I couldn't resist dropping in this heavenly sphere from a Karl Parsons' window in Leicester's Church of St Philip, 1921. Shown to me by @chartresfi.bsky.social.

Oh I’ve always wanted to see that one. I MUST arrange to see it when next in Leicester. I did try once but it was locked. I remain determined, however!

And one for @cathylowe.bsky.social

Sorry - really thought this one was fantastic

Whole thing. Well worth seeing but call up church ahead of visit. It’s under the tower and normally covered with a curtain (which you can’t move)!

A seraph bears a six-pointed star - the central panel of Karl Parsons’ fine west window at St Laurence’s, Ansley (Warks.)

Dated 1930

Unusual little object in the south porch at Much Dewchurch

Three-strand interlace pattern and carved on both sides. But what is it? Malcolm Thurlby think a c12 grave marker. Very rare survival if so

I’ve always thought one of those would look decent in the study…

a few years ago I bought a nice panel of Heaton Butler Bayne glass from an auction & I still haven’t been fully forgiven by my family!

Superb rainwater heads too - what an enjoyable little building!

cornucopias or cornucopiae?

cornucopias or cornucopiae?

Whole thing for context

There is a figure at the top of the building - Philosophy?

Also, I don’t think Andy Foster is seeing things when he detects a whiff of the Laurentian Library inside! esp. the staircase

Arts figure with book and pen

Science with scroll and globe

Dudley Public Library of 1908-9

Allegorical figures of Science and the Arts recline on a broken pediment - positively Michelangelesque! (à la the Medici tombs)

Architect was George H Wenyon

Sculptors probably HH Martyn & Co

St Barbara perhaps?

St George and the dragon by William Bloye

on Dudley Town Hall (War Memorial Tower) - late 1920s

A larger version by the same workshop:

Stretton Sugwas tympanum, about 15 miles to the south

Tiny!

Interlocking two-strand circles on the c12 capital of the west doorway at Leominster Priory

For a bonus point - can you spot Samson and the lion?

fine surprise in the suburbs of Dudley - a mid-12th century tympanum at St Peter, Pedmore

Christ in Majesty surrounded by the Evangelists. St Matthew holds the mandorla in place (top-right)

a rather far-flung example of the Herefordshire school of carving

Minton tiles around the font at Holy Trinity, Hartshill (Stoke-on-Trent)

Come across the standard ones reasonably often, such as below at Rodington, Shropshire

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the deluxe top of the line gold version anywhere else!

These are lovely aren’t they? I still remember them from a visit years ago

You may well already know but many of the designs here are copies of the c13 ones at Westminster Abbey Chapter House (good article here: www.penn.museum/sites/journa...)

Yes, they’re a nice survival, aren’t they? There are a few photos of it before the reordering & they can be seen

I didn’t know it when visiting North Walsham, but the large arch at the east end is a motif that Bower Norris seems rather keen on

Heswall and Wolverhampton