The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Loose ends. Churches with truly wondrous windows #FromInsideOut #StCongarBadgworth #StPeterBleadon #StMatthewWookey
Sometimes #JustPlainGlass is all you need
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with a #FabbyFont #StCongarBadgworth #StAndrewCheddar #StAndrewComptonBishop #FontsOnFiday
Mouse favour fonts from the High Medieval rather than elaborate Perpendicular
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with outstanding overthrows on their gates #StJohnBiddisham #StLeonardRodneyStoke #StCongarBadgworth #Thursgate #IronworkThursday
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Pleasing pulpits #StAndrewCheddar #StPeterBleadon #StCongarBadgworth #SundaySermons
The #ScamperDownTheAxe. 16 churches, just 28 miles over 16 weeks. And here they are: #ChurchesOfTheAxe (2 of 4) #HolyCrossMark #StMaryWedmore Chapel Allerton #AllertonChurch #StCongarBadgworth
Unusually there isn't a stand out beautiful photograph from the church of #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset as a #MouseFavouritePhoto, but somehow this captures something of the essence of this interesting church
And as #FontsMeanFarewell what of the Church of #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset? This is another really fascinating church. A church of lime coatings, curiosities and stunning Perpendicular-style windows. Mouse awarding another very solid 4/5 #MusVisit 🐭🐭🐭🐭
Unusually #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset is making two entries. The nave looks like it got caught off guard too #SurprisedChurches
So surprised that one eye is bigger than the other. The chancel #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset vying for a top ten finish in the county #SurprisedChurches play-offs. Surprised by the amount of junk left lying about, no doubt
It's late. But it's never too late for a font....
What Mouse calls a 'goblet' font. Undecorated on four clustered shafts with fused pedestals. C13 Mouse be bound #FontsOnFriday #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset
Priests door (interior) #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Sitting in its segmental pointed rere arch this poor door is still waiting to have its repair stained to match
There's definitely something about peering through a doorway. A glimpse of something beyond, perhaps. Outside of here. There.
Fabulous C16 pseudo-4-centred wooden doorway from north chapel to nave #DoorwayThursday from #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset
It's after dark. How about one for the slender but growing file marked #PintlesInAction? It's funny what Mouse obsessed with.
Upper #Pintle and #Gudgeon combo. Old. Very, very old. South door to nave #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Tracery and door fittings. Door from south porch to nave #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
The tracery relief has a wonderfully quirky irregularity and asymmetry to it. In a flowing Decorated style, it actually looks like the left hand side is squished up
The first sight of #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset is gorgeous through wrought iron gate with kisser and swooping #Ogee overthrow. You just know you're in for a treat from the get go #Thursgate #IronworkThursday
The #BadgworthChurchDoorTour (5/5): Priests door. Chancel. South #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset
Journey's end. Solid Victorian masquerading as Early English. Typical C19 #UberGothic descending into pastiche with exaggerated decoration and oversized foliate stops #AdoorableThursday
The #BadgworthChurchDoorTour (4/5): West door #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset
Typical C18 Neo-Classical. Segmental arch with keystone sitting on square section jambs and capitals. Not usually Mouse's taste to say the least but this is rather pleasing to the eye #AdoorableThursday
The #BadgworthChurchDoorTour (3/5):West tower to stair turret #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset
Chunky Early English chamfered pointed doorway bearing traces of lime coating and paint. Single plank door decorated by two pointed arches extending from centre fillet #AdoorableThursday
The #BadgworthChurchDoorTour (2/5): South porch to nave #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset
The enduring nobility of the pointed arch. A Mouse favourite. C13 doorway holding wonderful dark door with Decorated-style tracery head. Probably C16 #AdoorableThursday
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For a small(ish) church #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset is another offering up a positive #Doornucopia of delights. Join Mouse on a #BadgworthChurchDoorTour (1/5): South porch.
C14 doorway. C19 door sadly bearing scars of the curse of signage #SignOnAchurchDoor #AdoorableThursday
Fleur de Lis (detail) #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
North chapel interior #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
The cusped rere with pierced spandrels is impinged upon by the C19 barrel roof and although there was a C19 trend for inserting these, this may well be the real thing
North of nave. West end #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
Rather lovely square headed 2-light window with cusped lights and glazed spandrels set in a pointed segmental rere arch. Sadly totally obscured externally by the brutalist porch of the north chapel
Let's just stare lovingly at this window, shall we?
#FromInsideOut #JustPlainGlass #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset
North of north chapel #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
Square (headed) 3-light window. Label with square stops. Cusped #Ogee lights. Pierced glazed spandrels. Typical of C15, but probably actually dating to the C16 modifications
East of north chapel #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday #WallsOnWednesday
You can feel the centuries in this Decorated period 2-light window set in the coated wall of the chapel
South elevation of chancel #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
Segmental pointed 3-light window. Thin keeled label with foliate stops. Cusped #Ogee lights. Tracery in the flowing Decorated style although wider segmental arches tend to be more associated with C15
Three distinct tracery designs, all in the Decorated flowing style. Chancel #StCongarBadgworth #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday
Although Mouse was reasonably convinced that the east window was at least in part an original window, these are C19 copies of the Decorated style
