God's own county 💙 Happy Yorkshire Day!

3/3 Rotherham Minster, looking east. #YorkshireDay

Wakefield Cathedral. #YorkshireDay #GodsOwnCounty

Some more Yorkshire churches for Yorkshire day. Halifax Minster, one of the biggest and most interesting churches in the county. 1/3 #YorkshireDay #GodsOwnCounty

Doncaster Minster, George Gilbert Scott's vast church of the 1850s built at a cost of £43,000, roughly £9 million in today's money. 1/3 #YorkshireDay #GodsOwnCountry

Today's the feast of St Oswald, 7th Century King of Northumbria. Here he is with St Aidan in glass by Caroline Townshend, 1907 in Newcastle Anglican Cathedral. 1/3

St Anne's, Calais, Maine

The sacred geometry of Wells Cathedral. Looking back down the nave.

Today's the feast of St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish Franciscan friar, priest and martyr, murdered in Auschwitz #OTD 14 August 1941, when he volunteered to die in another man's place. Glass by Martin Farrelly, 2003 in St Mary's Catholic Church, Inverness. Kolbe was canonised in 1982.

The west doorway of St John's Cathedral, Norwich, by George Gilbert Scott Jr, bankrolled by the Duke of Norfolk. One of the biggest churches in England for what was a tiny Catholic community, still small compared with the Diocese's other main centres of Cambridge, Ipswich and

“In Heaven, it is always Autumn.” ― John Donne, poet & Anglican priest #poetry #Autumn

2/2 St Faustina of the Divine Mercy and St Teresa of Avila, a detail of the Carmelites window by Tomasz Tuszko, 2013 at St Mary, Inverness.

The best preserved medieval street in Europe - The Shambles, York, England.

Perhaps the best known glass by Edward Burne-Jones, born #OTD 28 August 1833, is in St Philip's Anglican Cathedral, Birmingham, installed in the 1880s. A detail from the Day of Judgement window. 1/3

Today's the feast of St Margaret Clitherow, St Anne Line and St Margaret Ward, three Reformation martyrs. St Margaret Clitherow was pressed to death in York in March 1586. Her statue in Our Lady Star of the Sea, Wells, Norfolk.

Today's the feast of St Aidan, 7th Century Irish missionary and Bishop of Lindisfarne. Here he is with St Oswald in glass by Caroline Townshend, 1907, in St Nicholas's Anglican Cathedral, Newcastle.

St Aidan of Lindisfarne, presumably by Powell & Sons, c1970 at Kirby-le-Soken, Essex, a church with more than its fair share of post-WWII glass. Today's the feast of St Aidan.

Ely Cathedral from the skies this morning.

Today's the feast of St Gregory the Great, 6th Century pope. As one of the Four Latin Doctors he appears on no fewer than 22 late medieval screens and pulpits in Norfolk alone. Here he is at East Ruston, wearing a papal triple crown. 1/3 East Ruston: norfolkchurches.co.uk/eastruston/eas…

St Gregory is not the only figure on the Ludham screen to have had his headgear removed by the 16th Century Protestant Reformers. St Jerome, beside him, another of the Latin Doctors, has suffered the removal of his cardinal's hat. Ludham: norfolkchurches.co.uk/ludham/ludham.…