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how many things are we upon the brink of discovering if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries? / Inglese Italianato, e un diavolo incarnato

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Centuries of grime were recently removed from this angel revealing a very rare depiction of a tricephalous carving of the Holy Trinity These controversial images were banned by Pope Urban in 1628 & destroyed but England’s break with Rome probably saved this St Thomas, Salisbury

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There no words that do justice to this 1130s mosaic of the Coronation of the Virgin that graces the apse of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome Christ holds a book that says ‘I will place in you my throne’ below the Hand of God by Mary’s clothes are the star of the show

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The most glorious sight in England? The overwhelming view west from beneath the lantern at Ely Cathedral

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Whether in England or in Italy there’s nothing better than exploring small medieval churches off the beaten track, absorbing the quieter & humbler legacies of our forebears St George’s, Trotton and San Giovenale, Orvieto

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@jamiesmart Old London in 1959

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A view down the nave of beautiful Boxgrove Priory, with its painted ceiling by the C16 artist Lambert Barnard, responsible for a number of works in the Sussex area

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I’ve never seen anything like this in a English church, a mermaid combing her hair with an audience of fish, by the leg of St Christopher in a 15th century wall painting Church of St Botolph, Slapton

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Spare a thought for poor Margery Clent, daughter of Bishop of Gloucester Miles Smith, she died in 1623 and has been thoroughly bored & fed up for over 400 years!

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According to the vicar at St Botolph’s, Slapton, the village’s population has remained more or less fixed at 90 since the early medieval period - meaning the church has never needed to be rearranged, helping to preserve one of the most diverse sets of wall paintings we’ve seen

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St Mark’s Basilica in Venice is home to countless treasures, such as these alabaster columns which support the ciborium above the high altar They’re over 1000 years old, display 324 scenes from the life of the Virgin & came to Venice in 1204 after the sack of Constantinople

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Interesting symbolism in the lintel above the vestry door in Santa Maria dell’Anima, Rome Can anyone enlighten me as to what it’s supposed to be telling us? #OwlishMonday

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In Gloucester Cathedral’s quire, less is definitely not more where the vaulting is concerned

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This medieval wallcrawler has seen too much… 🫣 St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol

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Sure you might recognise Romanesque rounded arches, Gothic pointy arches, segmental arches, four-centred arches, keyhole arches, bla bla but can you name this arch at Lacock Abbey???? No Googling! 👀

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Let's have a little appreciation for the fine vaulted ceiling of the crossing tower at Peterborough cathedral - often put in the shade by the wooden nave ceiling and the fan vaulted east end, it's certainly worth a second look

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Taking a peek at the beaks 🦤 St Mary, Iffley, in the warm fading light of a spring Sunday late afternoon

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Are you a fan? The remarkable vaulting at Sherborne Abbey

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@ThanatosArchive Horrific and inpressive in equal measures. Very similar to the "Evelyn tables" at the recently reopened Hunterian museum in London - where I'll be revisiting very soon 😊

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Imagine finding an abandoned chapel in the woods, walking through the door and seeing this! The Borbach Chantry Chapel is the very definition of a hidden gem

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Prisoners' graffiti in Winchester's 11th century West Gate. Once a main entry into the walled city, in the 16th & 17th century it was used as Winchester's prison. The outward -facing inverted keyhole window was made for hand-held cannon, allegedly the earliest in the country.

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It seems we have a lot of fans of fan vaulting, so here’s the choir of Sherborne Abbey It was completed in the 15th century after a riot by the townspeople burned down the previous roof, and is beautifully painted. Can you spot the symbols of the 4 evangelists?

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Ål Stave church, Norway, was erected around 1170 and demolished in 1880. This cast of its doorway at the V&A shows how stunningly beautiful it must have been - why was it torn down? #AdoorableThursday

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No, there’s nothing wrong with your eyes, or your internet connection! The giant (and imaginatively named) Cologne Cathedral Window by native Cologne artist Gerhard Richter was unveiled in 2007 to no little controversy due to its pixelated abstraction What do you think of it?

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Chantry chapel of Bishop John Alcock (d 1501) at Ely Cathedral Elaborate late Gothic with a fan vaulted ceiling, wonderful!

