The end of the road for the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast. Four legs, 22 churches, four very different winners. All special, all beautiful, but which takes the crown? #StPaulKewstoke #StMaryEastBrent #StMartinFiddington #StGeorgeDunster...
So which of the churches comes top of the pile from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg? Another tough choice but for the sheer beauty of the interior and the finest C15 rood screen it has to be #StGeorgeDunster. A truly lovely church in a lovely town
Most impressive #DoorInMidAir from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. Once giving access from the stair turret to the top of a screen between quire and crossing. Probably a rood loft. And chamfered #Ogee headed too #AdoorableThursday
This roof is the winner from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg by a Somerset mile. Even though it is the skeleton of a once wagon roof it is an impressive structure in its own right #StGeorgeDunster #WoodensDay
Section of the rood screen from #StGeorgeDunster. Hard to believe it's carved from wood. The canopy vaulting is exquisite incorporating daggers and quatrefoil. A C15 masterpiece. Thank the Great Mouse it survived #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster #WoodensDay
Not just the finest screen dividing nave from quire from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg but the finest Mouse has yet seen, extending across the width of the church. Worth a visit just for this alone #StGeorgeDunster #WoodensDay
In for a rough knight...
"Out on the mead and come home legless again Oswald!"
"Nought but a few flagons. It's quite 'armless" #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. Iconoclasts and their chisels at work again #MemorialMonday
Direct from the Vienetta School of stone masonry. The #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. If it's worth making a bad joke once, it's worth making it twice. Just ask Bob Monkhouse. They're not laughing now (niche) #MemorialMonday
Excellent for effigies (and magnificent memorials) on the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. If this is your thing, then this is the church to visit. Family memorial in the south chapel #MemorialMonday
The most pleasing porch from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg: #StGeorgeDunster. It may have been raining all day but the sun came out for this wonderful Perpy porch; diagonal buttresses, battlemented and pseudo-4-centred arch. Mousey swoon
The #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast from 2025. Leg four: #EastQuantoxheadToDunster Part B: #StAndrewOldCleeve #StGeorgeDunster
While Mouse waiting for better weather for #ChurchChomping, there's time for a review the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast so far. From #StPeterPortishead to #StGeorgeDunster, seven months, 60 miles, 23 churches. But which ones does Mouse recommend? #SteepleSaturday
Well. That's it Ladles and Jellyspoons. Late on Friday and Mouse going home to put her paws up and take a break from the demands of social media. Just for the weekend. She leave you with these enigmatic faces and an eerie silence...
#FridaysFacesInStone #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset
South aisle #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset
Deeply carved octagonal font and tall openwork octagonal cover. The first of this kind of cover Mouse has seen in the wood (so to speak). The font is C15, the cover anything between C16 and C19 depending on who you read
The modern framed by the ancient. Pretty elaborate organ showcased by the exquisite and detailed architectural carving of the screen. It's sometimes difficult to believe that this is wood and was shaped over 500 years ago #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset for #FridayPipes
The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings
If the south door is late medieval or early modern as it looks, then this combined pull and escutcheon is a much later addition. The slotted screwheads tell all. Somewhat shonkily fitted too #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset for #FerrousFriday
Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: One of a surprisingly small number of memorial tablets, but a beauty nonetheless
Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: Archway, south transept to south chapel (with brattished parclose pediment detail). Most curious clustered shafts, like pipework. Never seen the like
Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: The crossing roof. Modern but very pleasing to the eye
Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: The intersections between purlins and every fourth curved collar bears a carved boss. The space marked out by these would have been panelled
Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: The nave roof. Another wagon roof stripped back to its underlying timbers, which seems to be such a feature in these Somerset churches
Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: One for #AdventAngels, the long vacated and steadily eroding niches of the south transept, their angels melting into oolitic oblivion
To the north of the priory church of #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset lay the cloister and then the domestic buildings of the priory, including this fine dovecote
Another #DoorInMidAir from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset
This shows that a rood loft (and screen) once separated the choir arch from the crossing. It's interesting that this was lost while the more substantial choir screen across the width of the church survived
Hard to get the right angle, but the left photo shows the door used to access the top of the C15 screen, which suggests that it once housed a rood. To the right the stair turret, unusual as it positioned within the length of the nave #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset #DoorInMidAir
South elevation of south transept #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday
Unlike the doorway, the door seems to be of no great age. The straps, pull and escutcheon seem to tell a different story, roughly made and secured with rose nail studs. An authentic restoration?
Gateway to south transept #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset for #Thursgate
The head is probably not in situ, but it's a fine 4-centred arch with #Ogee label
The wonderful town of Dunster is dominated by castle and church. Wherever you are you will get even the smallest glimpse of the church or both. Here from the charming Community Garden #GlimpseOfStGeorgeDunster #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset
