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@sallydjbarley My great Uncle Bill was a horseman on a farm at Stuntney in the Cambridgeshire fens, here he is with one of his horses in the 1930s and then again on the far left with a heritage team in the 1960s. Cole Ambrose's Farm were still using heavy horses then.
The martyrdom of Thomas Becket #OTD 1170 represented on a boss in Norwich Cathedral, the four knights driven on by devils, and in a wall painting at Brookland, Kent. Today is the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury.
Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents, remembering the infants of Bethlehem put to the sword by Herod in the Christ narrative. Glass of 1864 by Frederick Preedy at Gunthorpe, Norfolk and 15c glass at St Peter Mancroft, Norwich.
2/3 A 1920 window at Roxwell features figures to the design of Henry Holiday, including Jonathan and David. It remembers a local boy killed in Flanders in 1915.
Roxwell: https://t.co/ueB38cJKoY
3/3 more details of the 1530s Wellingham screen. St George dispatches a dragon while the court and princess look on, and St Michael weighs souls against their sins, the Blessed Virgin interceding for them with her rosary bottom left.
Wellingham: https://t.co/jG2ND07Ron
Glass new and old at Sustead, Norfolk. The Prodigal Son sits with the pigs he has been reduced to feeding in a detail of glass by Christopher Whall, 1890s and a jolly if restored 15c St Catherine. https://t.co/1Baj8OSHQN
Today is the feast of St Martin, one of the patrons of France and a popular saint in late medieval England. Seated on horseback, he cuts his cloak to share with a beggar in a 14c wall painting at Nassington, Northamptonshire and in 17c Flemish glass reset in Glasgow Cathedral.
3/3 A modern sculpture of the Blessed Virgin and child, in the pleasing south aisle lady chapel originally paid for by Thomas Edward's 1500 bequest, and a detail of the 1912 east window by Hardman & Co depicting the Blessed Virgin and St Clare.
More: https://t.co/khjtckcQbl
Today is the feast of St Gregory, one of the Four Latin Doctors and one of the most commonly depicted saints in English medieval church art. Here on the screen at Tunstead and in glass at Barton Turf, both 15c, both Norfolk. 1/3
Details of the Works of Mercy by Lorraine Lamond, 2013 at St Simon, Partick, Glasgow which was completely destroyed in yesterday's fire. Give Water to the Thirsty, Clothe the Naked, Comfort the Dying. 1/2
The fire: https://t.co/GsTi9uzIeh