Heidi The History Mouse
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Historia Somnum Caseus. #TheTwitterMouse. A mainly medieval mouse. Archaeology, architecture and all things history. Love a scamper around a medieval church.
Bristol, England
Joined March 2023
Mouse's #RiverAxeTopThree #Somerset. So which of the sixteen churches would Mouse recommend visiting? In at number one: #StJohnAxbridge. Church and town make a fine day out. More Perpy perfection. Crossing and vaulting are wonderful, but add ceilings, roof timbers and monuments
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Here in the lovely town of Dunster in Somerset the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast comes temporarily to an end. Mouse will get to Devon, but it's cold and grey and not #ChurchChomping weather. Mouse head home for Christmas. The scamper continues when the sun comes out next year
South aisle #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset Deeply carved octagonal font and tall openwork octagonal cover. The first of this kind of cover Mouse has seen in the wood (so to speak). The wonderful @SarahBlick3 opened Mouse's eyes to these covers, which are fascinating #FontsOnFriday
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The mark of a really good medieval font cover is that the eyes follow you around the church TTM🐭 Face #Pareidolia
The 1534 #FontCover at Southacre, St George, Norfolk has an inscription (translated) "Pray for the souls; Master Richard Gotts, and Sir Geoffrey Baker, Rector of this Church, [who] have made this work happen” hoping to inspire prayers to lessen their time in Purgatory.
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"Why do you think all of those SpaceX rockets keep crashing?" "Maybe it's something to do with the materials?" TTM🐭
A fine round tower in Glendalough Ireland surrounding a graveyard. #towertuesday #ireland #tombtuesday
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Well. That's it Ladles and Jellyspoons. Late on Friday and Mouse going home to put her paws up and take a break from the demands of social media. Just for the weekend. She leave you with these enigmatic faces and an eerie silence... #FridaysFacesInStone #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset
Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: Archway, south transept to south chapel (with brattished parclose pediment detail). Most curious clustered shafts, like pipework. Never seen the like
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South aisle #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset Deeply carved octagonal font and tall openwork octagonal cover. The first of this kind of cover Mouse has seen in the wood (so to speak). The wonderful @SarahBlick3 opened Mouse's eyes to these covers, which are fascinating #FontsOnFriday
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The modern framed by the ancient. Pretty elaborate organ showcased by the exquisite and detailed architectural carving of the screen. It's sometimes difficult to believe that this is wood and was shaped over 500 years ago #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset for #FridayPipes
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The enduring allure of #ChurchDoorFittings If the south door is late medieval or early modern as it looks, then this combined pull and escutcheon is a much later addition. The slotted screwheads tell all. Somewhat shonkily fitted too #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset for #FerrousFriday
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Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: One of a surprisingly small number of memorial tablets, but a beauty nonetheless
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Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: Archway, south transept to south chapel (with brattished parclose pediment detail). Most curious clustered shafts, like pipework. Never seen the like
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Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: The crossing roof. Modern but very pleasing to the eye
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Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: The intersections between purlins and every fourth curved collar bears a carved boss. The space marked out by these would have been panelled
Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: The nave roof. Another wagon roof stripped back to its underlying timbers, which seems to be such a feature in these Somerset churches
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Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: The nave roof. Another wagon roof stripped back to its underlying timbers, which seems to be such a feature in these Somerset churches
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Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: One for #AdventAngels, the long vacated and steadily eroding niches of the south transept, their angels melting into oolitic oblivion
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Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #Dunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: Priory tithe barn. Used to store one tenth of all of the grain grown (a tithe). A down payment on a place in heaven
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Time for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #Dunster #Somerset. All of the bits and pieces Mouse didn't share in the week: The nunnery. A misnomer but certainly associated with the Priory. Perhaps a guest house, now private housing. Built late C15. That's a great survivor
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That's space for a lot of pigeons! They're all the same, but on a personal level they hate to be pigeonholed. Some rather industrial gateage, but a gate's a gate to Mouse #Dunster #Somerset #Thursgate #IronworkThursday
To the north of the priory church of #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset lay the cloister and then the domestic buildings of the priory, including this fine dovecote
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To the north of the priory church of #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset lay the cloister and then the domestic buildings of the priory, including this fine dovecote
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Another #DoorInMidAir from #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset This shows that a rood loft (and screen) once separated the choir arch from the crossing. It's interesting that this was lost while the more substantial choir screen across the width of the church survived
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Hard to get the right angle, but the left photo shows the door used to access the top of the C15 screen, which suggests that it once housed a rood. To the right the stair turret, unusual as it positioned within the length of the nave #StGeorgeDunster #Somerset #DoorInMidAir
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