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Adam & Eve, Lincoln Cathedral

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Absolutely gorgeous chisel-work makes this Last Judgement scene look almost like a woodcut print Memorial to Girolamo Raimondi by Francesco Baratta the elder, a pupil of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in Bernini’s Raimondi Chapel at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome

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Wells Cathedral’s famous “scissor arches” were a cunning solution to resolve the tower’s structural problems, devised by the aptly named master mason William Joy around 1338

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A very strange name at Southampton Old Cemetery Has anyone come across any other Meatyards?

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St Mark’s Basilica has more than 4240m² of mosaics, the gold does a wonderful job of reflecting the little light provided by the windows, the artificial light is kept at a minimum

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Doge Giovanni Pesaro's outstanding memorial at the Frari in Venice features a couple of gruesome guys holding epitaphs The memorial took 9 years to finish, Pesaro was ruled for only 1 year - and was “a widely hated Doge with a questionable reputation”

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The Bristol Cross Erected in 1373 to commemorate Bristol being granted county status, it stood at a busy junction in the city In 1733 it was removed for being “a superstitious relick” & “public nuisance,” dismantled & re-erected 30 miles away outside St Peter’s, Stourhead

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Think your chancel arch is a chonker? Think again The heftiest boi we’ve come across - St Peter’s, Tickencote A c. 1140 beast of six orders, with beakheads, grotesques & geometric delights, all ever so slightly on the wonk 🤫

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View from the lantern at Ely Cathedral. Feel the fenestration force! #WindowsOnWednesday

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This John Hayward window at Sherborne Abbey was the source of great controversy when it was installed. It replaced a window by Pugin & @thevicsoc instigated a court appeal to prevent its installation in 1996 Full story with some cracking quotes below 👇

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A surreal sight at Verano Cemetery - no idea how old this tree is, but incredible &!beautiful that it has been left to grow like this #StaircaseSaturday

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The 14th-century ‘Prentice’s bracket’ in the south transept of Gloucester cathedral Depending on how you read it, this depiction of an apprentice mason working high in the cathedral either shows him falling to his death or being miraculously saved by divine intervention 🤔

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In what is sure to surprise absolutely none of you, the very first place we visited in Cologne was the Church of St. Ursula’s Golden Chamber It contains the remains of St Ursula & 11,000 virgins who accompanied her from Britain to Cologne where they were massacred by the Huns

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This huge pyramid, containing the heart of maestro sculptor Canova, is dwarfed in the arcade of the Frari, the largest church in Venice Interestingly Canova designed it himself, but for the painter Titian - who instead has an equally giant classical memorial opposite

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Crypt of St Magnus, Anagni Cathedral

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John & Grissell St Barbe, died on the same day of the sweating sickness & were buried on 2nd Sept 1658 Though she was only 22, they had 4 sons as depicted at the bottom, but by the time the memorial was installed in Romsey Abbey 3 of them, depicted holding lilies, had also died

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Bath Abbey's Elizabethan west door, donated by the Bishop of Bath & Wells, Henry Montagu - evidently a very humble man as his coat of arms appears only three times on the door 🤭 #AdoorableThursday

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Scenes from the life of St Catherine, Church of St Mary in Lyskirchen, Cologne I hope I got them in the right order! Allegedly they’re from 1280 - really wonderful colours…

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I think this is my favourite door in Rome Entrance to the Palazzo Manilio, constructed in the late 15th century, it's in the ancient Jewish quarter and was once home to Lorenzo di Mattia Manei, a local spice merchant & upwardly mobile humanist #AdoorableThursday

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A closer look at Henry Caesar (d 1636) Dean of Ely, son of the physician of Queens Mary & Elizabeth, and brother of Sir Julius Caesar (yes, really)

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Climping church has the most wonderful door, probably unique, and I'm almost as enthralled by the window above too... #AdoorableThursday

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Have finally managed to bag all 4 of Hampshire’s C12 Bishop Henry Tournai fonts! Which is your favourite? 1) Winchester’s St Nicholas 2) East Meon’s Adam & Eve 3) Southampton’s dragons 4) St Mary Bourne’s grapes & lilies

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Couple Goals: Get yourself someone you’d be stupidly happy laying next to for eternity Charmingly inept late 15th century memorial to a rather gormless-looking David & Ann Phelips at Montacute Kindly described in church sign as being “of local craftsmanship” #MonumentsMonday

