Adrian Tinniswood
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Writer. Historian. Overwhelmed by a sense of his own shortcomings.
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I stumbled across this pet cemetery yesterday, with its memorial to funny little Flo. Now excuse me, but I think I have something in my eye…
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The first in a very occasional series of churches I just have to visit - Melverley in Shropshire, 1406. Wow. I mean, really, wow.
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Today can only be improved by a wonderful barn. So here it is - the Wonderful Barn of 1743 in Leixlip, Co Kildare.
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Stonywell, Ernest Gimson, 1899. The Arts & Crafts Movement at its best.
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I love this. Rossetti looks stoned, Ruskin looks mad and Bell Scott looks like Alastair Sim.
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Coming to a bookshop near you in October. And yes I am quite excited.
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You’d like a timber-framed west tower of c.1500? That can be arranged. St Mary Upleadon, Gloucestershire. Minty.
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No, never a cleverer dipped his pen, than clever Sir Christopher, Christopher Wren
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A Victorian Fellow of Brasenose writes to tell parents that their son has died: "It may be of some consolation to you to know that the young man would in any case have had to go down at the end of the present term owing to his failure to pass Responsions."
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More apian architecture. 19C bee shelter at Hartpury in Gloucestershire.
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This may be the day when you yearn for a picture of a Grade-II listed Regency beehouse. In which case, voila!
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Beats by Dre and a duck of your own. Jacobean women really knew how to live.
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UK publication day! *does a little jig of jubilation*
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Coming soon! The last part of my trilogy on a century of country house life (although chronologically the first)
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Just the sight of this big boy makes me want to get up there and preach hellfire.
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Found in a Mayo church. Can’t decide if it’s a call to revolution or a typo.
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Every now and then I wander into a church and it takes my breath away. That happened today.
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#chancel
#1672
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Overwhelmed by the kindness of friends and strangers. Thank you all for that kindness. Bless his ginger paws.
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There are ceilings. And then there are ceilings. St Mary the Virgin Bromfield, chancel ceiling by Thomas Francis, 1672.
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I’ve just lost my heart to Baillie Scott’s Blackwell.
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Just watched The Dig. Other people: ‘The accents.’ ‘The archaeology.’ ‘The relationships.’ Me: ‘The house! That’s Voysey! IT’S A VOYSEY HOUSE!’
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Memorial at Haddon Hall to Robert Charles John Manners, who died in 1894, aged 9. Sculpted by his mother, Violet, Duchess of Rutland. The inscription begins, ‘Hope of my eyes/ Something is broken...’
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Found this minty Norman doorway in St Nicholas of Myra, Little Langford this afternoon. Delicious.
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It’s Monty’s 13th birthday. He was going to have a party with hats and Karaoke and cake and stuff. Give him a shoutout.
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An advance copy has just arrived. And as ever, I’m overcome with a fit of the fantods.
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St Thomas a Beckett on Romney Marsh. Magical. A church where sheep may safely graze.
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Happy memories of Wells Cathedral. Simply the best.
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I’m sorry, Lord Coventry, but is this really how you wanted to be remembered?
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Wightwick Manor. Does this really represent “an outdated mansion experience”,
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St John Mildenhall, Wiltshire and its lovely Regency fittings. Like a Jane Austen novel, said John Betjeman.
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Celebrating the Eve of St Agnes at the Hugh Lane Gallery with Harry Clarke. No one else even comes close. Astonishing.
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Some moles. This is what makes a visit to Sainte-Chapelle so special.
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I do love a graveyard. Especially when it’s overlooked by one of the most beautiful houses in the world.
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A rare early photograph of the building of Stonehenge
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Seen in a Kentish churchyard. “Pat 1924-1934. Be comforted, for thou too, O little dog, shall at the resurrection wear a shining tail of gold.”
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'Henry, you know that scene in Normal People where...' 'Go to sleep.'
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Here we come, walking down the street. We get the funniest looks from everyone we meet.
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For Michaelmas. Epstein’s ‘St Michael’s Victory over the Devil’, Coventry Cathedral, 1958.
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“Tell you what. If I can balance this ball on my head for 350 years, you owe me a quid.”
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Harry Clarke glass in Sturminster Newton church. Minty.
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The Robinson children by Chantrey, in Lichfield Cathedral. Now do excuse me - I seem to have something in my eye...
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He seized the opportunity to take a quick nap on the way up to bed.
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Can’t you just put your mobile phones down for one minute?
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More Harry Clarke glass. Detail from the Eve of St Agnes panels in the High Lane. It still sends shivers.
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A visit to St Mary, Temple Corsley. An Arts & Crafts church so perfect I could cover it in chocolate and eat it. Thank you for saving it, Friends of Friendless Churches.
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A timely warning during our visit to Malmesbury Abbey this week: if you’ve just sanitised, wait a few moments before lighting a candle...
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I'm spending the day proofreading Noble Ambitions. I hate this stage - it's the last chance, the point of no return. Also, it's usually when I come up with a brilliant idea for an entirely different approach to my subject... :(
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I'm chatting about life in the country house between the wars at 6pm on Tuesday 4 Aug. If you don't have anything better to do...
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The Tinniswoods at play. You can see that my family was pretty wild back in the day.
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Portrait of Queen Victoria in four lines: Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1890
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The 14C Abbot’s Fish House at Meare. My kind of party.
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“Why yes, it is Kiss a Ginger Day. Form an orderly queue, please.”
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Some more Harry Clarke. A detail from his masterpiece, the Eve of St Agnes window, 1924.
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I'm ridiculously late to last week's Thomas Becket party, but here is St Thomas Becket, Romney Marsh. Where sheep may safely graze.
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A sad little memorial at St Lawrence Didmarton to the Codringtons’ stillborn children. Thirteen of them.
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Time to bring this one out again for
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. ‘Be comforted for thou too, O little dog, shalt at the Resurrection wear a shining tail of gold.’
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A rare early photograph of the building of Stonehenge
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Been hunting for Harry again. Ascension, Roundfort Co Mayo, 1926. Beautiful.
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“Tinniswood, an erudite historian of country-house life in all its anecdote-worthy vagaries” says the Financial Times. That’s me!
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Good morning, Leeds Castle. You’re looking lovely today.
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I think it’s safe to say we’ve all had days like this.
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I've just come across a 19C Irish RM called Captain Champagne L'Estrange. Now I'm thinking of changing my name.
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A lovely surprise - two gorgeous Harry Clarke windows in St Mary Castletown, IoM. 1924
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