#AdoorableThursday St John the Evangelist, Pauntley. The North porch, 14th century, protects an original 13th century door, complete with contemporary ironwork. Dick Whittington, born next door at the Court, would no doubt have passed through here.
#SteepleSaturday St Nicholas, Blakeney. Buy one, get one free in glorious North Norfolk...
#AdoorableThursday St Leonard, Ribbesford. Herefordshire School outpost by the Severn. The former Mother church of Bewdley.
#woodensday St Mary, Clifford, Herefordshire. Early origins, but now very much the work of Ewan Christian, who restored the church in 1887-8 and rebuilt the North aisle with an arcade in oak. Much of the roof dates from c.1500, however.
#SteepleSaturday The beautiful central tower of Hereford cathedral, a beast that has caused the building such grief over the centuries, not least the collapse of the West tower and one third of the nave on Easter Monday, 1786...
#SteepleSaturday Bath Abbey in high summer sunshine in 1999.
Heritage railways are (thankfully) full of retired professionals who delight in recreating the traditional working class, becoming track workers, welders, woodworkers, bricklayers, light and heavy engineers, signallers, etc. Most now too busy to worry about politics...
#LestWeForget Memorial reredos by James Clark at St Mary, Clifford, celebrating the extraordinary life of Oscar Stanley Clark Blakstad, killed on Vimy Ridge in 1917. WWII casualties added on right hand panel.
#AdoorableThursday Entrance to the Chapter House, Wells Cathedral.
#StainedGlassSunday A Morris & Co window in the North aisle of the nave at Ledbury dating from 1913, long after the deaths of both William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, whose designs these were.
#SteepleSaturday All Saints, Buckworth, Huntingdonshire. Seen in 1983.
#AdoorableThursday Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire. Ancestral home of the Montagus from 1615. It remained the Manchester Ducal home until 1950, when the house became a public school. The late 17th century inner courtyard and staircase, attributed to Henry Bell of King's Lynn.
In another life when I went on railtours, on a packed train at a standstill, the train started and then stopped suddenly. I said 'Can't go yet - squire's not 'ere' to complete silence except one guy who laughed aloud and I made a friend for life...
#SteepleSaturday St Mary, Buckden, Huntingdonshire. The Great Tower of the palace of the Bishop of Lincoln next door tries to compete.
Lovely pictures and magnificent tiles by Godwins of Lugwardine, dated 1875-7 according to TACS database.
#SteepleSaturday Holy Cross, Bury by Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. Seen here in March 1976. Tasty 14th century lectern within.
I worked throughout (apart from the 2 redundancies and loss of the family home) and despite other personal lows, it was a life affirming experience. The only decent thing to ever come out of a Labour government.
Graduate son on my degree 'Dad gets a first ? So he should. He was reading architectural history books before he could walk...'
I got a few 'O' level GCEs, left school at 16 and held down jobs at a good level or better in 9 completely different activities. In my 50s I achieved a first-class degree. Brummie academic needs to pipe down...
An example : St James, Dursley, Glos. The tower is a work of 1707-9 by Thomas Sumsion, a master mason from Colerne, Wiltshire - one of the last masters of the Gothic style. He based the design on his home village church, adding the openwork battlements and pinnacles of Gloucester Cathedral.
#SteepleSaturday St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay, Northants, seen in 1978. The first big trip on my beloved Suzuki GT380...
For 'might', please substitute 'must'. It's an absolute corker...
Many thanks to everyone for the answer. Great work, everybody !
Attention all churchcrawlers : I'm doing some photographic archaeology - I took this in the late 70s, but where ? Can anyone tell me where this beauty is ? Somewhere on the oolite belt, clearly.
#SteepleSaturday Wells Cathedral - the South West tower. Prime Early English topped with stylish Perpendicular. ' You can't see the join...'
The finest '3Choirs' cathedral, but for me not the most loveable. That prize goes to our battered but beautiful Hereford, with Worcester a distant third...
#SundayStonework The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, Gloucester. The finest of the 'Three Choirs' cathedrals, a grand Norman abbey church with major additions in the 14th century, which include the earliest examples anywhere of the Perpendicular style.
I grew up eating rabbit - my grandfather kept them in a shed made of old enamel Navy Cut (and similar) signs at the end of his garden. Not an experience I'm keen to repeat, I have to say...
#SundayStonework St Bueno and St Peter, Llanveynoe. Still a place of Christian worship, something that has been practised here since the 6th century, as confirmed by the ancient cross in the churchyard, the primitive carvings within and the ancient but healthy yew trees.
Labour latest : After the phoney economist, make believe solicitor, corrupt anti-corruption minister and homeless preventer who evicts folk, we now have 'Dr' Ann Limb, a fake PhD/MA linguist ennobled by Starmer and admitted to the House of Lords...