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Christopher Howse

5 years

Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard Street in 1863. The same pattern is still to be seen in Belgrave Road, London SW1. #opercula No 74

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Christopher Howse

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8 years

My favourite Christmas card: Joseph minds the baby while Mary reads in bed. 15th century, in the Fitzwilliam.

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Thread 1/3 Mathematical deception in Lewes. The 200-year-old Bartholomew House off the High Street below the castle is faced with black "mathematical tiles" mimicking brickwork.

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Is this the grandest pub front door in England? The Corn Exchange, Bury St Edmunds, now a Wetherspoon's.

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This brought a tear to my eye. @LettersDesk http://t.co/KGrNeXLLz9

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A short thread on balconies. 1/ Monforte de Lemos, in rainy Galicia, knows all about balconies, open and glazed.

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Christopher Howse

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3 years

It sometimes seems that a Roman tile without a cat's paw print is a rarity.

Fort Vancouver

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3 years

Some things just don't change! This Roman-era brick with a cat paw print was brought to Fort Vancouver from England as ship's ballast. Archaeologists in England's Castleshaw Valley found the Roman tile fragment in the tweet below, also with a cat paw print! #CatsOfTwitter

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Christopher Howse

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The marvellous sharp steeple of St Walburge, Preston, 1847, designed by Joseph Hansom, the cab man.

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Christopher Howse

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Walls of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: a short thread 1 Moyses Hall, 12th century

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Christopher Howse

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Before I left Berwick I saw something of the beautiful variety of its houses, beginning with the old whaling house with its balcony front door.

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Christopher Howse

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Confident and effective fenenestration, 25 Cadogan Gardens, London SW3.

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Old Covent Garden Market, London: striated paving stones to counter slipping.

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Second-century Roman hypocaust under the Bridge Cafe at 39 Bridge Street, Chester. Open to visitors, free of charge. Listed building, Grade I.

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Christopher Howse

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I sometimes wonder if they dropped the architect's plans and picked them up in the wrong order. Welsh Church, Eastcastle Street, London W1, 1888.

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Christopher Howse

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10 months

Is this England's oldest Catholic church? The 12th-century St Leonard and St Mary was given to the Catholic community in Malton, North Yorkshire, in 1971 by the Anglican diocese of York.

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Christopher Howse

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5 years

"Look, you're going to die." Wonderful emblematic mural in Segovia Cathedral. Death chops, the Devil pulls, Jesus kindly rings the alarm.

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Christopher Howse

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3 years

Francis Bentley was so inventive with his skylines.

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Christopher Howse

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A cliff-slice of 1880s flat dwelling: 79-70 Albert Hall Mansions, London SW7, by Richard Norman Shaw.

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Christopher Howse

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2 years

Regency Cafe, Page Street, London SW1. A good cafe is hard to find.

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Christopher Howse

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7 months

Modest buildings like this make Lewes High Street so attractive. Shop, once a house, 1780. Walls of painted mathematical tiles with quoins. Nineteenth century double shop-front with carriage entrance to one side. Building Listed Grade II.

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Christopher Howse

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7 years

Muslim Viking cheesemongers. Unexpected.

Dr Caitlin Green

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7 years

Also interesting is claim that some of Vikings who attacked Seville in 844 stayed+converted:

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Christopher Howse

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4 years

The Loch Ness Capybara.

CAPYBARA MAN

@CAPYBARA_MAN

4 years

Follow the leader!

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Christopher Howse

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3 years

Secrets of the Underworld, or the Omphalos of Oxford Circus. What's really in there?

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Christopher Howse

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The midday sun catches the statue above the door to the Black Friar pub at Blackfriars.

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Christopher Howse

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Timely advice from Liberty's clock above Kingly Street, London W1: "No minute gone comes ever back again. Take heed and see ye nothing do in vain."

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Christopher Howse

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Lewes layers: 73 High Street, a 17th-century building in 18th-century cladding with 19th-century shop-front and big first-floor window. Side wall tile-hung with jettied first floor with concave moulding. Listed building Grade II.

