Reasons to be Cheerful Part One: J’ay Bonne Cause. Thynne Family hatchment in Longbridge Deverill. #LesArmoiresduVendredi

Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it a font? The frankly weird memorial font by flamboyant Art Nouveau sculptor Alfred Gilbert who also designed the fountain & statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus and the Alexandra Monument in London. Longbridge Deverill #Wiltshire #FontsonFriday

Door of perception. This 1922 screen doorway opens to reveal a bizarre Art Nouveau freestanding font and memorial in Longbridge Deverill. #AdoorableThursday

Angels One Five. Summer is on its way through this window in the Thynne Chapel at St Peter & St Paul in Longbridge Deverill #Wiltshire

Dressed more for the Summer of Love than the Supper at Emmaus, the shirt on this disciple is as flowery as they come - in Kington St Michael from 1894 #Wiltshire #StainedGlassSunday

A perfect palette of medieval glass fragments in the quatrefoil tracery at St Cyriac’s in Lacock #Wiltshire #TraceryTuesday

The gathering storm. Once in the centre of a village which was then reputedly wiped out by plague, the wonderful cruciform church at Bishopstone stands mostly alone these days in the fields south west of Salisbury. #SteepleSaturday

I was deeply inspired by Tom Denny's stained glass at Tisbury: " It offers fresh perspectives that allow us to value each other and the world we live in, and, through that process, opens up untold possibilities for navigating our way through it." www.digest.andymarsh...

Solid, sturdy and simple, with a pleasant decorative arcade. A probably Norman font at St Nicholas in the tiny village of Fyfield on the way to Marlborough from Avebury. #FontsonFriday

Tall, proud, and with a fetching variety of tracery- the main window in the south transept of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, with Ninian Comper’s 1914 stained glass showing the explorer John Cabot, ship & family at the top, and the merchant William Canynge below. #TraceryTuesday

‘A humphy-backit heron Nearly as big as me Stands at the waterside Fishin for his tea. His skinnie-ma-linkie lang legs Juist like reeds Cheats aa the puddocks Soomin mang the weeds.’ Jk Annand. 📷 @ Kennet & Avon Canal

My mum, Kathleen Maloney, in her younger days. She died 15 years ago today ❤️

The calm of nature, designed to promote healing, in the chapel of what was originally Bristol Asylum and is now Glenside Museum. #StainedGlassSunday

Restored too well or back to its original beauty? Norman font in Bratton #Wiltshire diligently retooled in Thomas Henry Wyatt’s Victorian restoration. #FontsOnFriday

Welcome to the house of fun - or at least of prayer. West Overton #Wiltshire #AdoorableThursday

Save the bridges! Swan swimming under the bridge at Semington today on the Kennet and Avon Canal.

Artemis II view of Earth rising just now, seconds before they re-established contact with NASA having been around the dark side of the moon. Unbelievable.

Face off. St Andrew’s in Chippenham #Wiltshire #MementoMoriMonday

Bright as they come, Patrick Reyntiens window from 2000 at East Knoyle #Wiltshire of Christ rising, with so many faces and figures in the colourful surrounding panels. #StainedGlassSunday #EasterSunday

Kate Parbury’s enormous sculpted figure of the risen Christ on the front of the 1950s St Michael’s in Bemerton Heath on the outskirts of Salisbury.

In the ancient landscape twixt Marlborough and Avebury lie several churches, including Fyfield. A sprinkle of Norman, with a dash of Early English, add in some Perp Gothic, sieve with Puritan cleansers, then stir with a touch of Early Victorian restoration. #SteepleSaturday

Books beat eggs, even at Easter. 6 recently read, 3 current, and 3 to be read (columns l-r). Am up to 18 read in total in 2026 - maybe that explains the headaches as my recent scan didn’t though was relatively positive 🤔

Very early Victorian stained glass image of the crucifixion, from 1844 by William Miller, in Horningsham #Wiltshire #Easter #GoodFriday

