasssunday Christmas greetings.

Church tower at Glastonbury, Somerset. #steeplesaturday

Here in Gloucestershire we don’t go in much for pictorial town signs like those in Norfolk, but Northleach has a good one. The sheep represents wool which brought prosperity to the town, the keys St Peter, for the church also pictured, the mace the town’s ancient Court Leet.

Beautiful beam and bargeboard carving, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. #woodensday

Fan vaulting, Cirencester parish church. Delightful. #churchcrawling

Simply amazing dole cupboard in the church at Bungay, Suffolk. A bit of 17th-century folk art, including a rebus consisting of the letter Q enclosing an image of a rat, to indicate that the person who provided the cupboard was the curate (Q-rat).

Vaulting and coloured bosses of the choir #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset Truly one of the most beautiful sights Mouse ever seen. Mouse's shonky photography doesn't do it justice but expand and have you ever seen grey look so good? If you don't repost you're depriving millions of pure beauty

Mosaic portrait of William Shakespeare above entrance to the Old Bank (now HSBC), Stratford-upon-Avon. #mosaicsonmonday