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A history talk I am giving next month on Dooms, in Dauntsey near Malmesbury in North Wiltshire, almost all proceeds to the church there. Still a few places left. Contact details on the poster below or message me 😃 RTs appreciated.

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Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖

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1 year

Lawrence Whistler’s etched window at Checkendon as a memorial to Eric Kennington, who illustrated Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence. In the centre is the Holy Grail. #WindowsOnWednesday

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11 months

This chair is 431 years old. Just remarkable. Kington St Michael #Wiltshire #Woodensday

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The recently restored Doom Painting at St Thomas’s Church, Salisbury #Wiltshire #WednesdayWallPainting #WallsonWednesday originally painted about 1470 it has the classic doom majesty of heaven and then sinners being dragged into the jaws of hell.

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In the deserted village of Imber today, an army training ground since WW2 when the village was forcibly evacuated, and and now is only open to the public on Easter and August Bank Holiday. St Giles Church. #SteepleSaturday

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My recent Laurence Whistler Window post got so much interest that I have decided to do a blog on the whole Whistler family when I launch a new website in the next couple of weeks. Here is a quick view of his son Simon’s window this morning at All Saints, West Lavington #Wiltshire

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11 months

The abandoned St Mary’s in Old Dilton #Wiltshire Its simple 14th-15th Century exterior gives little clue to the untouched world of the past that lies within. #SteepleSaturday

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Sometimes less is more. The 2022 gravestone of Field Marshall Sir John Chapple at Bishopstone #Wiltshire #MementoMoriMonday

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The ‘homely’ 14th C tower of St Peter’s in Little Cheverell #Wiltshire yesterday. Most of the rest of the church is from 1850. #SteepleSaturday

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5 years

The Dauntsey Doom Boards, not a bad choice for one of my first Medieval Studies assignments. The wood is dated 1360-1390 although these paintings are at least the third made on the boards and likely a century or two later.

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Late 15th C, ‘exceptional structure’ (Pevsner) with some original colours (not the blue cloak which was painted in 1965). Edington Priory #Wiltshire #SundayStonework This is is about 550 years old. Amazing, even if it is not known whose tomb it is.

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Salisbury Cathedral West Door last Thursday night. Line of Saints visible above are Katherine, Roch, Nicholas, George, Christopher, Sebastian, Cosmas, Damian,Margaret of Antioch & Ursula. #Wiltshire #SundayStonework

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For those who have been asking, I have just had my post surgery results. They are not the best but also could have been worse. One secondary tumour was confirmed and has been removed. Other suspicious tissue was not cancerous. I will be closely monitored for anything else :)

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Door through 15th Century screen in St Michael’s, Mere #Wiltshire for #AdoorableThursday

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On my way to Reading to meet the brother I never knew I had. Somehow the novel’s title seems rather apt.

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The lovely Lacock Abbey just up the road from me in #Wiltshire for #TilesOnTuesday

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One of the medieval storage chests in the North Aisle of Salisbury Cathedral today for #IronworkThursday This one has seven locks, once requiring seven priests to be present to open it.

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And the door was shut. St Mary the Virgin in isolated Whaddon #Wiltshire yesterday during a 5+ mile healthy walk I had along the canal and then through the fields to clear the mind. #AdoorableThursday

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In memory of lone trees everywhere. At Dyrham Park, north of Bath, with Bristol and the Welsh hills in the distance.

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Just a simple doorway, only been there for about 800 years. St Michael’s at Kington Michael #Wiltshire #AdoorableThursday

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The tiny front entrance to the Pilgrims' Chapel at Chapel Plaister #Wiltshire . At least 600 years old (some think more) this was a resting place for pilgrims on the way to Glastonbury. It was restored in the 1880s, although it is pretty rudimentary inside. #AdoorableThursday

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The ceiling. The tiles. The walls. The windows. The columns. The beauty. Lacock Abbey #Wiltshire #MedievalMonday

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And the door was shut. All Saints, Westbury #Wiltshire #AdoorableThursday

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In the Saxon Church of St Laurence in Bradford on Avon, undated but sits nicely enough in the wonderful old building, next to the much larger Norman Holy Trinity, for #FontsonFriday #Wiltshire

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Time has stood still in St Mary’s, Old Dilton #Wiltshire with the church henceforth forever empty and frozen in time 200 years ago or more. The simple font there sits quiet and unused amongst the wonderful box pews. #FontsonFriday

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The key to the old unused church of St Mary, Old Dilton #Wiltshire collected from a nearby house. I wonder what I will find inside.

