Ending the week at #StMaryChepstow with a particularly fierce #PeckyMouseBotherer. Not so much #FerrousFriday more #BrassBriday
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A little something for #RomanesqueRiday. A simple circular arched doorway with arris (framing the C15 font). North-east end of nave #StMaryChepstow
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Fast disappearing quatrefoil relief. Bowl of the #StMaryChepstow font.
The surface is badly eroded and closer inspection does suggest that, what would have been a very finely carved font, has been exposed to the elements #FontsOnFriday
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Curiously skeletal base of the C15 #StMaryChepstow font. Like long bleached bone of a long extinct sea creature #FontsOnFriday
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The C15 font of #StMaryChepstow. Delicately carved and possibly as a result somewhat battered. Like many fonts it does look as if it spent some time in a garden post-Reformation. Blighted by trailing lead. Mouse nemesis #FontsOnFriday #ChurchWiringNightmare
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Mouse find herself straightening photos in other peoples houses (how naughty is that?) so how Mouse fought off the desire to straighten this royal crest is anyone's guess. Victoria. Comic lion and unicorn faces #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi #StMaryChepstow
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Every priory church worth a pinch of snuff should have an ancient clock mechanism. This from #StMaryChepstow, (C18) #FerrousFriday
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And finally from Mouse for the night... A blind arch each side of the west doorway #StMaryChepstow, beautiful in their detail
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Six orders of arch, the innermost roll-moulded and each of the others bearing typical Romanesque decoration. It might not be the biggest but it is certainly one of the most beautiful #StMaryChepstow #AdoorableThursday
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More C19 Romanesque-style with embellishment #StMaryChepstow
Forgiven for the lovely strap and the consecration cross above the door #AdoorableThursday
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North elevation. North transept #StMaryChepstow
An eerie sense of the Romanesque even down to the modillions and oculus but chancel and transepts were built C19 and so look closely and you can see the fine Romanesque style has been parodically over-embellished #AdoorableDoor?
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For obvious reasons Mouse doesn't like hoomans in architecture photos. So Mouse's visit to #StMaryChepstow was frustrating. Gardeners, visitors and signage. Mouse had to give in. She give you the Romanesque elements of the church including beautiful doorway #AdoorableThursday
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The difference between Gothic-Revival and Gothic. All Gothic elements perhaps, but all at once, all in one place #UberGothic #AdoorableThursday #StMaryChepstow
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Nave roof #StMaryChepstow #Woodensday
Showing the typically narrow nave of the post-conquest period, mirroring their narrow tall Saxon predecessors
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Crossing roof #StMaryChepstow #Woodensday
C19. Wonderfully elegant timber structure. Look at the sculptural shape of the wooden supports extending from the corbels. One of the most beautiful roof structures Mouse has seen
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South side #StMaryChepstow
Heavily 'restored' skeleton of the former Priory nave showing arcade arch (below), triforium (middle) and clerestory (top). The triforium arches are pure Romanesque. #WindowsOnWednesday
Follow thread for more #StMaryAisles (4/4)
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South side #StMaryChepstow
Circular arch of the former arcade. Plain circular arch on solid square section piers. The window with hood mould and head stops is a C19 addition when the bay was closed #WindowsOnWednesday
Follow thread for more #StMaryAisles (3/4)
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South side #StMaryChepstow
Three Romanesque circular arches. The arcade of the aisle (lower), triforium arch (middle) and clerestory arch (above). Bays of the arcade were blocked after the removal of the aisle. Lower window is C19
Follow thread for more #StMaryAisles (2/4)
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South side #StMaryChepstow
The north and south aisles were removed late C19. Despite the ragged edge it's not clear if this vestige is original or a rebuild. Either way it shows the relative location of arcade, triforium and clerestory
Follow thread for more #StMaryAisles (1/4)
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Beyond homage. Beyond revival. What amounts to a C19 pastiche of the Romanesque #StMaryChepstow #WindowsOnWednesday
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Some of the fabulous tiles to be found at #StMaryChepstow photographed at what Mouse thought was an artistic angle but turned out to just look like a bad photograph. Bum says Mouse. And that's as rude as Mouse ever gets #TilesOnTuesday
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West tower #StMaryChepstow #TowerTuesday
Lovely corner stair turret (also showing lean-to that houses the Worcester memorial)
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The Reformation destroyed the chancel, the collapse of the crossing tower C18 destroyed the transepts of #StMaryChepstow.
The upper stages of the west tower built C18 as a replacement in a classical style. Note the triangular hood moulds above the square windows #TowerTuesday
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At peace amongst the ubiquitous church folding tables of eternity #MemorialMonday #StMaryChepstow
(OK Mouse could have cropped those out, but Mouse feels you need to know)
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The Worcester memorial mid C16. The memorial is tucked into the westernmost bay of the northern arcade #StMaryChepstow #MemorialMonday
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Closeup of C17 memorial. South elevation, south transept #StMaryChepstow #MemorialMonday
The gentlemen settle down to the popular game of 'slaps' to ease the mourning, no doubt
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Fabulous medieval faces, which form the headstops for the hood mould around the chancel niche #StMaryChepstow
These do appear to be part of the original niche
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Rather lovely C13 niche set in south wall next to altar rail #StMaryChepstow. The chancel is C19 and so this has been salvaged and reset. It retains residue of a coating #MasonryMonday
(Yes. Mouse know the dangly thing is offset from the apex. Yes. It annoy Mouse #ItsNotLinedUp)
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