While we should be celebrating an unusual #WestDoorandWindowCombo of Early English window and Victorian chamfered shouldered door we are sadly distracted by terrible lighting and the worst #WireThroughTheApex Mouse has ever seen. A crime, a #ChurchWiringNightmare
The winner in the #WestDoorAndWindowCombo category from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StDecumanWatchet. The #ChurchWiringNightmare of the #WireThroughTheApex is offset by a stunning Perpendicular panel window and planked door #AdoorableThursday
West of tower #StDecumanWatchet #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday
Moulded 4-centred doorway, stopped label and ancient planked, filleted and studded door
(Tainted by a #WireThroughTheApex and plastic pipe through it. Minus ten marks for heritage crime) #ChurchWiringNightmare
The Mouse eye view...
Square, embattled stair turret. North of tower. Single square light to each stage. Blighted by the 'unsympathetic' wiring that seems a feature of this (and sadly many another) church #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #TowerTuesday #ChurchWiringNightmare
Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse forgot to share over the week: Rather crude C15 panels to the soffit and return of the blocked up arch in the nave (with the tiniest, tiniest #ChurchWiringNightmare)
The church of #StPeterHuntspill #Somerset is almost en-tile-y tiled which is unusual for the churches on this particular scamper. The tiles are of a fine quality too #TilesOnTuesday
(Sadly the electrician here needs to feel Mouse's wrath... see background #ChurchWiringNightmare)
First tower stage, stair turret #StMichaelBrentKnoll #Somerset
A tiny, tiny, tiny, #TinyWindow. Tall, Mouse grant you. But tiny nonetheless #TinyWindowTuesday
(Sorry about the prison issue lighting and accompanying #ChurchWiringNightmare)
South porch (interior) #StMaryBerrow #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday
C13 pointed doorway with outer chamfer and inner continuous roll moulding. Once painted or with a thin lime coating. The memorial door dates to 1942
(Plus the #ChurchWiringNightmare of a #WireThroughTheApex)
South porch (interior) #AllSaintsKingstonSeymour #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday
Ovolo moulded continuous doorway with door unusually ledged and braced on the outside. Mouse have to rack her tiny brain for any other example
(Oh, and just the hint of a #ChurchWiringNightmare)
Less #SundaySermons and more #ChurchWiringNightmare. It astound Mouse how few people get electrocuted accidentally in dodgily wired churches. That aside this is a C19 homage to the Jacobean style of pulpit itself based on some familiar classical motifs #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset
Your eye for a photo is so keen! You even managed to get a full on #ChurchWiringNightmare in the same shot TTM🐭
West door to tower #StAndrewComptonBishop #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Beautifully weathered doorway housing a curiously be-windowed door (Nope. Mouse got no idea).
(And a bit of a #ChurchWiringNightmare thrown in)
West of tower #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Moulded pointed doorway with (sadly) accompanying #ChurchWiringNightmare. The roll moulded label may be later. The large blocks as stops probably were intended to be carved heads. Maybe the money ran out. Not unusual.
Niche and stoup (above and right respectively), reminders that the way the English worship went through a seismic change a little less than half a millennium ago. Also a reminder of a #ChurchWiringNightmare sadly #StLeonardRodneyStoke #Somerset
The (other) doors of #StLeonardRodneyStoke #Somerset #AdoorableThursday (4/4)
From north porch to nave. Fairly unremarkable moulded pointed doorway with planked door. All too familiar #WireThroughTheApex and wonky cable run just to ruin it #ChurchWiringNightmare
The C15 font of #StMaryChepstow. Delicately carved and possibly as a result somewhat battered. Like many fonts it does look as if it spent some time in a garden post-Reformation. Blighted by trailing lead. Mouse nemesis #FontsOnFriday #ChurchWiringNightmare
"The Inevitable untidiness of chancel"
Chancel south wall with small eternal door (Mouse not know what this was for) and squint (hagioscope) in south transept wall. Usual mix of #ChurchClutter and #ChurchWiringNightmare present and correct as expected #StMichaelSopley #Hampshire #AdoorableThursday