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The simplicity of the past (not always the case, I know). 900 year old font with a view, at St Peter’s by Stourhead #Wiltshire #FontsOnFriday

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Magnificent 600 years old lifesize monumental brass of Sir Morys Russell and his wife Isabel Childrey. On the floor of St Peter’s Church, Dyrham Park near Bath. #MedievalMonday #MonumentsMonday

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Some door this, simple, battered but still in situ - the south entrance at St Mary’s, Old Dilton. Rarely used these days as the church is abandoned and entry is through more of a priest’s door. #AdoorableThursday #Wiltshire

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We need more #StainedGlass in our lives, ancient and modern, so here is Henry Haig’s 1989 window in St Michael’s, Lyneham, commemorating 50 years of the RAF there. #StainedGlassSunday

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Main entrance and south porch of Edington Priory #Wiltshire #AdoorableThursday

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This 15th Century stone double Screen in Compton Basset is a real throwback to the days when the congregation in the nave was separated from the chancel and altar although the figures of saints at the front look more recent. #Wiltshire #ScreenSaturday

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11 months

The writing shed of Dylan Thomas, who died 70 years ago today, at Laugharne. The views over the estuary from his windows are stunning and would inspire almost anyone to write, if not to tidy their room! B&W photo taken in 2015.

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Medieval encaustic tiles (painted with hot wax) originally from Hayles Abbey in Gloucestershire but moved to St Peter’s in Dyrham Park during the Dissolution and now on the south aisle floor there. #TilesonTuesday

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The wife of Sir Thomas Wroughton kneeling in his and hers large canopied memorial of 1597 at Broad Hinton #Wiltshire #MementoMoriMonday #MonumentsMonday

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Lovely to go back and see my friend the Green Man on a 15th Century stall end this week in St Michael’s, Mere #Wiltshire

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The Mechlin Pot, a massive black cauldron from 1500, in the Warming Room at Lacock Abbey, #Wiltshire - known of course for its Harry Potter Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons. #IronworkThursday

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9 months

Looking through the 1856 brass gates and wooden screen to the east window in the chancel of St John the Baptist in Frome. #TraceryTuesday

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Hidden in a corner of the church at Compton Basset. Not very traditional, and probably not to everyone’s taste, but I decided that I rather liked it. #IronworkThursday #Wiltshire

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Early 13th C female effigy in an arched recess within the chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon. Above her are 18th & 19th C memorials to two Clutterbucks, a Tugwell & a Yerbury, and a 1921 window by Herbert Bryans also to a Yerbury - L/Cpl. #Wiltshire #SundayStonework

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Having to rouse myself this morning to go off to a wedding in Aylesbury. Wonder what the bride’s headdress will look like. This headgear is from about 1400, in St Peter’s, Stourton #Wiltshire next to Stourhead.

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Door in the impressive 15th Century Screen between nave and chancel in Edington Priory, looking towards the east window #Wiltshire #AdoorableThursday

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Charming wood and stone south porch, with lovely blue interior, from 1862 at St Andrew’s, South Newton #Wiltshire #AdoorableThursday

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Two doors for the price of one - the first in the 1922 screen by Frederick Eden, the second an old priest's door, both in St Peter & St Paul, Longbridge Deverill #Wiltshire #AdoorableThursday

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It’s the black #StainedGlass that makes this 1931 Hubert Blanchard window stand out for me. I really like it. Cherhill #Wiltshire #StainedGlassSunday

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11 months

Tracery, tracery, nothing but tracery. The cloisters in Lacock Abbey #Wiltshire #TraceryTuesday

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1 year

Such a simple chap: just skull, hourglass and wings I think, but I love it when I find one of these hidden away in a churchyard - in this case in Semington #Wiltshire last week. #MementoMoriMonday

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Up close and personal today with the Westbury White Horse, on the side of the hill in strong winds at the Bratton Iron Age camp #Wiltshire Just the place to go for a bracing walk after being double jabbed in Westbury this morning.

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Just occasionally in life everything aligns and things go really well. Such was my talk on the Dauntsey Doom last night. Sold out event with all proceeds to the church and in spite of some new post surgical pain I was on top of my game for once. Wonderful feedback afterwards too.

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The path to the altar at St Peter’s in Marlborough #Wiltshire Now in community use, as exhibition space and cafe, these have been polished up to look like new, as they were in TH Wyatt’s 19th C restoration. #TilesOnTuesday

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#WindowsonWednesday From Lacock Abbey #Wiltshire A dark, dank chamber just off the medieval cloisters.

