🧵 Details from the cross at St John the Baptist, Armitage and Handsacre. #histodons #ParishChurches

Fabulous bulldog gargoyle at St John the Baptist, Armitage with Handsacre
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Fabulous bulldog gargoyle at St John the Baptist, Armitage with Handsacre
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Let's just take a minute to appreciate the doorway at St John the Baptist, Armitage with Handsacre - a replica of the no doubt astonishing Norman church that preceded it (if the font is anything to go by) but a faithful one! #ParishChurches #Histodons

🧵 More from the original Norman font at St John the Baptist, Armitage and Handsacre #histodons #parishchurches

🧵 Last of the figures from the font (there was one more panel but the photo corrupted!) at St John the Baptist, Armitage and Handsacre #histodons #parishchurches

🧵Norman font at St John the Baptist, Armitage and Handsacre. #histodons #parishchurches

🧵Some snaps from St John the Baptist , Armitage and Handsacre - a parish church with an exquisite original Norman font carved in the rural Saxon style. Sadly the original church fell into a state of dereliction in the mid c19th but it was rebuilt with faithful replicas of the astonishing original architecture. #histodons #ParishChurches

🧵 Last of the figures from the font (there was one more panel but the photo corrupted!) at St John the Baptist, Splitting Mill #histodons #parishchurches

🧵 More from the original Norman font at St John the Baptist, Splitting Mill #histodons #parishchurches

🧵Norman font at St John the Baptist, Splitting Mill. #histodons #parishchurches

🧵 I'll start with figures from the original font then move to the replica entrance and tympanum, some bosses from inside and then some features of the cross outside. A real treat of a church. #histodons #romanesque #parishchurches

🧵Some snaps from St John the Baptist , Slitting Mill - a parish church with an exquisite original Norman font carved in the rural Saxon style. Sadly the original church fell into a state of dereliction in the mid c19th but it was rebuilt with faithful replicas of the astonishing original architecture. #histodons #ParishChurches

Last in this series from the pulpit at St Peter's, Worfield, #Shropshire: a carving featuring a hammer, tongs and iron nails. Perhaps these were sponsored by the local smithy? Maybe there's #folklore behind it? Perhaps this is a smithy's alpha, omega and holy spirit?

#WoodCarvingArt #WoodCarving #ParishChurches #ChurchCrawling #Walking

A similarly interesting wooden carved panel image from the pulpit at St Peter's, Worfield, #Shropshire featuring a ladder with a wreath hanging from the top and possibly a lily or daffodil and a tulip.

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Would love to know what this shirt and cast-die represents from the pulpit at St Peter's, Worfield, #Shropshire

#folklore #ParishChurches #WoodCarvingArt #WoodCarving #ChurchCrawling

Carved owl's head boss from St Peter's, Worfield, #Shropshire

#parishchurches #churchcrawling #architecture #stonecarving

Wondrous windows at St Laurence, Ludlow

#cathedral #shropshire #stainedglass #parishchurches