Medieval History
Wyck Rissington, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.
- Window Splays
Silchester, Hampshire, St. Mary's Church 15, originally uploaded by Eric Hardy. Browsing on friends photos on Flickr I came across this lovely image of the south side of the chancel at Silchester in Hampshire by Eric Hardy. The splays of the windows...
- Hailes, Gloucestershire - Post-reformation Liturgical Arrangements
I'm very grateful to Roger Mortimer for his fascinating comment on Elizabethan table carpets, which he has posted on my Buckland vestments article. In his post he mentioned in passing the Elizabethan liturgical arrangements, that until the mid twentieth...
- Unfinished Work?
Turkdean, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.I came across this fascinating oddity at Turkdean in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. When the parisioners decided to rebuild they modest two cell Norman church sometime in the fifteenth century....
- Blakeney, Norfolk
Blakeney, Norfolk, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Blakeney church stands high above it's village, which was once a major port on the north Norfolk coast. The church is for the most part a fifteenth century building, with a broad clerestoried nave...
- Duntisbourne Rouse, Gloucestershire
Duntisbourne Rouse, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum. The tiny church of St Michael, Duntisbourne Rouse is on a dramatic site on the hillside overlooking the valley of the river Dunt in the Cotswolds. The nave is essentially Saxon (11th...
Medieval History
Window tracery development - the chancel at Wyck Rissington, Gloucestershire
Wyck Rissington, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.
The chancel of Wyck Rissington church in Gloucestershire was consecrated in 1269. The east end has this rather unusual window arrangement, which predates the development of windows with tracery. You will notice that two sets of paired lancets are set below lozenges, which are placed a little above them. Twenty years later and these lozenges would have been quatrefoils be united under a common hoodmould and the development of multi-light windows with tracery would begin.
- Window Splays
Silchester, Hampshire, St. Mary's Church 15, originally uploaded by Eric Hardy. Browsing on friends photos on Flickr I came across this lovely image of the south side of the chancel at Silchester in Hampshire by Eric Hardy. The splays of the windows...
- Hailes, Gloucestershire - Post-reformation Liturgical Arrangements
I'm very grateful to Roger Mortimer for his fascinating comment on Elizabethan table carpets, which he has posted on my Buckland vestments article. In his post he mentioned in passing the Elizabethan liturgical arrangements, that until the mid twentieth...
- Unfinished Work?
Turkdean, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.I came across this fascinating oddity at Turkdean in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. When the parisioners decided to rebuild they modest two cell Norman church sometime in the fifteenth century....
- Blakeney, Norfolk
Blakeney, Norfolk, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Blakeney church stands high above it's village, which was once a major port on the north Norfolk coast. The church is for the most part a fifteenth century building, with a broad clerestoried nave...
- Duntisbourne Rouse, Gloucestershire
Duntisbourne Rouse, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum. The tiny church of St Michael, Duntisbourne Rouse is on a dramatic site on the hillside overlooking the valley of the river Dunt in the Cotswolds. The nave is essentially Saxon (11th...