The doyen for doors and doorways from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StMaryQuantoxhead: South door. You'd be forgiven for thinking the carpenter had only a frail grasp of geometry but the mason made the hole he just filled it #AdoorableThursday

The doyen for doors and doorways from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StMaryQuantoxhead: Detail of south door interior to porch. Fine planked, filleted and studded door. Perpendicular-style pointed panels #AdoorableThursday

The doyen for doors and doorways from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StMaryQuantoxhead: Originally very roughly hewn doorway extensively repaired with more regular dressed stone. The 4-centred head cut in two pieces is a bit wonky #DoorwayThursday

The doyen for doors and doorways from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StMaryQuantoxhead: Cavetto moulded pointed doorway to the south porch. Jambs of Blue Lias, head of sandstone which is kibbled with a margin to the intrados #DoorwayThursday

The finest #FromInsideOut from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg can be found at #StMaryQuantoxhead. The joy of light. The joy of #JustPlainGlass in a church

As #FontsMeanFarewell it's time to move on to review the next and last leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast from 2025. Leg four: #EastQuantoxheadToDunster Part A: #StMaryQuantoxhead #StDecumanWatchet

Reflections of East Quantoxhead...

While Mouse was scrabbling around looking for her favourite photo for the week she realised she'd not tweeted this. Traditional saddle and stanchion window bars but, looking at the patina, possibly not C15 originals #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset

Options abounded and Mouse was still um'ing and ah'ing right up to the wire, but this is the #MouseFavouritePhoto from #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset #ItsAllAboutTheLight

And as #FontsMeanFarewell what of the church of #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset? A beautiful and interesting church, but sadly it's not been maintained in a sensitive way, especially the use of cement mortar. It's still worth 3/5 but turn a blind eye #MusVisit 🐭🐭🐭

The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings...

This tiny pear ring pull with it heart shaped fixing plate is clinging on by a single screw. It needs some love

#StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #FerrousFriday

The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings...

Nail fitted, the circular ring pull fixing plate has little key shapes around the circumference. It's not clear if these are decorative or were designed to act as a real escutcheon
#StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #FerrousFriday

Base of font #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #FontsOnFriday

Opposing octagonal faces top and bottom. Inflexed edges, and concave faces, taper from bottom face to top. Mouse been in the church architecture and sculpture game for a long time. But what's that geometry called?

Decorative detail #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #FontsOnFriday

Square set pointed quatrefoil to each side of font basin (left). Cusped panels to stem. Pigment residue is clearly visible.

Tower arch #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #FontsOnFriday

'Goblet' style font. Octagonal basin, stem and base. Mouse can find no reference to it, but the style and carving suggests early C15. Residual pigment suggests that at some time the font was entirely white

Blocked north door #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #FerrousFriday

Try desperately to screen out the by now familiar cement mortar crime and drink in these medieval drive pintles. Not just a #Pintle, this is #PintleLove

Time for some of Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the week: At last a real one. Mass or scratch dial. The hole didn't hold the original gnomon because, guess what, that's in modern cement mortar

Time for some of Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the week: Grave marker on its own little podium adjacent to the small slit light in the eastern end of the south porch

Time for some of Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the week: #ThingsThatMakeMouseGoHmm. The other side of the tomb and a blocked aperture with label above. If only Mouse had her tape measure

Time for some of Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the week: Chancel through screen. Although a C19 reimagining, this tracery looks C15. It was perhaps originally three #Ogee openwork panels

Time for some of Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share during the week: Let's get the boring neeky one out of the way; fragment of pigmented and battlemented wall plate, south porch (zoom in for woodworm)

It's getting late, but it really can never get too late for a Mouse Thursday favourite, a church gate. What could be more welcoming? #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #IronworkThursday and #Thursgate

This week's #ViewFromTheChurchDoor from #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #DoorwayThursday, incorporating the medieval #StandingCross

Nave. North. Interior #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

Another cement mortar #FictiveMasonry horror story with accompanying criminal pointing. This lovely church is Grade II* listed. Hang your heads in shame mortar-bearing murderers of heritage buildings

Nave. South. Interior #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

South door set in segmental arch. It's really a rather nice planked door, but somebody remembered their lunch box and forgot to bring their compasses in to work when it was made

North of tower #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

Stunning chamfered #Ogee doorway to bell tower with massive monolithic sandstone head (wonky). Wide plank door with studs. Total #OgeeLove for this one.

(Disgraceful, anachronistic cement mortar pointing)

North of nave #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset

Disused, blocked and roughcast this pseudo-4-centred arch and supporting jambs were not born together but united in later life. North door. Blocked. Devil. North wind, yada yada. As usual all we really know is it's just a #DoorNoMore

South door #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset

Detail. A mix of old and new and a mix of square head and rose head nails used as fixings and studs

Right of south door #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset

Former stoop now containing a disused miniature font basin repurposed as a flower pot. It's been lined with cement mortar masquerading as #FictiveMasonry. The same cement is used as pointing. A crime against church architecture

South door #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #AdoorableThursday

Curiously cobbled together chamfered door jambs containing dressed stone of different types and lengths (four blocks top right, a modern repair). A broach is set between the square section of the base and the chamfer

South porch. Interior #StMaryQuantoxhead #Somerset for #DoorwayThursday

Door to nave. Planked, filleted door with pointed heads to panels and Perpendicular-style muntins extending to the door head. Doorway is a chamfered 4-centred arch