#TilesOnTuesday Medieval floor tiles, Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne, #Dorset

The amazing beach on the west side of the island of Berneray in the Western Isles. Berneray lies in the Sound of Harris and is attached to North Uist by a causeway that was opened in 1999. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Berneray #Beach #WesternIsles

#CeilingsOnSunday Finest fan vaulted roof (15th C), Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne, #Dorset

St. Peter and St. Andrew - detail from the 15th century rood screen of St. James’ Church at Castle Acre in Norfolk. 📷 My own. #ScreenSaturday #CastleAcre #Norfolk

#WednesdayWallPaintings Medieval painting of St George and the Dragon (with its very aggressive paw), the horse behind the saint, St Just Parish Church, St Just in Penwith, #Cornwall

A group of intertwined birds - one of the many Anglo-Saxon friezes from the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Breedon #SundayStonework

#SundayStonework “Croix du Buffre” (dated 1161) ,“Chemin de St Guilhem,” a stopping place for pilgrims. Carved outdoor holy water stoup and figure holding a cross. Croix du Buffre, Hures-La Parade, #Lozère

I wrote about my visit to Rudston this week — this ground is pregnant with the record of how we’ve tried to interpret our own spirituality: the ethereal, the in-between, the ghosts and the thin places. 👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...

'I am the Good Shepherd', a detail of glass by Edward Payne, 1963 at St Mary, Stamford, Lincolnshire.

#FindsFriday Dance of Death, 15th C painting. Minstrels, cardinals, kings, all were caught up in this joyful sarabande. Outside, wars and diseases raged. Abbatiale St Robert, La Chaise-Dieu, #HauteLoire

#WednesdayWallPaintings 15th C head of St Christopher with child on his shoulder, known as the patron saint of travelers, St Etheldreda, Horley, #Oxfordshire

A beautifully precise consecration cross in the late summer sunshine at St John the Baptist, Inglesham. #WednesdayWallPaintings #WallsonWednesday

A column swallower at St Andrew's, Eastleach Turville looking furious at being relegated to the column store. #SundayStonework

The small North Wiltshire church of St Andrew Etchilhampton had a major overhaul in the mid C19 during which they found this charming C15 plaque of the Archangel Gabriel. Thought to have been part of an early reredos it now stands in the church as a fond reminder of its past days.

#TympanumTuesday 12th C, Annunciation scene,the carvings have been eroded by time, but the scene is still elegant and magnificent. Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation, La Chaize-Giraud, #Vendée

#stainedglassSunday Roundels, Creation, Flemish C16 King's College Chapel, Cambridge, #Cambridgeshire

#31daysofgraves Day 31: Memento Mori Creation with Adam and Eve balancing on the snake, delicate details of the trees, St Quivox Old Churchyard, St Quivox, #Ayrshire

#31daysofgraves Day 26: Figures Old Castleton Cemetery, Newcastleton, Scottish Borders

#31daysofgraves Day 25: graveside ornament Skulls wearing glasses, amazing! 18th C grave of Margaret Shield Kirkliston Parish Church, Kirkliston, West Lothian,

2/2 Another c1000 cross grave slab surviving from the Kingdom of Strathclyde, one of several among the Govan Stones, recovered from the churchyard and now on display inside at Govan Old Church, Glasgow. The 'ARIR' comes from a reuse of the stone for a later burial. #31DaysofGraves 23: cross

#31DaysOfGraves Day 21 : Bronze Memorial cross,to Frederick Norman (d.1916) by Henry Wilson St Andrew, Much Hadham, #Hertfordshire

#StainedGlassSunday Annunciation stained glass, 14th C, The angel Gabriel holds a banner with the inscription "AVE MARIA GLORIA PLENA" Cathédrale Notre-Dame, #Chartres, Eure-et-Loir

In 1973, Clayton & Bell copied the medieval All Souls figures of St Mary Salome and St Anne for the east window at Ufford, Suffolk. They're very good copies, I'm sure lots of people think they're medieval!

#StainedGlassSunday Jesse tree, stained glass detail, 12th C Jesse is asleep, surrounded by prophets like King David above, Cathédrale Notre-Dame, #Chartres, Eure-et-Loir

#31daysofgraves Day 19: Social group Florence Nightingale memorial, famous nurse, and manager of nurses during Crimean war, St Margaret of Antioch, East Wellow, #Hampshire

C14/15 Christ in Majesty in a window at Raunds, Northants.

