The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with an impressive organ. Time for #FridayPipes #StAndrewCheddar #StGregoryWeare #StJamesWinscombe
(to see more of each church just click the named #)
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with #GloriousGateage #StLawrenceWestbury #StMatthewWookey #StGregoryWeare #Thursgate
Gates of all shapes and sizes. All with one thing in common. Beauty.
(to see more of each church just click the named #)
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The #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset: Churches with a pleasing #Piscina #StLeonardRodneyStoke #StGregoryWeare #StLawrenceWestbury #StonemasonryMonday
Mouse spoilt for choice but these are lovely examples
(to see more of each church just click the named #)
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Sanctuary
This week Mouse search for the #BestofTheRiverAxeChurches #Somerset. Here are three wonderful places of sanctuary #StJohnBiddisham #StGregoryWeare #StLawrenceWestbury
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The #ScamperDownTheAxe. 16 churches, just 28 miles over 16 weeks. And here they are: #ChurchesOfTheAxe (3 of 4) #StGregoryWeare #StJohnAxbridge #StJamesWinscombe #StAndrewComptonBishop
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The #MouseFavouritePhoto from #StGregoryWeare #Somerset. Because there is something special about finding medieval glass
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And as #FontsMeanFarewell what of the church of #StGregoryWeare #Somerset? A modest church with a less that modest C15 tower and packed full of curiosities and history. Mouse awarding a solid 4/5 #MusVisit 🐭🐭🐭🐭
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Another heinous heritage crime for Mouse to contend with alongside ugly church wiring and signs taped, pinned and blu tac'd to church doors: #CoffeeRingsOnFontCovers
#StGregoryWeare #Somerset
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Wonderful ironwork on font cover, made beautiful by its simplicity #LessIsMore #FerrousFriday #StGregoryWeare #Somerset
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It's been a while but how about some #FridayPipes? Framed by the tall C13 double ovollo tower arch and backlit by fragments of C15 glass set in dagger tracery, this was well worth waiting for #StGregoryWeare #Somerset
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Solid C13 font. Square with chamfered corners on wide circular shaft and square pedestal. Once decorated by the looks of it, of which little remains #FontsOnFriday #StGregoryWeare #Somerset
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The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings #StGregoryWeare #Somerset
SW 1755
Don't you get a little frisson when your hand rests on something 270 years old? Think of the generations that have lifted this latch. Placed a key through this escutcheon. Threads of time reach to us
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A gate reclaimed by nature.
Once welcoming worshippers and now embraced by bramble #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #Thursgate #IronworkThursday
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Chancel. North #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Rather nice filleted door to C19 vestry, east of north aisle. The rere arch has been robbed out from elsewhere. It's a segmental pointed arch and much, much earlier
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Chancel. South (interior) #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Monolithic chamfered 4-centred rere arch resting on jambs with arris. Door not as weather proof as might be hoped
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Nave. South (interior) #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Ledged and filleted door. Single plank construction clearly visible. Rere curiously clumsy an almost-sort-of-pseudo-4-centred arch. Asymmetric. Notice the stone capping the jamb spreading force sideways and down
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Rather curious demi-overthrowy lanterny thing. Mouse never seen one quite like this before. Rather lovely though, isn't it? #IronworkThursday #StGregoryWeare #Somerset
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#Thursgate #IronworkThursday #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Not every sky is blue. But then not all gates are created equal (although Mouse love them equally)
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One for the file marked #SurprisedChurches. Chancel south #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
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West elevation of north aisle #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Door and window combo dating to C19. The masonry tells us that this end (at least) was rebuilt during the renovation to accommodate them. The labels and stops are an abomination beyond human understanding
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South elevation of chancel #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
The monolithic cavetto (hollow) moulded pseudo-4-centred arch is at least 200 years younger than the jambs that support it. Unsympathetically set it probably replaced a chamfered pointed predecessor
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Mouse love a priest's door with a little bridge and this is a corker. Sometimes the poor priest just gets a plank supported by some rubble, but this one had some care and attention #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
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West of tower #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Moulded pointed doorway with (sadly) accompanying #ChurchWiringNightmare. The roll moulded label may be later. The large blocks as stops probably were intended to be carved heads. Maybe the money ran out. Not unusual.
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South porch interior #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #AdoorableThursday
Wonderfully smoothly carved chamfered single centred arch on continuous jambs. The Listing shows as C12. Single planked, filleted, studded door. Odd hybrid relieving arch. Shame about bright white light switches
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The rather rough hewn chamfered pointed doorway of #StGregoryWeare #Somerset #DoorwayThursday
The clues in the masonry rather suggest that this original doorway has been re-set in a C15 or later rebuilt porch
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Nave. South #StGregoryWeare #Somerset
C15 Square (headed) 3-light window with cusped pointed lights and pierced glazed spandrels #WindowsOnWednesday
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The church of #StGregoryWeare #Somerset is unusual in the uniformity of its windows. More unusual still in that the north and south windows are all square headed.
C15 Square (headed) 2-light window with cusped #Ogee lights and pierced glazed spandrels #WindowsOnWednesday
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