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And as #FontsMeanFarwell, Mouse has to choose the best church to visit from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg. It was a tough choice, but Mouse giving the top place to #StMaryEastBrent. Lovely external architecture and plenty of interest in the interior

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The #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg offered a fantastic array of fonts, Norman, Decorated and Perpendicular. It was a tough choice but the winning fabulous font comes from #StMaryBerrow #FontsOnFriday

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The winner of #FridaysFacesInStone from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg #StMaryEastBrent. Probably authentic, although well preserved. Mouse can almost imagine the people these were based on

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Them's mighty fine pipes....

The winner of #FridayPipes from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg #StChristoperLympsham

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If AI really knew what it was doing and created a Perpendicular church door and surround, it would create this...

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. Highlights of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg that Mouse didn't get around to sharing #StMichaelBrentKnoll

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When you absolutely, positively want to be remembered by everybody in the room..

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. Highlights of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg that Mouse didn't get around to sharing. Get yourself a really big memorial #StMichaelBrentKnoll

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Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. Highlights of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg that Mouse didn't get around to sharing. Mouse often bemoan the smashing of the tops of medieval crosses by iconoclasts. This is what one would have looked like #StMaryBerrow

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Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. Highlights of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg that Mouse didn't get around to sharing. A faulty bulb gives this square cusped light a haunting quality exaggerated by the blank stare of the woman's face #StBridgetBrean

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Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. Highlights of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg that Mouse didn't get around to sharing. Now weather worn and reduced to #Spolia this rood at #StChristopherLympsham is a great survivor. Mouse share because #ItWouldBeRoodNotTo

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Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. Highlights of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg that Mouse didn't get around to sharing. Piscina set in cusped fenestella at #StChristopherLympsham. The canopy is more likely than not C14. Bowl and ornate drain are much later

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Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. Highlights of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg that Mouse didn't get around to sharing. The setting of this doorway at #StChristopherLympsham is lovely. The door is a modern copy of the C15 door at nearby #StMaryEastBrent

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Nemesis...

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces. Some highlights of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg that Mouse didn't get around to sharing. Much as it pains Mouse to say so, this #PeckyMouseBotherer is resplendent in plumage of reflected light #StMaryHutton

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The most surprised of #SurprisedChurches from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMichaelBrentKnoll #AdoorableThursday

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The most glorious gate from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StChristopherLympsham. Sadly not all gates are looked after in the way they should be. This poor gate is one such. It once glistened with decoration and a fine gas mantle overthrow #Thursgate

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The winning #WestDoorAndWindowCombo from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryEastBrent. It has the lot, the dressing of the stone, the butter coloured tracery and doorway, the populated niche and the quatrefoil spandrels. The lot #AdoorableThursday

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South door, interior #StMaryEastBrent from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg. Cross braced. Styles that extend around the 2-centred head and a ledge that looks as if it was shaped with an adze. A sheer door delight #AdoorableThursday

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The winner of delectable door from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryEastBrent. Fabulous C15 filleted planked door with cusped #Ogee panels and crocketed finials. The fillets are replaced but the age of the finials is clear to see #AdoorableThursday

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The sky is the limit for the winner of rip-roaring roofs from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMichaelLympsham. The wonderful wagon roof of the nave with beautiful bosses and the perfect cusped panels of the chancel #Woodensday

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Not only is #StChristopherLympsham the winner of best windows (interior) but it gives a rare glimpse of what went before. These smaller ghost windows where uncovered mid C20 #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg #WindowsOnWednesday

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The enduring beauty of #JustPlainGlass. Unusual framed pointed quatrefoil to the bottom of this lovely window from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StChristopherLympsham. #WindowsOnWednesday #FromInsideOut

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The winner for windows from the inside from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StChristopherLympsham. A church filled with love and light. Delightful coloured fragments in the tracery. Where Playstation got the idea for the controller? #WindowsOnWednesday

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The window winner's wonder of windows #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMichaelBrentKnoll. Cusped #Ogee single light, 3-light square headed with hood mould C15, 3-light Perpendicular pointed with cusped ogee lights #WindowsOnWednesday

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Where to go for wonderful windows on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMichaelBrentKnoll. Churches that evolved over time can be wonderful places to find a history of windows and this is one. 3-light pointed with intersecting tracery #WindowsOnWednesday

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The top of the pile of stair turrets from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryHutton. Polygonal turret with hexagonal pyramid spirelet. The upper stage has cusped panels. More Swiss castle than English church? #TowerTuesday

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The most terrific tower from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryBerrow. This sturdy embattled tower has sat amongst the sand dunes for 700 years. A sentinel standing watch #TowerTuesday

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Victorian memorial tablet dappled with light from the south chancel window. The #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryEastBrent #MemorialMonday

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At peace on a mattress of grass and swaddled in moss... this effigy would once have been at rest inside. Perhaps ousted by iconoclasts. The #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryEastBrent #MemorialMonday

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The go to church for effigies, memorial tablets and niches on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryEastBrent. This fabulous effigy is flanked by fine canopied niches the podiums of which would once have housed saints to watch over the deceased

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The superlative Somerset signature arcade arch from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StChristopherLympsham. Piers of 4 clustered shafts separated by ovolo moulding, capitals supporting wave moulded pointed arches. Annoyingly 1.5 muntins off centre

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The most charming chancel arch from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg is found at #StMaryHutton. The moulding is described as step and wave, which is what Mouse is trained to do when making celebrity appearances (Mouse think it's double chamfered though)

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