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Philip Pankhurst

@oldpanks

Man of Kent, Herefordian 'from off'. Architectural history, photographer, woodworker, waterways, railways. 'Just lots of wistful nostalgia' says a follower...

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#StGeorgesDay St George, Brinsop - local legend has it the Dragon was slain here. Herefordshire School, 14th century glass and Comper bling.

#StGeorgesDay St George, Brinsop - local legend has it the Dragon was slain here. Herefordshire School, 14th century glass and Comper bling.
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Attention all William Burges devotees : The Maison Dieu, Dover's magnificent medieval Town Hall reopens to all on May 10th. The amazing interior, remodelled by Burges, has been fully restored. For details see : dover.gov.uk/News/Press-Rel… and maisondieudover.org.uk

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#AdoorableThursday St Mary, Dymock. The South door, with exquisite Tree of Life tympanum. Malcolm Thurlby suggests that it dates from the mid-1120s. Yatton Chapel tympanum is by the same hand MT suggests.

#AdoorableThursday St Mary, Dymock. The South door, with exquisite Tree of Life tympanum. Malcolm Thurlby suggests that it dates from the mid-1120s. Yatton Chapel tympanum is by the same hand MT suggests.
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#SteepleSaturday Yate, South Glos. The fine tower of St Mary's, dating from around 1500. It was sensitively restored by W.D. Caroe in 1897-1900. Caroe also provided the lychgate in 1920.

#SteepleSaturday Yate, South Glos. The fine tower of St Mary's, dating from around 1500. It was sensitively restored by W.D. Caroe in 1897-1900. Caroe also provided the lychgate in 1920.
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#StainedGlassSunday Hereford Cathedral South transept, the magnificent South window. Kempe's largest window, a triumph by John Carter of 1894-5. Curiously Pevsner thought it 'parochial'. His breakfast boiled egg must have been hard and cold that day.

#StainedGlassSunday Hereford Cathedral South transept, the magnificent South window. Kempe's largest window, a triumph by John Carter of 1894-5. Curiously Pevsner thought it 'parochial'. His breakfast boiled egg must have been hard and cold that day.
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#AdoorableThursday St Mary, Dilwyn. The ill-fitting South porch, a mystery addition of the 16th century, Pevsner thought 'built to accommodate windows brought in from elsewhere'. That 'elsewhere' may have been the dissolved Wormsley Priory.

#AdoorableThursday St Mary, Dilwyn. The ill-fitting South porch, a mystery addition of the 16th century, Pevsner thought 'built to accommodate windows brought in from elsewhere'. That 'elsewhere' may have been the dissolved Wormsley Priory.
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#StainedGlassSunday The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Madley. The East window, with glass from both the 13th and 14th centuries.

#StainedGlassSunday The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Madley. The East window, with glass from both the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Loud klaxon for all Willy Burges admirers. His magnificent restoration of Maison Dieu in Dover has been fully reborn and it's open now. Having seen it years ago in its faded municipal magnolia phase, I can't wait to see it again...

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#AdoorableThursday All Saints, Batchcott, Richards Castle. The exquisite North vestry door - superb late Victorian craftsmanship in iron and stone, to designs by Richard Norman Shaw.

#AdoorableThursday  All Saints, Batchcott, Richards Castle. The exquisite North vestry door - superb late Victorian craftsmanship in iron and stone, to designs by Richard Norman Shaw.
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I was very tempted to join next week's EcclSoc visit to the Liverpool cathedrals - until I read the last sentence of the details. 'We will end the tour in the cathedral’s fascinating cemetery'. At my age, I can't risk it...

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#AdoorableThursday St Mary, Shrawley, Worcestershire. The former North door, 12th century with a little G.E. Street tender loving care of 1862.

#AdoorableThursday  St Mary, Shrawley, Worcestershire. The former North door, 12th century with a little G.E. Street tender loving care of 1862.
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#FontsonFriday St Lawrence, Lechlade. The 15th century font. The bowl is original but the base dates from Frederick Waller's restoration of 1881-2.

#FontsonFriday St Lawrence, Lechlade. The 15th century font. The bowl is original but the base dates from Frederick Waller's restoration of 1881-2.
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#SteepleSaturday St Peter & St Paul, Howden. The magnificent tower, 135 feet tall. Started by master builder Bishop Skirlaw and incomplete at his death in 1406, the tower dominates the East Riding flatlands and can be seen for miles in any direction, just as the Bishop intended.

#SteepleSaturday St Peter & St Paul, Howden. The magnificent tower, 135 feet tall. Started by master builder Bishop Skirlaw and incomplete at his death in 1406, the tower dominates the East Riding flatlands and can be seen for miles in any direction, just as the Bishop intended.
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Starmer telling Reform/Farage that 'I/we are more working class than you lot' does owe a lot to Python and the Four Yorkshiremen...

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#steeplesaturday St Mary, Stratfield Mortimer, West Berkshire. No expense was spared in 1869. Architect was Richard Armstrong, who clearly knew what he was doing.

#steeplesaturday St Mary, Stratfield Mortimer, West Berkshire. No expense was spared in 1869. Architect was Richard Armstrong, who clearly knew what he was doing.