The #MouseFavouritePhoto from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset is this fine tierceron vault. It didn't really face much competition this week, but it would stand out in any company

And as Mouse move on, what of the church of #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset? This is a fine Perpendicular church but if Mouse honest (she always is), there is little to distinguish it from any other of its ilk. A solid 3/5 from Mouse #MusVisit 🐭🐭🐭

Don't get too excited Ladles and Jellyspoons, this is a (albeit good and restrained) Victorian copy of a C15 octagonal font and cover #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #FontsOnFriday

[Octagonal pyramid cover with moulded ribs, cusped panels and a fairly hefty finial]

South porch (interior) #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #FridaysFacesInStone

Four head corbels supporting the tierceron vault. Probably Victorian, like their counterparts on the porch doorway. There is something Sci-Fi like and disturbing about the blank staring eyes

South porch doorway #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #FridaysFacesInStone

These are Victorian replacements for (what could have been) original head stops. You can clearly see the lines where the stops have been cut in. The faces are also very modern

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share during the week: Mouse has never seen this before, but the buttresses across the church are sequentially numbered. "Pourquoi?" pense Mouse

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share during the week: Fabulous C13 tierceron vault set against a gorgeous vermillion. Repainted but perhaps still the original colour

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share during the week: Ancient grave markers found in the porch, often the last resting places of these funereal slabs in churches

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share during the week: Signature Mouse

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share during the week: Common rafter nave roof of eight bays with pierced trusses resting on carved stone corbels dating to C19 and some fine C18 brass candle chandeliers

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share during the week: Aisle panel roof dating to C17. Panels are divided into quadrants containing a foliate cross resembling most closely the cross patonce

Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share during the week: the chancel is full of super-sized monuments alas inaccessible because it was also full of furniture. A taste from the church and a C18 candle chandelier

A #ViewFromTheChurchDoor from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset

For this symmetry loving mus the doorway is curiously offset but Mouse suppose that the double chamfered pointed doorway and quatrefoil mesh protector gate kind of offsets that #Thursgate #IronworkThursday

It's not just west towers where you might find a door and window combo...

Window and door flanked by substantial buttresses with coped offsets #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

If Shakin' Stevens is to be believed you'd find an old piana behind this unusually vibrant verdant portal (niche)...

Now redundant but not yet walled up north door to the aisle #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

Fine #WestDoorAndWindowCombo from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset

All early to mid-C17, the tower rebuilt after a collapse. The builders of the new tower weren't risking a repeat, fitting monster-sized set back buttresses just in case #AdoorableThursday

South porch (interior) #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset

Heavily moulded pointed doorway with label and carved square stops holding a rather fine planked, filleted and ledged door #DoorwayThursday #AdoorableThursday

South porch #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset

If the pointed doorway with fleurons in the cavetto moulding (very C15), label, head stops and vacant niche above aren't lovely enough then check out the quatrefoil mesh of the protector gate #DoorwayThursday #Thursgate #IronworkThursday

South aisle #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset

#FromInsideOut #JustPlainGlass

South porch (east) #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday

Victorian. A matching window is inserted to the west. Rather charming 2-light Perpendicular-Style window with cusped pointed lights and strong mullions

Time for a rather extended #NerdyMouseAlert from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #WallsOnWednesday: Look away now if you don't like minute technical detail #KeynshamChancel Part IV of IV: Blocked Early English pointed windows. The remaining window is a later Victorian insertion

Time for a rather extended #NerdyMouseAlert from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #WallsOnWednesday: Look away now if you don't like minute technical detail #KeynshamChancel Part II of IV: Tiny pent roof over the projection allowing space for the rood stair (east of north chapel)

Time for a rather extended #NerdyMouseAlert from #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #WallsOnWednesday: Look away now if you don't like minute technical detail #KeynshamChancel Part I of IV: The fun of piecing together historical changes to a church through clues etched in the walls

The mid to late C17 English Renaissance style pulpit #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset

Some of you might realise that the church is now sponsored by a well known hotel chain (well, you would if you've ever slept there) #SundaySermons

West window through tower arch #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #StainedGlassSunday

South aisle, west elevation #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset for #StainedGlassSunday

A church of considerable scale with tower, 8-bay nave and chancel, north and south aisles and south porch. There are some examples of above average Victorian glass to be seen of which this is one

Gloria!...

The church of #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset is open! But also it's been hired out which restricts the photography and means everything is photographed upwards. Just not Mouse's month...
#StainedGlassSunday

The rather lovely and somewhat squat C15 south porch of #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset

Rubble construction with diagonal buttresses and small, now vacant, niche that once would have held an effigy of the patron saint. But is it open? Can Mouse pop in for a poke? That's the question

Welcome to the church of St. John the Baptist in Keynsham Somerset. The church is Perpendicular but has C13 origins and is much changed and restored since. Seemingly stranded on a traffic island surrounded by modern development #StJohnKeynsham #Somerset #SteepleSaturday