The grey church viewed across the churchyard against a bright blue sky.
👀 All Saints’ church, #Holbeton #Devon
A 13th to early 14th Century tower with spire of 34.4 metres (113 feet).
#SteepleSaturday
A view of the short, flat topped & square font. It stands on a plain central cylinder with four cylindrical legs.
👀 All Saints’ church, #Holbeton #Devon
A Norman font with blank arcading on two sides. However, in this view there are two lions & a tree between them, plus two “leaf” panels on the other side.
#FontsOnFriday #Romanesque #Medieval
Lozenge shaped panel with ironwork in centre. Carvings of Agnus Dei & figures blowing trumpets.
👀 #Holbeton #Devon
#ArtsandCrafts door, maybe by #JDSedding?
Note ironwork & carvings of Agnus Dei & figures blowing trumpets.
#AdoorableThursday
#IronworkThursday
Open door with view through to font & stained glass window. Lozenge shaped carving with iron fittings.
👀 #Holbeton #Devon
#ArtsandCrafts door, but is it by #JDSedding?
#HistoricEngland - “Good furnishings by Sedding including .. south door”
J D Sedding said to #HenryWilson write on my gravestone, “He made the doors at Holbeton & was an artist in his way”
#AdoorableThursday
#IronworkThursday
Two birds & a squirrel amongst oak leaves & acorns carved on a bench end.
👀 All Saints’ church, #Holbeton #Devon
An example of the beautiful bench ends in this church.
Carved by employee(s) of Trask & Co of Norton-sub-Hamdon, #Somerset
#WoodcarvingWednesday
#Woodensday
Bluebell flowers drooping in an arc from the stem.
3 tiny white wild strawberry flowers.
5 pink Herb Robert flowers.
🚶♀️ 🚶🏻♂️ #Holbeton, #Devon
Lanes full of flowers, including Bluebells, Wild Strawberry & Herb Robert.
#wildflowerhour
Two thatched cottages. One with Wistetia, with buds ready to flower.
6 almshouses in a row, with dormer windows & slate roof.
Yellow & green bank of grass, primroses & celandines.
Tide out of the River Erme.
🚶♀️ 🚶🏻♂️ #Holbeton Parish, #Devon
• Wisteria Cottage - plenty of buds , ready for a good display of flowers.
• Almshouses of 1890
• Hedgerows & banks were full of Primroses & Celandines.
• River Erme by Efford House. Efford from Ebb ford, when the river could be crossed at low tide.
Wooden chancel roof with bosses & starlike decoration.
👀 All Saints’ Church, #Holbeton #Devon
Chancel roof with bosses of 1885-9 by #JDSedding
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday
#Architecture
How quickly another year passes! Flowers near the Norman font and in the Lady Chapel in All Saints' Church #Holbeton in memory of my mother who died 27 years ago this week.