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Lavish memorial “To the pious memory of Henry Hoare, Esq … His character is too great to be described” Yet 42 lines later the description finally ends. St Peter’s, Stourhead, 1725 by Thomas Stayner #Wiltshire #MonumentsMonday #MementoMoriMonday

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8 months

What a great first episode on Mannerism by @JANUSZCZAK Lively, quirky, passionate and funny, just like the post Renaissance art it described. Even a section on cheese. What more could you want. Worthwhile finding if you missed it.

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The tower at Mere #Wiltshire is 125 feet tall and dates from around 1460 as a late addition to the body of the church. #SteepleSaturday

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The Saxon arch on the left is thought to be the original south entrance to this lovely little church at Limpley Stoke, and was later incorporated in the arcade. #SundayStonework #Wiltshire

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Berwick Basset’s rarely used St Nicholas Church at the side of the local farmyard with its 15th C Screen still standing after all those years. #Wiltshire #ScreenSaturday

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Polished marble and granite tiled floor in the Chancel in St John the Baptist, Frome. #TilesonTuesday

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A morning in Mere and Stourton with a quick pop into Stourhead to enjoy the always lovely view over the lake. #Wiltshire

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Such intricate carving here around the doorway of this 15th Century screen in St Michael’s, Mere #Wiltshire #AdoorableThursday

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#AdventCalendar2023 25 Photos from this year. Day 5. George Street's Baptistery in St John the Evangelist, Boreham, Warminster #Wiltshire #AdventCalendar #TilesonTuesday

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All the leaves are brown, And the sky is gray, I've been for a walk, On a winter's day. Stopped into a church, I passed along the way, Well, I got down on my knees, And I pretend to pray #MamasandPapas Cherhill #Wiltshire #Woodensday

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The Royal Arms as seen through the Saxon arch incorporated into the north arcade at Limpley Stoke #Wiltshire #LesArmoiriesduVendredi

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The truly historic Oriel Window in Lacock Abbey - in 1835 the first ever photographic negative was produced, of this very window, by William Fox Henry Talbot. #Wiltshire #WindowsonWednesday

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Out for a long lone walk this morning reflecting on a year of health challenges for myself and others I hold dear. Was just stopped by a man in a car wishing me well and to take care in the floods. Sweet. Happy New Year to all whose images I adore on here. Lang may yer lums reek.

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Channelling my inner John Constable by the River Avon outside Lacock Abbey #Wiltshire this afternoon.

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“One of the finest pieces of mid 16th C decoration in England.” The Sharington Memorial in Lacock, St Cyriac’s #Wiltshire scorpions along the base 🦂🦂🦂 #MementoMoriMonday #MonumentMonday

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What a beautiful gravestone this is, at Yatesbury #Wiltshire today. The church was locked but even in the pouring rain this was worth the visit. Just lovely.

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Peter and Paul checking their Pevsners. Edward Burne-Jones designed, William Morris Co. produced, section of the East Window at St Nicholas, Bromham #Wiltshire #WindowsonWednesday

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Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is, my gorge rims at it. 1627 Prynne Monument, St Andrew’s, Chippenham #Wiltshire

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This is as lovely a memorial plaque as I have come across. It looks so real in the church, as if the cloth was put up yesterday. Really beautiful. By the 19th Century Sculptor Sir Richard Westmacott Jr. Charlton St Peter #Wiltshire #LesArmoiriesduVendredi

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Window by Kempe & Co of 1920 remembering ‘those who went forth from this place in the service of their country during the years of The Great War 1914-1919 and returned not’. St James the Great, Dauntsey #Wiltshire #StainedGlassSunday

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Happy #Halloween and thanks to everyone who sent me kind messages last night after I had a metastasis confirmed from my recent operation. Still, I am doing well, unlike this chap on the wall in Lacock Abbey #Wiltshire

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The house of Robert Burns in Dumfries, where he died in 1796, and in which his wife Bonnie Jean Armour remained until 1834 #AdoorableThursday #BurnsNight

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Possibly 15th Century screen, with some similar decorative motifs to the better kept and updated roodscreen, at the west end of St James the Great, Dauntsey, #Wiltshire allowing a first peep at the Doom. #ScreenSaturday

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Formerly the Tower screen, this green and gold 1925 Anglo Baroque structure is now in the north east chapel at St Peter & St Paul in Longbridge Deverill #Wiltshire #ScreenSaturday Good to pop in there before lunch in the pub with a friend. Art Nouveau font in foreground.

