🚨Our next Coffee with a Curator with Helen Elletson is online on 24th April at 11am
Helen will be looking at the history and designs of Morris & Co. furniture, focusing on the 'Sussex' range from our own collection!🪑
Link in our bio to purchase a ticket. Free for WMS members!

May Morris (1862-1938) influential English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor #WomensArt

Did you know that this traditional ornamental plasterwork is now an #endangeredcraft ?

Try your hand at pargeting on our upcoming course, taught by leading expert Bill Sargent. Suitable for total beginners. ow.ly/6u0H50RhuCr

📷 Ancient House © Kognos CC By SA 4.0

This monument is featured in my article on Heraldic Funerals in Ecclsoc latest volume, entitled Last Rites.

#Tavistock Town Hall - funded by a lease renewal fine levied by the 7th Duke of Bedford on the mine owners of of Devon Great Consols. Happy #WorldHeritageDay

Shout-out to Stained Glass Museum Jasmine Allen Emily Allen - support Stained Glass Museum by becoming a Friend stainedglassmuseum.com/friends.php
or look at the online shop the-stained-glass-museum.myshopify.com
#glass #thursdayvibes #culture #friends #art #study

Saying Farewell to Dublin, this morning: thanks, everyone Stained Glass Museum #Dublin #Ireland #thursdaymorning #culture #art @stephen

A glimpse to show what an amazing building Stow Minster is.

Sràid a' Chladaich, Inbhir Theòrsa, An Giblean 1978
/
Shore Street, #Thurso , April 1978
#Caithness
[source: Highland Folk Museum]

#Apparels for #Albes (4). #Plate of #Glossaryofecclesiasticalornament & #costume . #AWNPugin ,1844.

#augustuspugin #pugin #gothicrevival #gothicrevival decoration #gothicrevival textile #gothicrevival alb #glossaryofecclesiasticalornamentandcostume #pugin book #gothicrevival design #alb

I am going to try my best to attend TWO barn events in #Kent this Saturday 20th April:

2pm Littlebourne Barn tour of medieval markings by Wayne Perkins. Free but donations appreciated.

6pm Lenham Tithe Barn. Meet the World Record Crew who rowed the Pacific. £2

Details online.

A vesica-shaped vignette from Harry Clarke’s breathtaking windows for the mortuary chapel of St Peter, Phibsborough c.1924
These vignettes are surrounded by Clarke’s ‘Floral Ornament’
Really moving to see these during the Stained Glass Museum Dublin Tour
#StainedGlass

It was a great joy to visit St Mary's, Iffley, with Kirsty Hartsiotis 🇪🇺. As many will know, my parents lived in Iffley 1984-2017, and I was married in this jewel box of a church.

Here is St Mary's in the gentle Spring sunshine, with Kirsty glimpsed capturing some stonework details.

#IronWorkThursday
Burial enclosure
Parish Church, Kilspindie, Perth and Kinross

New mythbusting blog article: 'Ancient Pub-lore'. This one looks at some of the rather outlandish claims made about ancient pubs. So much of what is relayed as 'history' is in fact folklore, and the tales are often surprisingly recent in origin.

…iskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2024/04/17/med…

Devonshire Dialect Dictionary For more details and DDD words see devonassoc.org.uk/ddd-the-dictio…………………………………………………

etwee = a small box

Daily Devon Beetle from the List of Devon Beetles. See devonassoc.org.uk/list-of-devon-………………………………………………… for full searchable list

Sitophilus oryzae (Linnaeus, 1763)

If you've not had a chance to experience one of our roof tours yet... what are you waiting for? 👀

Experience the cathedral's loft roof space for unique vantage points and seldom-seen perspectives of the architecture and grandeur within.

📲 buff.ly/4a7bVnw

The remains of the bathhouse complex at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain

A lot about Crowland on X this evening so I thought I would draw attention to incised slab. Inscr +ICI GIST MESTRE WILLM DE WERMINGTON LE MASON A LALME DE KY DEV LY PAR SA GRACE DOUNE ABSOLUTION (Here lies William de Wermington the Mason, may God grant his soul absolution).