The #ScamperDownTheAxe. 16 churches, just 28 miles over 16 weeks. And here they are: #ChurchesOfTheAxe (2 of 4) #HolyCrossMark #StMaryWedmore Chapel Allerton #AllertonChurch #StCongarBadgworth

And as #FontsMeanFarewell what of #AllertonChurch #Somerset? All churches have their interesting features but they are not in abundance here. Sadly the aesthetics of an otherwise quite pleasant church are ruined by the Room 101 light fittings. A Mouse rating of 2/5 #MusVisit 🐭🐭

When it's a Friday Mouse be all about the fonts. Cylindrical bowl, shaft and pedestal and sizeable Jacobian hat. #AllertonChurch #Somerset is one of those that has it's retired font at the back keeping a whether eye. Thank goodness. It's a rather nice C13 original #FontsOnFriday

When it's a Friday Mouse be all about the fonts. Dating to the C19 restoration of #AllertonChurch #Somerset this is classic Victorian fayre; a central shaft enclosed by four smaller marble shafts with large bases all resting on a pedestal. This is a restrained one! #FontsOnFriday

And finally from Mouse.... the part of Thursday she perhaps most enjoy. When she finds... a gate with an overthrow. And this is a particularly pleasingly curly little number #AllertonChurch #Somerset #Thursgate #IronworkThursday
(with ironwork inserts and quatrefoil piercings)

South door (interior) #AllertonChurch #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

Ledged and single planked, set in a very well carved segmental pointed rere arch with such low centres that it almost looks purely segmental. It's a lovely effect

Just for a change, tidy electrics albeit copious

Mouse often see iron grave markers sadly separated from their graves. Often arrayed against a wall and Mouse sense a yearning to be reunited with their lost souls. Here against this beautiful wall is the nexus of art and mortality #IronworkThursday #AllertonChurch #Somerset

The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings

You know where Mouse is coming from.
South door #AllertonChurch #Somerset #IronworkThursday

There isn't the overwhelming sense of age at #AllertonChurch #Somerset, but there are some clues as to it's origins, such as this beautiful, simple single chamfered pointed door surround. The door is much later but super stylish #AdoorableThursday #LessIsMore

Beautiful single chamfered pointed doorway with plain label enclosing single planked door with really lovely fittings. Mouse said it before and she say it again you'd go a long way to beat the aesthetic beauty of these simple doors #AllertonChurch #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

Mouse only recognise a small range of stone types and quarry location by smell (they are all unique) but it's far from Mouse's expertise. So Mouse unsure from what #AllertonChurch #Somerset is built. What she do know is this 'priests door' look lovely set in it #AdoorableThursday

Mouse all about the windows today... #AllertonChurch #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday

Starting with the west window. It's simple but Mouse really cannot resist #JustPlainGlass

And while we were enjoying this wonderful original C13 lancet, an unseemly ruck broke out. Members of the dissident orange and white cone group #ThePointyMenace set upon some otherwise innocent no waiting cones. It didn't end well #AllertonChurch #Somerset

Let's start the day with a nice original C13 lancet window, shall we? It's early... It's English... It's Early English Gothic.

Nave. South elevation. West of porch #AllertonChurch #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
Chamfered pointed lancet single light

Sanctuary encaustic tiles #AllertonChurch #Somerset for #TilesOnTuesday

Truly beautiful white on blue fleur-de-lis and if you look carefully at the border you'll see a clever little optical illusion allusion that only really works from hooman standing height #Christogram

Nave. West #AllertonChurch #Somerset for #TraceryTuesday

Pointed 3-light window with crisp hollow cusped pentafoil lights. The design is very different from its east elevation sibling. The neat relieving arch above can suggest C19 but in this case the head looks original

Chancel. East #AllertonChurch #Somerset for #TraceryTuesday

Perpendicular-style pointed 3-light window with cusped lights, label and head stops. The set in the wall suggests it dates to C15 although it both mullions have been replaced and there are repairs to the tracery

No soaring Somerset church towers this Tuesday, sadly, just this rather sweet bellcote (centre) bisecting nave and chancel. It has a matching stack over the C19 vestry. Is there a #ChimneyChewsday? Well if not there is now #AllertonChurch #Somerset
(Got a stack for this new #?)

Even Mouse will admit that this is probably the most boring photo that she has managed to Tweet (yes, Tweet) to date, but this is rather a lovely pattern. It appears around the south door and font of #AllertonChurch #Somerset #TilesOnTuesday

From north-east #AllertonChurch #Somerset

The chancel (left) is largely the original C13 structure but everything to the right is part of the C19 rebuild. It blends well with the rest of the church but the pointed windows are a homage rather than accurate replicas

When it all goes one step too far.. (Part III of III)

Ballflower. This specific style of relief is typical of the Decorated period, appearing late C13 but most popular C14. So far so... oh, never mind #AllertonChurch #Somerset #StonemasonryMonday

When it all goes one step too far.. (Part II of III)

Dogtooth. This specific style of relief is typical of the Early English and examples exist as early as 1150. So far, so C13. But above... a random flower and cyma moulding. Hmph. #AllertonChurch #Somerset #StonemasonryMonday

When it all goes one step too far.. (Part I of III)

The double chamfered pointed arches of the north aisle arcade are supported on cylindrical piers with moulded, decorated capitals. So far so C13. But then there's the marble banding #AllertonChurch #Somerset #StonemasonryMonday

Nave to north aisle #AllertonChurch #Somerset #StoneMasonryMonday

The double chamfered pointed arches with wide soffits of the 4-bay arcade are an all too perfect C19 copy of their C13 ancestors. Much as Mouse adore this type of arch it's hard to make it look good in this church

The C19 four bay north aisle looking east (left) and west #AllertonChurch #Somerset

The proliferation of speakers screwed to the wall (speak up Vicar!) is bad enough but the 1970s Job Centre lighting is an aberration. How to ruin a church in ten easy light fittings

Well that clear it up then... North aisle #AllertonChurch #Somerset #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

This basic shape of corbel, capital, shaft and the conical base is typical C13 fayre. But not decorated like this it isn't and this is just comically large too

North aisle #AllertonChurch #Somerset #StainedGlassSunday

From the sublime...
It comes as no surprise that the whole of the north aisle and arcade were added during the C19 renovation-cum-rebuild. Straight from the Gothic-Revival imagination and not actually, well, historical

South of altar #AllertonChurch #Somerset #SundayStonework #StoneworkSunday

Chamfered trefoil headed #ChurchPiscina. Actually probably the real thing i.e. C13 but either clumsily reset or horribly badly repaired. One of those with a little wooden shelf fitted later for.. hand sanitiser

South elevation of nave. West #AllertonChurch #Somerset #StainedGlassSunday

Rather nice C19 glass set in an authentic C13 lancet single light. Sadly itself set in a very much less than authentic segmental cusped rere arch

South of chancel #AllertonChurch #Somerset #StainedGlassSunday

Mouse not keen on the method but the effect of this illumination is very attractive. Fine 2-light window with cusped lights and chamfered rere-arch