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9 months

Ran out of #advent steam this week, but here is a lovely nativity scene in front of the altar at the Italianate Church in Wilton #Wiltshire from yesterday.

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A late #AdoorableThursday here from Salisbury Mosque. Totally separate from that, I am very quiet on here at the moment as I have just discovered I have a brother, after I have lived as an only child for over 60 years. Quite a shock, though not in a bad way.

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Beautiful day in the Shire. Even the White Horse is glistening in the sunshine. Today at Westbury #Wiltshire

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Medieval fragments combined in a rather striking collage at All Saints, Maiden Bradley #Wiltshire #StainedGlassSunday

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When it comes to screens, St Michael’s in Mere really is the #Wiltshire multiplex, with every single section partitioned, offering glimpses of a pre Reformation world, albeit with a Victorian embellished rood loft. #ScreenSaturday

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Tower built around 1490, rest of the church restored by TH Wyatt in 1863. St George’s Fovant in #Wiltshire #SteepleSaturday Lots of military links and war graves there.

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My younger daughter today on her last ever weekend as a teenager. They grow up so fast and all that.

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What lies within. #AdventCalendar2023 25 photos from this year. Day 7. 12th Century doorway within George Street's 19th Century porch, at Upton Scudamore #Wiltshire #AdventCalendar #AdoorableThursday

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Another image of the Compton Bassett hourglass, taken from the pulpit next to it. This one is is in memory of my oldest first cousin who sadly died yesterday. The sands of time wait for no one. Rest in Peace Stephen 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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#RemembranceDay Christopher Whall's poignant WW1 window at St Andrew's Chippenham A grieving parent, Fields of Dead, Battlefield destruction. #Wiltshire #StainedGlassSunday #LestWeForget #LestWeForget2023

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At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, we shall remember them. St Nicholas Church, Bromham #Wiltshire #LestWeForget #LestWeForget2023 #ArmisticeDay

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Sun stippled tiles in St John the Baptist & St Helen Church, Wroughton #Wiltshire probably from Wyatt's 1851 restoration there. #TilesonTuesday

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1929 screen in Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon #Wiltshire with newer stairs leading to first floor West Tower Gallery. #ScreenSaturday #StaircaseSaturday

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Beset by flu or some other awful virus. Shivering all the time, coughing, sensitive to light, and mostly asleep at the moment. That’s me not the dog, though he does sleep a lot too.

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#AdventCalendar2023 Day 16. The gothic glory of St Mary Redcliffe late on a winter’s afternoon #SteepleSaturday #AdventCalendar

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One of the oldest houses in #Wiltshire . Spotted this afternoon when popped out to Keevil, less than 10 mins drive from home, to see the lovely St Leonard’s Church there. This house, Talboys, was extended in 1876 but still looks rather pleasant.

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Some Welsh High Victorian Gothic, taken last weekend in Lampeter, but my mind was elsewhere so I did not post it. Sadly I could not get into the church, St Peter’s, either day I was there. #SteepleSaturday

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Butterfield’s remodelled belfry sits atop St Mary Magdalene in Winterbourne Monkton #Wiltshire #SteepleSaturday

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It stands alone in a field, the tower at least 500 years old, whilst much of the rest is an 1812 rebuild. St Matthew’s at Rushall #Wiltshire #SteepleSaturday

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11 months

Bit of a build up of plaque here at Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon #Wiltshire #WallsonWednesday

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9 months

Decorations down. Piles of books up. Two separate research areas which should keep me busy for months.

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8 months

The 1514 tower of St Peter’s in Freshford, Somerset in yesterday’s sunshine. #SteepleSaturday

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Been laid low by a virus and cough for last 3 weeks, so have lifted my spirits by coming late to bread making. My third attempt here. Ok I got a second hand machine off f/b marketplace so it’s not quite the real McCoy, but still a lot healthier than shop fare. Smells gorgeous.

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6 months

Images of Imber. Isolated on the middle of the Salisbury Plain, evacuated in an emergency in WW2 to become an army training area, it has stayed empty and deserted by all but soldiers ever since, and is only open to the public at Easter and August Bank Holidays. #Wiltshire

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Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖

@HistoryMalc

1 year

13th Century font in St Mary’s, East Knoyle #Wiltshire Lovely leaf carving on the sides #FontsOnFriday

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Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖

@HistoryMalc

11 months

Rebuilt by the Normans, restored by the Victorians, a bit battered and bruised but still going strong. St Martin’s in Bremhill #Wiltshire #SteepleSaturday

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