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Louvain Rees ⚰️ retweeted
Jun 13
St Clement's #Church, Dingwall
The church was built between 1800-03 replacing earlier structures on the site going back a thousand years.
#steeplesaturday #steeplesunday
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Our repair works at St James's, Llangua in Monmouthshire have been recognised by Europa Nostra, being shortlisted for the 2026 European Heritage Europa Nostra Awards.
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📷 After Repairs
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ retweeted
Jun 11
The 16th century door of the village pump house at Walsingham in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Walsingham #Norfolk
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The wonderful little porch of St. Mary’s Church, Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire 😍
Dated 1636 on the exterior, with the frame obscuring the earlier doorway.
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A medieval effigy lies on the floor, beneath a simple Gothic canopy, inside St Decumanus's, Rhoscrowther. The name of the person that this effigy commemorates is unknown, having been lost to history. However, we can speculate…
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London Charterhouse - a little oasis, nestled in the heart of busy Clerkenwell.
A 14th century Carthusian priory, turned Tudor courtyard house, turned 17th century almshouse and school - and still in use as an almshouse today! 🤩
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ retweeted
Jun 2
Hansies Crooie Chambered Cairn - a Neolithic heel-shaped cairn located in the Parish of Walls and Sandness on the west mainland of Shetland. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Shetland
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Hidden under limewash around this lovely door at the Church of All Saints & St. Andrew in Kingston, Cambridgeshire, is some early 16th century graffiti thought to commemorate 3 children who died in a plague outbreak; Cateryn, Jane and Amee Maddyngley ❤️
More details below…
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ retweeted
May 29
A fantastic blocked doorway in the 11th century tower of St. Andrew’s Church, Middleton, North Yorkshire 😀 I like how the round head of the arch is broken by the window, and the sculpted stone cross above is interesting too 🤩
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ retweeted
May 28
#IronworkThursday
St Mary’s church, Talachddu, Powys, framed by a pretty metal arch.
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Nekropolis Minois: There are 233 tombs quarried directly into the rock in the Late Minoan Cemetery of Armeni, Crete. Some are very impressive, some to small to even look inside. In May the tombs are surrounded by a wide variety of wild flowers.
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Hands Well: Tissington in Derbyshire is known as the mother place of well dressing and visitors come from all over the world to witness the annual well dressing ceremony.
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ retweeted
May 21
The Castle Hairdressing Room, Castle Street, Carlisle. Now a private house, but happily they've retained the original frontage. I'd love to see what shape the rooms are inside!
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Built in the 14th century from ‘gingerbread’, St Mary’s, Fordham in Norfolk is a sweet little church.
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Devil's Churchyard Stones: Stones near the Devil’s Churchyard - These may or may not be stones connected with the rumours and folklore of a megalithic site at The Devil’s Churchyard a little to the west.
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🧵Samuel Holberry (1814–1842) was a leading Chartist and one of Sheffield’s best-known radical reformers. Born in Gamston, Nottinghamshire, he joined the army in 1832 before settling in Sheffield, where he worked as a distiller and married Mary Cooper. After the Newport Rising,
ALT Photograph of the grave of Samuel Holberry in Sheffield General Cemetery, Happytomato CC BY-SA 3.0
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ retweeted
May 16
Looking for a dreamy spring adventure? Head to St Davids and start with a peaceful picnic at St Davids Bishop’s Palace — complete with board game picnic benches, Gothic stairways, and THAT iconic wheel window. 😍
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ retweeted
May 16
In this month's History Extra magazine, I explore the history of the extraordinary Plas Mawr in Conwy and discuss how the rise of the Tudors paved the way for some Welsh families to prosper for the first time under English rule. In all good newsagents now.
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