
Philip Pankhurst
@Oldpanks
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Man of Kent, Herefordian 'from off'. Architectural history, photographer, woodworker, waterways, railways. 'Just lots of wistful nostalgia' says a follower...
Ledgemoor, Herefordshire
Joined January 2015
#FontsOnFriday Beverley Minster. 12th century font of Frosterley marble, topped by a cover of 1726 by the Thorntons of York.
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#AdoorableThursday St Peter, Howden. Collegiate masterpiece of early 14th century, now partly ruinous. South door, hybrid of 1320 with 19th century infill.
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Delighted to receive my copy of The Story of the Herefordshire Pomona, surely the most beautiful publication ever produced about the county and its orchards. A exquisite tribute by Bill Laws, published by @LogastonPress. Many thanks, the perfect antidote to hateful politics...
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#TraceryTuesday St Peter, Chelmarsh. An all-of-a-piece late 14th century construction, built after 1375 by Wigmore Abbey, who acquired the estate from the Mortimers.
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#SteepleSaturday St Mary, Beverley. The tower rebuilt after spectacular collapse in 1520. Western turrets by Myers to designs by Pugin 1844-52. Original turrets survive, one in a garden at Woodmansey, the other on Council property in Beverley.
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Terrible indegestion - probably the swanburger I had for supper...
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#AdoorableThursday Beverley Minster, North transept portal. A sumptuous piece dating from no later than 1260. Woodwork by William Thornton of York, under the supervision of Nicholas Haksmoor.
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#Woodensday A visit to the magnificent St Mary, Ripple is so worthwhile. The icing on the cake, however, is the wonderful set of misericords showing the Labours of the Months and the Sun and Moon. The church is justly proud of them and displays them well.
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#Woodensday A visit to the magnificent St Mary, Ripple is so worthwhile. The icing on the cake, however, is the wonderful set of misericords showing the Labours of the Months and the Sun and Moon. The church is justly proud of them and displays them well.
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#TilesOnTuesday From a small factory in Lugwardine, William and Henry Godwin produced encaustic tiles which adorn cathedrals and churches all over the former British Empire and beyond, including their own parish church of St Peter.
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#SteepleSaturday All Saints, Selsley. Bodley masterpiece for Samuel Stephens Marling in spectacular setting. Epic stained glass inside by Morris and all of the boys in the band. Philip Webb kept them all under control.
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#fontsonfriday St Mary, Cusop. Early Norman font in the parish church of Hay Poisoner Herbert Rouse Armstrong, who lived a few yards from the church.
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#fontsonfriday St Meilig, Llowes. The 13th century font, patched up with two iron bands by a 1950s blacksmith and returned to the church after many years in the nearby garden at Brynyrhydd, the home of Colonel Beavan.
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#SteepleSaturday St Peter & St Paul, Uplyme, East Devon. 'Largely of the early 19th century and of 1875', says Pevsner. The tower is medieval, however.
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#SteepleSaturday St Michael, Dewsall. At the end of a long lane with the Court as a neighbour and dating from the 14th century, with restoration by F.R. Kempson in 1868. The spire was restored in 1923 by John Nicholson. On the Duchy estate, on a glorious early May evening.
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#AdoorableThursday St Mary, Pembridge. Two 14th century doors with contemporary ironwork. The North door and the plainer West door, which still shows the damage inflicted by Parliamentarian forces in 1645.
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