Medieval History
Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum (Allan Barton).
- Lenten Array ... One That Got Away
Fairford Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum (Allan Barton).I fully intended to post this photograph during Lent. The Lady altar in the Tame chapel at Fairford in Gloucestershire has a reredos of 1913 by Geoffrey Webb, covered during Lent...
- Stiff Leaf, Bad Glass And Baroque Monuments.
There will be one or two new posts this week. I apologise that things have been a bit slow of late, I have the good excuse of moving house and settling into a new parish. I had a lovely little excursion last week into Nottinghamshire and one of the churches...
- 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....
- 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...
- The Palm Sunday Cross
Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Quite a number of medieval stone crosses survive in our churchyards, when I say survive, very few are as complete as the fifteenth century example at Ampney Crucis in Gloucestershire which...
Medieval History
Powdered arches
Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum (Allan Barton).
Down Ampney, Gloucestershire is the birthplace of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The beautiful village church has a transitional north arcade, c.1200, with very early stiff leaf capitals. The arches are delightfully stencilled with a rather erratic powdering of ochre roses. This decoration is so wonderfully rustic and haphazard, notice the stencilling of the centre arch hasn't even been completed!
- Lenten Array ... One That Got Away
Fairford Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum (Allan Barton).I fully intended to post this photograph during Lent. The Lady altar in the Tame chapel at Fairford in Gloucestershire has a reredos of 1913 by Geoffrey Webb, covered during Lent...
- Stiff Leaf, Bad Glass And Baroque Monuments.
There will be one or two new posts this week. I apologise that things have been a bit slow of late, I have the good excuse of moving house and settling into a new parish. I had a lovely little excursion last week into Nottinghamshire and one of the churches...
- 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....
- 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...
- The Palm Sunday Cross
Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Quite a number of medieval stone crosses survive in our churchyards, when I say survive, very few are as complete as the fifteenth century example at Ampney Crucis in Gloucestershire which...