Grey limestone font with 8 concave sides has the coat of arms of Robert Rhodes, who died in 1474. A gold leopard & 3 silver rings against a blue background.
Cathedral of St Nicholas,
Newcastle, Tyne & Wear
The dark grey limestone font (with many fossils) was carved in late 15th Century.
The coat of arms is of Robert Rhodes, died 1474, who gave the font.
#FontsOnFriday #Medieval
It's #FontsonFriday folks.....
We visited St John the Baptist Church, Sedlescombe, here's their C15 font, its of a plain octagonal style, the polygonal cover is thought to be C16th.
For more info: sussexparishchurches.org/church/sedle...
An hourglass shaped stone font with wooden pyramid shaped font cover.
An hourglass shaped font with zigzag, plait & palmette patterns.
St Marnarch’s Church, Lanreath Cornwall
A Norman font with Jacobean cover
The guidebook describes it as carved from Catacleuse, a quaetz-porphyry stone, from the Padstow area of Cornwall
The soft light highlighted the patterns & traces of colouring (medieval or later?).
#FontsOnFriday #Romaneque
The Crucifixion on an early 16th Century font from Borline on the Isle of Skye, now in the National Museum of Scotland. It has a dedicatory inscription date 1530 to John MacLeod of Minginish. #FontsOnFriday
A large, robust stone font on an octagonal stone base, set into a tiled floor. Its shape is clearly that of a column base, but upside down. (Make like Emlyn Hughes in the picture round on 'A Question of Sport' and all will become clear.)
The stonking great font at St. Andrew's, #Wroxeter - made from an upturned Roman column base. One of many pieces of re-used stone in a remarkable church. (A look around it adds a lot to a visit to the nearby 'Roman City' site.)
#FontsOnFriday #Shropshire #ChurchCrawling #RomanBritain
📷 My own
When even your piscina has its own nodding ogee.
Hello Blossom
I love this one; definitely one of my favourites. It looks as if it's about to stomp off under its own steam and start a new life somewhere.
#fontsonfriday
An octagonal font with carved faces in pinkish stone, ingloriously surrounded by Anglican clutter
A very plain round font in rough stone, cottage loaf shaped with a slight waist between base and bowl
A duo of #FontsOnFriday from St Andrew’s Buckland Monachorum. The C15th octagon is very nice but it’s eclipsed by that rotund Saxon tub font. That is a full fat font!
I will never forget you showing me this in person--it is a marvel and incredible that it still survives!
Fun mini discovery-- the #FontCover for St Edward Cambridge in 1842 (paid for by the Camden Society) somehow ended up in Charlton Mackrell, St Mary, Somerset. It is based on the font cover at Littlebury, Essex.
Somewhat redundant and overlooked now, the medieval winch that operated the Lenten veil at Salisbury Cathedral.
Good morning, friends. Reposting this clip of a stag who wandered into a cathedral. May it give you joy, hope and peace.
Cathedral Basilica of Saint Cecilia in Albi, France 🇫🇷
It is widely considered the largest brick building in the world.
The cathedral was built in the Southern French Gothic style between 1282 and 1493.
15 images of Mary reading with her mother.
I only have three British medieval stained glass scenes of The Presentation of Mary at the Temple and two of these are early 16th century. In contrast, I have fourteen and one wall painting of Mary reading with her mother. Unlike the Presentation this reading scene is not mentioned in any text🤔.
#FontsOnFriday C15 #FontCover at Sudbury, St Gregory, Suffolk once had a long, dark blue, fringed curtain that hung over it, at least until 1825. It also used to open on the side and the interior featured a fancy carved, cusped ceiling.
Takeley, Holy Trinity, Essex #FontCover mystery (at least for me). Old guides (c. 1900) mention a 6-ft-high cupboard made of 8 linenfold panels. This is termed a "font case" as separate from the "font cover. Does anyone have a pic of it?
An unusual font cover in Wantage. I can only assume the architect was inspired by the "fairytale" castles of European. It is quite literally a turret with dormer windows. Even the counterweights are painted turrets.
#fontsonfriday #churchcrawling
The cover looks C17 to me, but I am happy to be corrected. I wonder if it was moved from another church during the C19? 😊
Cage for suet and a plastic baffle to keep squirrels away. :)
The 1534 #FontCover at Southacre, St George, Norfolk has an inscription (translated) "Pray for the souls; Master Richard Gotts, and Sir Geoffrey Baker, Rector of this Church, [who] have made this work happen” hoping to inspire prayers to lessen their time in Purgatory.
#FontsOnFriday #FontCover Shaugh Prior, St Edward, Devon was restored by Harry Hems in 1871. Hems, who restored many Gothic-period works, collected medieval fragments, now in Royal Albert Memorial Museum, used Staverton pieces as inspiration for this work.
The dancers are Whitey's Lindy Hoppers from Harlem in the movie Hellzapoppin'
They were amazing! The scene was choreographed by Frankie Manning (he's in the overalls) who later won a Tony award in 1989 for Black & Blue. he also choreographed dances in the movie Malcolm X.
My photo shows the front side (recto) of an ancient Egyptian administrative document written by the scribe Amunnakht in hieratic script (cursive writing of hieroglyphics). It is written in black ink on papyrus by the scribe Amunnakht. The papyrus is now a yellowy-brown colour and is worn in places. The document is known as the ‘Strike Papyrus’ and recounts that in November of Year 29 of the reign of Ramesses III, the royal tomb workers of Deir el-Medina stopped work for the first time and spent several days at the Theban necropolis in the temples of Tuthmosis III and Ramesses II. They demanded that the grain ratians for their work be distributed, and the authorities subsequently disbursed the grain rations. However, a few days later, the workers went on strike again, this time finding refuge in the temple of Seti I. Their refusal to retum to work stemmed fram the precarious working conditions, a situation they wanted to bring directly to the pharaoh. The last strike documented here was in January of the following year.
Labour strikes aren’t new!
The first recorded strike in history took place in Egypt some 3,200 years ago!
The ‘Strike Papyrus’ records that tomb workers of King Ramesses III downed tools over pay and conditions circa 1157 BC!
Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 by me
#Archaeology
#AdventAngels from the south doorway of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire. C12th carving by the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculptors possibly of the Angel Uriel.
my torbie cat sitting on top of one shelf but the top half of her body is upside down and she is holding herself up between the 2 shelves with her little cat arms. it is ridiculous. she is looking right at the camera with her absolutely sweet little face and big eyes.
my creature....
3/3 St Barbara on the screen at Walpole St Peter, for many people Norfolk's best church. Her tower looks very much like the church's towering font cover. Invoked against house fires, structural collapses and lightning, she's the patron of armourers, architects and firefighters.
The medieval wooden font in the little church at Efenechtyd in North #Wales. It's a lovely thing: the colour of treacle and invitingly tactile. Exceedingly rare, it's survival is probably due to the fact that the great Welsh folklorist and antiquarian Elias Owen was vicar here.
#FontsOnFriday