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Fairford’s Last Judgement window still has the power to shock and awe more than 500 years after its creation 👼👹⚖️

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Lincoln Cathedral’s choir screen - a Gothic masterpiece of masonry

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Domus Mea, Domus Orationis My house, the house of prayer The monks' door, Ely Cathedral #AdoorableThursday

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With its somewhat precarious gable and smashed glass, slowly becoming enveloped in trees, the Lori mausoleum at Verano cemetery has an air of melancholic decrepitude, I'll be following its transition to mournful ruin over the coming years ☠️ #IronworkThursday #AdoorableThursday

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Tis but a scratch! A legless knight by the altar at St Michael’s, Mere

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Possibly my favourite piece of English architecture, the ceiling of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey. Completed in the early 1500s it was immediately judged as the “orbis miraculum” (wonder of the world)

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Sentimental memorial to poor Sarah Morley, who died at sea in 1784 en-route from Bombay to England , aged just 28, while giving birth to her 7th child… Gloucester Cathedral

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Can someone please explain to me what’s going on here? Look very closely Answer very carefully 😳 St Michael’s church, Mere, Wiltshire

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Can you spot the tiny purple porphyry head randomly set on the corner of the balustrade of St Mark’s? Nicknamed Carmagnola after a decapitated criminal it’s thought to be Justinian & gazes wistfully in the direction of Constantinople - where the Venetians looted it from in 1204

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In many stately homes one may see the walls adorned with taxidermised heads of big game prizes such as antelopes, gazelles or even a kudu Lacock Abbey does things differently 😁

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Shrine of St Alban, Schnütgen Museum, Cologne

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Shrine of St Alban, St Alban’s Cathedral

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Memorial to Cardinal Mariano Pietro Vecchiarelli, 1639, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome Despite being of very high quality I have been unable to find the identity of the artist

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Splendid gothic tomb at Gloucester Cathedral with ornate ogee canopy Unfortunately I don’t seem to have the name of the gentleman in armour with a splendid lion footrest, though I’m sure someone out there knows his name

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The Angel of Grief Weeping Over the Dismantled Altar of Life - Protestant Cemetery, Rome American sculptor William Wetmore Story created this, his final work, for his beloved wife Emelyn in 1895. He died just 9 months after her #SundayStonework

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More details from St Mary, Iffley 🐦

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My perfect Sunday is a springtime walk down the Via Appia Antica, the ancient Appian Way, admiring the crumbling mausolea in the burgeoning Roman heat Soon...

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Splendid Late Gothic/Early Renaissance mash-up at St Mary’s, Petworth Memorial for Sir John & Jane Dawtrey, restored using traces of original colour to influence the decoration #MonumentsMonday

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Peterborough Cathedral’s transepts have a wonderfully pleasingly symmetrical simplicity

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Rose window, Itchen Stoke

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I’m not greedy, I don’t need a giant palazzo on the Grand Canal. This humble gothic number with a rooftop terrace on one of the backstreets/backcanals in the Dorsoduro district will do me just fine thank you

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An arch that’s seen too much, Santa Maria Maggiore, Tuscania, Lazio #SundayStonework

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Exceedingly wonderful scene from Hell at Lincoln Cathedral - renewed but presumably a copy of the original What are the couple on the left holding? And what’s that across the chest of the guy in the centre?

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Winchester's wonderful wooden crossing tower vault of 1635, proof that Gothic never truly left the English sensibility #Woodensday

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A wonderful fragment in the pavement of San Clemente, Rome The artist doesn't seem to have been a particular skilled mason I have no idea as to the age or translation - can anyone help? #EpigraphyTuesday

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A couple of cheerful beasts from Lincoln Cathedral’s Tournai font #FontsOnFriday

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Oof! What a sight!

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A door within an arch in the cathedral precinct at Peterborough #AdoorableThursday

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Spotted earlier at Winchester Cathedral, an angel feeling a little board 🥸 #SundayStonework

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A very happy alabaster Phoenician lion of the 4th century BC, found at Sant’Antioco, Sardinia and now living at the Giovanni Baracco Museum in Rome

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This modern take on the Pietà at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan was extremely powerful. The rain certainly helped the mournful atmosphere #Easter2024

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Corsham Court is a late Elizabethan manor house which sits in the picturesque town of Corsham in Wiltshire, somewhere I’d never heard of. Proof that you should always plan in a couple of stops whenever travelling somewhere, there’s a lot of beauty hiding on those journeys.

