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Thomas Bennett at Salisbury cathedral has a skull as a footrest on his cadaver monument.

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#SkullSaturday 💀 The cadaver effigy of Thomas Bennett 💀 📍Salisbury Cathedral ⛪️ #History

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Gargoyle, York Minster Stonemasons' Yard.

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Dropped into Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire for a look around the famous alabaster panels and medieval effigies, but only had 5 minutes before it was locked up by the bell ringers! The Old Hall gateway nearby is 14th c. In origin with 18th c. additions & timber framed inside.

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I have a cute collection of Tudor peg dolls. Super detailing.

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I dropped into @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Oracles, Omens and Answers exhibition today. This Latin treatise on geomancy (using the natural world to make predictions) commissioned by Richard II in 1391 #bodleian #richardii #geomancy #oraclesomensandanswers

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Aztec (Mexica) marriage almanac, on display in @bodleianlibs Oracles, Omens and Answers exhibition. Likely 15thC, it uses couples’ calendrical names to predict what their marriage will be like #aztec #mexica #bodleian

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On #internationalwomensday here is Countess Cadogan d. 1907 carved by Countess Feodora Gleichen at Culford church, Suffolk.

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ROMANESQUE COFFIN LID AT AVON DASSETT, WARWICKSHIRE, TO A DEACON, POSSIBLY THE RECTOR, HUGH, D. C. 1240. Tortoise foot rest. A cracker.

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Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire. Behind the large shield the military semi-effigy holds a heart, Can only be seen close up.

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Shame about the ivy on this fine chest tomb at Aylesworth, Warwickshire.

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The Georgian interior of Avington church, Hampshire

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Stock, Essex. Reginald Bell c1950 SC2 St George

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On 27 March, come to our lecture on satirical portrayals of antiquarians being confounded by inscriptions (often modern forgeries) in art and literature, primarily during the 18th and 19th centuries. It's free! www.sal.org.uk/event/puzzli...

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St Leonard's Hospital, Museum Street, York. This hospital was rebuilt after a fire in 1137. #pencil #drawing #illustration #ArtYear

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A view of Clifford's Tower, York. The 13th century four-lobe keep on top of a motte that originated in the 11th century + an early 17th century entrance block for #FortressFriday. #pencil #drawing #illustration #ArtYear

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The tomb of Archbishop William de Greenfield, north transept of York Minster. He was born in the mid 1250s. In 1304 he was elected Archbishop of York. He died in 1315. In 1829 Jonathan Martin hid behind the tomb before setting fire to the Minster. #pencil #drawing #illustration #ArtYear

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It is a miracle that a formless block of stone could have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh. Vasari on the 1498 Pieta of Michelangelo, born OTD 1475.

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First look at the collar which now completes Dominic Smee's medieval clothing. Many will remember that Dominic has scoliosis that is very similar to Richard III’s. With the aid of the Richard III Society, he has been creating a costume as part of being an re-enactor.

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The fortified tower doorway which forms part of the late 14th century bridge at Warkworth in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Medieval #Warkworth

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A perfect little #AdoorableThursday from the chancel of the Lord Mayor's Chapel, #Bristol, frothingly foliate ogee, about 1500 - tho' restored? #AnytimeAngels, #Victorian (I assume) door, and a glorious floral spray announcing spring and summer to come. Swoons!

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Happy World Book Day!

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#AdoorableDoors #BathAbbey

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#AdoorableThursday A delightful blue door, the entrance to the Catholic chapel of St Michael the Archangel, added by the long term recusant Blounts to their Mapledurham House in 1797. Still in use for a monthly Mass. See : taking-stock.org.uk/building/map... pic.x.com/FlTSIXXUHp

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#IronworkThursday Possibly some of world's best wrought iron gates/screens are in the choir @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social. Luxmuralis multimedia show last week put them in v new light. Just superb. By Jean Tijou: a Huguenot French metalworker who worked 20 years at Cathedral + also on royal palaces.

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The Church Monuments Society is gently moving to blue skies and butterflies - for more about us, see our web site at churchmonumentssociety.org

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Dipping into the archives for #ThrowbackThursday - an early Monument of the Month, a painted wooden panel with memento mori imagery churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-...

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Dust we are and to dust we shall return

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When a phone box is reclaimed by the wild... #Cornwall

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I do enjoy a window made up of random fragments of various ages and from different places! 🤩 This is a particularly good one, from St. Lawrence’s Church, Diddington, Cambridgeshire. More in comments below…

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St Leonard's Church, Frankley Worcestershire UK on a pleasant spring day - 04-03-25 #churches #photography #worcestershire #canon

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This evening’s Somerset sunset shenanigans

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Arm Reliquary of Saint Pantaleon, 13th century with 15th century additions, Rhenish (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore MD)

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Virgin and Child ca. 1415–17 Attributed to Claus de Werve Given to the Poor Clare convent at Poligny by the Duke or Duchess of Burgundy. (Met Museum)

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Another giggle for you all.

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Another good carton IMO.

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A cartoon sent to me by the late Claude Blair.

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I greatly enjoy cartoons with a medieval theme.

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Here is her head on decorated pillow.

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Fine brass at Wooton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire to to Thomas, Lord Berkeley d1417 and wife Margaret, dau Lord Lisle d 1392.

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The tomb of Catherine Mompesson who died on the 25th August 1666. She was the only victim buried in the churchyard of St. Lawrence's Church, Eyam, Derbyshire. Her husband William, rector of Eyam along with his predecessor Thomas Stanley stopped church burials, locked the church doors with /1

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Chancel at Strensham, Worcestershire.

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Stockton-on-Teme Worcestershire. Colourful tomb chest.

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#Adoorable inside El Escorial #Espana a rather splendid door.

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“Pulpit Penguins” - c. 1936 St Gabriel’s Church, #Postbridge #Dartmoor #Devon The pulpit was designed by Frederick Wheatly & carved by #VioletPinwill Details👇 pinwillsisters.org.uk/the-catalogu... #WoodcarvingWednesday #Woodensday

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Today is Ash Wednesday when we are reminded that we are made of dust and, in the end, return to dust. BL Add 37049; The Carthusian Miscellany; England, N.; 15th century; f.32v

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The martyrdom of St Alban, the executioner's eyes popping out and falling to the ground after dealing the final blow. Cotton MS Nero D II, f. 39.

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Unusual cross slab with ragged arms. Stockton-on-Teme, Worcestershire.

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