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And as Mouse moves on, what of #CleeveAbbey #Somerset? Mouse was captivated. It has to be one of the most complete pictures of medieval monastery life there is. Love history? Love medieval architecture? Love the history of Abbeys? It's a full 5/5 from Mouse #MusVisit🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭
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The Chapter House of #CleeveAbbey #Somerset. Red ochre decoration around ribs of the vaulted roof. Mouse can only look on in awe. This space must have been beautiful in its day, now lost to faded glory #ChapterHouseCleeveAbbey part V #SundayStonework
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The Chapter House of #CleeveAbbey #Somerset. Zoom in for red ochre single line #FictiveMasonry typical of C13 and fine flowing decoration around the apex. More than 750 years since the brush applied these now faint marks #ChapterHouseCleeveAbbey part IV #SundayStonework
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The Chapter House of #CleeveAbbey #Somerset. Typical C13 corbels supporting the ribs of the vaulted roof. Quite often corbels of this shape are seen with fragments of he ribs attached but the vaulting itself has been destroyed #ChapterHouseCleeveAbbey part III #SundayStonework
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The Chapter House of #CleeveAbbey #Somerset from the east. The building has been slighted but the structure of the vaulting is still visible #ChapterHouseCleeveAbbey part II
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The central arch of the Chapter House of #CleeveAbbey #Somerset flanked by windows. To the left (north) entrance to the library, to the right (south) day entrance to the dormitory, entrances to the parlour and warming room #ChapterHouseCleeveAbbey part I
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The sacristy of Cleeve Abbey, Somerset. Part of the #CleeveAbbeyLongWeekend. Piscina. If you've ever wondered where these drain to, zoom in. And while you're there enjoy the 700 year old painted decoration #FictiveMasonry #CleeveAbbey #Somerset #CleeveAbbeySacristy part III
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The sacristy of Cleeve Abbey, Somerset. Part of the #CleeveAbbeyLongWeekend. Seen through saddle and stanchion bars. Aumbry and above 700 year old white painted plaster decorated with #FictiveMasonry #CleeveAbbey #Somerset #CleeveAbbeySacristy part II
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The sacristy of Cleeve Abbey, Somerset. Part of the #CleeveAbbeyLongWeekend. This modern window may sit in the original C13 window surround. It would have held a tracery roundel. It's unusual. Mouse not seen one like this before #CleeveAbbey #Somerset #CleeveAbbeySacristy part I
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It's late, but it's never too late for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #CleeveAbbey #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share in the week: The panel widows of the fratery with cusped #Ogee lights, bar tracery and quatrefoil piercings. Absolute #PerpyPerfection
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It's late, but it's never too late for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #CleeveAbbey #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share in the week: Carved wall plate, bosses, corbels and angels with perfect Perpy tracery as a bonus. Yes. It is very, very fine work indeed
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It's late, but it's never too late for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #CleeveAbbey #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share in the week: Wonderful C15 roof timbers with angels resting on corbels. This was once a wagon roof with plastered panels on laths
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It's late, but it's never too late for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #CleeveAbbey #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share in the week: Graffiti on the C15 plaster of the fratery lobby. Daisy wheel and curiously thumb less hand (zoom in) #HistoricGraffiti
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A peek into the corrodian's rooms of #CleeveAbbey #Somerset located under the fine fratery. These spaces were once sumptuously decorated #CorrodiansRoomsCleeveAbbey #AdoorableThursday
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The venerable doors to the #DormitoryCleeveAbbey. The day entrance from the cloister. Do Mouse's eyes deceive her? Is that a medieval cat flap for the Abbey kitty? #CleeveAbbey #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
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Double chamfered pointed arch from the chapter house to the garth, flanked by decorated period windows although these were never glazed #CleeveAbbey #Somerset #DoorwayThursday
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The amazing fratery of #CleeveAbbey #Somerset through the richly moulded 4-centred arch from the lobby #DoorwayThursday
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The monks dormitory #CleeveAbbey. Pointed single light and window seat. Evidence of horizontal window bars remains.
NO WONDER the bible is as stupid as it is -- they couldn't even see to write anything after 4pm.
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The monks dormitory #CleeveAbbey #Somerset
Pointed single light and window seat. Evidence of horizontal window bars remains #WindowsOnWednesday #DormitoryCleeveAbbey
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The monks dormitory #CleeveAbbey #Somerset
Pointed single lights, dating to the original C13 construction, each with its own window seat. Perhaps one window per monk #WindowsOnWednesday #DormitoryCleeveAbbey
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The Abbey gatehouse #CleeveAbbey #Somerset for #Woodensday
Restored, if not rebuilt, but showing the wyndebeams that, although decorative, provide structural rigidity
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#StudiesInLightAndStone Part VI
The changing face of the abbey gatehouse #CleeveAbbey #Somerset for #WallsOnWenesday
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#StudiesInLightAndStone Part V
The changing face of the abbey gatehouse #CleeveAbbey #Somerset for #WallsOnWenesday
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#StudiesInLightAndStone Part IV
The changing face of the abbey gatehouse #CleeveAbbey #Somerset for #WallsOnWenesday
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#StudiesInLightAndStone Part III
The changing face of the abbey gatehouse #CleeveAbbey #Somerset for #WallsOnWenesday
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#StudiesInLightAndStone Part II
The changing face of the abbey gatehouse #CleeveAbbey #Somerset for #WallsOnWenesday
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The sacristy #CleeveAbbey #Somerset
Although Cleeve Abbey was a Cistercian religious house, the sacristy at least was finely decorated. Fragments of good encaustic tiles are still visible, 700 or more years since they were first laid down #CleeveAbbeySacristy #TilesOnTuesday
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The sacristy #CleeveAbbey #Somerset
The sacristy was originally accessed from the south end of the south transept. A sacristy is used to store and care for eucharistic items, vestments and texts. In a church the sacrestan is responsible for these items #CleeveAbbeySacristy
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