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Posy Hill

@posyhill1

Graveyard grovellings, church crawling, history, heraldry, oddities and amusements.

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#OwlishMonday Last day of Weobley’s #BankHoliday Art Exhibition where there’s a parliament of owls. My pick of the bunch with apologies for the reflections. Liz Dobson

#OwlishMonday 
Last day of Weobley’s #BankHoliday Art Exhibition where there’s a parliament of owls.  My pick of the bunch with apologies for the reflections.
<a href="/todbooklady/">Liz Dobson</a>
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#TilesOnTuesday “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” Albert Einstein. St Michael’s church, Upton Cressett, Shropshire in the care of Churches Conservation Trust

#TilesOnTuesday 
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” Albert Einstein.
St Michael’s church, Upton Cressett, Shropshire in the care of <a href="/TheCCT/">Churches Conservation Trust</a>
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#woodensday The pulpit of Holy Trinity church, Bourton, Shropshire: “A big C17 piece …The barbaric caryatids must be C19” (Pevsner) Must they?

#woodensday 
The pulpit of Holy Trinity church, Bourton, Shropshire: “A big C17 piece …The barbaric caryatids must be C19” (Pevsner) Must they?
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#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi Pegasus flying over dancing #tinylions above the impressive collection of arms of the Royalist Col. Francis Billingsley who died defending St Leonard’s church, Bridgenorth from Parliamentary forces in 1646. St Calixtus church, Astley Abbotts, Shropshire.

#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi 
Pegasus flying over dancing #tinylions above the impressive collection of arms of the Royalist Col. Francis Billingsley who died defending St Leonard’s church, Bridgenorth from Parliamentary forces in 1646. St Calixtus church, Astley Abbotts, Shropshire.
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#FingerpostFriday Local signposts by Natalie Kerr, exhibited at Weobley Art show. Yes, we live on top of a rabbit warren - I’ve given up trying to grow veg 🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇

#FingerpostFriday 
Local signposts by Natalie Kerr, exhibited at Weobley Art show. Yes, we live on top of a rabbit warren - I’ve given up trying to grow veg 🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇
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#SteepleSaturday St Callixtus church, Astley Abbotts: “first mentioned in 1138… the w turret with stone spirelet, and its gargantuan support system are of 1858” (Pevsner). A shocked #pareidolia for the 🐒🧠 CatherineRosamundLowe Fiona Chartres

#SteepleSaturday 
St Callixtus church, Astley Abbotts: “first mentioned in 1138… the w turret with stone spirelet, and its gargantuan support system are of 1858” (Pevsner).

A shocked #pareidolia for the 🐒🧠 <a href="/CathyRLowe/">CatherineRosamundLowe</a> <a href="/chartres_Fiona/">Fiona Chartres</a>
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#ShakespeareSunday All schooldays’ friendship, childhood innocence.. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, …Two lovely berries molded on one stem; So with two seeming bodies but one heart. MSND 3:2 David & Johnathan, Hopesay #StainedglassSunday

#ShakespeareSunday 
All schooldays’ friendship, childhood innocence..
So we grew together
 Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
 …Two lovely berries molded on one stem;
 So with two seeming bodies but one heart.
MSND 3:2

David &amp; Johnathan, Hopesay #StainedglassSunday
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#ShakespeareSunday Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school Henry VI, Part 2 4:7 The old Grammar School (1660), Weobley.

#ShakespeareSunday 
Thou hast
 most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm
 in erecting a grammar school
Henry VI, Part 2 4:7

The old Grammar School (1660), Weobley.
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#ShakespeareSunday He is gone unto the taming school… … That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue. The Taming of the Shrew 4:2 Couldn’t find a shrew, here’s a charming mouse on the gate to Bredenbury church instead🤷‍♀️

#ShakespeareSunday 
He is gone unto the taming school…
… That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long
To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.
The Taming of the Shrew 4:2

Couldn’t find a shrew, here’s a charming mouse on the gate to Bredenbury church instead🤷‍♀️
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#owlishmonday My church crawling chum saw an owl on the Norman capital in the doorway of St Michael’s church, Upton Cressett, Shropshire. Owl or owlish #pareidolia ? What say the experts? Liz Dobson CatherineRosamundLowe Fiona Chartres

#owlishmonday 
My church crawling chum saw an owl on the Norman capital in the doorway of St Michael’s church, Upton Cressett, Shropshire. Owl or owlish #pareidolia ? What say the experts? <a href="/todbooklady/">Liz Dobson</a> <a href="/CathyRLowe/">CatherineRosamundLowe</a> <a href="/chartres_Fiona/">Fiona Chartres</a>
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#wallpaintingWednesday #WallsOnWednesday A faded angel, painted in about 1200 on the wall of St Michael’s church, Upton Cressett, Shropshire.

#wallpaintingWednesday #WallsOnWednesday 
A faded angel, painted in about 1200 on the wall of St Michael’s church, Upton Cressett, Shropshire.
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#FontsOnFriday Welcoming all the new followers who turned up last night with a favourite C12 font in St Michael’s church, Castle Frome. If you’re here for the 🧯check #FireextinguishersInChurches 😊

#FontsOnFriday 
Welcoming all the new followers who turned up last night with a favourite C12 font in St Michael’s church, Castle Frome. If you’re here for the 🧯check #FireextinguishersInChurches 😊
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#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi A splendid display, the arms of Anne d1705 & Richard d1708 Creswell in Holy Trinity church, Sidbury, Shropshire, featuring squirrels, #tinylions & topped off with a greyhound #AnimalsInChurches

#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi 
A splendid display, the arms of Anne d1705 &amp; Richard d1708 Creswell in Holy Trinity church, Sidbury, Shropshire, featuring squirrels, #tinylions &amp; topped off with a greyhound #AnimalsInChurches