There were some fine #AnimalsInChurches in the Church of the Holy Innocents, Highnam.
I've never seen a dove before with halo raised & gilt, left,
Charming lamb in arms, and highly amiable sheep dog add stained glass charm to an almost dauntingly elaborate interior. @jshellyer.bsky.social
#AnimalsInChurches Lion at the foot of Sir Richard Croft's effigy, St Michael and All Angels, Croft, Herefordshire.
Pleasingly angelic form of swallows against the west window of the 7th Century chapel of Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall in Essex yesterday, on the marshy edge of the North Sea.
#Birds #AnimalsInChurches #Essex
Mayor's stall in Ripon Cathedral.
Mayor's stall in Ripon Cathedral.
Medieval carving of a monkey on the Mayor's stall in Ripon Cathedral. It is said to have been made as a comment by William Carver, the RiponWakeman, after a dispute with the Mayor. Monkeys were seen as greedy & deceitful.
#Ripon #Yorkshire #AnimalsInChurches #RiponCathedral #Medieval
I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation for why this man is hiding behind a bush, eyeing up a wild boar. It's just that I can't think what it is...
Great Malvern Priory.
#MedievalMonday #MisericordMonday #MadeUpHashtags #AnimalsInChurches
To raise a smile for #AnimalsInChurches fourth anniversary, Fork 'andles. 😊
(Also a rather nice old painted stone altar.)
Iglesia de San Lorenzo y Hospital de la Caridad, Trujillo, #Extremadura, SW Spain. [If anyone's bemused, see...
#AnimalsInChurches #HairInChurches @MartinB_Archaeo @ChurchMonuments @therealjane01 @FrockFlicks Robert & Priscilla Squire, St Michael le Belfrey
#AnimalsInChurches #HairInChurches @MartinB_Archaeo @ChurchMonuments @therealjane01 @FrockFlicks York Minster: William & Honoria Strafford (1685-95); Thomas & Alice Wason Wentworh (1723); Hygeia on tomb of Dr John Dealtry (1773).
#AnimalsInChurches #HairInChurches @MartinB_Archaeo @ChurchMonuments @therealjane01 @FrockFlicks Suzanne d'Humières, d 1644, Saint-Vaast, @VilleArras – excellent hairstyle details!
A yawning grotesque on St Cyriac's Church, Lacock.
My final offering for #AnimalsInChurches:#licheninchurches.
My first foray into #TextileTuesday.
Tapestries by John Piper in Hereford Cathedral.
(L) Adam and Eve with serpent
(C) Sun and Moon look down on Adam and Eve
(R) The tree of Life
#AnimalsInChurches (because of the serpent 🙂)
A sheep overpowers a wolf in Chipping Norton church's 14th century hexagonal porch.
#animalsinchurches
Only 1 sleep to go until our Pet Service! There will be 🐕, 🐇, 🐹, 🐢, & 🐈 coming. Do join us from 5pm for treats & tea & cake, & 5.45pm for the service. Bring your pets or pictures of your pets. All are welcome!
#animalsinchurches #pawsinpews
Wednesday 20 November! From 5pm
For #TongueOutTuesday, what about this delightful little red imp from St Cyriac's Church, Lacock.
#AnimalsInChurches #AnimalsInChurchesHour
Can anyone tell me who produced this startling stained glass in St Michael & All Angels, Ledbury please? No information in the church, and nobody around to ask...
@BSMGP @EngChurchPics
#AnimalsInChurches
Ledgerstone for someone from the Pizzaro (the Conquistador who "discovered" Peru) and Hinojosa families. Church of Santa Maria la Mayor, #Trujillo, #Extremadura, SW Spain.
#AnimalsOnFloors #AnimalsInChurches #AnimalsInChurchesHour #Bears
Ledgerstone for Katharine Gregory, who died in 1718 age 58. Quite some eulogy!
St Peter's Church, Cassington.
#AnimalsOnFloors #AnimalsInChurches #AnimalsInChurchesHour
On #nationalunicornday, a detail from the early fourteenth century Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral, with a truly splendid #Unicorn.
#MedievalTwitter #AnimalsInChurches @HFDCathedral
Terrified Gingerbread Man disappears down throat of evil-looking frog!
One of the modern #grotesques at #Hereford Cathedral.
Good to see stonemasons still have a sense of humour!
#AnimalsInchurches #AnimalOnChurches
A Green serpent with apple, about to tempt Eve.
Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
#GreenInChurches #AnimalsInChurches #AnimalsInChurchesHour
The Dove of Peace, on a mostly green background for #GreenInChurches #AnimalsInChurches #AnimalsInChurchesHour.
Wesley Memorial Methodist Chapel, Oxford.
A very green, Green Man in the Chapel of the Holy Trinity and St Mark, Bishops' Palace, Wells.
#GreenInChurches #AnimalsInChurches #AnimalsInChurchesHour
Stylised #TreesInChurches on these stone capitals in the bell tower of Santa Maria la Mayor in Trujillo, SW Spain. The Moorish #castle is in the background.
#AnimalsInChurches #AnimalsInChurchesHour #Extremadura #Spain
