Lovely blue and gold clock face above a fine #WestDoorAndWindowCombo #HolyTrinityAbbotsLeigh #NorthSomerset for #AdoorableThursday
As an aside the dressing of the stone has a C19 feel although it's dated to mid-C15. Quite unlike the rubble fill of near neighbour #StMaryPortbury
It is. St. George Easton In Gordano. Mouse can't recall one quite like it so it's a shame it got curtailed. It is contemporaneous to and similar in style to this tunnel arch at #StMaryPortbury, which in turn is very different from everything else in that church
The church of #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset is in many ways defined by its windows and the quality of light and so it seems fitting that this is the #MouseFavouritePhoto for this week
And as #FontsMeanFarewell, what of the church of #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset? This is a true gem with fascinating architecture and much history yet to be understood. Don't just drive by on the M5, visit and donate. Mouse awarding a #MusVisit of a strong 4/5 🐭🐭🐭🐭🐭
Norman font #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset. Abused but beautiful
Basin based on a square section capital with central scallop and half scallops either side. Thick cylindrical stem resting on a collar. Rough spurs extend to the corners of square base #FontsOnFriday
Head stops above C13 window. Both the quality of the carving and the facial appearance suggest that these faces are separated not just by the label but by several centuries #FridaysFacesInStone #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset
Time for another #NerdyMouseAlert, look away now if you don't want minute technical details. Where an arris meets a chamfered edge you may find a bridge or broach to soften the join. This tiny cushion capital with shaft and shaft ring is Romanesque #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset
These are more likely than not original C12 carvings now #Spolia set into the north chancel wall. They would have been part of a corbel table external to a building. External because one or both of these represents the Devil #FridaysFacesInStone #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset
Bunting and fairy lights around the Norman Romanesque arch of #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset. The inner order is clearly C12, but if Mouse honest (she always is) she a bit suspicious of the provenance of the decorated orders. Nice though. #RomanesqueRiday (thanks Rufus)
As promised earlier (in Mouse's timeline) some of the medieval grisaille from the window tracery, in this case bearing a family crest #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset
One for the file marked #SurprisedChurches.
The chancel of #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset is surprised by how tight that clasping buttress is. "It's making my eye water" yells the chancel
Piscina and sedilia under the curtailed chancel window. Now there's an architectural puzzler for you...
#StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset
South aisle, west elevation #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset. The windows in this church are a gift that just keeps on giving. The tracery here contains medieval grisaille so faint that it is barely visible. Another example coming up #JustPlainGlass
South aisle, south elevation, east #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset. Perfect 3-light Perpendicular window above C13 piscina and sedilia. Probably Mouse's favourite photo for a long time #FromInsideOut #JustPlainGlass
Wonderful 5-light window with cusped stepped lights. South aisle, east #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset #JustPlainGlass
At last the wonderous windows of #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset, in chronological order (approximately), part E: north chantry. Chancel east. Pointed 3-light with cusped #Ogee lights. Richly moulded mullions. Plain label and stops. Perpendicular-style. Mid C15 (or Victorian copy)
At last the wonderous windows of #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset, in chronological order (approximately), part D: south aisle. Square 3-light window with cusped pointed lights, cusped panel tracery and moulded label with plain stops. Perpendicular period. Mid C15. A Mouse fave
At last the wonderous windows of #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset, in chronological order (approximately), part C: south east of chancel. Pointed 3-light window with cusped lancet lights. Decorated period. Geometric tracery. Early C14. Curtailed to fit sedilia hence sandstone cill
At last the wonderous windows of #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset, in chronological order (approximately), part B: south west of chancel. Pointed 3-light window with cusped lancet lights. Decorated period. Early C14. Wall rebuilt at some time and window reset with relieving arch
At last the wonderous windows of #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset, in chronological order (approximately), part A: north chantry, west end of chancel. Three chamfered stepped pointed lights with common label (hood mould). Early English C13
From nave to south arcade #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset
The double chamfered pointed arches of the aisles with their freestone relieving arches are truly beautiful. Left, framing the top of C13 #Sedilia and #Piscina with early C15 3-light window above
Perpendicular 3-light pointed window with cusped lights. Tracery of two cusped panels surmounted by a pointed quatrefoil. West of tower #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset for #TraceryTuesday
Perhaps unusually the church of #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset preserves its parvise room and the stair turret providing space within the wall for the stone spiral staircase. And a #TinyWindow or two too #TowerTuesday #TinyWindowTuesday
When you take #AlookAroundTheBack you often see a church's untidy side. At #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset you also get to appreciate the amazing height of the aisle and see coped clasping buttresses into the bargain. Quite unusual on both counts
Time for a #NerdyMouseAlert (new #), look away now if you don't want minute technical details. Spur at the base of each of the aisle pier corners. Small half moulding above (what is normally) a curved surface. Often seen as a detail on C13 masonry #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset #StonemasonryMonday
Probably once a stoup and possibly reset. South inner wall of south aisle #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset #StonemasonryMonday. Lovely #Ogee with cavetto moulding decorated with primitive fleurons, typical of C15. Rather lovely and Mouse not seen this particular design elsewhere
Restored C13 #Piscina, attached to a #Sedilia. The bowl and credence shelf having been smashed, probably in this case during the English Reformation. Beautifully carved chamfered trefoil with nook shafts and moulded capitals #StMaryPortbury #NorthSomerset #StonemasonryMonday
