So which of the churches comes top of the pile from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg? Another tough choice but for the sheer beauty of the interior and the finest C15 rood screen it has to be #StGeorgeDunster. A truly lovely church in a lovely town
It's late, but never too late for the tour de force of fonts from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StAndrewOldCleeve. Lovely C15 octagonal font and beautiful octagonal ogee cover (i.e. with eight ogee ribs separating enclosed panels) #FontsOnFriday
Undoubtedly the most surprised of the #SurprisedChurches from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg. "Look what they've don to my beautiful face!" quoth the chancel #StAndrewOldCleeve
It would be a shame not to have a gate from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg but none of the churches had them. This from the community gardens. The sign would have been a double blow to beagles on holiday from Rothmans in the 70's (niche) #ThursGate
Most impressive #DoorInMidAir from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. Once giving access from the stair turret to the top of a screen between quire and crossing. Probably a rood loft. And chamfered #Ogee headed too #AdoorableThursday
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
The doyen for doors and doorways from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StMaryQuantoxhead: South door. You'd be forgiven for thinking the carpenter had only a frail grasp of geometry but the mason made the hole he just filled it #AdoorableThursday
The doyen for doors and doorways from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StMaryQuantoxhead: Detail of south door interior to porch. Fine planked, filleted and studded door. Perpendicular-style pointed panels #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
The one that won for windows on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StDecumanWatchet: Mouse like it. Mouse like it a lot #WindowsOnWednesday
The one that won for windows on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StDecumanWatchet: Curious Decorated-style east window with three stepped pointed lights. The Geometric tracery of trefoil and quatrefoil looks like plate #WindowsOnWednesday
The one that won for windows on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StDecumanWatchet: Perpendicular-style pseudo-4-centred window. Divided into three by thick mullions, #Ogee lights have verticals from each apex rising to the head #WindowsOnWednesday
This roof is the winner from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg by a Somerset mile. Even though it is the skeleton of a once wagon roof it is an impressive structure in its own right #StGeorgeDunster #WoodensDay
Section of the rood screen from #StGeorgeDunster. Hard to believe it's carved from wood. The canopy vaulting is exquisite incorporating daggers and quatrefoil. A C15 masterpiece. Thank the Great Mouse it survived #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster #WoodensDay
Not just the finest screen dividing nave from quire from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg but the finest Mouse has yet seen, extending across the width of the church. Worth a visit just for this alone #StGeorgeDunster #WoodensDay
The finest #FromInsideOut from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg can be found at #StMaryQuantoxhead. The joy of light. The joy of #JustPlainGlass in a church
Top for tracery from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. If Mouse absolutely positively had to choose just on type of tracery it would be Decorated, flowing, reticulated (with cusped #Ogee lights) #TraceryTuesday
Top of the tiles tree from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. These are very Victorian and doubtless not to everyone (or anyone's?) taste, but somehow they look and feel right in this church #TilesOnTuesday
Mouse's favourite rood turret from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg can be found at #StDecumanWatchet. Perpendicular, polygonal, perfect and a perfect match for the tower stair turret too. Oh... and some tiny windows #TowerTuesday #TinyWindowTuesday
The toppermost tower doesn't always have the best stair turret. The supreme stair turret from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg can be found at #StDecumanWatchet. A classic polygonal beauty #TowerTuesday
Mouse's #MouseEyeView...
The top tower from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. Mouse got a lot of raindrops in her eyes taking this one, so if it's wonky Mouse say "soz"
Time for a tower. In fact the top tower from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. A Perpendicular masterpiece, broad and solid, dominating the skyline
Nemesis....
Shiny, shiny, pecky, pecky #PeckyMouseBotherer from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve #AllMetalMonday
In for a rough knight...
"Out on the mead and come home legless again Oswald!"
"Nought but a few flagons. It's quite 'armless" #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. Iconoclasts and their chisels at work again #MemorialMonday
Direct from the Vienetta School of stone masonry. The #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. If it's worth making a bad joke once, it's worth making it twice. Just ask Bob Monkhouse. They're not laughing now (niche) #MemorialMonday
Excellent for effigies (and magnificent memorials) on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. If this is your thing, then this is the church to visit. Family memorial in the south chapel #MemorialMonday
A place to enjoy some stained glass on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StDecumanWatchet. On a scamper which has offered little but glass of the most unremarkable nature, this church offers a few interesting pieces at least #StainedGlassSunday
The premier pulpit from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StDecumanWatchet. About as Jacobean as it gets and complete with canopy to prevent the fire and brimstone from setting off the sprinklers #SundaySermons
Sanctuary....
The most pleasing presbytery from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. Still, silent, sacred