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Christopher Howse

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1/2 Look up! The spire of St Michael's church in Lewes High Street is covered with wooden shingles. It is one of only three round-tower churches in Sussex.

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Christopher Howse

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4 years

I love this house in Thurloe Square that turns out to be a slice of cheese.

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Christopher Howse

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Fancy living in an early 14th-century old inn (rear) with front from 1470 featuring little figures under crocketed canopies? The old White Hart, Market Place, Newark, is to let.

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Christopher Howse

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1/ 7 Thread: the saving of Faversham. The church and the breweries stood for centuries of prosperity in the port of Faversham.

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Christopher Howse

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3 years

Great pleasure to visit the Anglo-Saxon church at Brixworth, Northamptonshire. The lower nave windows were once doors into now lost side chapels.

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Christopher Howse

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Stunning stone. Many London buildings are of Portland stone. Chandos House, London W1, 1771, Grade I listed building by Robert Adam, is of Craigleith sandstone, quarried where Sainsbury's is now in Edinburgh.

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Christopher Howse

@BeardyHowse

9 months

So unnecessary and harmful to London.

The Victorian Society

@thevicsoc

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Today the City of London planning committee approved the application that will allow a developer to cantilever over the Bishopsgate Bathhouse. Our caseworker spoke at the meeting. We are very, very sad. We will keep you informed if there is further news. #cityoflondon #heritage

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Christopher Howse

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3 years

I tweeted my favourite Christmas card five years ago. I like it still.

Christopher Howse

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8 years

My favourite Christmas card: Joseph minds the baby while Mary reads in bed. 15th century, in the Fitzwilliam.

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Christopher Howse

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10 months

Not a sycamore: no mourners for this street tree felled on the corner of Thirleby Road, London SW1.

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Christopher Howse

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4 years

An old lady with her palms kneels in prayer before the locked doors of Westminster Cathedral, accompanied by rough sleepers.

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Christopher Howse

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Headers and stretchers, Jericho, Oxford.

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Christopher Howse

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The river Westbourne in its iron conduit crosses Sloane Square station. #ironworkthursday

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Christopher Howse

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Not to be ignored: No 1 St James's St, London SW1, 1882, R Norman Shaw. Grade II*: 'Red brick with plenty of stone dressings in richly striated chromatism and moulded brick decorative panels. Tiled roofs. "Queen Anne" closely based on Flemish Renaissance and French models.'

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Christopher Howse

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3 years

The glories of Battersea Park station.

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Christopher Howse

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3/3 Here's how the tiles, attached to battens or laths, fit together to produce a vertical face. Pic from Faversham Life

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Christopher Howse

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4 years

My horse wasn't feeling so well. Then luckily in Elizabeth Street, I spotted ...

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Christopher Howse

@BeardyHowse

7 months

More secrets below the surface in Lewes. A pair of 18th-century houses in the High Street, not brick built but clad in mathematical tiles. The white quoins at the ends of the facade hiding the edges of the tiles are not stone but painted wood.

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Christopher Howse

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Square-cut flints in the wall of the medieval Guildhall in Norwich.

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Christopher Howse

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Less familiar view of Victoria Station, London, opened up by demolition opposite. It's a remnant from 1860 of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway terminus.

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Christopher Howse

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10 months

For a railway terminus, King's Lynn, with its proud flagstaff, has domestic charm, but I was sad to find the station buffet closed.

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Christopher Howse

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3 years

We acknowledge and bewail our maniple sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed..

Peter Anthony

@FrPeterAnthony

3 years

Whoever the liturgical advisor at the BBC was who cooked this scene up needs to be made to walk the plank!

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Christopher Howse

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1/3 The Eastgate clock on the walls in Chester celebrating Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee is still a great success: pretty, popular and useful.

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Christopher Howse

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A remarkable concept for a devotional sculpture: the Child Jesus in a ruff, as if a king of Spain tired with the weight of the world like the orb in his hand. 16th-century, from the Monastery of St John of Jerusalem, Zamora, now in the diocesan museum.

