Was lucky enough to have access into the newly conserved @friendlesschurches.bsky.social church of St Mary and All Angels, Brownshill, #Gloucestershire, a couple of weeks ago. I was v. pleased with this detail shot of the tricky to photograph west window by Douglas Strachan! #StainedGlassSunday

Apologies for absence - got logged out and forgot password! Hadn't spotted the cradle to grave motif in this photo till now ... why is there a gravestone muscling in on my #FontsOnFriday at Haddiscoe, #Norfolk. Typical East Anglian smug #tinylion font either in very good order or rather recut!

It's #February! Endless January is done, and Spring is, maybe, just around the corner! It's also #StBrigidsday, and here she is by the Irish master, Harry Clarke, in Castletownsend, #Ireland, with St Brigid's fire and an oak sprig from the tree where she founded her church in Kildare.

A subtle weathering of stone and flint at Haddiscoe, #Norfolk, for #AdoorableThursday - the south door is more showy, of course, but I love this self-effacing little external north door, quietly weathering away on its exposed hilltop.

Unexpected #ArtsandCrafts in the altar area! Was giving a talk in Leckhampton last night, thinking there was no A&C here, but lo! This carving by Alec Miller came to the church after WW2 from a London church damaged in the war #Woodensday #WoodCarvingsOnWednesday #Gloucestershire

For #TraceryTuesday, the imposing Perp east end of Beccles, #Suffolk - though the tracery in the chancel east window is 'renewed', presumably during Hakewill's 1858-9 restoration. Renewed or not, it's an impressive street frontage, with some good flushwork, too.

An excellent #OwlishMonday from North Cove, #Suffolk, part of a memorial to 'Rosemary', 1996, carved with many critters of air, land and sea...

Hurrah, a #winter10 at last for #wildflowerhour gathered on a wet and muddy walk near the #Suffolk coast! Plus a (very) few others...

Possibly M E Aldrich Rope's last window - a year after one near me in Lydiard Millicent, which I *still* haven't seen - this is the east window at Barnby, #Suffolk, now tricky to reach by foot or vehicle off the A146, separated from its village - but worth it for this! #StainedGlassSunday

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A tricky to reach church in #Suffolk is Barnby - sailed past it first, stepdad hovered in the car below second time, while I raced in and snapped - here's a #FontsOnFriday snap, prob C13th bowl with blind-arcading, below rather more modern - and rather zany!

Doorway into St Helen's Bishopsgate, #London, although the church itself wasn't open to visitors, as it was busy with some kind of meeting or course. This door clearly dates from 1633 ... and is where they stash the bins! #AdoorableThursday #NoContextDoors

For #WallPaintingsOnWednesday these lovely c. 1900-20 paintings in St Mary Moorfields RC, #London that @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social has kindly informed me are by George Hyde Pownall, who also decorated St Patrick in Soho.

Peekin' in for #MonumentsMonday to the tomb of Richard de la Bere, d. 1636, at Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire. Possibly made by Samuel Baldwin of Stroud, it cost £400, although it's more ornate than the tombs here: stroudlocalhistorysociety.org.uk/people-places/…

As always, James Eadie Reid is rather weird! For #StainedGlassSunday, glass by him of c. 1899, when he was first in the area, teaching at #Cheltenham Ladies College, at Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire. Eadie Reid was a superb colourist, but the rendering of his design is rather odd...

My only outside view of Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire, thanks to the rain, but it does afford us a #SteepleSaturday! Unexpectedly, the tower is from 1699-1700, built after the previous one collapsed in 1696, traditional 'Gothic Survival' says P, by James Hill of Cheltenham.

Suffering for my art - absolutely pouring down in Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire, but a #AdoorableThursday door like this needs to be photographed! I've brightened it slightly so you can see better than I could in the ghastly gloom! #Romanesque and lovin' it...

A bit o' bling to cheer up a cold #January day from St John the Baptist, #Cardiff, from our blingiest friend, Ninian Comper, in the Chapel of the Order of St John, including elephants, camels and other exotica - perhaps the beast of Revelation the most exotic? #Woodensday

An unusual #TilesOnTuesday posy from #Cardiff, somewhat marred by my coat! Not many cafes - this is Brodies Coffee in one of Cardiff Castle's gatehouses, complete with tiles by Godwin's of Lugwardine! Good coffee and a superb cake, too.

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'God Speed the Plough!' it's #PloughMonday today, when the ploughmen, having had their ploughs blessed on the Sunday, would go out a-visiting round the houses - but here's a ploughman at work at Ebrington, #Gloucestershire, by Christopher Webb, 1964.

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Okay, back to getting to grips with you all here! So, do we do #MementoMoriMonday over here? Hope so, because here's a fab example, the #memorial to Henry Dirdoe at Gillingham, #Dorset, d. 1728, I think, all wailing cherubs above and wingéd skulls below!

Hello Bluesky! My #onlinetalk all about #ArtsandCrafts in #Birmingham and #Worcestershire is tomorrow, 12 Jan - why was the #Midlands so important to the #ArtsandCrafts story? I usually talk rural A&C, but let's go urban! Join me at 7pm tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1513549881...

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