A perfect palette of medieval glass fragments in the quatrefoil tracery at St Cyriac’s in Lacock #Wiltshire
#TraceryTuesday

The gathering storm.
Once in the centre of a village which was then reputedly wiped out by plague, the wonderful cruciform church at Bishopstone stands mostly alone these days in the fields south west of Salisbury.
#SteepleSaturday

I did mine at primary school. Got 100% I remember 😇😆

I was deeply inspired by Tom Denny's stained glass at Tisbury: " It offers fresh perspectives that allow us to value each other and the world we live in, and, through that process, opens up untold possibilities for navigating our way through it." www.digest.andymarsh...

Gosh that’s a blast from the past 😀

A 5.1 degree tilt. He had better not let go!

Yes, it’s such a simple chamber within the old Abbey but, in the afternoon sunlight, that vaulted ceiling is just sublime. There are several other rooms nearby but this is the most striking even though it is otherwise empty.

Solid, sturdy and simple, with a pleasant decorative arcade. A probably Norman font at St Nicholas in the tiny village of Fyfield on the way to Marlborough from Avebury.
#FontsonFriday

Tall, proud, and with a fetching variety of tracery- the main window in the south transept of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, with Ninian Comper’s 1914 stained glass showing the explorer John Cabot, ship & family at the top, and the merchant William Canynge below.
#TraceryTuesday

Better @mialp.bsky.social to prefer the version by @coldwarsteve.bsky.social

‘A humphy-backit heron
Nearly as big as me
Stands at the waterside
Fishin for his tea.
His skinnie-ma-linkie lang legs
Juist like reeds
Cheats aa the puddocks
Soomin mang the weeds.’
Jk Annand.

📷 @ Kennet & Avon Canal

My mum, Kathleen Maloney, in her younger days. She died 15 years ago today ❤️

How lovely ☺️

The calm of nature, designed to promote healing, in the chapel of what was originally Bristol Asylum and is now Glenside Museum.
#StainedGlassSunday

Restored too well or back to its original beauty?
Norman font in Bratton #Wiltshire diligently retooled in Thomas Henry Wyatt’s Victorian restoration. #FontsOnFriday

Welcome to the house of fun - or at least of prayer.
West Overton #Wiltshire
#AdoorableThursday

Save the bridges!
Swan swimming under the bridge at Semington today on the Kennet and Avon Canal.

Artemis II view of Earth rising just now, seconds before they re-established contact with NASA having been around the dark side of the moon.
Unbelievable.

Face off. St Andrew’s in Chippenham #Wiltshire
#MementoMoriMonday

Bright as they come, Patrick Reyntiens window from 2000 at East Knoyle #Wiltshire of Christ rising, with so many faces and figures in the colourful surrounding panels.
#StainedGlassSunday
#EasterSunday

Kate Parbury’s enormous sculpted figure of the risen Christ on the front of the 1950s St Michael’s in Bemerton Heath on the outskirts of Salisbury.

In the ancient landscape twixt Marlborough and Avebury lie several churches, including Fyfield.
A sprinkle of Norman, with a dash of Early English, add in some Perp Gothic, sieve with Puritan cleansers, then stir with a touch of Early Victorian restoration.
#SteepleSaturday

Thanks Mark - fascinating as ever.

Books beat eggs, even at Easter.
6 recently read, 3 current, and 3 to be read (columns l-r).
Am up to 18 read in total in 2026 - maybe that explains the headaches as my recent scan didn’t though was relatively positive 🤔

Very early Victorian stained glass image of the crucifixion, from 1844 by William Miller, in Horningsham #Wiltshire #Easter #GoodFriday

Crucifixion, designed by Edward Burne-Jones and produced by William Morris, in Bromham #Wiltshire
#GoodFriday #Easter

Pictured for posterity. Local MP, Mayor, High Sheriff, and Masonic Grand Warden of England, Sir Gabriel Goldney commemorated in three ornate panels at the bottom of a large 1903 South chapel window by Lavers & Westlake in Chippenham #Wiltshire
#LesArmoiresduVendredi

At West Overton the font, guarded by an eagle, takes central stage underneath the tall west tower which Charles Ponting completed in 1883 as part of his rather grand gothic rebuild for such a small village. #FontsOnFriday #Wiltshire

I do like a nice gate, ornate but not too much so.
#IronworkThursday #Thursgate
St Michael & All Angels, Melksham #Wiltshire

‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.’
Martin Luther King, in a message for our times.
#AdoorableThursday
Melksham #Wiltshire