And finally from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg. Eternal repose. Perfect peace.
When you sleep, sleep well and tomorrow may you be grateful for another day....
#StAndrewClevedon #FridaysFacesInStone
The winner for wonderful windows (exterior category) from the #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast is #StAndrewClevedon. This wonderful cruciform church is a tutorial in the evolution of windows over 500 years. Beautiful too #WindowsOnWednesday
A look back at the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast. Leg one: #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare Part A; #StPeterPortishead #StPeterWestonInGordano #StAndrewClevedon
The #MouseFavouritePhoto from #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset just had to be this window. Something about the sharp outlines and colour of the stone in the warm sunshine had Mouse smiling
How's that for a hagioscope?
Chancel to south transept #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset
(No. It's not lepers)
Perhaps if hoomans were the hunted and not the hunter these would be the kinds of trophy heads you would find on the walls...
Former corbels, perhaps C15, now #Spolia #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #FridaysFacesInStone
Seemingly and unusually sporting a jet engine cover (if you've ever been to an aeronautical museum you'll know what Mouse mean) the font of #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset is in the style of C14. Octagonal basin and base, large cylindrical stem. Needs a Jacobean hat #FontsOnFriday
There's a kind of Simpsonesque quality to this beak head. It looks like it's just eaten some shorts
Above abacus, right of chancel arch (as facing) #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #FridaysFacesInStone #RomanesqueRiday (thank you Rufus)
It's late but it's never too late to enjoy #RomanesqueRiday (thank you Rufus). When you consider the statues of classical Rome a thousand years earlier these Norman Romanesque faces seem so primitive... and yet they have personality #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #FridaysFacesInStone
Mouse do like to stick up for the ever so 'umble gate. This one leads to the Poet's Walk from the south of #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #Thursgate #IronworkThursday
Normally a well designed and located #Lychgate will perfectly frame its church. This one though seems to perfectly frame the vicar's car #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #Thursgate
Victorian this may be. Of diminutive proportions this may be. But it's beautifully carved and a wonderful slice of #Lychgate loveliness #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #Thursgate
North of nave. Adjacent to crossing arch #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
This week's vestigial #DoorInMidAir. Once accessing the rood loft, now left redundant and dangling
(the metal winch bears a projector screen. Even the Almighty comes in digital form now)
North of nave #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #DoorwayThursday #AdoorNoMore
Curious (but pointed) geometry to head. The label and stops were definitely not born with the rest of the doorway
South of chancel #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset
Priests door. Rather roughly carved chamfered segmental pointed doorway housing a relatively modern door right down to the fittings #AdoorableThursday
(It isn't narrower at the bottom, that's just Mouse's shonky camera work)
It may be late but it's never too late to celebrate some doors. South porch door #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset
Pointed door with wide plain fillets, large bottom ledge and studs set in a highly moulded pointed doorway with label. Mouse say "Rather lovely" #AdoorableThursday
Detail of the painted canopy. Mouse like this a lot #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #Woodensday
East of south transept #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday #Woodensday
Beautiful little altar under a wonderfully painted canopy and C13 window. This is a little oasis of calm in what is otherwise a chaotic plastic-toy filled kid's area (not complaining, just saying)
Mouse's #TheArtOfWindows from #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset (part II of II) for #WindowsOnWednesday
West elevation of south transept. Early Decorated pointed 2-light window with cusped pointed lights and pointed quatrefoil tracery. Largely original although likely re-set
Mouse's #TheArtOfWindows from #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset (part I of II) for #WindowsOnWednesday
South of chancel. Square 2-light window with cusped #Ogee lights, hollow spandrels, cavetto moulded label and unfinished stops
The evolution of windows in one church Part 5 of 5
C19 copy of a Perpendicular 2-light window. Thickly carved in comparison to its C15 predecessors. Boiler room addition to north side #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
The evolution of windows in one church Part 4 of 5
Very fine Perpendicular 3-light window with cusped pointed lights, panel tracery and roll moulded label with square hollow stops. North of chancel encroached upon by C19 boiler house #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
The evolution of windows in one church Part 3 of 5
Perpendicular (probably early C15) square 3-light window with cusped #Ogee lights, hollow spandrels and thin roll molded label without stops. South of south aisle #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
The evolution of windows in one church Part 2 of 5
Possibly an assemblage but Decorated-style. Wide pointed 2-light window with cusped #Ogee lights, single quatrefoil tracery (pointed vertical lobes) and label. South of south aisle #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
The evolution of windows in one church Part 1 of 5
Heavily restored early Decorated equilateral pointed 2-light window with cusped pointed lights, single quatrefoil tracery (with pointed vertical lobes) and label. North transept #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
Why not round off your day with a nice Perpy window? Mouse do...
East of chancel. Pointed 4-light window with cusped #Ogee lights, roll moulded label and head stops. You can barely see the join #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #TraceryTuesday
Over the horizon; the sea. If you wanted a #TombWithAview, #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset would be a contender #TombTuesday
How can Mouse have missed the fact that these tiny tiles should have had a starring role on Monday? They're going to have to make do with a #TilesOnTuesday billing instead #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset. Chancel
Much repaired grave slab in the chancel #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #TombTuesday
Late C15. The face has been altered to give it a kind of knowing cheeky grin. A happy knight?
C14 south transept, south elevation #StAndrewClevedon #Somerset #TraceryTuesday
Fine late decorated-style 4-light window with cusped #Ogee lights, label and square, hollow stops. Tell-tale horizontal lines in the surrounding masonry speak of replacement or resetting