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#WindowsOnWedndsday
From latest City of London high level viewing galleries to open to the public, in Horizon 22 opposite Liverpool St Station.
Tall windows w amazing vistas miles around everywhere but north - on a good day....
Free, but needs booking weeks in advance.

#ReliefWednesday
Frieze w hunting scenes runs all round St Michael's Mount's dining hall, 'Chevy Chase'. Name+subject relate to 1388 English/Scots battle.
Curiously, Parliamentarian owner John St Aubyn added royal coat of arms dated 1660 to mark return of monarchy w Charles II.

#TraceryTuesday
A bit of original tracery of Greyfriars Gloucester.
Founded c. 1231, the Franciscan friary had local support and saw major rebuilding in 1519.
Post Henry VIII's dissolution of monasteries it became workshops + houses, w walls and windows hidden, but surviving.

#MonumentMonday
Splendidly decorative monument to Richard Mompesson Salisbury Cathedral is rather more colourful than he was it seems.
MP for Devizes, knighted 1603 by James I for minor services, he apparently made little further impact. Richard's effigy lies w 3rd wife Katherine.

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#AllMetalMonday #MythologyMonday
In Cornwall's Eden Project, Dionysus - the personification of nature in its untamed state - gathers w his followers the Maenads to dance and writhe amongst the grapevines.
Tim Shaw's sculptures of Bacchanalian revels are wild, mad, fantastic.

#StainedGlassSunday
Apparently thanks to 1651 bribery of parliamentarian official, St Neot Cornwall has some of best #medieval glass in England.
Favourite panels of 1480s Noah window:
-ark w dove+raven
-ark as 3 masted galleon
-drunken Noah after finally landing
-Noah's death.
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#StandingStoneSunday
3 adjacent granite stone circles on a wet, wild Bodmin Moor 2 wks ago. The 'Hurlers': apparently turned to stone for playing on Sunday.
Central, largest one has 14 original stones+14 markers.
Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age group aligned w others to NE&SW.

On the battlements of St Michael's Mount castle looking out to English Channel is this elegant #SundialSunday .
Made in 19th C by Troughton and Simms, it displays St Aubyn coat of arms, as well as times of GMT noon in cities of the world (eg Babylon+Madras) around circumference.

#SteepleSaturday
13C tower of St Neot Cornwall: earliest feature of current church; probably founded c. 9C.
Remains of branch on top from 2023 annual Oak Apple Day marking Charles II's survival by hiding in tree + monarchy's return. One of few villages to continue 17C tradition.

Lapford #Devon
Late C15 rood screen, well-preserved and among the finest in the county. Fan vaulting enriched with Renaissance motifs. Fabulous! #ScreenSaturday

#SteepleSaturday
13C tower of St Neot Cornwall: earliest feature of current church; probably founded c. 9C.
Remains of branch on top from 2023 annual Oak Apple Day marking Charles II's survival by hiding in tree + monarchy's return. One of few villages to continue 17C tradition.

#CastleSaturday
Imposing, rather eccentric castle at St Michael's Mount. Once a priory, later a fortress, the buildings date from 12th C.
After reformation, rebellions + wars it's been in St Aubyn family since 1659.
Now jointly managed w National Trust, w St Aubyns in residence.

#FindsFriday
Dartmoor is rich in Bronze Age ceramics as so few people have lived there since.
These (2250-1100 BC) are in Plymouth's terrific new Box museum:
Raddick Hill 'Trevisker' (from Cornwall) vessel
Chagford beaker
Dewerstone 'Trevisker' vessel
Hurston Ridge Collared Urn

About as simple as #FontsOnFriday come: St Bartholomew's 15th C one at Warleggan - deemed by Pevsner 'the loneliest village on Bodmin Moor'.
Made of a native variety of quartz-porphyry much easier to carve than granite -- called elvan by Cornish, known elsewhere as greenstone.

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