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Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: From the entrance of #BristolCathedralChapterHouse into the remaining easternmost cloister

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Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: A signature of Norman Romanesque, the 2-light window with semi-circular lights separated by a shaft and capital #BristolCathedralChapterHouse. Here further enclosed within two orders of arch

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Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: The quadripartite vault of the #BristolCathedralChapterHouse (west elevation). Nearly a millennium has passed since these fleurons and chevrons were carved

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Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: The quadripartite vault of the #BristolCathedralChapterHouse. The pinnacle of late Norman Romanesque, carved interlaced boss and roll moulded ribs with exquisite pellet decoration

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Clever concealed door masquerading as one of the bays of the blind arcade of #BristolCathedralChapterHouse. There are in fact two in the west elevation, which Mouse only noticed because signs were stuck on them. Were #HolyTrinityBristol for #AdoorableThursday

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Upper sections of #BristolCathedralChapterHouse. Interlaced semicircular arches which show the origin of 2-centred arches (they'd been around long before Gothic became a thing) surmounted by glorious diaper work (well filled) #HolyTrinityBristol

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Chapter House #HolyTrinityBristol

Built 1360 and largely original. The Romanesque blind arcade around the space provides a niche for each member of the Augustinian Abbey to sit while they got 'chapter and verse' each day #BristolCathedralChapterHouse
(with thanks to @moonponysophia.bsky.social)

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