The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Loose ends. Churches with heavenly hagioscopes (or superlative squints) #StJohnAxbridge #HolyCrossMark #StMatthewWookey
No. It's not lepers
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Loose ends. Churches with remarkable roofs. #StJohnAxbridge #StAndrewCheddar #HolyCrossMark
Mouse love roof timbers and these are all well worth a look
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Places to find a perfect #Pintle #HolyCrossMark #StLeonardRodneyStoke #StPeterBleadon #HolyCrossMark #StMatthewWookey #FerrousFriday
You didn't think you'd get away that easily
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with the enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings #StMaryWedmore #HolyCrossMark #StMatthewWookey #FerrousFriday
If this is your thing, check out Wedmore. Truly beautiful
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with a delectable #Doornucopia of doors #StMatthewWookey #StMaryWedmore #HolyCrossMark #AdoorableThursday
Texture of stone. Patina of wood. Contrasts.
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with proud porches #StAndrewCheddar #HolyCrossMark #StJamesWinscombe #AdoorableThursday
"One of these porches is not like the other ones"🎵🎶 (niche). And yes there are niches
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with a triumph of tracery #StJohnAxbridge #HolyCrossMark #StMaryWedmore #TraceryTesday
A panoply of pure Perpy perfection
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with stunning stair turrets #StPeterBleadon #HolyCrossMark #StMatthewWookey #TowerTuesday
Another signature of churches on the River Axe; polygonal stair turrets. Lovely
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The #ScamperDownTheAxe. 16 churches, just 28 miles over 16 weeks. And here they are: #ChurchesOfTheAxe (2 of 4) #HolyCrossMark #StMaryWedmore Chapel Allerton #AllertonChurch #StCongarBadgworth
West to chancel #StGregoryWeare #Somerset
Wide nave with aisle (left) bearing the same stark bare stone aesthetic as #HolyCrossMark. Minimalist and beautiful
The #MouseFavouritePhoto from the Church of the #HolyCrossMark #Somerset had to highlight these unusual, almost signature, stained glass windows
And as #FontsMeanFarewell what of the Church of the #HolyCrossMark #Somerset? This is another really fascinating church. Come for the Perpendicular windows and stunning C15 roofs. Mouse awarding another very solid 4/5 #MusVisit 🐭🐭🐭🐭
Truly #FabbyFont. C15 as you may expect but could easily be earlier. From top: Octagonal basin with relief of quatrefoils in roundels two per side, host of angels on column of attached shafts interspersed with trefoil-headed blind arches #HolyCrossMark #Somerset #FontsOnFriday
Mouse love a headstop. These from the west door #HolyCrossMark #Somerset. This is how much you might expect some stone to weather in 500 or so years. So beware the crisply cut headstop! They may be C19 copies
The odd little corbel. Perhaps this once supported a small statue with a hood above? Also show the extend of the door surround moulding
#HolyCrossMark #Somerset
All very curious. Badly re-set C13 heavily moulded doorway, strangely positioned relieving arch and odd little corbel above the door apex
#HolyCrossMark #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings
Yes. This door is indeed very old. Compare the quality of the original fillet (left) and the later version (right). Zoom in on the whole door photo (earlier) to see it's the only replacement #HolyCrossMark #Somerset #IronworkThursday
The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings
Door interior to north porch to north aisle. History in metal #HolyCrossMark #Somerset #IronworkThursday
East elevation of south chapel #HolyCrossMark #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Now this. This. Is old. Probably the oldest single part of the church. Chamfered pointed doorway (the best kind) with planked door
From nave to former south porch now vestry #HolyCrossMark #Somerset #AdoorableThursday.
The door is a good match for its north porch sibling but this is older and may have actually been the template for the north door. The arches are a total mess. Report them to the Arch-Deacon!
Mouse putting it out there straight away. This door is fab-u-lous.
Interior. North porch. Planked, filleted, studded and decorated with quatrefoil tracery in roundels surmounting small pointed trefoils #HolyCrossMark #Somerset #AdoorableThursday. You bet it's adoorable!
It's late, but it's never too late for some quality door action, starting with this lovely west tower door #HolyCrossMark #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Heavily moulded 4-centred door surround. Moulded square label with hollow spandrels once bearing heraldic shields. Planked door
North of chancel #HolyCrossMark #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
After a seeming forest of wood today, Mouse end her evening with some windows. Starting with the irresistible aesthetic of #JustPlainGlass. Decorated-style 3-light window with cusped lights and quatrefoil tracery
Not quite the view you might expect through the south chapel hagioscope but you can see the man on the horny-headed barmpot colouring in the big A. And if that makes no sense, you've missed a Mouse post
More Mouse nonsense from #HolyCrossMark #Somerset on #Woodensday
"Heads I get to keep the mouse". Fierce looking #PeckyMouseBotherer drives a hard bargain and after Buckaroo and an unresolved game of Boggle resorts to sheer probability
The curious carvings of the Church of the #HolyCrossMark #Somerset (Part III of III) just for #Woodensday
"I know you made a big sacrifice, but it's dreadfully difficult colouring these in with you flapping about and growling". Winged lion grumbles about stolen feather
The curious carvings of the Church of the #HolyCrossMark #Somerset (Part II of III) just for #Woodensday
"Stop jiggling about you horny-headed barmpot. You've made me colour over the line of the giant A".
A less than illuminating experience
The curious carvings of the Church of the #HolyCrossMark #Somerset (Part I of III) just for #Woodensday
Looks like today is all about the wood. Nave #HolyCrossMark #Somerset #Woodensday
Blue and white trusses to wagon roof. Bosses are individually carved and painted in red and gilt. It's a very impressive sight for Mouse eyes
