Bronze & enamel lecturn by Gilbert Bayes in the Savoy Chapel, memorial to Laurence (son of Henry) Irving who drowned with 1000 others when the Empress of Ireland sank off Canada. Its captain Henry Kendall, on his prior ship, sent the radio message that led to Dr Crippen's arrest.

As he describes in A Time of Gifts, it was from Iron Gate Wharf that Patrick Leigh Fermor set off in 1933 on a Dutch steamer bound for Hook of Holland to begin his walk to Constantinople.

The disused St Sebastian Sibling - weather-boarded belfry and Coade stone cherubs - decaying slowly among the reed beds. But more @RevRichardColes than Simon Knott, because it is here that the Rural Dean discovers a battered corpse, and is drawn into another #MurderMystery

Clever Tapsel lych gate at St Mary the Virgin, Weston Turville. Originally C18. For the Love of Gates #LoveOfGates

Still one of my favourites. Shoe Repairs. Station Parade, Belmont Circle, Harrow HA3. storefronts

Dangers of advancing age

Heatwave outfit Egypt, c2400BC, Petrie Museum #London #Heatwave #Weather

thehistoryblog.com/archives/70314 The Door Restorer

A good start on a Derek Jarman Prospect Cottage in Dungeness for sale rb.gy/pp31yi

Sturdy church collection boxes, Denmark

Votive ships suspended in Danish churches

Practical #Topiary #Denmark

Thief #LondonBirds

The inside of the King's Door, Roskilde Cathedral - Peter Brandes, 2010. #AdoorableThursday

Wooden figure now presented as St George, in the church of St Aposteln, Cologne. C15. Originally at the high altar of the Weidenbach monastery opposite St Pantaleon, where it represented the Archangel Michael. His wings were lost during restoration in the 1950s.

St Aposteln, Cologne. Heavily damaged during the War. These striking frescoes (1988-94) by Hermann Gottfried.

Yes. It does. #RupertBrooke