Stunning #Sedilia and #ChurchPiscina combo south of the chancel #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset. The trefoil heads, shafts and capitals look C13 (probably the age of the chancel), but curiously it sits under a seemingly curtailed Decorated-period window. Robbed from elsewhere perhaps?
South of chancel #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #SundayStonework #StoneworkSunday
Probably. No, definitely, the most curiously shaped #ChurchPiscina Mouse has ever seen. The basin is probably C14, but the niche is no more than a hole in the wall
If this is a #ChurchPiscina then it has very finely carved cusps that suggest it's C15. The basin has either been replaced or filled to stop any sneaky post-Reformation Papistry. The cusping is so fine it could easily be a recycled light #StMaryKilve #Somerset for #StonemasonryMonday
Mouse been a #PoorlyMus this weekend, all sneezes and shivers, but not too poorly to share a passion. She struggled musfully to the keyboard to show off this lovely #ChurchPiscina
#StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework from #StMaryCannington #Somerset #Ogee #OgeeLove
South of chancel #StMartinFiddington #Somerset for #StonemasonryMonday
Listed as a C15 piscina. It's not. It's at knee height for a start and a chamfered pointed continuous arch. No basin, no drain... no pop, no style
#ChurchPiscina
South wall. East end of south chapel (adjacent to small altar) #StPeterHuntspill #Somerset for #StonemasonryMonday
Intact and (probably) in-situ. Fabulous cusped #Ogee #ChurchPiscina with hollow cusps and hexagonal basin. Discoloured and crumbling from the effects of the late C19 fire
Rather fine and intact #ChurchPiscina, probably also in-situ in the south wall of the south aisle. Lovely chamfered #Ogee head and recessed cusped trefoil with matching ogee vertical lobe. As pukka as a pie
#StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework #AllSaintsKingstonSeymour #Somerset
Mouse added to list! Thank you. That poor #ChurchPiscina tho TTM🐭
South of chancel #StPeterWestonInGordano #Somerset #StonemasonryMonday
Modern ambry made from former #ChurchPiscina
The bowl of the piscina is medieval, the remainder Mouse suspects is an assemblage, including the retro-fit credence shelf (not the first Mouse has seen)
Adjacent to (east) south tower arch #StPeterWestonInGordano #Somerset #StonemasonryMonday
Not the prettiest of #ChurchPiscina perhaps, but hopefully worth Mouse emptying it of knick-knackery
Thank you! Now here's an interesting thing, some castles had stone washbasins in the chambers, almost identical in size and shape to a #ChurchPiscina they were called a lavabo in the medieval period. A lavabo was also a common hand washing bowl for monks, usually at the door of the frater TTM🐭
Alas, the fate of many a poor #ChurchPiscina. But Mouse got their back TTM🐭
You know it's come to the end of Mouse's posting on a Sunday when she pulls out the #ChurchPiscina. And here is is. Authentic, intact, in-situ and unslighted. Chamfered trefoil with four leaf bowl. Nice #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework #StJohnBiddisham #Somerset
This #ChurchPiscina is very unusual. The cusped chamfered pentafoil head with its thin foil at the apex is monolithic. Mouse love the phrase 'rough hewn'. This really fits the bill. Not dated but Mouse suspect early C13. Unusual trefoil drain to the basin too #StGregoryWeare #Somerset
You know we've got to the end of Mouse's Bluesky day on a Sunday when the obligatory #ChurchPiscina turns up and this is a beauty #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework
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
It's Friday and as Mouse pack her tiny suitcase ready for tomorrow's stage of the current scamper, she suddenly realise that there's no #ChurchPiscina from here in her timeline. Well it may be late but it's never too late for this C15 beauty. South aisle chapel #StMaryWedmore #Somerset
South wall of south aisle left of porch door (interior) Chancel #StMatthewWookey #Somerset #MasonryMonday #ChurchPiscina
Re-set and damaged. Originally a pointed cinquefoil set in chamfered #Ogee. A third (similar) piscina sits in the south chapel but could not be photographed
Chancel #StMatthewWookey #Somerset #MasonryMonday #ChurchPiscina
A C13 chamfered trefoil piscina with retrofit credence shelf squeezed ignominiously between south and east wall. Reminiscent of the #MedievalLavabo in the #TinternFratery, which undoubtedly took these as a model
Mouse can't resist a piscina. It's one of the #ThingsMouseLove most. This is cited as C13/C14 in the Listing. Curiously it is on the east wall of the north transept. Normally they sit on a south wall adjacent to an altar to the east of chancel or side chapel. Roll moulded pointed #ChurchPiscina
Fine C13 piscina #StMaryEllingham #Hampshire #ChurchPiscina
Trefoil cavetto moulded hood and double basins are more likely than not both original and 'made for each other'. South of the chancel there's a fighting chance it's in situ too. Undecorated basins, unslighted (unusual) with water erosion
Bowl from the #StMaryBreamore #Hampshire piscina (3/3)
The horizontal line shows that the bowl was chipped or cut off although the two pats are a very good match and so perhaps they were lucky enough to be reunited. The drains are often beautifully carved and intricate as here #ChurchPiscina
Those #ChurchPiscina that are not in situ can be concoctions from different sources. Mouse suspect that the bowl and niche were not born together but brought together. The niche (zoom in) has a tiny #Pintle suggesting it once had a door so was probably once an ambry (2/3) #StMaryBreamore #Hampshire
Another of the #ThingsMouseLove: #ChurchPiscina
Usually to the south of the sanctuary in east-west aligned church (which most Mouse visit are). Often smashed or filled (like stoups), removed or buried. Many reinstated (likely) by Victorian restorers. Claimed C15 (1/3) #StMaryBreamore #Hampshire