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Christopher Howse

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9 months

A very short thread on footbridges. 1 Hexham, like other stations on the Newcastle to Carlisle line, has rather lovely iron trelliswork footbridges.

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Christopher Howse

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The timber for this house in Stodman Street, Newark, was felled in 1452. Of the Wealden pattern, the part behind the door was a two-storey hall. Now the Prince Rupert, it was formerly the Woolpack. I like the way the curved timbers meet the roof.

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Christopher Howse

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Oh, here's the new Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía, getting into his carriage (or rather the King's) at Archbishop's House, Westminster, bound for Buckingham Palace, waved off by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster.

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Christopher Howse

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Unimproved Oxford.

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Christopher Howse

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The world's first electric telegraph built here in Upper Mall, Chiswick, in 1816 by Francis Ronalds, aged 28.

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Christopher Howse

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10 years

In 1863, Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard St; same pattern as this in Onslow Sq, SW7. #opercula http://t.co/AK5XqBqNUO

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Christopher Howse

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11 months

Chimney, St Michael's Street, Oxford.

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Christopher Howse

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Dear, oh dear. What is the point of such bullying towers in old streets when office blocks are emptying in Docklands?

The Victorian Society

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Save Museum Street supported by Griff, the Vic Soc and other heritage groups campaigned against a 74m tower that will overlook the British Museum, Hawksmoor’s famous St George’s Church, that will be visible from Bedford Square, and parts of Westminster.

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Christopher Howse

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2/3 The side is conventionally tilehung. Building Listed Grade II.

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Christopher Howse

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The knapped flint and diapered brick glories of Wymondham station, builu

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Christopher Howse

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Bomb damage at the Victoria & Albert Museum. An inscription nearby says: "The damage to these walls is the result of enemy bombing during the blitz of the Second World War 1939-1945 and is left as a memorial to the enduring values of this great museum in a time of conflict."

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Christopher Howse

@BeardyHowse

10 months

Under a rainy Norfolk sky, the Customs House, King's Lynn, built as a merchants' exchange by Henry Bell, 1683. "An exquisitely proportioned building with elevations of outstanding architectural refinement," says the Grade I listing excitedly. More here:

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Christopher Howse

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4 years

How I miss pubs. I might not want to go into one, but it's nice to have the choice.

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Christopher Howse

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2 years

Talking of gas lamps, @LondonGasketeer , here's a handsome autumnal specimen with George IV cipher on the post, Carlton Gardens, London SW1.

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Christopher Howse

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Just because the Prince Regent drove a coach and horses down it, doesn't mean you can. Pretty Keere Street in Lewes.

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Christopher Howse

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It would be like a holiday to live in this house with a shutter on the window above the tall gates. Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds.

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A gazebo perhaps prettier to see than to see from. Corner of Pont Street and Cadogan Square.

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Christopher Howse

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A slightly stilted Diocletian window and two Serlian windows – popular in these parts – in a house in Battle Hill, Hexham, dated 1847.

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Christopher Howse

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Medieval door at the Old Pharmacy (now the Yarn Dispensary) in the Market Place, Faversham, Kent.

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3 years

Venerable beads.

Friendless Churches

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4 years

St Cuthbert's Beads: fragmented fossilised crinoid stems that washed up on the shore at Lindisfarne and were strung into rosaries. Medieval people associated them with St Cuthbert: “the sea-born beads that bear his name”. Something sublime and powerful in the treasure of the sea.

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Christopher Howse

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A dead leaf camouflaged as a butterfly.

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Christopher Howse

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In 1916, CS Lewis, aged 17, bought a book that changed his life. Exactly where was the bookstall he bought it from? This is the down platform at Leatherhead, from which Lewis's train left...

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Christopher Howse

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Celebrity.

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The form of these chunky numbers is a delight. More than just branding for the Book of Common Prayer: the font at All Saints, Northallerton.

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Christopher Howse

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It cost A LOT to pave the pedestrian part of Waterloo Place at the bottom of Lower Regent Street. In July I tweeted an asphalt scar across it like the mark of Voldemort. "Don't worry," said the sanguine, "It'll just be while it settles." November's upon us. The scar remains.

