Monestir de Santa Maria de l'Estany, Barcelona (Catalunya) 🇪🇸 emiliaromanica.com/2026/06/06/ 📷 @emilia_romanica　 18 de juliol de 2025

Parting shot from Grand Manan. A good day. And a good night to you all.

Fake cave painting by #Banksy, installed without permission in the British Museum in 2005! Known as ‘Peckham Rock’, this hoax cave art with a figure pushing a shopping trolley, included an authentic-looking label and was on display for 3 days! 😳 Marker pen on concrete! 😁 📷 by me #Archaeology

✨ What is so jaw dropping about the medieval chapter house at Wells is its nested complexity - the feeling as if you are walking through a wooded glade.

A stunning aerial view of the magnificent multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Badbury Rings #Dorset 🤩 Now looked after @nationaltrust.org.uk © David R Abram Displayed in the 2022 *Ancient Sites from the Air* exhibition @salisburymuseum.bsky.social Happy #HillfortsWednesday!

A medieval pilgrim - detail from the fragmentary remains of the Shrine of St. William of York. Originally located in York Minster, the C14th shrine was broken up at the Reformation. Now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #York

A saint in a fragment of medieval glass at Bristol Cathedral #StainedGlassSunday

St. Peter’s Church at Pirton in Worcestershire. The timber framed tower was probably constructed in the early C16th, while the nave is Norman and the chancel C14th in date. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #Pirton #Worcestershire

Neolithic entrance to one of the covered passageways at Skara Brae on Orkney. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #SkaraBrae #Prehistory #Orkney

Ludwigstraat Roosendaal. Altijd mooi. Veel huizen zijn ontworpen door Hurks. Bijv. nummer 2 uit 1926, waar hij zelf woonde. Ludwigstraat Roosendaal. Always beautiful. Many houses were designed by Hurks. He lived at number 2 (1926). #amsterdamseschool #roosendaal #jacqueshurks

Owl carving from the medieval chancel stalls of St. Mary's Church at Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #HighamFerrers

#SundayStonework A medieval musician from St Mary, Adderbury.

One of my favourite windows in Amsterdam.

Sometimes it's the small details that really stand out. This 17th/18thC? heart shaped handle opens the inner door in the porch at St Nicholas, Teddington, Gloucestershire and just shows that the practical can also be beautiful. #IronworkThursday

Double helix stair at Bourse de Commerce in Paris, France #Photography #Stairs #Architecture #Interior #Paris 📷

14th century doorway from the Great Gatehouse at Battle Abbey in East Sussex. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #BattleAbbey #EastSussex

And fascinating to visit - www.littlehall.org.uk

Ashwell, Herts. Simply heaven if you're passionate about historic architecture and historic graffiti. Wonderfully illustrated by @fotofacade.bsky.social.

It's not easy to write about things that no longer exist, but Dr. Hendrik Dey, one of Smarthistory's over 850 contributors, knocked it out of the park for this info-filled essay on Old St. Peter's. We read it and said, "Finally!" smarthistory.org/old-saint-pe...

God knows what he would have made of Christ.

Cloisters of agreeable rusticity, Hereford Cathedral

The latest edition of our Anatomy of a House blog goes back to the start and the first modernist house in Britain, New Ways in Northampton. It was designed by Peter Behrens for W.J. Bassett-Lowke, 100 years ago. Read more about the house here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/anatomy...

Spotted this 15thC boss of the last supper in the cloister at Norwich Cathedral when visiting recently. It's making wonderfully varied use of perspective but I was most intrigued about the table spread, which says rather more about late medieval England than Roman Judea. Let's decode it! 1/5

The face of poverty ~ a child’s “shoe doll”, found in a London slum in 1905, made from fabric scraps, the heel of a man’s shoe and a black sock (Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh)

Rembrandtkade Utrecht. Architecten Jan en Theo Stuivinga, 1922-24. #amsterdamseschool #amsterdamschool #utrecht

Wow!

Église Saint-André, Brech, Morbihan 56 (Bretagne) 🇫🇷 emiliaromanica.com/2026/03/22/ 📷 @emilia_romanica　 8 mai 2025

Sir Roger Tocotes d.1492. These days the most graffiti’d man in #Wiltshire In his time, he switched sides several times between York & Lancaster, prob fought for Henry Tudor at Bosworth, & was accused of poisoning the Duke of Clarence’s wife. St Nicholas, Bromham. #MonumentMonday

Here’s a #MarchArch for @unesco.bsky.social's International Day to Combat Islamophobia: The great Mosque, Cordoba.

#StaircaseSaturday Atmospheric staircase in entryway of Antoni Gaudi's Casa Mila aka La Pedrera (the stone quarry) in Barcelona. Last pvt residence he designed, 1906-12, in Modernista style. Trompe-l'oeil paintings of borderless tapestries envelope space around it, so it feels as if it's floating.

Warship graffiti by a British prisoner of war, Tour de la Lanterne, La Rochelle for #SailsOnSaturday

Giving the effect of a street strewn with white petals ~- grape vines create this sun-dappled shade in the Calle Ciegos at the Bodega Gonzalez Byass winery, in Jerez, Spain

A truly beautiful place.

Still an amazing and wonderful ride today.

One of my favourites too!

'St Paul's Rising out of the Fog' (1949) by Algernon Cecil Newton (Private collection)

El arco triunfal de la Colegiata de la Santa Cruz de Castañeda. #cantabria #arte #historia #románico #medieval

Happy 10th birthday Art UK 🎉 #ArtUK10thBirthday On our birthday we have reached a huge one million artworks on Art UK! Discover more and celebrate with us 👉 https://artuk.org/#ArtUK10thBirthday 🧑‍🎨 Peggy Angus (1904–1993) © estate of Peggy Angus. All rights reserved, 2026 DACS. 📷 City of London Corporation

Clock. Josef Hoffmann. c.1912. Image: NGV.

The fantastic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Harlton, Cambridgeshire still has its medieval stone screen in place, with this large apotropaic mark / daisy wheel and lots of really intricate historic graffiti 🤩

Église Saint-Nicolas de Caen, Calvados 14 (Normandie) 🇫🇷 emiliaromanica.com/2026/02/21/ 📷 @emilia_romanica　 29 avril 2025

The Saxon baptistry at St. Peter, Barton-upon-Humber might be even older than the C10th tower. Both were built (in part) with Roman stone transported by river from Yorkshire. Many burials beneath are older than the church.

One of the magnificent Norman doorways from St. Margaret’s Church at Hales in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Hales #Norfolk

One of the Lewis Chessmen - currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen #NMS

If you're interested in architecture (and humanity) you need to see the work of Michel de Klerk in Amsterdam, in the brick, so to speak. Wonderful.

#MedievalMonday Stunning woman faces from the past, north quire aisle, maybe two sisters Great Malvern Priory, #Worcestershire

Some people will turn anything into a conspiracy theory. What’s “Stalinist” about town planning where you can walk to the shops?

Looking at Sir Henry Rushbury’s watercolour of Edinburgh (1953) is like peering over his shoulder as he refined angles and perspectives; he continually wrestled with how to invite the viewer into the act of seeing as much as he witnessed in a view.

A very handy all-in-one liturgical object. Must have looked great when lit. Incense Burner and Stand for an Altar Cross, 1150–75. Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim? The Cleveland Museum of Art

✨Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. A kitchen in the nave and a bedroom in the chancel hid within plain sight an Anglo-Saxon chapel built by Earl Odda (a relation to Edward the Confessor). Re-discovered in 1865, it is the most complete surviving Saxon church in England.