Our obit in today’s Telegraph to my dearly beloved friend and maestro conjurer of stone, Simon Verity, with thanks also to Isabel Bannerman and Iona McLaren

St Margaret Newton Magical glass by Archibald Davies from the Bromsgrove Guild. #sundaysheep #sheeponsunday #stainedglasssunday #animalsinchurches

Irresistible heartsease for #wildflowerhour, officially my favourite flower seen blooming for my 1 Sept flower count in #Stroud, in two pretty variants. I may have jumped up and down...

For #MosaicMonday, the reredos carved with the last supper is by the Forsyth brothers, but look at the inlay to either side replete with biblical flowers - lily, rose, pomegranate, passionflower and more - at St James, Sussex Gardens, #London. Devon marble, designed by G E Street

A bold banner for #TextileTuesday from St James, Sussex Gardens, #London

Ya boo spiky sucks to you from Cirencester parish church, #Gloucestershire! I'm out to lunch, this chap is obviously jealous! Far too early - or late - for #SundayStonework but why not?

I think I am more or less finished, apart from a few little touches here and there. A Cedric Morris, Benton Olive Iris painted in watercolour on 640gsm Fabriano Artistico HP paper. #botanicalpainting

For #WindowsOnWednesday I followed Aleta Doran ✨ to Stratton, #Gloucestershire, in search of Trena Cox's #ArtsandCrafts #stainedglass from 1926 - teeny, high up, but good! Mind you, St Peter looks as bleary as I fell this morning, as I type this on the train at 7.15...

An #AdoorableThursday conceit from Spexhall, #Suffolk, from the restoration of J K Colling of the 1870s, with a buttress humorously blocking a door - Simon Knott says he's echoing nearby Blythburgh, which just shows that I need to visit there again 😅

Quote of the day so far with C R Ashbee, as relevant today as then: 'Intelligent planning is cheaper than stupid planning' - particularly in light of Grenfall, RAAC and so, so much more... #architecture #ArtsandCrafts

I'm sure I've posted it before, but the weathered C14th #FontsOnFriday returned by Street in 1865 to Cirencester parish church, #Gloucestershire, with the Monox #monument behind it and actually a rather lovely bit of #stainedglass by Hugh Easton above it, it a fab sight.

A tale writ in stone at North Leigh, #Oxfordshire, for #SteepleSaturday, with a C11th tower & the ghost of a former Saxon nave, chancel arch still seen around the C14th window. The church once three cell: nave, tower, chancel, now tower, nave, chancel plus C12th aisles. Complex!

Sheer beauty from Somerton, #Oxfordshire, with this early #stainedglass by Christopher Whall, made at Powell's in 1892 - part of a quite extensive set of #ArtsandCrafts interventions in this special church - such loveliness for #StainedGlassSunday!