Shepherd, Shepherd Market #London

My whole Rome collection of 51 scans is now on Sketchfab. See the models and download them all for free here: skfb.ly/pJYC7

A chatty Pacific Swallow to lift the spirits #Birds

The extraordinary Johannes XXIII church in Cologne (1968) designed by sculptor Josef Rikus with architect Heinz Buchmann. #brutalism #concrete

A chatty Pacific Swallow to lift the spirits #Birds

Very sensible, no doubt, not to plant a new “Hardy” tree amidst the gravestones in St Pancras Old Churchyard when the original fell in 2022 (rather in better growing conditions nearby). But also rather prosaic not to.

Graffiti, St Mary de Haura, New Shoreham

St Mary Abchurch, for #FontsOnFriday with stacking plastic chairs. Font by William Kempster, brother of Christopher, mason for the church’s rebuilding by Wren. You can’t have too many Christophers. Font cover with the gospel writers by William Emmett. Its counterweight in the vestry. #London

Inside the modest front door of Shaw’s Corner - George Bernard Shaw’s house in Hertfordshire - with a Morris and Company ‘Peacock and Dragon’ woolen curtain to keep out draughts. #AdoorableThursday

#TinyLion St Mary Abchurch #London

The Basilica of St Ursula in Cologne was built on the ruins of an ancient Roman cemetery, and the walls of its Golden Chamber are covered with the carefully arranged bones of its occupants, alleged to be St Ursula and her 11,000 Virgins.

In contrast, the Romanesque font at St Aposteln, Cologne, is not going to be floating aloft any time soon. #FontsNotOnFriday #FontsOnFriday

Blood red balloon, St Aposteln, Cologne.

Croc Monsieur

The extraordinary Johannes XXIII church in Cologne (1968) designed by sculptor Josef Rikus with architect Heinz Buchmann. #brutalism #concrete

Crustaceaned Monument

You can’t park there mate

Roaring tree, London #ThickTrunkTuesday

A glance of amused surprise in the Grosvenor Chapel, London. #MemorialsMonday #Betjeman

Skiary, Loch Hourn from Knoydart, Scotland, 2019. 42x42cm archival giclee print on cotton rag, signed & numbered from an edition of 25. Available at 20% off until Dec 21. Buy here 👉 is.gd/0BATc0%F0%9F...

Romanesque font at the Antonite church, Cologne. #FontsOnFriday #Cologne #Köln #Antoniterkirche

Basilica of St. Cunibert, Cologne For #AdoorableThursday

The flies must be big around here

Rogue brogue

Yes, it seems today is Autumn #cranes #birds #autumn

no that’s fine I don’t need an apple you have it please #EuropeanHornet #Insects #Autumn

Poor Box, Barts, London

Badger action in Hertfordshire for #NationalBadgerDay

Good to have a few strings to your bow

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me. I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

May need a spot of oil

Hey diddle diddle

Popped into Morville Church, Shropshire on the way back from Bridgnorth for a dose of some early Norman architecture and to see the fab font with its ‘green man’ style heads. I did a quick #lidar scan with the phone so you can give it a twirl & have a look… skfb.ly/pBBoP

The White Lion in Lewes, despite the company of nesting birds, seems sad his pub was demolished in 1937. More so, perhaps, when he learns he’s a replica, his C18 original now in the Town Hall.

Box pews throughout, and commandment boards in German: the remarkably intact interior of St George's German Lutheran Church in Whitechapel. #woodensday #london

Hoist with his own canard

Bronze & enamel lectern by Gilbert Bayes in the Savoy Chapel, memorial to Laurence (son of Henry) Irving who drowned with 1000 others when the Empress of Ireland sank off Canada in 1914. Its captain Henry Kendall, on his prior ship, sent the radio message that led to Dr Crippen's arrest.

especially the little one

Magnus Volk at St Wulfran, Ovingdean. Inventor of Volk's Electric Railway in Brighton, the world's oldest still-operating electric railway, and the wonderful if short-lived Brighton & Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway that ran through the sea on stilts. At low tide you can still see sleepers.

#Woodcarving detail, Earl Marshal's Court, College of Arms, #London

Record Room, College of Arms, London #library #libraries #heraldry

This VR box in a flint and brick wall in Ovingdean has survived a few knocks #PostboxSaturday

Dead shop, Lewes #Shopfronts #BowingOut

Bookshop, Lewes #bookshops #shopfronts

St Anne’s, Lewes: 12C font with leaflets for #FontsOnFriday

St Wulfran, Ovingdean

St Wulfran, Ovingdean, with ancient yew tree and bin. #AdoorableThursday

Wind power

For #AdoorableThursday, the C12 doorway at St James the Great, Thorley, with spiral fluted shafts, chevron ornamented arches, and varied parish notices.

St James the Great, Thorley, with its ancient yew tree. And its Nissen hut.