An arch in white and greenish grey marble is topped w a band of decorated marble and stands proud of the wall of the church, resting on columns with Corinthian capitals with lions' heads among the acanthus leaves. The tympanum arch is also decorated with acanthus leaves, resting on the heads of two lions, resting on their paws. In the centre is a tracery circle with 8 arms, each has a small column on which decorative arches perforate the circle. Further wavy and leafy decoration extends around the circle. Under that is a shelf-like feature extending forward with 10 supports. This too is elaborately decorated above and in 4 rows below the 'shelf' with inverted Us, egg-and-dart type decoration, leaves and beading. Below that is the header of the door: a panel featuring six mythical/mysterious scenes, eg a mermaid with a split tail that wraps in a circle over her head, a horse with a human body/head, a lion standing on/biting a ?bull and dragon-like creatures. This rests on Corinthian columns that form the doorway.

#TympanumTuesday
Distinctive decorative detail, + bonus #TraceryTuesday window, w mythical tales told on header of doorway below (see ALT), +++ #tinylions.
The portal w tympanum forms centre of blind arcade circling Lucca's San Michele in Foro: built over #Roman forum 8th C, rebuilt 11th-13th C.

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#TraceryTuesday
Alnwick

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Adam and Eve kneeling before the hand of God, with a bowing donkey/mule? The serpent is also present.

I like the celestial detail at the top. #TraceryTuesday in St Peter's, Daylesford. Clayton & Bell is the firm responsible.

Advice on the scene presented v welcome! @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social

#TraceryTuesday Eve seems to be whisked from Adam quite briskly here, her tresses flying behind her, in this fine Victorian stained glass from St Peter's, Daylesford, Gloucestershire. @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social @beverleystanford.bsky.social

John Henry Dearle for William Morris & Co 1902.

Rugby School Chapel.

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#TraceryTuesday #Oxford

Confusing #TraceryTuesday @Birmingham

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#Woodensday
Alnwick parish church

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Colour meets design in the screen and windows at Chippenham #Wiltshire for #TraceryTuesday

#TraceryTuesday at Christ Church, East Kennett, in keeping with the imminence of Easter. Glass by Burlison & Grylls from 1888.

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Central bay, south transept #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol for #TraceryTuesday

Although this is primarily a Perpendicular church and although this is a panel window it is in the Decorated curvilinear (flowing) style with cusped #Ogee, daggers and quatrefoil in the tracery

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Shilbottle parish church. Cumbria

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Classic Victorian design by Charles Ponting from 1878. Glass by Horwood Bros of Frome. Stunning tiles by Minton, Hollins & Co. At West Overton.
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#Wiltshire

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#TraceryTuesday in Merton College chapel, Oxford.

The East window is outstanding late C13th work, with 7 lights all pointed-trefoil-cusped; the roundel has 12 spokes, with handsome intersecting tracery to the sides.

Beneath, elements of miniature architecture, in sumptuous Decorated style.

Carlisle Cathedral’s East Window was named the Nation’s Favourite Stained Glass Window, in competition organised by the Association of English Cathedrals (AEC). Field was narrowed down from stained-glass window from each of the 42 English Cathedrals, with the top 12 going into the final. Public vote then settled on Carlisle in February 2026. The view is through the choir to the east end, with light shining in on arches to the north. The altar stands before the east window. It is thought to be the work of Ivo de Ragheton, who was also responsible for the west front of York Minster. Over 50 feet high it retains some of its original 14th-century glass in the tracery at the top of the window. In flowing decorated style, that section features the Last Judgement of Christ. In the main section below is the Life of Christ, designed by Hardman & Co and installed in 1861 in memory of Bishop Hugh Percy.

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@carlislecathedral.bsky.social east window has some of finest, most complex, flowing decorated late Gothic tracery anywhere: named UK's fave stained glass window Feb 2026.

Completed by c.1350 in Cathedral rebuilding after disastrous 1292 fire. 56' x 26' w medieval glass in top part.

#TraceryTuesday with the west window at Tintern Abbey on a rainy day,
its glass long disappeared

See more of Tintern in the episode on South Wales >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0a9...

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#traceryTuesday comes from the cloisters of Norwich cathedral

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A treasure of tracery from 1491. Screen, windows, and even the heraldic ceiling. The Bayntun Chapel in Bromham.
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South of Lady Chapel #HolyTrinityBristol for #TraceryTuesday

Decorated 4-light pointed window with cusped lancet lights and plain label. The curvilinear (or flowing) tracery is very fine

#TraceryTuesday East window by Kempe 1905 from St Michael's, Bockleton, Worcestershire.

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