Heather Knight

Oak door in Wells Cathedral with decorative iron hinges and scroll work.

Detail of the iron scroll work.

View of the open door with a second door beyond.

A 13th-century oak door in Wells Cathedral for #ADoorableThursday

A jumble of stained glass fragments forming abstract patterns in a window in a side chapel at Wells Cathedral.

The window made from a jumble of salvaged stained glass fragments above the altar in a side chapel.

I do too. One of the side chapels at Wells Cathedral has a window entirely made from salvaged glass.

Colourful Victorian stained glass featuring a cute snail surrounded by bright green foliage and pink flowers.

Ay, of a snail, for though he
comes slowly, he carries his 
house on his head..

As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 1

Glass at St Mary Edstaston

#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday #snailsonsunday

The Jesse window with vivid green, yellow, red and blue glass depicts a family tree, Jesse being the father of King David.

Four small fragments of orange glass reset in a plain glass diamond. The window looks out on to a lawn and the cathedral buildings.

The 14th century Jesse Window at Wells Cathedral and small fragments of broken glass salvaged and reused. #StainedGlassSunday

Gurney Manor, cream coloured render stone and timber building with a tiled roof.

Gurney Manor and its reflection in the mill stream.

My husband leaning over the gallery in one of the bedrooms.

The dining room with a long oak table and chairs, a sideboard along the back wall with two lamps, balloons and a happy birthday banner.

Back from a week staying at Gurney Manor in Somerset celebrating my husband’s birthday. The house belongs to Landmark Trust and it’s been on the wish list to stay there for a long time.

Dr Paul Wilkinson of SWAT (Swale and Thames Survey) Archaeology ‘Archaeology has suddenly exploded in the last few months because of the government’s drive to build more homes,’ says Dr Paul Wilkinson of SWAT (Swale and Thames Survey) Archaeology.

What an interesting & fabulous life described here about Dr Paul Wilkinson resident in #Faversham Lots to learn.

#Archaeology #Sailing #FavershamPort

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Archaeologists stunned 😲

Archaeologists stunned 😲

Archaeologists baffled 🤔

Archaeologists baffled 🤔

Betwixt being forever baffled and stunned

It's exhausting being an archaeologist

The deadline for the Archaeological Achievement Awards has been extended, which means there’s still time to nominate! 🏆

That colleague who’s smashing it? The TikTok creator sparking a conversation? The project changing lives? Don’t let them go unrecognised!

Closing noon 10/09👉 shorturl.at/6q5bx

@archaeobears.bsky.social this looks interesting. Roman #BoxOfficeBears

It is beyond belief to be fair - would construction industry leaders represent their profession this way?? I think definitely not!!!

This will be very useful and I have yet to read it fully but my first moan is about the front cover image 🙄

Why are the archaeologists sitting on mud, with only partial PPE? I see they’re ‘enjoying a tea break’ so why not in a clean cabin with full facilities? This looks hugely unprofessional 😩

Totally agree!!!

Hop bines decorating the front of a timber framed house in Faversham.

The cover of the Hop Festival programme

A black and white photo of the excavated remains of a sea going cargo boat.

The hops are up for the #Faversham Hop Festival.

Archeaeobotanical evidence of hops was found in the Graveney Boat, a sea going cargo boat dated c AD 900, uncovered in the estuary mud not far from Faversham in 1970.

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You are just teasing us now! Very much looking forward to reading your #CurtainBook and, in the meantime, the next enticing snippet!!

Guided walk-Faversham Creek in wartime and Pollocks Shipyard-11am 17th September.
As part of the Maritime Heritage Trust Open Day learn about the importance of the Pollocks Shipyard and it's work in World War II. Free for Faversham Society members, otherwise £5.
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The Faversham Society's Summer Time Stroll - Walking with History, 6pm 3rd September. This is the final chance for an evening walk while the light still allows to discover more about #Faversham's fascinating past. £5 or free for Faversham Society members.
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Writing this week about early modern women’s battles to manage the Curtain estate, including the hand behind this signature mark. #CurtainBook

The cover of a book. Text reads Textile Shakespeare. The lower part of the image is embroidery, black on white, with flowers, fruit, insects, and animals. it is discoloured with age.

TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE has a COVER👀

(this is a late C16 embroidered coif - never in fact assembled - in the V&A. All the crazy scale with added big cats, like an acid trip As You Like It. I love that it is a bit stained and messy.)

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A detail from a copy of a Magna Carta

Do you like free workshops and performances? Longsword demonstrations? Dressing up? Then we've got the event for you! Join us for an event celebrating the historic Magna Carta on 12 September! www.sal.org.uk/event/age-of...

Front cover of Faversham calendar showing the Guildhall in times gone by.

Two photographs of Market square Faversham one from 1894 and one in 2025

Two photographs of same building in Market Square, one when shop was a butchers and one today where it is now in 2025 the Information centre.

Two photographs of Faversham Creekside, one much older and one of present day showing a restaurant and apartments in the buildings.

Pleased to buy a copy of the #Faversham 2026 calendar which contrasts the same street/place/building from days gone by with the current day. Beautifully done & lovely to see similarities & differences. If you’re visiting for #Hopfest this weekend pop in the #InformationCentre to get a copy.

Hello world, it's nice to be here! We'll be helping communities map the impact of climate change on some of our most vulnerable coastlines. We're based in Sefton, North Devon, the Swale Estuary, and Poole Harbour. See how your coast changes and help record it.

Thanks to #NationalLottery players

Come and join us!

The Faversham Society’s next summer stroll is “Murder and Intrigue - the sorry tale of Alice Arden” 6.30pm 23rd July

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Join the society on Thursday 17th July for Step in the Right Direction – Further Discoveries of the Lympne Lamp

Thursday 17 July 2025
19:00 20:30

Image Credit: KENT-EE88CA, Courtesy of Kent County Council (CC-BY).

More information on our website: lnkd.in/eYhyQTEm

This Saturday at The Rose on Bankside

One of the flower beds in the Faversham Fleur de Lis Museum garden with masonry window tracery behind.

The cornfield section of the museum garden with species such as wheat, ladies bedstraw, corn marigold and common vetch.

John Dawson’s shop front from the 1820, which stood at 4 Market Place, was reconstructed in the museum garden in 2008.

The information sheet from this afternoon’s Open Garden event explaining how the Museum is replanting the garden with species listed in Edward Jacob’s 1777 book “Plantae Favershamienses - A catalogue of the more perfect plants growing spontaneously about Faversham in the County of Kent”.

The Faversham Fleur de Lis Museum garden is open today. At first sight it might not be the most picturesque of all the gardens open today but it’s the only one with a reconstructed shop front and a plant scheme from the 1770s.

People looking at the plants for sale in the Market Place, Faversham. The green and white building behind is the Guildhall.

A stall selling plants in the Market Place, Faversham.

The red 19th century town water pump surrounded by plants for sale with the Guildhall building in the background.

It’s a hot but busy day at the garden market in Faversham today.

It’s Faversham Open Gardens and garden market today:

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1905 image of the former Black Bull inn on Finkle Street/St Sampson’s Square in York. the Hand and Heart inn is just visible to the left. The area was once known as the Thursday Market. The jettied building was probably 15th century and operated as an inn in post medieval times. It was

YouTube video by SocAntiquaries The Flipped Playhouse: Tracing an Early Shift in Tudor Era Playing Spaces by Prof Laurie Johnson FSA

For anybody who wants to see my lecture at the Society of Antiquaries this week, the video is here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=fx13...