Philip Pankhurst

#SteepleSaturday St Mary, Bramall Lane, Sheffield. A grand Commissioner's church dating from 1830. Severely damaged by bombing in 1940, it now has a new life as a multi-purpose conference centre/church.

Hereford Cathedral : Stained Glass by the Victorian Premier League. North Transept by Hardman, 1864 in a late 13thc window 'marvellously tall'. South Transept Te Deum by Kempe 1894-5 in a window of c. 1400. Kempe's largest single window. 'Parochial' says NP.

#Woodensday St Mary, Hopesay, Shropshire. The nave roof, a fine work from the early 15th century.

#StainedGlassSunday St Lawrence, Lechlade. Yorkist fragments, 'Colourful' Mayer & Co, 1876, 'Excellent' Heaton, Butler & Bayne 1882, A.K. Nicholson (designer G.E.R. Smith) 1932.

#steeplesaturday St Mary, Stratfield Mortimer, West Berkshire. No expense was spared in rebuilding this church in 1869. The architect was Richard Armstrong, who clearly knew what he was doing.

The Toy Princess, 'composer and designer of the perfomance, George (Dadie) Rylands' ran from 27/12/43 to 22/1/44. 29/12 was a Saturday in 1951 - there was an unrecorded panto that year - was it Babes ?

Mark Gibbons, a hero to many who suffer mental ill health in the area, is remembered at Cwmyoy by an inscription on the path up to the church. He is buried on the North side. I had the honour of leading the charity he founded after he could face life no longer. An inspiration I never met, sadly...

I grew up in Sittingbourne, Kent. Right opposite home was the Park Tavern, a small Victorian Shepherd Neame corner pub with a grumpy landlord and few customers. Beer deliveries were by Foden steam lorries. 70+ years on it's still a Neame house and now thriving. Mine host even smiles...

#SteepleSaturday St Peter & St Paul, Howden. The magnificent tower, 135 feet tall. Started by master builder Bishop Skirlaw and incomplete at his death in 1406, the tower dominates the East Riding flatlands and can be seen for miles in any direction, just as the good Bishop intended.

#FontsonFriday St Lawrence, Lechlade. The 15th century font. The bowl is original but the base dates from Frederick Waller's restoration of 1881-2.

#AdoorableThursday St Mary, Shrawley, Worcestershire. The former North door, 12th century with a little G.E. Street tender loving care of 1862.

#AdoorableThursday All Saints, Batchcott, Richards Castle. The exquisite North vestry door - superb late Victorian craftsmanship in iron and stone, to designs by Richard Norman Shaw.

#StainedGlassSunday The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Madley. The East window, with glass from both the 13th and 14th centuries.

#StainedGlassSunday Hereford Cathedral South transept, the magnificent South window. Kempe's largest window, a triumph by John Carter of 1894-5. Curiously Pevsner thought it 'parochial'. His breakfast boiled egg must have been hard and cold that day.

#SteepleSaturday Yate, South Glos. The fine tower of St Mary's, dating from around 1500. It was sensitively restored by W.D. Caroe in 1897-1900. Caroe also provided the lychgate in 1920.

#AdoorableThursday St Mary, Dymock. The South door, with exquisite Tree of Life tympanum. Malcolm Thurlby suggests that it dates from the mid-1120s. Yatton Chapel tympanum is by the same hand MT suggests.

#StGeorgesDay St George, Brinsop - local legend has it the Dragon was slain here. Herefordshire School tympanum, 14th century glass and Ninian Comper bling.

#SteepleSaturday St Peter and St Paul, Weobley, Herefordshire.

Well spotted - Harrowing of Hell is the big feature.

#FontsonFriday St Mary Magdalene, Eardisley. Few equals and none better.

#AdoorableThursday St Mary and St David, Kilpeck. The South door, one of the finest examples of Romanesque sculpture in the country. Dating from after 1134, one unknown man (The Master) was responsible for the finest work at Kilpeck, at Shobdon and the fonts of Eardisley and Castle Frome.

#Woodensday St John the Baptist and St Alkmund, Aymestrey. Rood and parclose screens - 16th century with some restoration by Thomas Nicholson, 1884-6. 17th century pulpit.

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#TympanumTuesday St Mary, Fownhope. The magnificent Herefordshire School tympanum, dating from around 1140 and now brought in from the cold and wet. A world renowned artwork in a Herefordshire village church.

#SteepleSaturday St Peter, Diddlebury. This remarkable Corvedale church displays its Saxon origins in the lower parts of the tower and on the North side. In the village centre and set in an enormous raised churchyard.

#FontsOnFriday There are fonts and there are Herefordshire School fonts - St George, Orleton.

#AdoorableThursday St Mary, King's Pyon. Priest's door and lancet of 13thc. South door, late 12thc. Bonus tablet in the chancel to Sarah and Benjamin Tomkins, the man who did most to transform Hereford cattle from a local specialism into an international breed.

#StainedGlassSunday St Lawrence, Bishopstone, Herefordshire - Imported glass from the Netherlands, dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries and a William Warrington special of 1843.

#SteepleSaturday St Bartholomew, Richard's Castle, just in the shire and All Saints, Batchcott, the 1892 Norman Shaw masterpiece a mile over the border in Salop.

A great pity that the pumps, header tank and pylon didn't survive. The splendidly named Bob Rainbow tried to get it all preserved in 1969, but BR(W) bean counters were not interested. A 15 inch pipe beneath the track supplied Swindon Works from 1903. Apologies for nerdery.