South porch (interior) #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset

Heavily moulded pointed doorway with label and carved square stops holding a rather fine planked, filleted and ledged door #DoorwayThursday #AdoorableThursday

South porch #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset

If the pointed doorway with fleurons in the cavetto moulding (very C15), label, head stops and vacant niche above aren't lovely enough then check out the quatrefoil mesh of the protector gate #DoorwayThursday #Thursgate #IronworkThursday

Meanwhile just a few miles away (but might as well be in another world) the moulded pointed porch doorway of the delightfully rural #StGeorgeHanham #Gloucestershire #DoorwayThursday

The north-south divide?

The church of #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol seems to occupy a liminal space between noisy urban sprawl (north, left) and the tranquility of a green space fringed by fine old buildings. It's a strange sensation stepping from one to the other #DoorwayThursday

North porch #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol for #DoorwayThursday

Dated to early C14 the geometry and intricacy of carving is remarkable. It feels redolent of Islamic architecture and decoration or at least as seen through the lens of Southern Spain. Anyone got similar English examples?

West elevation of north transept #HolyTrinityBristol for #AdoorableThursday and #DoorwayThursday

Pointed C13 (in style at least) doorway enclosing door leafs with impressive ironwork, just in time for #IronworkThursday

Disused planked and filleted west door set in a #RichlyMoulded pointed doorway #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset. Large roll moulded hood mould extending to flat labels although these may once have been decorated in some way #DoorwayThursday #AdoorableThursday

The doyen for doors and doorways from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StMaryQuantoxhead: Originally very roughly hewn doorway extensively repaired with more regular dressed stone. The 4-centred head cut in two pieces is a bit wonky #DoorwayThursday

The doyen for doors and doorways from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StMaryQuantoxhead: Cavetto moulded pointed doorway to the south porch. Jambs of Blue Lias, head of sandstone which is kibbled with a margin to the intrados #DoorwayThursday

When you stumble across this on a bright summer's day you just know you've found the most divine doorway. The winner from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuntspillToKilve leg: #AllSaintsOtterhampton #DoorwayThursday

Thursday wouldn't be Thursday without a #DoorInMidAir. The rood loft may be long gone, but the rood stair has found a new role here at #StPeterPortishead. The #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast for #DoorwayThursday

First for doors on the #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast: #StPaulKewstoke: Cross section of fabulous nailed and filleted south door, showing wide interior roughly sawn horizontal planks #AdoorableThursday #DoorwayThursday

The winner for the diversity of doors and doorways award for the #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast is #StPaulKewstoke: Part III; south door. Stunning Romanesque decoration and double planked filleted door #AdoorableThursday #DoorwayThursday

The winner for the diversity of doors and doorways award for the #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast is #StPaulKewstoke: Part II; doorway to rood stair. Wave moulded #Ogee surmounted by a Romanesque #Spolia head spewing hood mould #DoorwayThursday

The winner for the diversity of doors and doorways award for the #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast is #StPaulKewstoke: Part I; north C13 (in style at least) cusped pointed doorway #DoorwayThursday. Lovely

Even in the morning it is frightening how long Mouse had to wait for this roll moulded pointed doorway to be free of people. And what a view it is. But #WhereIsTheHistoryMouse (This is the easy clue) #DoorwayThursday

A rather make do and mend doorway into the memorial garden, once the cloisters for the priory of #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. The slightly wonky overthrow with twiddly bits makes up for it though #DoorwayThursday #IronworkThursday

A warm welcome offered by #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset for #DoorwayThursday

Beautiful, richly moulded C15 pseudo-4-centred arch to the porch with an inner order of slender engaged shafts with small capitals

(and a sign we messed the climate up, December and the pots have flowers)

A #GlimpseOfStGeorgeDunster through the rather lovely low #Ogee arch entrance to the 'Dream Garden'. This view is certainly "such stuff as dreams are made of..." #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset for #DoorwayThursday

Double chamfered pointed arch from the chapter house to the garth, flanked by decorated period windows although these were never glazed #CleeveAbbey #Somerset #DoorwayThursday

The amazing fratery of #CleeveAbbey #Somerset through the richly moulded 4-centred arch from the lobby #DoorwayThursday

Mouse off to bed leaving you with a mysterious #DoorInMidAir. It has the hallmarks of access to a rood loft. The problem is the doors are in the wrong place because they are aligned with the middle of the nave, not the chancel arch #StDecumanWatchet #Somerset #DoorwayThursday

Here is the door of the Barracks on #SteepHolm island in the #BristolChannel .The #Victorian Barracks would have housed some 28 soldiers in addition to the Master Gunner and his wife in the married quarters.
www.steepholm.online
#AdoorableThursday #DoorwayThursday
#Military #Army #Gulls #Nature

This week's #ViewFromTheChurchDoor from #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #DoorwayThursday, incorporating the medieval #StandingCross

South porch. Interior #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #DoorwayThursday

Door to nave. Planked, filleted door with pointed heads to panels and Perpendicular-style muntins extending to the door head. Doorway is a chamfered 4-centred arch

South porch #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #DoorwayThursday

A peculiar mix of freestone and sandstone gives this simple chamfered pointed arch doorway a striking and ancient look (it may well be C13 and re-set)

Through this doorway beneath the Church of St Publius in #Rabat (Victoria) lies St Paul’s Cave on #Gozo. Tradition holds that St Paul preached here after his #shipwreck in #Malta, as described in the Acts of the Apostles. #AdoorableThursday #DoorwayThursday #Religion #Travels #Europe #HolySite

Grand entrance to the C16 range from the cobbled court #RaglanCastle #Wales for #DoorwayThursday

Th style of the 3-light windows with square heads and cusped lights is distinctly C15 and the lower of the pair is a repair anyway

There's something about a doorway. It seems more than just a portal from one space to another. Sometimes the 'other side' takes on a decided other-worldly air. Like stepping back in time. Very beautiful wave moulded pseudo-4-centred arch #RaglanCastle #Wales for #DoorwayThursday

Escape through the south gate #RaglanCastle #Wales for #DoorwayThursday

This gatehouse dates to early C15 apparently, but this solidly carved double chamfered pointed arch could be mistaken for much earlier still. especially with that 'new to Gothic' wonk to the outer order