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Rachel Morley

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3 years

I love the little stories like this that you find in churches. Go on, Patricia! - Holy Trinity, Penn, Buckinghamshire

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My niece’s no frills Easter card

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Met the cathedral cat @Southwarkcathed .

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1 year

Inventor of the beer hat. Early C16 misericord at Beaumaris church, Anglesey.

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2 years

The flooded crypt at the Basilica de San Francesco, Ravenna (10th C). Because Ravenna was founded on marshland, some buildings have sunk. As a result, the crypt at San Francesco is filled with water and fish swim around the ancient columns and mosaics.

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Looking west in St Oswald’s, Widford, Oxfordshire.

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3 years

THIS GRAVE IS FULL MAY 1866

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3 years

@janky_jane I wore this hat on Patrick St, Cork one Christmas. A fella walking past with his friends said, Look at yer wan, she’s like a fuckin’ marshmallow.

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4 years

The Romans developed fired clay brick (rather than air-dried mud) around 13BC. The earliest fired-brick building is the Theatre of Marcellus, which dates from this time. The bricks are longer and thinner than our modern standards... They vary a lot but were approx. 1ft*1.5ft.

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2 years

Mary Magdalene screams with torment and grief at the sight of Christ’s dead body. It’s from the 1463 terracotta ensemble, Lamentation over Dead Christ by Niccolò dell’Arca and is in the church of Santa Maria della Vita in Bologna. 1/3

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1 year

Ironed man, Westminster Abbey.

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3 years

The church at Little Hampden, Buckinghamshire. A 13th-century church, with a 15th-century timber-frame belfry porch. Love those curvy braces.

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3 years

Golden arches in the 12th-century Cappella Pallatina, Palermo.

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4 years

... 470 mile round trip worth it for the total privilege of standing among the 15th century trusses at Llanfrothen, Gwynedd.

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2 years

St Govan’s, Pembrokeshire. Early medieval chapel built in a gap in the cliffs where Irish Abbot, St Gobhan, was believed to have hidden and been miraculously saved from pirates. The site (chapel and well) layer became renowned for miracles such curing eye-disease.

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2 years

Periodic reminder of the little triangle player in the 15th-century glazing in the Beauchamp Chapel of St Mary’s, Warwick.

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2 years

Rievaulx Abbey.

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3 years

Former butchers in Broseley, Shropshire. Facade completely covered in glazed and encaustic tiles, and mosaic. Inside, every surface is covered in moulded glazed tiles - all from the Jackfield Tile Works.

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4 years

I wasn’t sure whether to post this or not, but here goes. Last night, I got the tube home. I was sitting opposite a young woman. For several stops, a man walked past her, tried to get her attention, etc. She ignored him. When the train pulled into the station, she raced out.

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4 years

I think we lost him/he gave up, and we jumped into my car, I drove her home and made sure she got in safely, and that there was no one hanging around. I was trembling with fear. I can only imagine how she felt. I wanted to post this because, well, just look out for one another.

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5 years

A perfect little ammonite preserved in a pavement in Wells polished by hundreds of years of feet.

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1 year

On the west portal of Trogir Cathedral, carved by Master Radovan in the mid C13, a man, in *excellent* clogs, looks out from his bobbin-turned chair, as he cooks sausages over an open fire. More sausages are hung above him, and he holds up his glass to be filled. 1/2

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4 years

In love with this fresco fragment. The brush strokes, the ochre, the gaze. 2nd century AD, Ostia region.

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4 years

Have walked past this wall hundreds, if not thousands, of times. Yesterday, the sun brought out D. Elliott’s inscription from 1802.

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3 years

Excellent roof. Princess St, Shrewsbury.

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2 years

The crypt of St Mary’s, Lastingham, N Yorkshire dates from 1078, and is built on St Cedd’s 7th-century foundation here. It’s filled with lots of interesting stone fragments - bits of high crosses and hogback stones.

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5 years

A few years ago, quite by accident, some of the best preserved and extensive C15 wall paintings in the UK were discovered in Llancarfan church, Vale of Glamorgan This is Gluttony, forced to drink by a devil, empty flagons strewn across the floor, and buttons popping off his coat

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4 years

Three years ago today, I started @friendschurches . 🥳 It’s flown by and has been great fun. Thanks to everyone who’s made it so.

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5 years

It’s #NationalMaintenanceWeek ! So, I’m reviving a popular feature and celebrating the hardest working part of any building: the rainwater goods. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Downpipe of the Day #DotD is *back*! First up, this useful and beautiful pipe at Amagertorv, Copenhagen.

