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For how could we not choose Nativity scenes?
Here are 3 fantastic 19th/20th century panels: the 1st is designed by Christopher Webb , the 2nd by Burlison & Grylls and the 3rd by Charles E. Kempe

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2020-03-04

Lectern support of c1270 from the workshop of Nicola

A man, ox & lion symbolise Saints Matthew, Luke & Mark. The lectern itself would have been an eagle for St John.
Marble carved in





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2020-02-19

All God's creatures.

Hedgehog, rabbit, mole, fox, seal, crow, gull and a little spider hiding in the corner.

Details from the St Aidan altar .



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2020-02-19

A brightly coloured bird at the start of The Book of Kings, in an Italian Hebrew text of The Former & Latter Prophets (14c)

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2020-01-29

May not be a snake as it’s in the water but it sure looks like one! from the window in farnborough church

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2020-01-22

Some unusual for

325 million year old fossil corals & crinoids preserved in the black limestone known as Frosterley marble, in the Chapel of Nine Altars at .

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2019-10-16

The 15th C frescoes in Oratorio di S. Giovanni Battista tell of the Crucifixion & the life of St.John the Baptist, but I like the incidental details of

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2019-07-31

From Christ Church Southgate, 1896 figure of Charity with hair below her knees & some fabulous babies

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2019-07-24

Even chickens in the style Earl of Iveagh memorial window by Frank Brangwyn (1937).
On the theme of charity and education.

St Andrew and St Patrick Church, Elveden,

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2019-07-17

Sometimes I’m disappointed with how Twitter displays photos after you have posted them.
So......... here is the Chartres Cathedral photo again for

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2019-07-10

Here is a stunning piece of from St Andrew's Ufford. Isn't it breathtaking!

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2019-06-19

for (not in a church now but how could we resist?) Atelier ‘t Prinsenhof early 20th-century at the Prinsenhof Museum in Delft

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2019-03-23

A rare English wall painting - the figure of St Cuthbert in the Galilee Chapel of .


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2018-07-04

Irresistible Capricorn : 15c English glass: Berger Collection, Denver: (?) no provenance given

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2018-04-18

A variety of birds for Some local birds from Appledore; a swallow from Wirksworth; a 14th century bird from Salehurst and a detail from one of the Chagall windows at Tudeley

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2018-03-14