Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #HolyTrinityBristol. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share over the week: Cadaverous effigy near the Lady Chapel. The canopy supported by six fluted shafts is very similar to that seen at #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh
If Mouse honest (she always is), the church of the #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset is not the most photogenic and so the short list for #MouseFavouritePhoto was, well, short. This was too good to resist though and also contains the rather clever and unusual tracery
Doorway west of tower #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #FridaysFacesInStone
These head stops have fabulous facial expressions. They could be C15 originals but Mouse suspects they are C19 additions or replacements. The masonry certainly suggests they have been re-set
It's been a while and so it's nice to find a good quality hatchment under the tower #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
Scallop shells and lions #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
Particularly finely carved freestone arms on the south aisle tomb. The tassels, pellets around the base of the helm, and egg and dart motif to the base are exquisite
East bay. North aisle. A curious looking organ for #FridayPipes from #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset
The things you find in churches! More rat than mus this. They'll nosh anything, even candles. No table manners and they put everything on the slate. Found in the memorial in the south isle #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset
Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from the church of the #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Relief carved fleurons in the cavetto moulding of the C15 south doorway
Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from the church of the #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Door to tower stair turret set in hollow moulded lancet doorway. The planked filleted door matches south and west external doors
Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from the church of the #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Chancel roof of three bays, decorated with cusped segmental panels forming a pleasing pattern the length of the central purlin
Jokes that don't work when you see them written down number 47. Exhibit A: What's a Greek urn? About 50 Euro a day. Exhibit B: What are amphorae? Makin' di sandwiches. Curious pottery in the priest's door, south of chancel #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset
Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from the church of the #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share this week: Finely carved tomb with baldachino baring a crest supported by six classical fluted columns. Now just a receptacle for the random
South door (interior) #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday
Large horizontal planks showing that the door is of double planked construction. Although this looks authentic, there is a bevel between each plank which suggests that it's more modern than C15
You'd be surprised too if you woke up one morning and suddenly one eye was vastly bigger than the other...
#SurprisedChurches #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday
South of chancel #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday
Tiny planked priest's door more suited to a farm building than a church perhaps. The pseudo-4-centred deeply moulded doorway has been re-set
Lovely blue and gold clock face above a fine #WestDoorAndWindowCombo #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday
As an aside the dressing of the stone has a C19 feel although it's dated to mid-C15. Quite unlike the rubble fill of near neighbour #StMaryPortbury
West of tower #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday
Filleted door, very similar in design to the south door with the addition of a thick bottom ledge. It is more likely than not a modern replacement. The #RichlyMoulded pointed doorway dates to mid C15
Hooray! A gate with a church behind it. What more could you want? #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #Thursgate #IronworkThursday
South porch interior #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday
Rather beautiful filleted door with styles extending to a pointed arch around the head. The quality and patina of the wood suggest age and good maintenance. Only the inside will tell
Lovely examples of C15 pointed windows. 2 and 3-light respectively #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #WindowsOnWednesday
South aisle and chancel #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #WindowsOnWednesday
It doesn't matter how many lights it has, Mouse just cannot resist a C15 square (headed) window with label and head stops. These have pointed cusped lights and hollow spandrels. Pukka as a pie
North aisle #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #WindowsOnWednesday
This aisle was added during the renovation and repair following the extensive fire mid-C19. The windows are fairly faithful copies of their medieval forebears. Decorated or Perpendicular?
South and east chancel elevations #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #WindowsOnWednesday
Contemporaneous C15 or C19, or is one a C15 original and the other a later copy. The way the windows are set gives a clue. Or does it?
The elaborate mid-C19 nave timbers of #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #Woodensday
Double quatrefoil pierced 2-centred trusses and cusped pointed windbeams. The less said about the dormer windows the better
Tuesday's missed Mouse posts due to the Blue Sky Wobble: Somebody watching me... and my anxiety... (niche)
The hallmark of a good tracery window is the eyes follow you around the churchyard... #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #TraceryTuesday
Mouse's awful Face #Pareidolia
Tuesday's missed Mouse posts due to the Blue Sky Wobble: A few moments later... (niche)
Don't you just love it when this happens. The sheer majesty of winter light #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset #TowerTuesday
Tuesday's missed Mouse posts due to the Blue Sky Wobble: A fabulous tower and tracery #TwoFah and #MouseEyeView too from #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset.
Pointed 4-light window. Cusped pointed lights. Intersecting tracery above three cusped elongated hexagons. #TraceryTuesday #TowerTuesday
Tuesday's missed Mouse posts due to the Blue Sky Wobble: Clever and unusual tracery effectively shows how #Ogee or 4-centred arches are constructed. Three inverted pointed arches create intersecting ogees as well as quatrefoil and daggers #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #TraceryTuesday
Tuesday's missed Mouse posts due to the Blue Sky Wobble: The #MouseEyeView.... #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset
More tower and turret gorgeousity for #TowerTuesday and as ever a #TinyWindow or two gratis #TinyWindowTuesday
