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Welcoming door at St Mary Irwerne Minster the virtuosity in the Greensand carving is something else and very in usual in this material …

Work from 1998 muscular dove spreading peace and hopefully no concussion when dropping that olive branch

Surprise behind stud wall !

Fibonacci provides the clues here, turning chaos into order with balance, beauty, grace, and proportion. The organ staircase at St. Mary’s, Studley Royal, designed by William Burges, echoes this harmony in the golden section.

Extraordinary if extraordinary is the word painting by J M W Turner Death on a pale Horse ..

Angelic offering from St John the Baptist Bere Regis tucked away

found this reflection in a puddle last week

Tree of the day !

The most elegant gift

Door in Riga.

This remarkable Roman silver tray was discovered by a nine-year-old girl called Isabel Cutter on the banks of the River Tyne near Hadrian's Wall in 1735. Known as the Corbridge Lanx, it shows Apollo, Artemis and Athena gathered around a shrine. It is now held at the British Museum #FindsFriday

Today's the feast of St Catherine, by tradition a 4th Century martyr, and one of the most popular of all saints in medieval days. Here she is with her sword and wheel in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, an early 16C Flemish devotional statue. 1/3 Burrell Collection: www.flickr.com/photos/norfo...

#churchcrawling: All Saints, Bakewell, set high above the town withy a great collection of stones, inc to a ropemaker, plasterer, plumber, an apothecary, and a man who was killed in a mill when 'caught by a shaft'. (plus a porch full of grave slabs): www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/Derbyshire/B...

Admiring the carvings on the lintel over the front door of Casa Coll i Regàs in Barcelona, featuring a young woman engaged in spinning, reflecting the owner’s involvement with textiles. The architect was Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1898) sortidesambgracia.com/2024/02/10/l...

The best view over Weymouth this morning

Really enjoyed the peace and quiet in Wardour woods working on this amazing 18 C Rock Arch …

Here's a host of 'All Saints' for All Saints' Day. 1. The remarkably complete C10th Anglo-Saxon tower at All Saints’ church, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire. #thread

Really very pleased to have some chisels sent by JP Masonry supplies lovingly made despite a hiatus in activities … he’s looking for a new workshop to continue .. if you know of one please shout

A meteor fell near the most active volcano (Mount Merapi) in Indonesia

Inside the incredible 12th and early 13th century tower of St. Mary’s Church, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire 😍 🤩

CRAMOND:—The loneliness of the off-season ice cream seller. #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #gloom

Kloster Irsee in the Allgäu region of Bavaria was founded in the 12th century and is notable for having not one, but two 'catacomb saints'. Saints Candidus and Eugenius - supposed holy remains brought from Rome - were covered in jewels and armour. It also has a spectacular boat-shaped pulpit!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU6B... Huge news - as they launch the new series of their hit podcast about Parkinson's the Movers & Shakers unveil We Will Survive, a pop video promoting their Parky Charter

With thanks to the friends of Glasgow necropolis and Lynda Henderson conservation for photo Of the Monteath monument wow !

Just a spitfire up the ……..

The very impressive buttressing and gorgeous doorway to St. Mary’s Church, Conington, Cambridgeshire 🤩

Met some very old applewood mallets owned by the mason who trained many apprentices at Salisbury cathedral

If you visit Bologna's Basilica of San Petronio, here's two things to look out for. The first is the 17th century meridian line, used to calculate exact times. The second is a detailed fresco depicting Hell - under tight security to this day, as it depicts the prophet of Islam.

Carefully lifting stone between these ancient monoliths

1994…. headstone I made in Stanley’s limestone near chipping Campden .