Fiona Chartres

A whole pride of happy elephants on a coat of arms at St John the Baptist, Inglesham for #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

Arguing neighbours on the 12thC font at St Mary the Virgin, Wansford.
#FontsOnFriday

There's something so exciting about stepping through the door of a church you've never visited before and wondering what you might find.
Feeling the tingle at All Saints, Woolstone.
#Adoorableday
#AdoorableThursday

Surely it's a little bit early to be hitting the booze!
Two drinkers on a 14thC misericord at St Mary's, Fairford.
#Woodensday

I've always envied the people who get to gaze out of this.
London Road, Leicester for #windowsonWednesday

The altar frontal at St George's, Kelmscott is made up of two 17thC Turkish hangings stitched together and was given to the church by Jane Morris. The subtle, faded colour really suits the church, nothing garish here!
#TextileTuesday

Although this unknown lady of c.1400 at St John the Baptist, Barnack is now much damaged enough still remains to show how beautifully carved it was. Her headress and the plaited hair beneath it is shown in such stunning detail.
#MonumentsMonday

Sadly I think they calculated wrong 🙄

The pointed arch is definitely on the wonk!

They didn't panic at St Mary's, Tansor when they realised their round headed tower arch had gone out of fashion, they just built one of those new fangled pointy ones inside it!
#SundayStonework

The diminutive fleche on the roof of St John the Baptist, Leicester is a lovely decorative touch with its tiny dragons.
Built by Goddard and Paget in 1884-5 it's a complete contrast to the nearby Italianate St James by H.L.Goddard, a different experience entirely.
#SteepleSaturday

The door at Ampney St Mary is a thing of beauty, patched and repaired and surrounded by fragments of 13/14thC wall paintings.
#Adoorableday
#AdoorableThursday

Such beautiful light!

It's quite full..
In my defence most of it gets used over the Christmas period.

Ha, I have one.... When we bought the house as the lady owner had gone into a home we also bought a fair amount of the furniture. I have serious amounts of inherited China as my Grandad was one of 13 and not all of them had children. I had a plethora of idiosyncratic great aunts and uncles!

That is rather lovely actually, much nicer than the 4 or 5 coffee pots of similar vintage I've been given because of houses being cleared and.. 'we know you like old things'.. I've forwarded all of them onto charity shops after about a month of the box sitting in the corner of the spare room

It's a pity the base is half hidden by the pew, there must be a lion under there wondering who turned the lights out!

I've been to Ledbury, I only remember the small ones either side of the main door. 🤔

A column swallower at St Andrew's, Eastleach Turville looking furious at being relegated to the column store.
#SundayStonework

I think I read that his toes were missing because they were probably originally made of silver.

Well I wholeheartedly agree with you!

I thought exactly the same but was far too polite to mention it..

Or the main prize in the raffle this evening, buy your tickets now Ladies and Gentlemen or miss out!

Silly boy juggling them and not eating them then!

Resited Saxon carving at St Kyneburgha, Castor. Apparently it's Christ pointing at the moon and the sun, not learning to juggle like I first thought..
#TympanumTuesday

Luckily I wasn't scared!

Sometimes there's even a surprise waiting..

I have a feeling there would be lots of banged knees and ankles if that were the case!

A very bulbous and knobbly lectern at St Michael and St Martin, Eastleach Turville which was made up in the 1930s from either Elizabethan table legs or bed posts or maybe both, repurposing at its finest!
#SundaySermons

Now there's a thought!