Mouse love a crossing tower but yes the western placement gives it an interesting architecture. The (probably) Norman tower of the priory church of the Holy Trinity in Christchurch Dorset collapsed to be replaced by a west tower. Mouse wonder if that may have happened here🐭
#HolyTrinityChristchurch

If Mouse is honest, and Mouse always is, the Priory Church of the #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset is better inside than out, but there is no denying its big. Really, really big. Well worth a visit and #ChristchurchInDorset is a lovely town too.

A countdown of the best five #ChurchesToVisitSalisburyToTheSea. The moment you've been waiting for. In at number 1: #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset. Curious or expert, marvel at its scale and beauty, drink in the seemingly endless Romanesque detail #TheBestOfSalisburyToTheSea

#TheBestOfSalisburyToTheSea for #RomanesqueRiday: #StMaryBreamore #Hampshire

Despite the Romanesque arcades and purported C12 decoration externally to the Priory Church of the #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset the simplicity of these circular greensand and limestone doorways wins

Church interiors always come down to #HowDoesItMakeYouFeel for Mouse and the scamper to the sea had many fine examples but for its sheer breath taking scale and beauty
#TheBestOfSalisburyToTheSea interior goes to the Priory Church of the #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset

And as #FontsMeanFarewell, what of the Priory Church of the #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset? Breath taking in scale and beauty and of real historic interest. A must visit say Mouse. This was a five Mouse points #MusVisit 🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭

The Avon churches Salisbury to Christchurch #StPeterAndStPaulRingwood #StMichaelSopley #HolyTrinityChristchurch Follow: #SalisburyToTheSeaChurches (3/3)

North transept. Western elevation. #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #RomanesqueRiday on Friday

More curiously curtailed clustered engaged columns that once ran to the top of the building. And by the way, most of the Romanesque was replaced C19
For more follow: #ChristchurchPrioryTransept (5/5)

North east corner of north transept #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #RomanesqueRiday on Friday

Blind arcade of interlaced circular arches, forming intermediate 2-centred arches. Oh! That's where the idea came from.
For more follow: #ChristchurchPrioryTransept (4/5)

North east corner of north transept #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #RomanesqueRiday on Friday

Norman tower with fabulous diaper work and upper and lower blind arcades. The curious roof says this was perhaps once one storey higher.
For more follow: #ChristchurchPrioryTransept (3/5)

North transept #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #RomanesqueRiday on Friday

Zoom in for a billet string course, scales, richly carved arches and capitals, and curiously curtailed clustered engaged columns that would once have run to the top
For more follow: #ChristchurchPrioryTransept (2/5)

South transept #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #RomanesqueRiday on Friday

The Romanesque jewel in the Priory crown they say. Well, let's see. Mouse say up front that just by inspection at least the upper third of dressed limestone is C15
For more follow: #ChristchurchPrioryTransept (1/5)

So (like an idiot) Mouse missed the Purbeck Norman font and the C12 font at the Priory church of the #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset but did get this. Guess the age #FontsOnFriday

South aisle. Southern elevation (exterior) #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #RomanesqueRiday on Friday

Heavily weathered C12 blind arcade of circular arches. These once ran the length of this side of the Priory as part of the cloister. Now interrupted by the C13 buttresses

South aisle (interior). Southern elevation #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #RomanesqueRiday (Thanks, Rufus. Really. Thanks)

Circular arch, outer circular billets and cyma moulding. Carved capitals and full shafts. Abacus and possibly capital (left) and shaft (right) replaced

To Mouse's dog friend Rufus, all words begin with 'R', so when Mouse ask "what day should we celebrate Romanesque architecture, Rufus?", he said "Riday". So here it is #RomanesqueRiday on a Friday. Seemingly blind arcades. South aisle. Late C12 #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset

South aisle vaulting #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset. Mouse love finding these. Tiny glimpse of fresco gives a tantalising view of how colourful a Priory Church like this might have been before King 'can't keep it in his trousers' ruined everything with his Reformation nonsense

A last door from #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset by Mouse. #TinyDoor set into an #Ogee with finials and a blind companion adjacent with internal cusping to the head. Both have delicate nook shafts either side #AdoorableThursday

Pure #OgeeLove-liness #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #AdoorableThursday

Set in blind arcade of three cusped pointed bays surmounted by quatrefoil carvings on a parapet. Mouse say: "luv-er-ley"

South elevation of south transept, to east and west #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #AdoorableThursday

Late C15. Both 4-centred. Chamfered (left). Cavetto (hollow) with square (headed) surround and ornately carved spandrels. The latter carved directly from the surround in-situ

Monolithic slightly draped arch on shallow chamfered jambs flanked by large nook shafts surmounted by Romanesque capitals (fairly obvious repairs to left, facing). A real curiosity and possible #FrankenDoor
#HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #AdoorableThursday

The cloister and domestic buildings supporting the Priory of the #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset lay (as they usually do) to the South of the Priory Church. This small, weathered double chamfered pointed doorway gave access from the south aisle #AdoorNoMore

West of tower. #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset

Moulded pointed doorway set in square hood mould (flowing from string course) with decorated spandrels and guarded by a rather fetching gate #AdoorableThursday #Thursgate

Entrance to the Priory Church of the #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset from C13 north porch to west end of nave

(shame about the stripy pole) #AdoorableThursday

Some #GloriousGateage from the Priory Church of the #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset #Thursgate #IronworkThursday

North porch #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset

Four orders of cyma moulded arch on nook columns with plain capitals. C13

Perfectly Perpendicular

South east end of the Lady Chapel #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset
A little on the tardy side for #WindowsOnWednesday #JustPlainGlass #FromInsideOut

Deliciously Decorated

South transept #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset

#FromInsideOut #JustPlainGlass #WindowsOnWednesday

North transept #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset

Late C12 Romanesque light with nook shafts. Not long until pointy gets popular #JustPlainGlass #ItsAllAboutTheLight #WindowsOnWednesday

To south aisle #HolyTrinityChristchurch #Dorset

Window from the Decorated period (geometric style). The tracery work in the roundels is particularly fine #ItsAllAboutTheLight #WindowsOnWednesday