Crucifixion, designed by Edward Burne-Jones and produced by William Morris, in Bromham #Wiltshire #GoodFriday #Easter

Pictured for posterity. Local MP, Mayor, High Sheriff, and Masonic Grand Warden of England, Sir Gabriel Goldney commemorated in three ornate panels at the bottom of a large 1903 South chapel window by Lavers & Westlake in Chippenham #Wiltshire #LesArmoiresduVendredi

At West Overton the font, guarded by an eagle, takes central stage underneath the tall west tower which Charles Ponting completed in 1883 as part of his rather grand gothic rebuild for such a small village. #FontsOnFriday #Wiltshire

I do like a nice gate, ornate but not too much so. #IronworkThursday #Thursgate St Michael & All Angels, Melksham #Wiltshire

‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.’ Martin Luther King, in a message for our times. #AdoorableThursday Melksham #Wiltshire

Kneeling in grief before 3 portraits of fallen family members, with the horrors of war & death shown alongside, and archangels standing resplendent over it all. Christopher Whall’s stunning 1918 glass shown here from micro to macro in St Andrew’s, Chippenham. #WindowsonWednesday

Colour meets design in the screen and windows at Chippenham #Wiltshire for #TraceryTuesday

#TraceryTuesday at Christ Church, East Kennett, in keeping with the imminence of Easter. Glass by Burlison & Grylls from 1888.

Jackpot!

‘I confess that I covet your skull,’ as Holmes is told in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Several skulls carried here by the already dead children of Sir Gilbert Prynne in St Andrew’s, Chippenham #Wiltshire #MementoMoriMonday

‘I don’t ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.’ Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth. Yoshi the Basset Hound seeking some of my apple just now.

Shame the weather has not gone forward to match the clocks this weekend. Pretty chilly along the Kennet & Avon Canal today. #SundayShivers

Image of a woman on a 13th C stone slab, with some indistinct probably Norman inscription along one side. Chippenham St Andrew’s #SundayStonework

This memorial on the wall of St Michael’s in Melksham includes reference to Lieutenant George Wyld, killed in the trenches by a stray bullet on Christmas Eve 1914. I found his photo online which makes it all feel so much more real, and sad. #LestWeForget

A man on a mission. Matthias, in West Overton, by Arthur Savell in 1898. #StainedGlassSunday

Clocks gone forward and missed an hour of sleep? Then grab hold of the nearest Jesse Tree and have a quick doze. 1901 Lavers & Westlake stained glass at St Andrew’s in Chippenham #Wiltshire #StainedGlassSunday

Virginia Woolf died tragically at her own hand 85 years ago today. So sad. Such a great writer.

One more for #SteepleSaturday this time in Chippenham today. Set between the Board Game Cafe and Hand of Glory Antiques, the 1633 upper tower and spire of St Andrew’s, the town’s main church. #Wiltshire

Childhood revisited 😀 Wyndham & Aldiss. #SciFi

The screen makes the scene here, a typical Charles Ponting early 20th design. I’m not a fan of the painting style on the arch but I guess it’s better than being plain and it sort of works. St Michael’s in Melksham #ScreenSaturday

Christ Church, an 1864 rebuild by Richard Gane in an interesting Victorian style, in the tiny village of East Kennett near Silbury Hill in #Wiltshire #SteepleSaturday

Restored 1781 arms of George III at East Kennett #Wiltshire #LesArmoiresduVendredi That year Lord North was PM, the American War of Independence was at its height with Cornwallis surrendering to Washington at Yorktown, and the planet Uranus was discovered by William Herschel!

Derbyshire alabaster font from the start of the 20th C in Melksham #Wiltshire Not sure what I think of it. #FontsOnFriday

Not that James Cagney ever said it, but: You Dirty Rat! On my drive this morning. Ugh.

A Time Machine. Circa 1915 in West Overton. Made by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon in memory of Henry Tootell. #Wiltshire #IronworkThursday

What lies within? East Kennett this week. All from 1864. #AdoorableThursday #Wiltshire