That's very sad news. Many a happy hour whiled away in Victoria Mill. And the very best soup ever.

Today we walked the Dinas Island loop. The east wind was fierce but the views were sublime. #Pembrokeshire

Fine old tiles at Acton Burnell church #Shropshire #TilesonTuesday

On my hols and went to Mass in Fishguard today. A wonderful surprise to see this small, exquisite window depicting St. Thérèse of Lisieux by #HarryClarke studios (1929) in the Church of the Holy Name R.C. #StainedGlassSunday

Today's walk through Helmeth Woods. Bluebells seem to be about a week away from peak. #Shropshire #ChurchStretton

Langley chapel #Shropshire One of the first buildings taken into the care of the state; now #EnglishHeritage. Rural setting, unaltered early C17 timber furnishings. The peace and patina of ages past. #Woodensday

..sweet melodious birds
Be unto us as is a nurse’s song
Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.

Titus Andronicus - Act 2, scene 3.

Glass by Archibald John Davies of the Bromsgrove Guild at St Peter & St Paul Deddington. 1936.

#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday

Easter Day, with the small but moving reminder of the Passion. Arild Rosenkrantz at Wickhambreaux. #StainedGlassSunday #Kentchurches

Thanks, Cathy

Thank you. Most interesting.

I noticed the old gang seems to have stuck with the plural. Thanks, Isabelle x

Sir David Mathew, standard bearer to Edward IV at the battle of Towton 1461. Llandaff Cathedral. #MonumentsMonday or is it #MonumentMonday (sing)?

Today is Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week.

Christ's enters Jerusalem on the colt of a donkey, a 14th Century wallpainting at North Cove, Suffolk. People cheer from above the gate, and a cloak is laid in his path.

More: suffolkchurches.co.uk/northcove.htm
#PalmSunday #HolyWeek

Llandaff Cathedral #Saturdaysteeples

Remember when Spring came last week? Dappled sunlight on the Norman south door at Llandaff Cathedral. #AdoorableThursday

St. Leonard's church, Linley, #Shropshire Secluded, near complete C12 church in the care of CCT. South door. #AdoorableThursday

Today's the feast of the Annunciation, and here it is in a c1530 tympanum in Dunfermline Abbey. It formed a lintel to a window in the Abbey guesthouse, which in 1598 was converted to a royal palace for James VI and Queen Anne, when it was plastered over. It was revealed by repairs of the 1820s.

Early C17 box pews at Lydbury North #Shropshire Restored and repaired 1901. #Woodensday

#MonumentsMonday C13 effigy said to St. Dyfrig. The recumbent Bishop looks beyond the instruments of the Passion to the image of the Risen Christ above. Llandaff Cathedral

#SundaySermons
15th c painted panelled pulpit. One of a number of panels that escaped destruction in the Reformation
Hexham Abbey
#Woodensday

Jesse window by Geoffrey Webb, 1949, replacing the original east window destroyed by bombing in 1941. Llandaff Cathedral. #StainedGlassSunday

St Michael and All Angels, Eywas Harold. Pulpit with 17th century carved panels.

#sundaysermons

Llandaff Cathedral. 1957 pulpit by George Pace. Pace undertook the cathedral restoration after devastating war damage in 1941. #Sundaysermons

Read a brutal headline today; 'Stoke-on-Trent becomes the first city in the UK to declare a heritage emergency' .. simultaneously found this in an interesting book of stories preserved on historic postcards and it illuminates how there's always something new to be found from a rich history!

Early mediaeval tub font, likely C11, on later base. Bearded head and interlace patterns. St. Mary's, Bucknell, #Shropshire #FontsonFriday

Thank you, Isabelle. All good wishes to you and yours for 2026 x

Happy New Year to you and yours, Malcolm

A view from my garden. Caer Caradoc this morning #Shropshire

Abraham Darby III's magnificent bridge at Ironbridge, #Shropshire
Happy New Year one and all. #IronworkThursday

Happy New Year to you and yours x