Cambridge University as the Nursing Mother (Alma Mater), holding the Sun and a Chalice, with the motto: From here [comes] Enlightenment and Sacred Draughts. #stoneworksunday (on the Downing Street entrance to University museums)
St Michael and All Angels Lilleshall. Carved font said to have been relocated from Lilleshall Abbey and potentially 10th century.
#fontsonfriday #stoneworksunday
Carved figure of the Virgin Mary from Winchester Cathedral. Dating to the late 15th century, it was once part of the Cathedral’s ‘Great Screen’. Now part of the Cathedral’s ‘Kings and Scribes’ Exhibition. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #WinchesterCathedral
The lierne vault of the north porch #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol #SundayCeilings #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework
The fabulous gilt vaulting of the Lady Chapel ceiling #StMaryRedcliffe Bristol for #SundayCeilings #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework
#Granite Zipper, #sculpture by Chris Miller in #Barre, Vermont. #Stonework #Sundaystonework #stoneworkSunday #art #publicart #photography #streetphotography #eastcoastkin #anzaa #fotografia #piedra #granito #arte #stone
Close up of engraving -so close all you can see are blacks and grays even though it is a color photo. Upright diamond pattern divided into 9 smaller diamonds, each with a round dot in the middle. The corners between the diamond and its rectangular frame are filled with a swirly leaf pattern.
One of the sides from the ‘Jupiter Column’ depicting Lycurgus - a mythological King of Thrace. The Corinthian column capital is from Roman Cirencester, and on display at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #RomanBritain #CoriniumMuseum #Cirencester
Teil eines Frieses aus dem 10. Jahrhundert, der einen Tierkopf darstellt und vom Old Minster in Winchester stammt. Heute Teil der Sammlung des Winchester City Museums. 📸 Eigenes Foto. #StoneworkSunday #SaxonSunday #Winchester
Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: Pulpitum for lovers of the #Ogee everywhere #OgeeLove #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework
(Mouse particularly pleased with this one. First ever total apex alignment - and it's beautiful)
Part of a 10th century frieze depicting the head of an animal from the Old Minster at Winchester. Now part of the collections at Winchester City Museum. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #SaxonSunday #Winchester
Stunning stone screen at St Swithin’s for #StoneworkSunday
Perhaps from Winchester or even Salisbury, wherever this medieval screen came from it is always a great sight in such a small old church.
Compton Bassett #Wiltshire
Figures on piers are 19th C.
Part of a Pictish cross from Latheron in Caithness, depicting a bird (perhaps an eagle) and a fish (National Museum of Scotland). #stoneworksunday
A broad design to the nave, almost like an upside down ship’s hull.
St Andrew’s Church, Roker, Sunderland
1906-7, to a design by E. S. Prior, noteworthy for tiny aisles & broad nave, so as to give clear views to the chancel.
#StoneworkSunday
#Alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday
The shaft of a cross (950-1000) featuring two bearded figures facing each other round a column: #stoneworksunday in the Lindisfarne Museum
The ‘Pilgrim Hare’ from St. Mary’s Church at Beverley in East Yorkshire. Dating to the mid-14th century, the hare is dressed as a pilgrim, hence the title. It is thought that the carving was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Beverley
Mouse say one thing and one thing only... #UberGothic
The Victorian era saved many if not most of England's fine churches but in some there was an architectural price to pay. This arch is part of the price #StGeorgeEastonInGordano #NorthSomerset #StoneworkSunday #SundayStonework
14th century painted stone corbel from Dorchester Abbey in Oxfordshire depicting an angel. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #DorchesterAbbey #Oxfordshire
Carving features beautifully detailed hearts and clovers surrounding face of capital. Stone is worn and weathered with age.
Detail of a stone capital at Mellifont Abbey in Ireland, the first Cistercian monastery in Ireland. St Malachy of Armagh created it in 1142 and was consecrated in 1157. Pic by me #StoneworkSunday
An Angel from the ‘Wirksworth Stone’ - sculptured stonework from St. Mary’s Church at Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Comprising of biblical scenes & figures, the stone dates from the 7th to 9th centuries, and may have originally been used as a coffin lid. 📸 My own #StoneworkSunday
Stone sarcophagus with five scenes from the life of Christ.
Early Christian sarcophagus with five scenes of the life of Christ. Reused as an altar front. The inscription commemorates Saint Marcellus, Pope from 308-309, whose remains may have been placed in the sarcophagus. Formerly in the private collection of Rubens, now RMO Leiden. #stoneworksunday 🗃️🏺
One side of a cloister, with pairs of columns, all with individual, highly decorative capitals. Arches join the pairs of columns along the row - they have a multi-layered zig zag pattern facing the walkway alongside. There is a view through to the adjoining arcaded side of the cloister, also with columns.
4 Write your reply Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social Home Explore Notifications 2 Chat Feeds Lists Saved Profile Settings New Post Search Following Discover Popular With Friends Mutuals Anthropology/Archaeology Latest From Follows More feeds Feedback ∙ Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Help Corner column of cloister, with column featuring four smaller columns springing the corner of a square base, then twisting round the central column to the adjacent corner to the left of the capital above. The smaller columns are headed with a leafy capital, with a square decorated top, on which sits lion of St Mark, with a curly mane and wings, holding a Bible in his paw Corner column of cloister, with column featuring four smaller columns springing the corner of a square base, then twisting round the central column to the adjacent corner to the left of the capital above. The smaller columns are headed with a leafy capital, with a square decorated top, on which sits lion of St Mark, with a curly mane and wings, holding a Bible in his paw. The view through the arcade shows a formally planted herb garden within.
#StoneworkSunday
Cloister of #Medieval Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur d'Aix-en-Provence (built over the #Roman forum) just has the most glorious array of 12th C #SundayStonework.
All time favourite has to be the twisty one at the corner topped with #lion of St Mark the Evangelist though (pls click).
The memorial to Kandylidas, "The Hero", a regular epithet for a deceased man, who is depicted performing a heroic act, here, slaying a serpent. (Dion Archaeological Museum in Macedonia, 2c BC) #stoneworksunday
For #StoneworkSunday here's a few items in the #Ruins of #HaughmondAbbey in #Shrewsbury. #History an Augustinian Abbey.
Medieval carved figure from the Church of St. Mary Magdalene at Geddington in Northamptonshire. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Geddington #Northamptonshire