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Late 12th-century intersecting blind arches to the Chapter House at Wenlock Priory, Shropshire.

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3 years

St Baglan’s, Llanfaglan, Gwynedd.

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3 years

Stars in the strapwork of the 1621 ceiling in Bolsover Castle’s Star Chamber.

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2 years

Labours of the month on the 11th-century N doorway of Duomo di Modena. For February, a figure huddles under a heavy cloak and warms its hands in front of a fire.

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3 years

This day four years ago was my very first day @friendschurches . It’s been a brilliant, busy, weird and fun time. And a real honour. This photo was from March 2021. Visiting the re-roofing of Llanfrothen.

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5 years

The armoury at St Marys, Mendlesham, Suffolk - assembled at the time of the Armada - is “the most complete armoury of any English parish church” (Pevsner). Lovingly cared for by one of @friendschurches Trustees.

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5 years

Late 11th-early 12th century tub font with ovoid faces and an occasional quadruped set on a slice of reused Roman column at All Saints, Berrington, Shropshire -

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1 year

Mid 13th-century choirstalls from Split Cathedral. They’re formed of 8,224 individual pieces, and if you get up close enough and to the right angle, a decent amount of polychromy survives. I was delighted to spot a miniature woodworker looking out from one of the panels.

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3 years

Medieval stars on the window embrasures at St James the Great, South Leigh, Oxfordshire -

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Skeletons grinning in their shrouds in the monumental brass dedicated to Richard Howard (d.1499) and this wife, Cecilie. Richard was the Sheriff of Norwich, and funded the porch at the church where you’ll find this brass: St Michael’s, Aylsham, Norwich. #mementomorimonday

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8 years

Mason's "mark" spotted on modern window replacement @GlosCathedral -

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4 years

Have acquired a small dog. Four days of visiting churches and she’s already fed up.

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2 years

A woman runs out of her house as a fox makes off with one of her geese. A small child peeps out from the doorway. One of 68 misericords at Beverley Minster carved in 1520.

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3 years

I can’t tell you how delighted I am by this. There was a 3wk turnaround to get applications in. Before I knew about this fund, I had booked 2 of the 3wks as holiday, so I ended up writing a 260pg application from a B&B in Great Yarmouth in the July heatwave. Thank you, @DCMS !

Friendless Churches

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3 years

BIG NEWS!! We've been granted £1.54m (!!) from the Government's Culture Recovery Fund! Eight churches across England will have roofs repaired, walls repointed, new drains laid, windows re-glazed, and electrical installations overhauled. 1/3

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4 years

Between 817-24, St Paschal built the Chapel of St Zeno at Santa Prassede, Rome as a mausoleum to his mother, Theodora. It's tiny - barely room to swing a cat - but it's stuffed with mosaics, some of the oldest opus sectile, spolia and the odd relic.

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3 years

Detail from the gilt latten effigy of William de Valence, Lord of Pembroke and Wexford, d.1296. The head rests on a pillow of enamel quatrefoil and coats of arms. The tomb has the only existing example in England of Limoges champlevé enamel-work on a monument. 1/

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8 years

In a quiet corner of St John the Baptist, Cirencester, is this dapper 17th century chap, exquisitely painted on a tiny fragment of glass -

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4 years

M R James’s simple headstone at St John’s Cemetery, Eton. It’s tucked right at the back of the plot, lost in foliage. A little robin came to pay his respects too while I was there.

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4 years

Terrible photos all round, but behold! The chancel at Dorchester Abbey, in particular the extraordinary 14th-century Jesse Tree window.

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2 years

The fan vaulted ceiling to the three-storey porch of St John the Baptist’s, Burford, Oxfordshire. It dates from the second half of the 15th century and was funded by the Guild of Merchants.

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2 years

Cork's old cathedral. Demolished in the 1860s for ...

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2 years

A short thread of six superb churches in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire. Each no more than 20mins from the last. All open. A tiny example of how lucky we are to have so many glorious places of worship. 1. St Catherine's, Hoarwithy

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Rachel Morley

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1 year

I’m so delighted by this!

The Bookseller

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1 year

The Bodley Head has acquired Rachel Morley’s “transporting and gloriously entertaining” journey into England’s past through its rural parish churches, Church Crawling.

