Kirsty Hartsiotis

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View from west end of church looking east over hexagonal font towards east window.

A tricky to reach church in #Suffolk is Barnby - sailed past it first, stepdad hovered in the car below second time, while I raced in and snapped - here's a #FontsOnFriday snap, prob C13th bowl with blind-arcading, below rather more modern - and rather zany!

But on the other hand, it was good to see all those churches being used!

Me and my trundling suitcase had a series of disappointments! First St Helen's, then St Andrew nearby (meetings), then the Guild Chapel (actually closed, but tantalisingly having a service, so a quick peek...) but finally St Botolph, Aldgate, and St Mary Moorfields RC were open!

Doorway into St Helen's Bishopsgate, #London, although the church itself wasn't open to visitors, as it was busy with some kind of meeting or course. This door clearly dates from 1633 ... and is where they stash the bins! #AdoorableThursday #NoContextDoors

For #WallPaintingsOnWednesday these lovely c. 1900-20 paintings in St Mary Moorfields RC, #London that @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social has kindly informed me are by George Hyde Pownall, who also decorated St Patrick in Soho.

Hello! So nice to connect, albeit briefly, with you today!

View of a C17th male tomb effigy seen through bars of tomb framework. He has curly hair, a beard and curling moustache, and an enormous ruff!

Peekin' in for #MonumentsMonday to the tomb of Richard de la Bere, d. 1636, at Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire. Possibly made by Samuel Baldwin of Stroud, it cost £400, although it's more ornate than the tombs here: stroudlocalhistorysociety.org.uk/people-places/…

Hello! Great to see you, too. I've been lurking for a while, but trying to get going again.

I've had had Annual Mercury in my Dec and Jan counts for a few years now - growing in pavement cracks in town.

A horrific example in Chipping Campden!

Yes, the baby is ghastly, though maybe not as bad Paul Woodroffe's!

Gotta get a reel of this up on Insta... 😂

Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire Schoolroom above south porch - with paintings said to be by Sperry, the schoolmaster here in 1818 : tiger

It's a great church - and I didn't see everything - check of Rex Harris's photos of the porch room: www.flickr.com/photos/sheep...

stained glass window by James Eadie Reid, c. 1899 showing the shepherds adoring the Virgin and Child, with a host of angels behind, and cherubs in the tracery lights. All in rich colours, predominantly red, blue and mauve. Strange almost grisaille faces.

As always, James Eadie Reid is rather weird! For #StainedGlassSunday, glass by him of c. 1899, when he was first in the area, teaching at #Cheltenham Ladies College, at Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire. Eadie Reid was a superb colourist, but the rendering of his design is rather odd...

Exterior of St Michael and All Angels, Bishop's Cleeve. Limestone building, west end Romanesque, with gothic additions, and a C17th gothic central tower photographed on a very wet day. There's a ladder in the porch door, and two cars parked outside - adding insult to injury for the photographer!

My only outside view of Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire, thanks to the rain, but it does afford us a #SteepleSaturday! Unexpectedly, the tower is from 1699-1700, built after the previous one collapsed in 1696, traditional 'Gothic Survival' says P, by James Hill of Cheltenham.

Romanesque church stone doorway with bands of zig zag ornament, the outer course ending in a dragon and on the side a snake biting it's own tail. Two columns on the door jambs, wooden door.

Suffering for my art - absolutely pouring down in Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire, but a #AdoorableThursday door like this needs to be photographed! I've brightened it slightly so you can see better than I could in the ghastly gloom! #Romanesque and lovin' it...

A bit o' bling to cheer up a cold #January day from St John the Baptist, #Cardiff, from our blingiest friend, Ninian Comper, in the Chapel of the Order of St John, including elephants, camels and other exotica - perhaps the beast of Revelation the most exotic? #Woodensday

It'll be nicer in March - the cafe was quiet because it's at the entrance to the park and the rain of the beginning of Storm Goretti was just starting come down in earnest!

Nope, ate it really fast!

You'd've liked the cake more!

View of cafe floor with empty tables and chairs and Godwin Victorian tiles

An unusual #TilesOnTuesday posy from #Cardiff, somewhat marred by my coat! Not many cafes - this is Brodies Coffee in one of Cardiff Castle's gatehouses, complete with tiles by Godwin's of Lugwardine! Good coffee and a superb cake, too.

Seriously can't wait for this *even though* it is coming to us in Swindon anon!

You were on a hiding to nothing there, I fear! I grew up with Morris dancers, and nothing stops them ... drinking! Well, age gad now slowed them down a bit as those particular ones are all in their 70s now, but I suspect they could all still drink me under the table!

But that sounds fabulous to me!

Why not?

Yay! Love a bit of Morris! Bring it...

#PloughMonday 🌾

GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH 🐎

📍St Bartholomew's Church • Llanover ⛪

#Wales

Stained glass image of a ploughman driving a plough pulled by two white oxen, caught in a roundel of feathery foliage, a detail of a larger design.

'God Speed the Plough!' it's #PloughMonday today, when the ploughmen, having had their ploughs blessed on the Sunday, would go out a-visiting round the houses - but here's a ploughman at work at Ebrington, #Gloucestershire, by Christopher Webb, 1964.

Phew! Getting jittery over there as it's a cesspool once again after a brief period when people seemed to be coming back! Good to see you again, Malcolm - hope you are well?