Elizabeth Tingle
@profliztingle
Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage. Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
#worldlionday Thorpe Arnold church, Leicestershire. Pillar capital. Daniel with Lions. They all look rather friendly. Later 12th / early 13th century.
Indeed. Here are a fine fair of trees framing the pulpit of Teigh church.
In dry years, Wymeswold churchyard sprouts harebells. There is something other worldly about their delicate frames. #wildflowerhour
Not the most dignified way to treat Rutland’s famous sculpture. Braunston churchyard. Too sunny to photograph properly. (The cordon was to keep people and angry bees apart.)
Happy Feast of St John the Baptist. This life-sized alabaster ‘platter with head’ is in the wall of Ravenstone church, Leics, overlooking the font. (I found it a little disconcerting while sitting there, chatting and having a cup of tea!)
Romance languages folks….. is there a term in any Latinate language for rooing, that is, plucking or pulling sheep wool off a sheep by hand as opposed to using shears. Especially old Romance tongues? Asking for a friend….
Cowslips just emerging on exposed banks by the River Mantle in north Leics. #wildflowerhour #cowslipschallenge
St Helena journal day 3. Rain most of the day. St James Church, oldest Anglican Church in the S hemisphere, has many monuments to those who died travelling and who rest for eternity in the island. Great font adaption….
St Helena journal day 2. Jamestown on a Sunday morning. Evensong at St Paul’s cathedral in the hills. Found some tombstones for Leicestershire born folks who decided to stay for eternity. @churchmonuments.bsky.social
St Helena journal day 1. We arrived, via Walvis Bay. The Saints are very friendly, hospitable folk. It is very warm.
Save the date and cfp. A grand day out at the beautiful, grade 1 listed Wymeswold Church, Leics (UK). @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social @leicsvcht.bsky.social @leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social @churchmonuments.bsky.social
A splendid day was had with the @royalarchinst.bsky.social yesterday, in Canterbury. The earliest still-in-use church of St Martin, St Augustine’s monastery, the cathedral, its drains, and library ticks (arachnid variety). Thanks to Nathalie and Peter the organisers.
A Leicestershire delicacy….. A description from Ravenstone mid 20 C.
(Our) Lady’s bedstraw. Appropriate for St Mary’s churchyard. N Leics. #wildflowerhour
In Edinburgh at the @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social conference. Weather = wet, papers = very good. Theme = Nicaea and other councils.
It’s a harebell year in Wymeswold churchyard N Leics. They only emerge in drought summers. The last one was 2022. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
He came from Diseworth, just up the road from me. Claimed that he rarely ate wheaten bread before he went to London as a youth. Peas and barley bread, Leicestershire staples! Either that or he was grossly exaggerating. Here is the church in which he was prob baptised.
Loughborough Lammas meadows today, much meadow buttercup, some pignut and many grasses. The burnett and knapweeds were just starting. #wildflowerhour
Gardens. Even teeny, tiny plots - high art and folk art using a natural palette. Visit open gardens; hang over fences and admire local gardens and allotments. All made by hand (more or less).
Whissendine church, Rutland. Late medieval church held up by men (instead of angels, as in E Anglia). 12 in all, possible apostles. Unfinished font - not the original, methinks. Some instability of building hence the buttress chapel. Excellent rhubarb jam for sale.
Sound or place? Or both, the word heard here? Goadby Marwood church (Leic), part of a former pulpit tester.
Our tiny orchard is coming on well for #nomowmay It’s almost elfin. There are already more butterflies this year because of the sunshine. @robcarlyle.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social
Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates. Have a lovely day of rest and leisure, whether you are having a quiet day at home or a busy day with others. [Shaft of an Anglo-Saxon cross from Rothley. The arms are missing.]
This little guy (jackdaw) fell down our chimney and was stuck behind the plate of a stove for 72 hours. A wonderful chimney expert came to the rescue this afternoon. Said jackdaw was back on the chimney with their mate, 30 mins later 😬
Marsh marigold flowers mirror the sun today in Nottingham. #wildflowerhour
Art historians, why is there a badger at the Fall? Or is it just a Durer thing? I have been pondering badgers and original sin since I saw this print, in the Malta art gallery.