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Record Room, College of Arms, London #library #libraries #heraldry

Sacristy door at St Gereon, Cologne for #AdoorableThursday #Köln

The decagon, St Gereon’s basilica, Cologne Early C13 “The largest dome built in the West between the erection of the Hagia Sophia in the 6th century and the Duomo of Florence in the 15th century” #Cologne #Köln

Font in the frescoed baptistery of St Gereon, Cologne C13 #FontsOnFriday #Cologne #Köln

Norman doorway with Epiphany chalking and dog bowl, St. Michael and All Angels, Great Tew #AdoorableThursday

Branch line

Rather crisp McDowall Steven And Co GR postbox for #PostboxSaturday

Extraordinary building, towering over its neighbours. Here’s the inside.

Today’s new post: Bury St Edmunds – 1952 and 2026, including this wonderful 1930s direction sign at alondoninheritance.com

The old Dean keeping an eye on the place #JohnDonne #StPaulsCathedral #London

St Benedict Biscop makes six journeys to Rome. Glass by Tom Denny, 2005 in the Bede Chapel of Sunderland Minster. #StainedGlassSunday #SundayStainedGlass

Glass by Henry Haig in Clifton Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul #StainedGlassSunday

Long Street Methodist church in Middleton. #Manchester Open for Heritage Open Days. Designed by Edgar Wood who pioneered art nouveau in the 1880s, Arts and Crafts in the 1890s and art deco in the early 1900s. In the care of Greater Manchester Building Preservation Trust #Architecture

Tympanum, St Cecilia, Cologne. Late C12, in limestone reused from an antique Roman building. Now inside the church; a cast is in its place above the north door. #TympanumTuesday More in Alt [ my 📷 ]

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

Tympanum, St Cecilia, Cologne. Late C12, in limestone reused from an antique Roman building. Now inside the church; a cast is in its place above the north door. #TympanumTuesday More in Alt [ my 📷 ]

Brixton for #SteepleSunday

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Font in the Long Gallery at Parham House, Sussex #FontsOnFriday

Namur blue limestone font (c. 1200) from the Meuse region #FontsOnFriday (details in Alt)

So slow worm babies are rather cute

No more will HSBC denizens be able to mock Barclays next door as ‘the bungalow’

Chelsea : In Bloom #AdoorableThursday

#AdoorableThursday #Brighton

No more will HSBC denizens be able to mock Barclays next door as ‘the bungalow’

Load not to exceed 10 cwts #bicycle

A Wild Man for #WoodensDay See that his leg is gripped by a fierce claw. The rest of his attacker was lost when he was removed from a choir stall, as were his hands. No wonder he’s wild. Late C14.

So slow worm babies are rather cute

A glimpse of P G Wodehouse using a continuous paper roll in his typewriter 30 years before Kerouac

Tortoise for #YorkshireDay (Jake Thackray b Leeds 1938) youtu.be/syMhxz3xzSc

Mid-C14 lead font, St Peter, Parham, Sussex. Its thin circular bowl is decorated by lettering, with the inscription ‘IHS Nazar’ repeated vertically and horizontally, enclosing the arms of Andrew Peverel, knight of the shire in 1351, who presumably gave it. “Very rare”: Nairn/Pevsner #FontsOnFriday

The cat just has to learn to say ‘Please dispense my food’ in Chinese

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?

Hydration break #HydrationBreak

Hydration break #HydrationBreak

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.

Hydration break #HydrationBreak

The temptation of Christ, with an alarmingly devilish Devil, and further tests and temptations in the background, for #StainedGlassSunday Cologne C16, Schnütgen Museum my 📷

"Charing Cross Station, July 1916 Casualties from Battle of Somme". J. H. Lobley. 1918. Over 1 million soldiers from all sides became casualties during the Battle of the #Somme, 1 July 1916 including those killed, wounded, or missing.

‘Not everybody can be Cary Grant, not even Tony Curtis. Wit, beauty, wealth, leisure, happiness – these are unequally distributed; only craziness is common.’ Ruby Hamilton on what makes a screwball comedy. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

One of my favourite downpipes…not sure I had a particular thing for rainwater goods, until I saw this! 🤩 😂 One of the many excellent new(ish) interventions at Caernarfon Castle.

St Vitus being boiled in cauldron of oil - for today’s #London feeling (Swabia, Late C15, Museum Schnütgen) #WoodensDay

A white stag trotting past the Jacobean mansion at Knole @nationaltrust.org.uk this morning. Through the heat haze, a 400-year-old view into the past. #earlymodern #sevenoaks

While the Post Office is busy closing its branches, here’s an example of some branches closing in on the Post Office. This postbox on Drayton Gardens, South Kensington is slowly being devoured by a London plane tree.

Headterning

#Woodnesday #MaryRedcliffe #Bristol