Join me on Monday 20 Oct, 7pm, for an #onlinetalk all about #womensart #womenscraft in the #Cotswolds - we'll be looking at the women of the #ArtsandCrafts Movement who settled here - my last post showed some of the women, here's some of the work! Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1379199164...

1 week 4 talks! #ArtsandCrafts in the #Cotswolds for the Arts Society Ross-on-Wye; A&C churches with a #Cheltenham swing for the U3A; then part 3 of my talks in Worcestershire & last but NOT least, the friendship of #WilliamMorris& #EBJ Museum in the Park, #Stroud: www.kirstyhartsiotis.com/events

It might be wet but the dancing and the stories never stop! Come down to the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social for more this with #morrisdancing and #storytelling for #Wiltshire Day!

Early morning rambles in Salisbury, #Wiltshire, and reflected glory for #TraceryTuesday in the cathedral cloister...

These two tots aren't cosying up with teddies - they've got plush (they must be plushies, right? skulls to cuddle. They're slumbering away at North Cerney, #Gloucestershire for #MementoMoriMonday

Love this tiny depiction of St Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read in Rendcomb, #Gloucestershire, I presume one of the Flemish panels incorporated into the nave windows by Baillie in the 1850s #StainedGlassSunday, always loved this evidence of women's education by women.

The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social is staging a #demonstration outside #Meta's offices at Granary Square, King's Cross today at 1.30pm to protest against their #illegal #pirating of our work. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

A domestic scene at Stanton Harcourt, #Oxfordshire, for #AdoorableThursday, the watering can quietly awaits its duties as Spring gets into gear by this soft C12th door - note the marks scratched on the right - a mass dial? Or?

Blockley, #Gloucestershire, on a grey day for #SteepleSaturday, with its C18th tower by Thomas or Edward Woodward of Chipping Campden - all plain classicism in the first three stages, then suddenly gothic frou frou appears on the top stage!

Moody #AdoorableThursday from St Andrew, #Plymouth, #Devon, a C15th church much damaged in #WW2, but plenty of the medieval surviving...

Two gorgeous #WindowsOnWednesday by Nora Yoxall and Elsie Whitford, 1974, at Blockley, #Gloucestershire, made when the artists were 82 and 77 respectively. Glorious celebration of the local scene! Don't miss them - they're in the porch.

Well, #gardenescapes - managed four on today's #Stroud walk - marigold, grape hyacinth, snowflake and, apparently, scilla forbesii - as well as some bangingly pink polyanthus in the woods #wildflowerhour

For #StainedGlassSunday, just one of the John Piper delights I saw in St Andrew, #Plymouth, #Devon, on Thursday - a thrill. 'Resurgam' was the motto of the church after the #WW2 bombing, and Piper made 5 windows with Patrick Reyntiens from 1958 - this is the west, a crucifixion.

For #TombTuesday and #TraceryTuesday, the 1st tomb of William Canynges, d. 1474, in St Mary Redcliffe, #Bristol. The city merchant has two, this one in his mayoral robes, the other next door, with him as as a priest, as he was ordained after his wife's death.

For #Wildflowerhour #YellowFlowers we have coltsfoot by the canal in #Stroud, and gorse, primrose, lesser celandine on @nationaltrust Shortwood. Greater celandine in bud in town, but no flowers yet!

Fabulous #Hereford #SundayStonework from the museum @HerefordMuseums building by F R Kempson, 1874, and carved by Robert and William Clarke, of course! Plenty here for heron, squirrel, bat and croc fanciers!

St Matthew's, Ebley, #Stroud, for #SteepleSaturday, built by Charles Baker of Painswick, 1835-7 in austere early gothic style. You have no clue about the free gothic, slightly #ArtsandCrafts east end by Walter Planck behind it!

Just setting up for my next #sellout talk @museuminthepark, #Stroud, on a fave topic - especially so close to #InternationalWomensDay2025 - women in the #ArtsandCrafts in the #Cotswolds! Such a lovely museum, team and audience with which to work!

Drama in Ebley, #Stroud, for #FontsOnFriday! Finally got into St Matthew's, which I'd only seen by peering through that west door. Here's the view from the other side. Font by Walter Planck, subtly free gothic, 1895, in the 1830s tower, with window by Belham & Co., also 1895.

A perfect little #AdoorableThursday from the chancel of the Lord Mayor's Chapel, #Bristol, frothingly foliate ogee, about 1500 - tho' restored? #AnytimeAngels, #Victorian (I assume) door, and a glorious floral spray announcing spring and summer to come. Swoons!

*Last chance* to book tickets for tonight's #onlinetalk, Modern #stainedglass in the #Cotswolds (Mon 3 Mar, 7pm). More #Spring #lambs, this time from Crudwell, #Wiltshire, by Colin Stokes for the Millennium: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/9277643772...

What I wish I was doing today instead of sitting at my desk! #StainedGlassSunday by Thomas Denny at Warden Hill, #Gloucestershire, part of a large series in the church, this from 1990: find out more in my #onlinetalk on #modern #Cotswolds glass Mon 3 Mar: tinyurl.com/3685fsxk

My traditional #StDavidsDay image from a #stainedglass window by Rod Friend in Edge, #Gloucestershire with little lambs and the all-important #daffodils (and cowslips...) all for #March and the beginning of #Spring! What I require in the face of all that is awful in the world!

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A wowser for #FontsOnFriday from Robert Potter's rebuild of All Saints, Clifton, #Bristol, framed by the stunning fibreglass windows by John Piper, 1967. Find out more about modern #stainedglass in my #onlinetalk 3 March, 7pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-sta...

