61, ill-health retired from NHS; degree in English Lit; I love churches, historic barns, art, music, history & wildlife. My son Chris is a doctor in the NHS.
Joined March 2015
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29 Oct 2022
Find your #Hashtags here! Ready and willing to assist church crawlers and the like for another year (see the date added bottom right). ššš
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14 Apr 2024
A glimpse of the poetry of the spruced up and somewhat shabby. Lovely!
14 Apr 2024
This weekend I have a short and peaceful video of lovely doors. House, garden and more. Enjoy!
youtu.be/7q3CGrAEiyY?si=V_LJā¦
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8 Sep 2023
Good morning everyone!
My IT chaos somewhat tamed now, I'll be mostly tweeting new photos from my CatherineRosamundLowe account @CathyRLowe, so please join me there if rusty boot scrapers are to your taste. @_captainscience
#FerrousFriday from King's Parade, Cambridge.š§”
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6 Sep 2023
#PrettyPipes Adorable decoration, in St Mark's, Englefield.
The sweet little cherubic faces (right)!
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5 Sep 2023
More detail of George Gilbert Scott's reredos in St Mark's Englefield.
The Evangelist symbols root the decorative scheme in the familiar for me. The painting of the lower portion of the reredos is very pleasing.
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5 Sep 2023
Here's a favourite symbol - St Mark's lion, on the lefthand side of the reredos. #TinyLion
Is he directing a piercingly suspicious eye at me? Or merely being generally watchful and "on duty" at all times?
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5 Sep 2023
And finally, the top of the reredos, finishing off with a flourish!
Bright and beautiful, in St Mark's, Englefield.
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5 Sep 2023
Watchful! The stone head above, and the eagle lectern below, scan the nave carefully in St Mark's Englefield.
Would risk no shenanigans here!
This was definitely a chocolate box of a church, full of goodies of different eras, contentedly sitting side by side.
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5 Sep 2023
#TilesOnTuesday or - the mosaic of Henry Woodyer meets the foot of the reredos of G G Scott, in the sanctuary of St Mark's, Englefield.
Plenty to engage the eye here! @Pericles494BC
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5 Sep 2023
Rather more sober tiling in the nave, with beautiful capitals to admire, and a fine eagle lectern on duty, with three step stone podium, & raspberry carpeting at the summit!
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5 Sep 2023
#TilesOnTuesday I found the tiling in the sanctuary at St Mark's Englefield to be most attractive.
Pevsner says that this mosaic floor is by Woodyer, 1894.
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5 Sep 2023
Pevsner "presumes" the reredos to be by G G Scott, c 1860. Scott was responsible for rebuilding the church.
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4 Sep 2023
#MonumentsMonday Reclining in St Mark's Englefield, and nobly supported by a lion (showing us his haunches), this Medieval knight's identity is not known.
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4 Sep 2023
He once had a second companion (left) but only wings, front legs and tail remain.
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4 Sep 2023
The woman next to him in her own niche is also C14th.
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4 Sep 2023
#MonumentsMonday in St Mark's, Englefield. My eye was caught by the swan (right).
Detail from memorial to John Powlet, 5th Marquess of Winchester (d. 1675).
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3 Sep 2023
Last of my trio of church gates, c 1900, lych gate by E. Swinfen Harris. Low walls of flint with stone dressings, and timber framed superstructure. Hipped old tile roof with sprocketed eaves.
St Mark's, Englefield, Berks. Bins proudly on display, in the late afternoon sunshine.
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3 Sep 2023
Two wooden gates to SE with turned balusters. Inscription on lintel: 'Let it be your care to go humbly to your grave.' I needed no warning on that score!
I noticed the cut-out heartsā¤ļø& that someone had painted a little pebble & placed it carefully in one of them @Pericles494BC
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3 Sep 2023
Mark, Liz, I think I have worked out what sprocketed eaves are (it's a new term for me) - that change in angle at the very end of the tiled slope of the roof, which adds a kind of energy and visual fizz.
Is that correct. @RuthRendell1 @todbooklady
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2 Sep 2023
Like many early medievalists (maybe?), Iām a Gregory the Great fan, & today is his feast. Hereās a favorite portrait in ivory from the 10th c, now in Vienna.
The bird on his shoulder represents the Holy Spirit. The detail is so fine you can see stubble on his cheeks
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