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Local legend says that George Lewis, carpenter on the Warnford estate, died when a large branch fell on him as he was cutting it on a Sunday, when he should have been at church, not working The skeleton points as a reminder to observe the Sabbath 🪚🌲🙅‍♂️☠️🙏🏻 #MementoMoriMonday

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Ely Cathedral Lady Chapel - completed in 1349 it was once one of the most beautifully decorated spaces in England, destroyed during the Reformation it has a somewhat melancholy atmosphere but glimpses of magnificence still remain

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Wonderful Netley Abbey, just 15 minutes walk and I’ve reached a portal to another time

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Tomb canopy of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (d 1447) A fascinating character, less warlike than his brothers Henry V & John, Duke of Bedford, he was a Humanist scholar & Renaissance patron but also somewhat gaffe-prone. His 2nd wife was convicted of witchcraft against Henry VI!

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St Wulfram’s in Grantham Late 15th century font topped with a remarkably restrained 😏 cover of 1899 by Sir Walter Tapper. Inside the are three carved figures of Edward the Confessor, St Hugh of Lincoln & St Wulfram. #FontsOnFriday

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Great St Martin’s Church, Cologne

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The Madonna della Clemenza, an ancient icon that could date back to the 6th century Mary is depicted in the dress of a Byzantine empresses, at her feet would have been a submissive pope who likely commissioned the image, making this the earliest example of a donor portrait 🧵

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Lincoln Cathedral, north aisle, looking west

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Manchester Cathedral choir

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While to the untrained eye (me) it looks to be made of gorgonzola, the font at St Michael & All Angels in Lyndhurst is actually made of Arabascato marble. Fancy! #FontsonFriday

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The beautiful Romanesque church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Tuscania has a 12th century immersion font We can see another less spectacular font, sulking in the background, protected by its guardian fire extinguisher #FontsOnFriday #FrescoFriday

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The remains of the Altar of St Mary Magdalene, 1297, including the Sedes Stercorata, a Roman-era marble seat used during the Papal Enthronement ceremonies between 1099 & 1560 Basilica of St John Lateran, Rome

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Italian medieval city states didn’t have standing armies, instead they employed mercenary companies led by a condottiero (contractor) Paolo Savelli was a condottiero who served the Papal States, Milan & Venice, dying in 1405 His memorial by della Quercia is at the Frari, Venice

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Let’s reflect on the state of humanity… In January someone spent 5 consecutive nights smashing virtually every panel of this beautiful stained glass window at St James’ church, Sussex Gardens in Paddington, London Please read the thread 🧵 #WindowsOnWednesday

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There are many reasons why the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne is awesome, but perhaps the most interesting for all my spooky friends is this, the Memento Mori room that’s in the north aisle of St. Cecilia's Church, built 1130 #MementoMoriMonday

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One of my favourite views in London, the sunset silhouettes of St Clement Danes' spire and the Temple Bar griffin #SteepleSaturday

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A beautiful door from Bibury, "the most beautiful village in England"™️ #AdoorableThursday

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Turning the tracery up to 11 with the help of a mirror, Gloucester Cathedral #TraceryTuesday

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Anonymous tomb at Chichester Cathedral, it would once have had decorative brasses of a couple kneeling, probably with Christ or the Virgin between them I’ll guess it’s Purbeck marble, sometime around 1500 but welcome any other suggestions

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Unique memorial for Philipp von Heinsberg d. 1191, Archbishop of Cologne & Imperial Archchancellor of Italy for Frederick Barbarossa Philipp oversaw the building of Cologne’s city walls which may explain the design of the memorial

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The west face of Winchester's remarkable Tournai font, easily the most beautiful in the country 🧐 On this side we see 2 miracles of St Nicholas, on the left the saint resurrects 3 murdered boys, killed by a butcher who was going to make sausages out of them 🌭 #FontsOnFriday

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Sometimes it’s a real blessing to have a picturesque romantic ruin on one’s doorstep Netley Abbey

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Miniature parade chariot of painted limestone, 5th century bc, Cyprus Giovanni Barracco Museum, Rome

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