It's a pity that the rather fine 13thC door at St John the Baptist, Cold Overton has been whitewashed as it rather blurs the detail but it certainly lightens the porch up!
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Trailing floral ballflowers around the 14thC north door at St Andrew's, Wanborough.
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The large and very striking porch at St Andrew's, Barnwell has bowed slightly and become almost horseshoe shaped over the years, it shelters a handsome 13thC doorway with similar decoration.
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St Swithin's, Quenington boasts two fabulous 12thC doors. The tympanum above the south door depicts the coronation of the Virgin and is apparently the earliest depiction of it still in situ.
Also a stunning band of beakheads and who doesn't love a beakhead!
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A rather lovely doorway which now leads into the garden at Lyddington Bede House. This would have been part of the long demolished former palace of the Bishop's of Lincoln, the remaining wing became a house and then almshouses around 1600.
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The door at Ampney St Mary is a thing of beauty. Sturdy, simple ironwork on lovely bleached, silvery wood.
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A long vanished door at Ampney St Mary's but thankfully the fabulous Norman tympanum remains.
A very energetic lion is vanquishing the double headed curly serpent (who doesn't look bothered at all!) watched by a griffin, it's my new favourite.
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There's something so exciting about stepping through the door of a church you've never visited before and wondering what you might find.
Feeling the tingle at All Saints, Woolstone.
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The door at Ampney St Mary is a thing of beauty, patched and repaired and surrounded by fragments of 13/14thC wall paintings.
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A 12thC door at St Michael's, Stanton Harcourt glowing warmly in the spring sunshine. Note the scratched mass dials in the stones either side of the door, one is never enough!
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A rather lovely 13thC trefoil headed arch at All Saints, Coleshill.
The later door has a very impressive display of ironwork too, it twiddles and twirls in a very confident manner.
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The 12thC doorway at St Andrew's, Eastleach Turville is a stonker!
Chevron patterned orders surround a tympanum carved with Christ in majesty, all of it in remarkably good condition.
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The 12thC doorway at St Botolph's, Barton Seagrave has a very lively tympanum. Peopled with a variety of strange beasts and equally strange faces (Mr Potato Head) it's certainly unusual and rather amusing.
The 16/17thC door is handsome too.
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The 14thC south door at St Kyneburgha, Castor is carved with an inscription 'Ricardus Beby Rector Ecclesie de Castre Fec' and Richard of Leicester was rector here in 1372. It's survived remarkably well, the carving is still very legible.
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The door into the saxon tower at St John the Baptist, Barnack is a handsome, sturdy no nonsense affair. The two lower stages of the tower are dated 1000-1020 and the amazing thing is that subsequent generations didn't alter or modernise.
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St Andrew's, Barnwell is a 13thC building but the priests door with its rather lovely wonky arch is obviously earlier. One possibility is that it came from the other church in the village, All Saints which was demolished in 1825.
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The doorway on the late 17thC stables at Nevill Holt Hall is intriguing. Pevsner suggests the Tudor arch may be reused but it looks all one piece to me, maybe it was designed as a nod to the adjacent 14thC house.
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The mighty 15thC porch at Nevill Holt Hall has a rather surprised air.
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Front door and elevator door of a 1920s-built apartment building in UES Manhattan (NYC).
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What an absolutely lovely early 18thC door case with a stunning rococo shell detail at Cosin's Hall, Durham.
Sadly the modern doors are incredibly ugly, painted a horrible colour and poorly maintained, not good.
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The 12thC doorway at St Andrew's, Corbridge has two fairly simple orders carved with chevrons but it's the lovely variations in colour that really make it a stunner. It glowed even on a dull, damp day.
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They certainly like their ball flowers at St Mary's, Bampton, the 14thC west door is replete with plenty of them!
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12thC priests door looking very spring like at St Mary the Virgin, Black Bourton.
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This fabulous and absolutely enormous 12thC doorway in Bishop Tunstall's Gallery in Durham Castle was originally external and one of the main entrances into the building.
It's worth having a tour of the Castle just to see this!
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