All Saints Church, Northampton 1680.

I love this lion’s tail on the Feilding monument carved by Garrat Hollemans (1580) at Monks Kirby, Warwickshire.

Redbourne Church, Lincolnshire contains amateur artwork by the Revd A.R. Tremearne, an eccentric clergyman.

Stamford, Lincolnshire,St Mary

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Medieval rood screen and surviving rood loft at Bettws Newydd church near Abergavenny. #woodensday

Stamford, Lincolnshire, St Mary

The Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden used to be the railway station. Most crowned heads passed through on their way to take the waters.

Medieval painted roof at Long Melford Church, Suffolk

Wodewose in the Spitalkirche, Baden-Baden

HARTFIELD, East Sussex. Tending the sick. Millennium window by Lawrence and Co

Great Hallingbury, Essex. Splendid reuse of Roman brick.

Victorian Flushwork, unusually using round flints at the church of Lynford, Norfolk, Our Lady of Consolation #SundayStonework

Romanesque sculpture incorporated into the Victorian church of Our Lady of Consolation, Lynford , Norfolk. The church is in the care of The Norfolk Churches Trust and open

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Organ case designed by Sir Ninian Comper at St Philip’s Church, Cosham, Hampshire

Brick rood loft staircase with original door frame c1500 at Black Notley church, Essex

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Tiles in Leeds Minster #tilesonTuesday

Alabaster Babington monument 1549 at Rothley church, Leicestershire

Mid 12c grave slab of Tournai Marble in Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire.Local tradition says is the grave of Walter de Gaunt who founded the monastery in 1113.

Ta-da! Seventeenth century glass at Abbey Dore, Herefordshire

This is galleting where small pieces of stone are pushed into wet mortar between the larger stones. This reduces the area of mortar and therefore keeps the wall drier. It is used in many stone areas but is shown here in flint at Boarhunt Church, Hampshire.

Sir Gareth and the Red Knight. Stained glass of the 1930s by Martin Travers in Cheriton Church, Hampshire

En route to Salisbury to speak to the Arts Society on ‘Murder, Sex and Mayhem in the English Parish Church’ including their own sorry tale of Sir John Penruddock in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

Swannington, Norfolk, St Margaret. By far the most important object in the church is a Norman pillar piscina carved with St George and the Dragon. It was hidden in the rood loft staircase and only discovered when that was unblocked a hundred years ago.

Ceiling by Stephen Dykes Bower in Hambledon church, Hampshire

On the final morning of my tour of Hampshire churches I took my group to Southwick which is a ‘peculiar’ where the Patron is responsible for everything. It’s a medieval building with many post-Reformation fittings

My party learned about Martin Travers on their tour of Hampshire churches today. Here Sir Bedivere carries Arthur’s body. Cheriton Church. 17 churches visited 3 more tomorrow.

Continuing my journey taking a party around Hampshire churches. This is Holy Trinity, Privett, now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. Built by a fortune made in gin. 1879s architect AW Blomfield

This morning I showed my guests on the Hampshire Churches Tour the eccentric tower at Meonstoke church.

Continuing my study tour of Hampshire churches my guests enjoyed the iconography of the Tournai Marble Font at East Meon. Here Eve takes the apple.

I’m leading a group tour of historic Hampshire churches. This morning I showed my guests the lovely late Saxon Corhampton.

As I lead my party around the churches of Hampshire I introduced them to Shedfield designed by local architect John Colson who took his inspiration from Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice

I’m leading a tour of 18 churches in Hampshire. This is Fareham, St Peter and St Paul. Visible Saxon origins and thirteenth and twentieth century rebuilds. Only 17 churches to go!

Romanesque pillar piscina at Swannington church, Norfolk, decorated with a lively image of St George and the Dragon. Church open daily

An early start this morning brought me to Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire. Church open 9-1 weekdays

This door at Eastwood church in Essex dates from about 1150, which is extremely rare. The hinge has an inscription which (more or less) says ‘blessings on those who come and go’.

Wickhambreux, Kent, St Andrew. Nineteenth century stencilling and early twentieth century Art and Crafts glass.

Mum is in a side room with a bathroom. I love the emergency button in there, the nurse is like something from a carry on film.

Fourteenth century ‘Kentish Tracery’ at Chartham near Canterbury.

A busy week of planning for next weekend when I’m leading a party of guests around 18 churches in southern Hampshire. Saxon to Twentieth Century and small to massive. Image is Warnford. April 2026 tour to the Peak District now booking

For #stainedglassSunday a favourite window by C G Gray of Cambridge 1928 at Winterbourne Bassett, Wiltshire

Today is the Feast Day of St Francis. Here is a relief in the Carmo Monastery, Lisbon depicting scenes from his life 1382

Westmeston Church, West Sussex where my ancestors lie.

Smithwick Brewery, Kilkenny #adoorableThursday

Latimer, Buckinghamshire, St Mary Magdalene. Designed by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1878 for the village in which he lived as a boy.

Dogs fight over a chicken foot on a medieval monument in Lisbon Cathedral

For Michaelmas, 29th September, here is a welcoming sign at St Michael’s Church, Brent Knoll, Somerset. A reminder that the majority of parish churches are open daily, encouraged by insurance companies

A subtle request at Wickhamford Church, Worcestershire.