You'll find plenty of examples of Somerset towers on Mouse's #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast and #ScamperDownTheAxe. The church of #StPeterPortishead being one very fine example🐭

The church fonts of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg are predominantly Norman which is unusual and made choosing the best very hard. This much-damaged volute decorated cushion capital bowl at #StPeterPortishead #FontsOnFriday is a winner though

Thursday wouldn't be Thursday without a #DoorInMidAir. The rood loft may be long gone, but the rood stair has found a new role here at #StPeterPortishead. The #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast for #DoorwayThursday

One terrific tower. The winner in the tower category for the #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare leg of the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast is #StPeterPortishead. A tall and slender 4-stage tower with set back buttresses, string courses, pierced parapet and soaring pinnacles #TowerTuesday

A look back at the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast. Leg one: #PortisheadToWestonSuperMare Part A; #StPeterPortishead #StPeterWestonInGordano #StAndrewClevedon

While Mouse waiting for better weather for #ChurchChomping, there's time for a review the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast so far. From #StPeterPortishead to #StGeorgeDunster, seven months, 60 miles, 23 churches. But which ones does Mouse recommend? #SteepleSaturday

It's all about the tower. The #MouseFavouritePhoto from #StPeterPortishead #Somerset had to celebrate this fabulous Perpendicular masterpiece

And as #FontsMeanFarewell, what of the church of #StPeterPortishead #Somerset? This church is all about the tower and, although it has some interesting features, there isn't much to engage anyone with an interest in church architecture. Mouse awarding a solid 3/5 #MusVisit 🐭🐭🐭

A toot on the old #FridayPipes #StPeterPortishead #Somerset

The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #FerrousFriday

Mounted on a more modern door, screwed and not studded and too close together even, but still beautiful

"One minute you're balancing an ashlar on your head. The next minute... nothing"

The fabulous expression of a #Spolia head embedded in the chancel wall. He probably once had quite a few friends #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #FridaysFacesInStone

My best side? C11 Norman Romanesque font with heavy bowl and thick shaft. Not the most elegant but feel the centuries #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #FontsOnFriday

More likely than not this lovely volute pattern was repeated on all four sides of the #StPeterPortishead #Somerset font, but even this side is much repaired #FontsOnFriday

Head stop (right) and vestige (left). Probably mid-C14 as is the style of the doorway #FridaysFacesInStone (part the second) from #StPeterPortishead #Somerset

These head stops are so pristine that Mouse thinks they are C19 additions, but then there is the distinct possibility that some or even all of the doorway dates to the same period #FridaysFacesInStone (part the first) from #StPeterPortishead #Somerset

Fabulous Tudor doorway framing a delightfully patinaed planked and fileted door. It's a shame about the plywood addition at the base #AdoorableThursday from #StPeterPortishead #Somerset

Sometimes a gate just catches your eye. In the precincts of #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #Thursgate #IronworkThursday

"Well, that's wagon packed up wit tools, Edmund"
"Reckon we remembered to do everything, Aldo?"

The uneven blocks of stone at the apex and ends of the label probably should be carved. You see this occasionally and now you know why #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

The mismatched masonry east of the nave may hold the key to the mystery of the incorrectly placed rood turret. This and the blocked priest's door suggests that the nave was lengthened and the chancel shortened at some time #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #AdoorableThursday (2/2)

The Listing claims that the rood stairs were repurposed to provide an ingenious route to the C16 pulpit. The stairs are set into the small external turret but these doors are too far up the nave to be rood stairs #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #AdoorableThursday #DoorInMidair (1/2)

Blocked priest's door south of chancel (interior) #StPeterPortishead #Somerset

It's a terrible photo, but it's here for completeness #DoorwayThursday #AdoorNoMore A thread (Part 3 of 3) #OgeeLove

The east wall of the nave impinges on the #Ogee chancel priest's door (cut back to reveal to end of the label and head stop) #StPeterPortishead #Somerset

This suggests that the end of the nave has been (at least) rebuilt #DoorwayThursday #AdoorNoMore A thread (Part 2 of 3)

Fabulous redundant and blocked priests door to the south of the chancel #StPeterPortishead #Somerset

Low moulded ogee with finialed label and (residual) head stops. Very finely carved and unusual too #DoorwayThursday #AdoorNoMore A thread (Part 1 or 3)

East elevation of north aisle #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

The #Ogee door is modern but Mouse can't make up her mind about the provenance of the doorway. Square set, heavily moulded with an interesting hollow moulded motif to the spandrels. Is it #UberGothic?

West of tower #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #AdoorableThursday

Lovely moulded pointed tower door with plain label

Apart from the wholesale replacement of this Perpendicular-style 3-light window (cusped pointed lights, panel tracery), much tinkering has gone on east of the nave of #StPeterPortishead #Somerset as witnessed by the suddenly chaotic masonry #WallsOnWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday

Even in the Perpendicular period breaking the 6P principle can lead to a sense of a job unfinished. Perhaps where the walls don't line up and coursed, dressed stone gives way to rubble fill and your porch impinges on your window #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #WallsOnWednesday

Variants of square Perpendicular windows crop up in various incarnations across #StPeterPortishead #Somerset. A form of window Mouse rather likes. This a 3-light window with cusped #Ogee lights, glazed spandrels and label with original head stops #WindowsOnWednesday

East elevation of #StPeterPortishead #Somerset #WindowsOnWednesday

Shows west tower, chancel (left) and north aisle. Mouse has rather cheekily chopped off the ghastly vestry sort of returning the scene to close to its C15 glory. Windows: Decorated-style and Perpendicular (right)

By way of a little #TimelineSorbet, the beautiful chancel roof of #StPeterPortishead #Somerset for #Woodensday

Pierced semi-circular trusses with carved bosses at their intersection with the collar purlin. Close set rafters supported by long ashlars to a carved wall beam. Nice