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Christopher Howse

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Crinkum-crankum window panes at the Dog and Partridge, Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds.

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Christopher Howse

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4 years

Ready, steady, glow.

Roel Thijssen

@roelthijssen

4 years

Nature is marvelous. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Lights on and....lift off!!!

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Christopher Howse

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Berwick presents itself as a Georgian town, and the variety of door cases is delightful. Here are ten. In natural stone...

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Christopher Howse

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There is, wonderful to relate, a sewer-vent pipe listed as a building of special architectural and historic interest. It's at Gordon House Road, London NW5, next to Parliament Hill Fields. Pictures: Charles Watson

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Christopher Howse

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7 months

Yes, this is designed by Lutyens (1898). Pevsner's continuator calls it "very curious".

hordeofduck

@hordeofduck

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When visiting Norfolk in November, I noticed Overstrand Methodist Church. I've never seen a church look quite like this. I've no idea how to even describe it. Are there other examples like this out there? #churchcrawling #norfolkchurches

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It's bad enough that St Thomas's Hospital can't spell its own name, but it's now corrupting the media. It is pronounced St Thomas's and that is how to spell it. Like the Court of St James's.

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Christopher Howse

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Above the pink rose, the distant green iron conduit carrying the river Westbourne across Sloane Square Station, glimpsed from Bourne Street.

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Christopher Howse

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I like corners like this in London not yet tidied away. #Victoria

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It always cheers me up to see this 16th-century post office building in Ciudad Rodrigo, behind its beaky porch. It was once the Palace of Francisco Vázquez. Opposite is the church of San Agustin.

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Ladies' lavatory, 1899, Bank Hill, Berwick-upon-Tweed. Mrs Jamieson was paid half a crown a week to unlock, clean and lock them.

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Christopher Howse

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A LOT of money went to pave the pedestrian part of Waterloo Place at the bottom of Lower Regent Street. Now there is a scar of asphalt across it like the shadow of Sauron or some other suitably evil figure. Will it ever be made good in stone?

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Christopher Howse

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Archy architecture. This mews arch of about 1855, at Queen's Gate Place Mews, London SW7, an "elaborate triple archway; stuccoed Ionic order, segmental pediment" is a listed building, Grade II.

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Quite an undertaking of a chimney on a stone and brick house in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, with a pretty projecting window on the house next door.

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As good as the day it was knitted.

William Whyte

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⁦ @KebleOxford ⁩ have done the most beautiful job restoring the Warden’s Lodgings

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Like a painting by Sorolla.

Francisco Gómez de Tejada | arquitecto

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Túnel de árboles en la Calle de los Ciegos, Jerez de la Frontera, (Cádiz).

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1/3 A nicely turned corner, from Market Square to Queen Street, in Castletown, Isle of Man.

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Christopher Howse

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I hadn't noticed, till I was shown, the mitre over the middle window of the house built for the Bishop of Ely in Dover Street, London W1, architect Sir Robert Taylor. It makes quite a grand statement.

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A really beautiful handrail at St James's Park Underground station, shaped to be gripped and at the right height.

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You can't help being struck by this idea of architecture. St John's Wood, London NW8.

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"The most valuable building in Middlesbrough", declares Jane Grenville in her Yorkshire: The North Riding for the @YalePevsner series. It's by Philip Webb, 1889, his only commercial building. It's what I went to see. Hard to snap, because of works opposite.

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Striped gondola mooring posts at Torquay station. #ironworkthursday

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The improbable clifftop pond at Whitby Abbey, and beyond it the sea.

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Among fauna and flora on British coins, I was fond of the threepenny bit with thrift on it, in circulation until the year zero of 1971.

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Seems to me I've seen that fish before.

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The birch tree in the gutter of the platform canopy at Norwich Station is doing well.

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A kitchen chair defending the little spiral stair behind the pulpit leading up to the door to the void where the rood-loft used to be 475 years ago at the peaceful church of St Mary, Waterperry, Oxfordshire.

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When telephone exchanges enjoyed state pomp. Sedding Street, London SW1.

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