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Visited the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holnest, Dorset today. A small church on the side of a road just outside Sherborne. This photo of the former Drax Mausoleum left me speechless. It was built in 1872 by John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax - for himself. 1/3

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St Cwyfan's, Llangwyfan on Anglesey. The church in the sea. The church was built on the end of a peninsula between two bays, Porth Cwyfan and Porth China. The sea slowly, deeply eroded the coast in the two bays until the peninsula was cut off, and became a tiny tidal island. 1/2

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Moreton Corbet Castle, Shrewsbury. A Norman Castle that was extended and embellished in the Elizabethan eta and destroyed during the Civil War. Flouncing gables in a foaming field of cowparsley.

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4 years

A thread of Edwin Smith’s photos of Ireland in 1966. First up, Gerahies, Co. Cork

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Rachel Morley

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3 years

Just picked up the new hand-painted* sign for @friendschurches recent vesting St Helen’s, Barmby on the Marsh, Yorkshire. Now on to the church to install it! * by the excellent sign-writer, Janet Carey

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5 years

Grenfell Tower was named after the grandson of 18th-century Cornish MP Lord Pascoe Grenfell. This little street in Mousehole, Cornwall was named after the grandfather. In solidarity, residents petitioned and had the street sign updated to include a #greenforgrenfell heart.

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2 years

Sherborne Abbey.

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Mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna. Built in 520. The roof consists of a *single* carved stone 10 metres in diameter. Under the monolithic roof is a fragmentary ancient Roman porphyry tub, in which Theodoric was originally laid to rest.

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4 years

A few photos from Vicars’ Close, Wells. It’s been on my mind a lot lately. Remembering a lovely day there last year with some great friends.

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4 years

I’m too nervous/mortified to watch this, but very proud to be my Twitter family’s ‘our Rachel’.

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4 years

Hope we all saw ‘our Rachel’ on Countryfile tonight!

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7 years

A fierce looking owl on the facade of a building on Nevsky Prospect, St Petersburg -

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4 years

Mind blown by the C15 Nottingham alabaster at St Peter's, Drayton, Berkshire. Discovered in 1814 when digging out a vault. Thanks to @clarekirk99 for taking me there.

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6 years

Nine lead fonts survive in Gloucestershire churches. Of this nine, six were made from the same mould: an upper band of foliage over an arcade of alternating figures and scrolls. This font (1120-40) is @GlosCathedral but originally came from Lancaut church in the county.

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4 years

Feast your eyes on the contents of the porch at All Saints, Bakewell, Derbyshire.

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11 months

Waiting in line. Greasy ghosts on the Elizabeth Line. Rows and rows along the length of the platform. Strangely haunting.

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3 years

Decorative window ventilation grilles. Several lovely medieval examples here. They’d be used instead of a glass quarry in a window. Nowadays, we usually just use mesh. I’d love to commission an FoFC design for use across all our projects, but hardly the best use of money…

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4 years

Encaustic tiled elevation on Stonegate, York. A seventeenth-century building covered with tiles by Maw & Co. in the 1870s. Accordion reflection of adjacent buildings a serendipitous bonus.

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4 years

Mount Vernon Hospital Chapel, Northwood. 1904, FL Wheeler in Art Nouveau style. Stranded in a carpark awaiting a future. I’d love to get inside, where the list description promises inlay of enamel and semi-precious stones, mosaics, and oak carving of the highest quality.

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9 years

Paw-prints in the 14th century tiles at St Marys, Chastleton - http://t.co/ZFQ1NCkZ4h

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3 years

A couple of blue-glazed cobbles in a sandstone sea. - Shambles Market, York.

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In a churchyard near Caernarfon.

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5 years

On the edge of Campo dei Mori, Venice is a building with four sculptures of men in huge turbans. It’s believed they are the Mastellis - a Greek merchant family. The story goes that after they helped Doge Dandolo sack Constantinople, Mary Magdalene turned them to stone...

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4 years

Found my way into a long ruined church, now like a jungle inside, with a stream running thro, and massive oaks growing out of the walls... and lots of bits of old carvings. #topsecret

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A tympanum with the Tree of Life with a couple of lions, and a lintel featuring St Michael and the Dragon, at Sts Peter and Paul, Dinton, Bucks. Total wow-factor here.

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5 years

The suicide of Judas, St Christopher and a patch of the Annunciation. The eyeful you get the moment you open the door at St Botolph's, Slapton, Northamptonshire.

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3 years

A small memorial to honest Thomas Cotes, sometime porter, who left his key, lodge, fire and friends to have a room in heaven in 1648. From All Saints’, Wing, Buckinghamshire.

