That proves you are not a proud person, as that person would have kicked my impudent question into the long grass!

🧡🌟 My question was only in jest!

It's gorgeous!

Is it open to visitors? Have relatives who live near by.

But are you covetous and proud, Steve?

Ah! It is the case that the church was restored with "unusual conservatism" by G G Scott in 1876-7.

Historic England say: Nave has a 3-bay clerestory of 3-light cusped windows, all heavily restored.

I say: mus has sharp eyes!

You would enjoy a good scamper in the beautiful churchyard, mus! Look at that irregular fenestration too.

Pevsner calls the fancy window to the S aisle "splendid" - 4 stepped lights, cusped with pointed quatrefoils.

Holy Trinity, Bledlow, in the Chiltern Hills.

My first successful visit to see the interior of this picturesquely situated flint-built church, mostly C13th.

The South porch is early C14th & has a large stoop. The turf to the churchyard is strewn with flowers. @thehistorymouse.bsky.social

Also available for admiration, this "couch" which keeps suggesting to me the phrase "You've made your bed; now you've got to lie on it"! #MonumentsMonday near Windsor.

A bold visual statement in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels, Sunninghill.

Listed by Historic England who state:

Early to mid C19th, in Egyptian style. Monument to the Hon Richard Fitzpatrick.

Square stone base with round column; surmounted by capstone with elaborate anthemion finial.

More glittering bosses were available inside the cathedral (left) as was Skidmore's heavenly screen. It is a marvellous piece of work.

Francis Alfred Skidmore was born in Birmingham in 1817, the son of a jeweller. Skidmore worked with Scott on the Lichfield, Hereford & Salisbury cathedral screens.

#SundayStonework The foliate bosses of Worcester Cathedral Cloister really caught my eye, carved from a range of sandstones; I liked the rhubarb-coloured stone.

Leafy decoration has a powerful presence here as is so often the case in sacred buildings of this date. @churchartnature.bsky.social

No vocal herons here, and just as well, given these fuzzy youngsters clambering about.

They may well be out of focus, but they are so fluffy, I couldn't be sure!

From the Hyde Park account on Facebook - a well-placed heron makes your day! @everyheron.bsky.social

The gardens beyond are spectacular - good enough for the King and Queen in fact!

Enthusiastic songsters included blackcaps, wrens, chiffchaffs and chaffinches, among a throng of other birds jostling for Merlin's attention. @iangrebe.bsky.social

It's one of my favourites. That plus cryptic and crepuscular. Birding has so many really words in its vocabulary!

It's a beautiful bird too. 💚

I want to say the word "vermiculation", hoping that I am not making a fool of myself.

#ScreenSaturday in Worcester cathedral's Chapel of St John. The woodwork is Victorian I strongly suspect, but the Purbeck marble in the piers beyond, and the vigorous stiff leaf capitals, are of a finer vintage!

Fuzzy moorhen chicks with HUGE feet pootle around Windsor Great Park, yesterday. @iangrebe.bsky.social

Glitzy heron bids visitors to Windsor Great Park, welcome. @everyheron.bsky.social

This lectern knows how to sort the wheat from the chaff. More #GiantCandles and #TinyLions were to be found close by, in the chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge.

I like the way that they are looking back over their shoulders to admire the candle! I expect they have quite bad neck ache by now. 🧡

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I'm ashamed to say I only had 20 mins in the chapel, and I didn't read the plaque.
www.thepuginsociety.co.uk
But the quotation leapt out at me when I looked up Pugin and found the Pugin Society.

Superb lectern-podium combination in the chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge. @notpodium.bsky.social

No-fuss podium; the lectern was designed by the illustrious Augustus Pugin:

"Let then the Beautiful and the True be our watchword." The True Principles of Christian or Pointed Architecture, 1841.

Guffawing heartily - a musagogue!! The wooden delivery joke's also a goodun.

@thehistorymouse.bsky.social The pupil mice have their work cut out. A fresh recruit, eager to learn, joined their ranks at Worcester cathedral.

Pedagogue mouse is now sizing up the new books they have to read; 2 Shire books from Worcester & the Pre-Raphaelite cat book a present from son Chris.

You can see A J Dix's signature on the right. The firm of A J Dix is credited with 4 windows in St John the Baptist church in Caversham.

Arthur joined the 21st Lancers from Sandhurst in 1890. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in 1899 & retired in 1906 in the rank of Major.

He returned to service on the outbreak of war joining the 1st Life Guards & in 1916 he was posted to Egypt. He was killed in action in 1917 in Jerusalem.

#TraceryTuesday I am fond of this memorial window in Medmenham church, Bucks. It is poignant & beautiful.

The window is by A J Dix, & shows an Angel & Jesus on the left; while on the right, is Lt Col Arthur Murray Pirie DSO as a crusader.

Please see below for his details. @iangrebe.bsky.social

It is rather cute!

This memorial to Sir Francis Drake, Elizabethan sailor and explorer, was unveiled in the south cloister of Westminster Abbey on 4th October 1979.

Drake died at Porto Bello while on a voyage on 27th January 1596 and was buried at sea in a lead coffin.