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
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
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
Them's mighty fine pipes....
The winner of #FridayPipes from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg #StChristoperLympsham
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The most surprised of #SurprisedChurches from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMichaelBrentKnoll #AdoorableThursday
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
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
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
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
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
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
The enduring beauty of #JustPlainGlass. Unusual framed pointed quatrefoil to the bottom of this lovely window from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StChristopherLympsham. #WindowsOnWednesday #FromInsideOut
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
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
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
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
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
Victorian memorial tablet dappled with light from the south chancel window. The #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #HuttonToBrentKnoll leg: #StMaryEastBrent #MemorialMonday
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
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
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
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)