#SteepleSaturday One of the most beautiful church of #Charente, 12th C, romanesque, decorated apse: arcatures and colonettes with carved capitals (foliage, leaves, animals). Eglise St Denis de Lichères, #Charente More pictures: church-travellers.eu/st-denis-lic...

#31daysofgraves Day 17: Relocated After renovation, the churchyard has a paved memorial area with aligned headstones St Mary, Mold, #Flintshire

#31DaysOfGraves Day 15: Damaged Sir Nicholas Montgomery, 1492, dressed as a knight, feet resting on his pet, but missing his legs, St Andrew, Great Cubley, #Derbyshire

Day 14 of #31DaysOfGraves - Inside Here are just two monuments from the extraordinary assemblage of 14th-15th century graveslabs that are now housed within the reroofed former Prior's house within the ruins of the Augustinian priory on the island of Oronsay. These were most likely MacDuffie chiefs

#31DaysOfGraves Day 14: Inside Hooded or Canopied tomb, sometimes bones, or skulls carved inside, 17th C St Bridget, Dyserth, #Denbighshire

#31daysofgraves Day 13 Skeleton Painswick, Gloucestershire

The obverse of a stone in Meigle churchyard (Perthshire). The dedication on the principal side is to Janet Edward, who died in 1737, age 49. Her husband was James Lesly. #31DaysofGraves #Day13 #Skeleton

#31DaysOfGraves Day 13: Skeleton. In Port of Menteith kirkyard, Stirlingshire.

Day 9 of #31DaysofGraves - and the prompt is ‘hand’! Here’s a little prototype emoji from the 1600s - a hand pointing towards a Bible. This stone commemorates Kirk Minister Thomas Baikie, who died aged 42.

Squeezing this in before the end of the day! #31DaysofGraves - Day 13, Skeleton. Of course, it had to be this cheery and dynamic fellow from the gravestone of Kirkwall merchant Patrick Prince.

#31daysofgraves #MementoMoriMonday Day 13: Skeleton Skeleton, no name, warm and cozy for winter in his coffin, and capped with his winged hourglass, Elie Churchyard, Elie and Earlsferry, #Fife

A C13 stoup by the South door at East Wellow, Hants. Paintwork thought to be of the same period. Bowl modern.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 12: Notable Woman The courageous Mary Plomer, who died in 1605 at the age of 30 after giving birth to her 11th child. In her arms a chrisom child. All Saints, Radwell, #Hertfordshire

Glass by Hendra & Harper, 1950 at Stoke-on-Trent Minster, in a vaguely uncomfortable Expressionist style. On the right, Christ heals the lepers in a scene from today's Gospel. On the left, Christ in the house of Martha and Mary, the two scenes flanking the Good Shepherd. #StainedGlassSunday

Some well worn medieval faces from Durham Cathedral. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #DurhamCathedral

#WindowsOnWednesday Beautiful stained glass window, St John the Baptist, Madingley, St Mary Magdalene church, #Cambridgeshire

#TongOutTuesday Crowned lion on the roof timber, all sorts of animals adorn the roof structure inside the church St Neots, St Mary, Church, #Cambridgeshire

#SundayStoneWork #MementoMori A large collection of angels, West Stourmouth, All Saints Church, #Kent

#StainedGlassSunday Interesting fragments of medieval stained glass, West Stourmouth, All Saints Church, #Kent

#SteepleSaturday St Peter church Newenden, #Kent We're starting the "church crawling" today, waiting wisely for the rain to stop.

St Mary Salome and St Mary Magdalene, very fine medieval stained glass, from All Souls College, #Oxford

#WoodensDay A very sad greenman, misericord, Norwich Cathedral

#TilesOnTuesday Medieval tiles in the ruins of the Cistercian Byland Abbey, #NorthYorkshire

Beautiful blues in this window dated 1523 at All Hallows, Broadwood Kelly, Devon. The two figures on the right are thought to be donors. She wears a gable hood. #StainedGlassSunday #tudor #historicalcostume