Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share in the week: Crocketed stellate niche with frankly oversized finials. Similar to those found at #HolyTrinityBristol (the Cathedral), but otherwise Mouse has never seen another example

Normally on a Friday Mouse say farewell to a church with a look at the font. Not so at #HolyTrinityBristol where they are using the baptistry as a store. Needless to say Mouse not happy. Bad choice Bristol Cathedral. Mouse not moved on either. She's stayed in Bristol for the week

Never mind all that utter nonsense about spoons and forks, Alanis. This is ironic. #HolyTrinityBristol #BristolCathedralStainedGlass Part IV #StainedGlassSunday

A survivor from turbulent times. Fragment of C15 glass. The windows of the east cloister at #HolyTrinityBristol #BristolCathedralStainedGlass Part III #StainedGlassSunday

Very stylised facial expression from C15. The windows of the east cloister at #HolyTrinityBristol #BristolCathedralStainedGlass Part II #StainedGlassSunday

#AloneCone stares in appreciatively

The windows of the east cloister at #HolyTrinityBristol are Victorian but they contain beautiful fragments of C15 glass, presumably rescued from the impact of the English Reformation #BristolCathedralStainedGlass Part I #StainedGlassSunday

The remaining cloister of #HolyTrinityBristol is now enclosed with Victorian stained glass, but these windows hold one or two secrets #BristolCathedralCloister #BristolCathedralStainedGlass #StainedGlassSunday

Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: Ante-room to the Berkeley chapel. So much architecture; tiny window in inflexed splayed arch. Inflexed cusped surround with finial flanked by pinnacles. Foliate spandrels #StainedGlassSunday

Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: Tiny Early English window

Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: Monument west of nave. An effigy raised up on an elbow is a common motif of tombs from the era. Seen as meaning 'resting rather than dead' though Mouse think of it as 'neither here nor there'

Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: Pulpitum for lovers of the #Ogee everywhere #OgeeLove #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework

(Mouse particularly pleased with this one. First ever total apex alignment - and it's beautiful)

Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: Piers of clustered columns in the east cloister. Each of the capitals bears a different design. The lateral arch has giant pellets at its centre #BristolCathedralCloister

Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: From the entrance of #BristolCathedralChapterHouse into the remaining easternmost cloister

Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: A signature of Norman Romanesque, the 2-light window with semi-circular lights separated by a shaft and capital #BristolCathedralChapterHouse. Here further enclosed within two orders of arch

Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: The quadripartite vault of the #BristolCathedralChapterHouse (west elevation). Nearly a millennium has passed since these fleurons and chevrons were carved

Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: The quadripartite vault of the #BristolCathedralChapterHouse. The pinnacle of late Norman Romanesque, carved interlaced boss and roll moulded ribs with exquisite pellet decoration

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #HolyTrinityBristol. Some of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the weak: C13 stretcher arches pierced with daggers. Raise your eyes and give thanks to your God (or the mason, your choice)

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #HolyTrinityBristol. some of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the weak: in some churches Mouse have to avoid the odd shiny #PeckyMouseBotherer. Not so in this fine place of worship. They've got two and they look really pecky

Mouse's weakness for fancy strap work shines like a beacon

#HolyTrinityBristol for #FerrousFriday

If you have a big space to fill then you need big pipes and these are seriously big pipes....

North ambulatory #HolyTrinityBristol for #FridayPipes

A Norman Romanesque masterclass in decoration. From outside in; roll moulding exposed between the teeth of opposing chevrons (with carved petals in roundels), cavetto with nail head and roll moulding enclosed in pellet spiral. Class dismissed #HolyTrinityBristol #RomanesqueRiday

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

Each of the unusual 'stellate' tombs in the Lady Chapel, and north and south chancel aisles (ambulatory) of #HolyTrinityBristol has head stops. Faces staring at us across 850 years, as alive to us now as they were then #FridaysFacesInStone

One for #RomanesqueRiday (thanks Rufus) from #HolyTrinityBristol

Gatehouse situated between the Cathedral and (now) College. Mouse would have photographed the lovely interior but there were some 'gentlemen' drinking Buckie inside. Suitable for an old Abbey though Mouse suppose

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

Adjacent to cloister entrance #HolyTrinityBristol for #AdoorableThursday

Two orders of segmental arch bearing fine Romanesque decoration. The relieving arch above suggests that this is a #FrankenDoor and the decorative masonry is #Spolia

Clever concealed door masquerading as one of the bays of the blind arcade of #BristolCathedralChapterHouse. There are in fact two in the west elevation, which Mouse only noticed because signs were stuck on them. Were #HolyTrinityBristol for #AdoorableThursday

Upper sections of #BristolCathedralChapterHouse. Interlaced semicircular arches which show the origin of 2-centred arches (they'd been around long before Gothic became a thing) surmounted by glorious diaper work (well filled) #HolyTrinityBristol

Chapter House #HolyTrinityBristol

Built 1360 and largely original. The Romanesque blind arcade around the space provides a niche for each member of the Augustinian Abbey to sit while they got 'chapter and verse' each day #BristolCathedralChapterHouse
(with thanks to @moonponysophia.bsky.social)

Porch to west entrance #HolyTrinityBristol for #AdoorableThursday

An entirely Victorian addition to an Abbey church which still bears much architectural evidence of its C12 origins and arguably some of the finest architecture you could find anywhere from C13 and C14