It's late, but never too late for the tour de force of fonts from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StAndrewOldCleeve. Lovely C15 octagonal font and beautiful octagonal ogee cover (i.e. with eight ogee ribs separating enclosed panels) #FontsOnFriday

Undoubtedly the most surprised of the #SurprisedChurches from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg. "Look what they've don to my beautiful face!" quoth the chancel #StAndrewOldCleeve

Top for tracery from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. If Mouse absolutely positively had to choose just on type of tracery it would be Decorated, flowing, reticulated (with cusped #Ogee lights) #TraceryTuesday

Top of the tiles tree from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. These are very Victorian and doubtless not to everyone (or anyone's?) taste, but somehow they look and feel right in this church #TilesOnTuesday

Mouse's #MouseEyeView...

The top tower from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. Mouse got a lot of raindrops in her eyes taking this one, so if it's wonky Mouse say "soz"

Time for a tower. In fact the top tower from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. A Perpendicular masterpiece, broad and solid, dominating the skyline

Nemesis....

Shiny, shiny, pecky, pecky #PeckyMouseBotherer from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve #AllMetalMonday

Sanctuary....

The most pleasing presbytery from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StAndrewOldCleeve. Still, silent, sacred

The #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast from 2025. Leg four: #EastQuantoxheadToDunster Part B: #StAndrewOldCleeve #StGeorgeDunster

Stillness....

There was only one possible candidate for #MouseFavouritePhoto from #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset

And as #FontsMeanFarewell what of the church of #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset? First impressions can be wrong. This is a church that grew on Mouse and became more fascinating the more she looked. A solid 4/5 #MusVisit🐭🐭🐭🐭

A late entry for the file marked #SurprisedChurches. Perhaps this church is surprised that Mouse is leaving it so soon. Is that a great big tear in her eye? (Panic not, pronouns checked) #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset

'Goblet' style C15 font. Beautifully decorated on each of its eight faces. Surrounded by original high medieval tiles. It doesn't get much better than this #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #FontsOnFriday

Sound of celestial trumpets. A fanfare! Can you believe that after hundreds and hundreds of church scampers this is the very first winchable font cover Mouse ever seen in the wood so to speak? #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #FontsOnFriday

Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset. Some of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the week: third class carriages on the 1850s rail network. Or box pews as they are perhaps more commonly called

Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset. Some of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the week: blocked door to rood stair. Sadly the turret and upper door have been lost (as has the rood loft, of course)

Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset. Some of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the week: cusped hagioscope by the chancel arch giving a teasing little peek at the Eucharist from the south transept

South of chancel #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

Here's a bedtime treat; the thinnest of thin priest's doors. If you ever have trouble sleeping, describe the doorway and moulding, and the style of the door. There are plenty of Mouse examples to work from.

South of nave (interior) #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

Either a coincidence or a designer who really knows their decorative history. Echoes of Norman Romanesque square-set saltire but with an overlaid circle and a Christian wheel hidden inside #Christogram

West of tower #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

Even on this grey day this #WestDoorAndWindowCombo looks lovely. The window, tracery and doorway have a lovely buttery quality which must look striking in actual sunshine

West of tower #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

Filleted and studded planked door in a late C15 style pseudo-4-centred doorway in turn set in a square-headed surround. Ovolo moulding to doorway, although heavily eroded on jambs. Plain spandrels

Porch (interior) #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

It's late but it's never to late for a deep dive into some door loveliness. Typical late C15 pseudo-4-centred arch with hollow moulding housing a (probably) C20 door albeit with fancy schmancy straps.

That moment when you look in the stained glass budget and realise that you're down to the last knockings...

Not quite #JustPlainGlass but almost from #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

South transept #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #Woodensday

Square 3-light window with label and head stops. Fitted C15 into the existing C13 transept wall. Very unusual decoration to the head of each light, incorporating dagggery mouchetty kind of geometry

Porch interior #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #Woodensday

When installed this wagon roof would have matched chancel and nave. The plaster here though has been lost. You can see where the lathe were once attached, the sections the plaster panels filled and the timbers exposed

Porch interior #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #WallsOnWednesday #WallPaintingWednesday

Vacant niche above south door and (above) remnants of what looks like a highly decorated frieze

Chancel #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #Woodensday

Gilt bosses, purlin and rib fillets of the wagon roof. The wall plate is battlemented, richly painted and decorated with gold angels bearing shields monogramed with Chi Rho. Zoom in for tiny flowers and yes, there be dragons

Chancel #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #Woodensday

The chancel has the same wagon roof structure as the nave but the bosses and fillets are picked out in gilt. The ribs have beautiful tiny five petalled flowers painted along them invisible from the ground. Worth zooming in

Nave #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset for #Woodensday

Fine plastered wagon roof with five purlins, bosses at intersections with ribs and decorated wall plate. Ribs and purlins are fillet moulded

The south transept (described as a chapel in the Listing) of #StAndrewOldCleeve #Somerset is gable ended (right). Transept and aisle are separated by a moulded pointed arch, corbelled to the south. The transept has a lathe and plaster rafter roof with low collars #Woodensday