Well! One more #onlinetalk this season to go - Modern #StainedGlass in the #Cotswolds. Very excited about this one, with fab glass from Christopher Whall to John Piper to Thomas Denny there is SO MUCH fab glass to celebrate! Mon 3 March, 7pm. Book here: tinyurl.com/8frhxzh5

Very last chance to grab a ticket for Tales of the #Saints of #Wessex - it's starting at 7pm here in the UK! Everything from #KingArthur to the #fairies to summer rain... and lots of lovely images! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/8711356190...

One of my favourite #Wiltshire saints is the singing, juggling St Aldhelm: here he is in #ArtsandCrafts glass by George Parlby, 1912, at St Mary's, Dorchester, #Dorset #StainedGlassSunday find out more about him in my #Wessex #saints talk Mon 24 Feb, 7pm: tinyurl.com/3wxpuvv4

Saints! We're off to #Wessex to explore the area's saint's tales on Mon 24 Feb, 7pm, in my next #onlinetalk - featuring tales from #Wiltshire, #Hampshire, #Somerset and #Dorset with a cast of King Arthur, dragons, the fairies, murderers, maggots and all! Book: eventbrite.co.uk/e/8711356190...

Church crawling in the rain! Here is the fabulous All Saints, Clifton, #Bristol, for #SteepleSaturday. The 1860s church by Street was bombed in 1940, and rebuilt with modernist verve by Robert Potter in the 60s. The spire is timber sheathed in aluminium. Unexpectedly wonderful.

Detail of some entirely new (to me!) John Hayward for #WindowsOnWednesdays from Wickwar, #Gloucestershire - it'll be featuring in my Modern #StainedGlass in the #Cotswolds talk on Mon 3 Mar, 7pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-sta...

For both #TextileTuesday & #TraceryTuesday, the east end of Hawkesbury Upton church, #Gloucestershire, scraped by William Wood Bethell in the 1880s, but still showing a fine Perp window in its Early English shell, and I loved the bold green altar cloth and its dove calling peace.

A small cluster of spring flowers in Wickwar churchyard, #Gloucestershire, is my offering for #wildflowerhour - still very cold, but we're getting there.

Finally can upload my #StainedGlassSunday image from Wickwar, #Gloucestershire, a glorious, and extremely difficult to 📸 #ArtsandCrafts window by Veronica Whall, 1927, very much in her father's style. It's in the tower, and you have to behind the screen to se it properly!

Time to let you know about the next upcoming #onlinetalks! One #folklore, one #arthistory - first up Mon 24 Feb Saints Tales of Wessex, then Mon 3 Mar Modern #stainedglass in the #Cotswolds, both 7pm - last two online talks of the season! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/kirsty-har...

For #StValentinesDay, this bright-eyed lady is actually Purity, but she is full of love, I think. #ArtsandCrafts #stainedglass by Louis Davis in #Cheltenham College Chapel, part of a #WWI #warmemorial, 1920-1.

My #AdoorableThursday snapped on the way to the train this morning in #Stroud, the Centre for Science and Art, by J P Seddon with Stroud architect W H C Fisher, 1890-9, one of Stroud's most exciting buildings imo! Once the site of schools and the museum, still a shining light!

For #WindowsOnWednesdays, a designer we rarely see - indeed, I don't know if he designed any other #stainedglass - Percy Morley Horder, east window in St Mary Magdalene, Rodborough, #Stroud, 1909, one of several things he did for the local Apperley family.

For #TilesOnTuesday, the tiles in my very own parish church , St Laurence, #Stroud - nicely bright and jolly on a drear February day - plus a rogue black square of gaffer tape masquerading optimistically as a tile...

@stroudstory.bsky.social What a spell-binding lecture you gave last night; I was all agog as to how you would talk about the "less" thrilling examples of Victorian stained glass eg insipid simpering Kempe; & you did so with such subtlety & aplomb! Very much looking forward to your next lecture.

For #StainedGLassSunday, the 1899 window by Christopher Whall in #Gloucester cathedral - find out about the beginnings of a revolution in style and material in #ArtsandCrafts glass at the end of the #Victorian period in my online talk tomorrow, Mon 10 Feb, 7pm: tinyurl.com/z8zdstu7

Sometimes, when you're going over a talk you realise you've forgotten how wild some of the art is: check out this window probably(?) designed by William Burges, 1855, for Hatherop, #Gloucestershire. #Cotswolds #Victorian #stainedglass Mon 10 Feb, 7pm: tinyurl.com/z8zdstu7

Goodness, I am tired of the cold and winter - and in need of a #blastfromthepast reminder of summer! So, for #SteepleSaturday, memories of a lovely warm September in #Madrid a few years ago, with San Jerónimo el Real looking rather over-restored in its C19th Neo-Gothic splendour.

Just setting up for today's sell out talk about #fairies and #fairytales in #Victorian and #Edwardian art at Museum in the Park, #Stroud...

Mary contemplates the Archangel Gabriel's message in this striking, rather Aesthetic window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne of 1866 in #Stroud's St Laurence, #Gloucestershire, for #WindowsOnWednesday - explore #Victorian #stainedglass with me on Mon 10 Feb: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victorian-...

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Did you know that the first full #stainedglass scheme by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. is at Selsley in #Gloucestershire, from 1862? They were inspired by the C14th glass Merton College #Oxford #TraceryTuesday - find out more in my talk Mon 10 Feb: tinyurl.com/z8zdstu7

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Mary and Joseph pray after presenting Jesus at the temple, with their sacrifice of two doves ready on the feast of #Candlemas, by Alexander Gibbs, 1860s, Latton, #Wiltshire: find out more about #Victorian glass in my talk Mon 10 Feb #StainedGlassSunday tinyurl.com/z8zdstu7