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History, London, and Beyond [All pictures my own unless cited]
Font at St Etheldreda’s church, in Ely Place, London. What date would you say the basin is? There’s a later font in the upper chapel itself. Perhaps this at the chapel door has been used as a stoup?
Ah, where is that? I've seen a similar one at St Peter's Harborne, in memory of Freda Strawbridge, seventeen-year-old pillion rider on a motorcycle killed with two others in a collision on the Wolverhampton Road in 1936.
The temptation of Christ, with an alarmingly devilish Devil, and further tests and temptations in the background, for #StainedGlassSunday Cologne C16, Schnütgen Museum my 📷
St Vitus being boiled in cauldron of oil - for today’s #London feeling (Swabia, Late C15, Museum Schnütgen) #WoodensDay
Very sensible, no doubt, not to plant a new “Hardy” tree amidst the gravestones in St Pancras Old Churchyard when the original fell in 2022 (rather in better growing conditions nearby). But also rather prosaic not to.
St Mary Abchurch, for #FontsOnFriday with stacking plastic chairs. Font by William Kempster, brother of Christopher, mason for the church’s rebuilding by Wren. You can’t have too many Christophers. Font cover with the gospel writers by William Emmett. Its counterweight in the vestry. #London
Inside the modest front door of Shaw’s Corner - George Bernard Shaw’s house in Hertfordshire - with a Morris and Company ‘Peacock and Dragon’ woolen curtain to keep out draughts. #AdoorableThursday
In contrast, the Romanesque font at St Aposteln, Cologne, is not going to be floating aloft any time soon. #FontsNotOnFriday #FontsOnFriday
The extraordinary Johannes XXIII church in Cologne (1968) designed by sculptor Josef Rikus with architect Heinz Buchmann. #brutalism #concrete
A glance of amused surprise in the Grosvenor Chapel, London. #MemorialsMonday #Betjeman
Romanesque font at the Antonite church, Cologne. #FontsOnFriday #Cologne #Köln #Antoniterkirche