#TheBestOfSalisburyToTheSea gates: #StMaryHale #Hampshire #Thursgate #IronworkThursday #GloriousGateage
This simple white gate with gold boss is the perfect example of Mouse's favourite #LessIsMore. Simple and as a result visually appealing
Against Mouse's better judgement, no celebration of #TheBestOfSalisburyToTheSea would be complete without the best #PeckyMouseBotherer. Be afraid, be very afraid #StMaryHale #Hampshire #Woodensday
As Mouse settle in her favourite chair with cheese and nice big glass of Prosecco it's time to review the Avon churches, Salisbury to Christchurch. Three counties. 26 miles. Nine churches. #StMaryAlderbury #StLaurenceDownton #StMaryHale Follow: #SalisburyToTheSeaChurches (1/3)
Fabulous sarcophagus #PawsNclaws on the mahoosive south transept memorial #StMaryHale #Hampshire #StMaryHaleMemorials (6/6) #ThingsMouseLove
One minute the lord of the manor, the next he goes all Nero on you #StMaryHale #Hampshire #StMaryHaleMemorials (5/6)
Commemorating a man with no sense of proportion? This memorial is shoehorned into the south transept of #StMaryHale #Hampshire but then this is the owner of the manor who refurbished the church and was responsible for thee cluttered west end of the nave #StMaryHaleMemorials (4/6)
If there's one thing that the church of #StMaryHale #Hampshire isn't short of it's very fine church memorials. A selection of memorial tablets #StMaryHaleMemorials (1/6)
Simple things. Simple pleasures. Chancel tiles #StMaryHale #Hampshire. Because sometimes, just sometimes #LessIsMore
Mouse NEMESIS #StMaryHale #Hampshire
They may be noble. They may bear The Word on their mighty wings, but they will always be a pecky mouse-botherer to Mouse #PeckyMouseBotherer
Single lights to south (left) and north sides of chancel #StMaryHale #Hampshire. By Mayer and Co. of Munich and to Mouse really quite beautiful #StainedGlassWindow
East of chancel #StMaryHale #Hampshire
Simple. But one of Mouse's favourite windows #LessIsMore #StainedGlassWindow
Chancel #StMaryHale #Hampshire
Where the exterior of this church squeezes too much is to please the eye, the chancel is simplicity itself. A place for quiet reflection. The light was perfect when Mouse visited with a warm glow emanating from the south window
South elevation of the south transept #StMaryHale #Hampshire
An example of the C18 work in Portland stone. Aiming for that beautiful Neo-Classical look and from Mouse's point of view hitting a barn door
The church of #StMaryHale #Hampshire is well regarded for its architecture but to Mouse any one of these features would be fine on its own but this is just all too squished in to be in any way visually appealing
Moss and lichen and falling leaves. Just one of those quintessentially English feeling scenes from yesteryear The #Lychgate of #StMaryHale #Hampshire #ThingsMouseLove
Welcome to the truly curious concoction that is the church of St. Mary in Hale. Medieval flint rubble encased in ironstone C17 with Portland transepts added C18 alongside facing of the ends and some dressing #SalisburyToTheSea #StMaryHale #Hampshire
