The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Loose ends. Churches with ceilings worth celebrating. #StJohnAxbridge #StAndrewCheddar #StAndrewLoxton

Mouse may be in the gutter (again)

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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with with a #DoorInMidAir (or more) #StAndrewLoxton #StAndrewCheddar #StPeterBleadon #AdoorableThursday

A recent Mouse passion, all things rood #ItWouldBeRoodNotTo

(to see more of each church just click the named #)

The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Stunning stained glass #StPeterBleadon #StAndrewLoxton #StMaryWedmore #StainedGlassSunday #ItsAllAboutTheLight

The #ScamperDownTheAxe. 16 churches, just 28 miles over 16 weeks. And here they are: #ChurchesOfTheAxe (4 of 4) #StJohnBiddisham #StMaryChriston #StAndrewLoxton #StPeterBleadon

An open and shut case for #MouseFavouritePhoto from the church of #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset. The light set against the rubblestone is beautiful to Mouse

And as #FontsMeanFarewell what of the church of #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset? This church has some interesting architecture but Mouse found it quite grim on the outside and surprisingly dingy inside. Better in photos than in reality. Mouse award 3/5 heritage points #MusVisit 🐭🐭🐭

A little extra helping of #FridayPipes from #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset

Rather beautifully painted, Mouse think

Octagonal font on octagonal support and square plinth #FontsOnFriday from #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset

The Listing says C14 which must have come from a written source somewhere because it looks somewhat earlier

The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset

Screwed not nailed or studded. You can draw your own conclusions

One for the file marked #FridayPipes from #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset

Set in the westernmost bay of a 2-bay arcade. The arch arrangement is most curious, but it's probably early C20 anyway

Mouse always on the lookout for hints of the Norman past and here's a little clue. A section of Norman Romanesque pellet decoration above a much abused segmental arch with roll moulding around the intrados #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset for #RomanesqueRiday (thank you Rufus) #Spolia

And finally from Mouse.... priest's door surmounted by 2-light Decorated-style stained glass window with cusped lights. Again the light is doing all of the heavy lifting here #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

Interior. South tower porch #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

Mouse don't see many of these. A kind of concertina church door. If it's cill to lintel does it still count as a #WicketGate?

South elevation of south chapel #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset

Ovolo-moulded draped arch doorway #AdoorableThursday #DoorwayThursday

It's been a while but here's a #DoorNoMore from #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

Truncated and blocked, the door is there for show

South of nave #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

Waffly nice door under mildly chamfered segmental rere-arch and relieving arch above

This arrangement of doors had Mouse puzzling for a bit. The door to the left leads into the small external lean-to rood turret. The top (rood) door and lower pointed door sit in the footprint of the north chapel (actually vestry) #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

Today's #DoorInMidAir from #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset. Narrow in-situ chamfered pseudo-4-centred arch doorway with planked door. Led to former rood loft. This area has a truly impressive range of these survivors #AdoorableThursday

Interior south porch #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

This simple planked door was once festooned in signs but has now been liberated of it's informative shackles. They do admittedly love signs in this church to a more than usual extent #BanSignsOnHeritageDoors

The path to #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset allowed Mouse to get reacquainted with a long term passion. Modern it may be but a #Lychgate it most certainly is #Thursgate

The 2-centred arch profile of the panel roof of the south chapel. One for the file marked #lessIsMore
#StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #Woodensday

Mouse may be in the gutter but she's looking at the stars...

The exquisite blue and gilt of the chancel roof #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #Woodensday

You'll see #UberGothic C19 pastiches of this cusped re-re arch but his is the real C13 McCoy albeit somewhat clumsily reset. Mouse say "beautiful"

#StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday #FromInsideOut

Yes, discerning viewer. Your eyes do not deceive you. You really are looking at a very beautiful thing indeed

#FromInsideOut #ItsAllAboutTheLight #WindowsOnWednesday #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset

Unassuming from the exterior, but from the interior a thing of simple beauty #WindowsOnWednesday #ItsAllAboutTheLight #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset

North of nave #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

One of several good C15 square 2-light windows with cusped lights, hollow spandrels and hollow moulded square label with stops (one damaged)

North of nave #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

Rather fine decorated 2-light window. Cusped lights, quatrefoil in roundel tracery, plain label with plain stops. Taken with Mouse's special ectoplasm attachment

It's late, but it really is never too late for a perfect Early English single pointed light. Especially one dappled with sunlight (wait until you see the inside)

South of nave, west of tower porch #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday

And finally from Mouse (it's an early night after a lot of scampering)... what else on a Tuesday, but a close up of a #TinyWindow?

#TinyWindowTuesday from #StAndrewLoxton #Somerset

Worth a closer look Mouse thinks...

A 3-light window with plain label and stops and cusped lights. It could be argued that the tracery isn't full on Perp, but it's on the cusp (see what Mouse did there?)

#StAndrewLoxton #Somerset #TraceryTuesday