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3 years

Knapped flint facade in Cromer, Norfolk. Like a hundred galaxies, a swatch of Operational Camouflage Pattern or a petrol spill.

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3 years

The Penn Doom. Painted on board in the early 1400s, touched up in the late 1400s, when church got a new queen-post roof. Discovered in 1938. Painting not of especially great quality, but only three other Dooms on board survive. (Wenhaston, Daunstey and Micheldean)

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An angel from St Peters, Hockwold, @TheCCT watching silently from the rafters since the 1400s -

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3 years

Casino carpets, Great Yarmouth. A photo thread.

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2 years

The crossing tower @StDavidsCath . The decoration was restored by GG Scott, but is based on an earlier scheme.

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6 years

The magnificent entrance to 10 Cathedral Close, Exeter. Cut from Devon oak and liberally studded with iron, this early C17 gate is heavily decorated with rusticated cubes, strapwork and lion masks, all crowned with a fabulous shell tympanum.

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3 years

Horrified to learn that the pews have been removed from Pace's (GII*) chapel at the Llandaff Theological College. It appears that consent was not applied for. It's unclear where the pews are now. @C20Cymru @C20Society - I'm sure you'll know already.

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4 years

Eight Portland stone bas-relief panels by Denis Dunlop on the facade of London Midland & Scottish Railway School of Transport, Derby, 1938. Each panel depicts LMS activities: loco building, rolling stock construction, signals, telegraphs, civil engineering, architecture, etc.

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4 years

Delighted to be able to share this! We’re going to busy, but it’s going to be GREAT! Thank you, @DCMS , @HistoricEngland , and EVERYONE who has supported - and continues to support the Friends. ❤️

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4 years

BIG NEWS!! We've been granted £1m from the Government's Culture Recovery Fund! Seventeen churches across England - from Devon to Yorkshire - will have roofs repaired, walls repointed, new drains laid, windows re-glazed, floors repaired. #HereForCulture @HistoricEngland @DCMS

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My heart split in half when I saw the demolition notice on this late C19 Venetian bldg in Camden Quay, Cork. More:

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4 years

Today’s Times -

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5 years

I was honoured to be invited to be part of #ImageofWomeninConstruction , a @nawicldn project to engage the next generation thro the diversity of women & roles they work in. A privilege to have fabulous @morleyvon take my photo (unkempt slouch, needs work) in gorgeous Mundon church

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Holy Sepulchre, Warminghurst, West Sussex

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Will you search through the lonely earth for me? Climb through the briar and bramble I'm with the ghosts of the men who can never sing again… I'll be your treasure. I’m waiting for you… — Because I’m a gigantic saddo, I imagine this song is about churches.

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Doleful eyes on the Virgin Mary in the 15th-century Annunciation at Fairford. What I especially like is that she’s got her fingers holding her place in her book. Life-changing news delivered by an angel, but don’t lose your page.

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5 years

Nice old door at Wells Cathedral complete with spy-hole...

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8 years

The Norman doorway at St Margarets, Hales. Elaborate, incredibly preserved mouldings of barrels,chevrons and cogwheels under a thatched roof

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3 years

So honoured to continue Ivor and Matthew's work. Happy Birthday, FoFC.❤️

Friendless Churches

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3 years

It's our birthday! 64 today! 🥳 On Wednesday 3rd July 1957, Ivor Bulmer-Thomas gathered Goodhart-Rendel, Lady Mander, Roy Jenkins, John Piper, Betjeman, TS Eliot and others. They formed a group to save churches. They called themselves the Friends of Friendless Churches. #thread

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Just some of the people that turned up at the door of Caldecote today. Delivering vacuum cleaners, coffee, cleaning cloths and cheer, and lending helping hands. Thank you so much, everyone, I’m amazed by what we achieved! @badger_beard @oldenoughtosay @gwimages_ @ElectricBrahms

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St Nicholas, Oddington, Gloucestershire. Most famous for its Doom of 1342 spread over the north wall of the nave. A small favourite detail: a stripey devil works the bellows to set the damned alight. A bit of the everyday in the eternal.

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Mosaics from Mausoleo di Galla Placidia, Ravenna. Built between 425 and 450. It was built by Empress Galla Placidia but it’s actually not her mausoleum — she died in Rome and was buried there.

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16th century bench end at St Margaret’s, Spaxton, Somerset. Known as the Fuller bench, it depicts a fuller or tucker surrounded by his tools as he beats freshly woven cloth.

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