🚧 Sadly we were too late to save the former Body Shop headquarters in Littlehampton, West Sussex. Designed in a Japanese pagoda style by architects Michael Cook Associates (1990), it contained wildly themed interiors, was built from sustainably sourced timber, and was reputedly

On holiday in York & family miffed as to why I am so *fixated* on having lunch specifically at ASK Italian No real reason of course, but as an aside it happens to be in the Assembly Rooms designed by Lord Burlington - built 1730s (received the all knowing look from my wife…)

have you ever seen this @PosyHill1 - might be of interest with your knowledge of heraldry

An interesting question: is this the reason only the shields are missing when the rest of the brass is in remarkably good nick? Discussed here in great article by Jonathan Moor in MBS transactions 2010 Part 2 (pp 119-131) https://t.co/3zoMSgYX1D

large brass to Sir Nicholas Burnell (d. 1382) at Acton Burnell,Shrops He stands under a rich ogee canopy on slender pinnacled shafts Fun fact: at siege of Calais (1346/7) he met Lord Morley & they were using same coat of arms! dispute ended up in Edward III’s Court of Chivalry

monument to Alice Cholmondeley (d. 1868) at Condover, Shrops She died aged 32 in childbirth & her infant daughter, also Alice, died three weeks later (shown here by her mother’s right hip) Sculpted by her husband Reginald Cholmondeley - they had married just one year earlier

Today's #AdoorableThursday we're at the church, as it says above the door, of Jesus Christ and the Wisdom of God, Lower Kingswood, #Surrey an early bit of #Byzantine #ArtsandCrafts from Sidney Barnsley, 1891.

Oh no… another one… @bethenachannel Eastnor, Herefordshire

not the only good glass I saw today - Margaret Rope at Shrewsbury Cathedral (RC) quite the pick-me-up on a dull day

late 15th century glass at St Mary’s, Shrewsbury A donor figure kneels in front of St Peter, who hold an especially large key. He also sports a papal tiara. What going on with his hands though? Are those rings? Formerly at Trier Cathedral and installed here in 19th century

@todbooklady @StroudStory ever come across any of her work elsewhere?

That are part of this rather lovely churchyard seat - under the trees & amongst the ivy NW of the church

striking terracotta panels in the churchyard at St John’s, Eastnor. Female representations of the Reaper & the Sower dating from c.1900 & by Isabella Somerset, aka Lady Henry Somerset. Known as a temperance leader & women’s rights campaigner, she was also (clearly) an artist

well the ceiling may in fact incorporate the plaster vault from the original 1813 scheme (by Francis Bernasconi), but still it’s a room not marred by later additions, which seems so common a problem with his work

unadulterated Pugin at Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire. Painted fan vaulting & absolutely enormous chandelier (made by Hardman of Birmingham). An especially good carved gothic fireplace with Minton tiles too 1849-50, executed by JG Crace

Loud & proud mid-18th century Gothick at Brewood, Staffs Reputedly built by William Rock from the proceeds of betting on ‘Speedwell’, a horse owned by the Duke of Bolton There’s a Chinese-Chippendale staircase, original fireplaces, doors & cupboards(!) within apparently

This squeezed in figure popping his little head out - who can blame him. Anyway it’s a fabulous piece & of Flemish origin

St Lawrence with his gridiron

some exceptional details, such as the figures squeezed in (in profile) at the sides of the buttresses. Tight fit

the extraordinary Thornton brass at Newcastle Cathedral one of the largest medieval brasses in the country & surely one of the most elaborate too 80+ figures as well as the main two, Roger (d.1429) & his wife Agnes (d.1411) (previously at All Saints &moved when church rebuilt)