John Vigar FSA
@johnevigar.bsky.social
Ecclesiastical Historian. Arts Society Accredited Lecturer. Author of 20 books. Trustee of Francis Coales Charitable Foundation. Member of the Advisory Council of the Norfolk Churches Trust. Unashamedly woke. 🏳️🌈
Medieval door handle. Church of All Saints Pavement, York, Yorkshire
Only 2 months until The Buildings Archaeologist is released! It's tricky to get word out online these days so a reshare would be hugely appreciated 🙂 Order details here: thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/... Tickets for the book tour here: triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/the-building...
Jesmond, Newcastle ,St George. Memorial by George Frampton
Dunsfold Church, Surrey. This wooden plug at the base of the nave wall allowed the church floor to be swilled out with water to keep it clean
The medieval ceiling of the Eagle Ward of The Great Hospital, Norwich- formerly the chancel of St Helen’s Church
Chapel of The Resurrection in St Peter’s Churchyard, Bournemouth. 1925 by Sir Ninian Comper. Deserves to be better known.
Medieval bat in stained glass at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge
Robert Hacomblen was Provost of King’s College Cambridge between 1509 and 1528 and is buried in the Chapel. This lectern was a personal gift from him and bears his name on the two book rests. It is one of three lecterns made in the same mould. The others are at Eton and Merton College, Oxford
Malpas, Cheshire, St Oswald. Late fifteenth century church with alabaster monuments to the Brereton and Cholmondeley families
Great Maplestead, Essex, St Giles. The south chapel contains two early seventeenth century monuments: Sir John Deane (d 1625) JP for Essex. He wears plate armour and has a muzzled bear at his feet, the family crest. Opposite is his wife Anne (d 1633) shown in her shroud standing over her son Dru.
Font of 1719 at Moulton, Lincolnshire. Carved by William Tydd and depicting the Baptism of Christ. #fontsonfriday
Delightful stained glass at Ayscoughee Hall, Spalding, Lincolnshire.
Heacham, Norfolk, St Mary the Virgin. Heacham born John Rolfe (1585-1623), sailed for Virginia in 1609 and in 1614 married Princess Pocahontas. Their son, Thomas, was born in 1615 and in 1616 the family visited England. Whilst here Pocahontas died and was buried at Gravesend.
All Saints’ Church, Hilgay – aerial image. Its low, broad west tower was rebuilt in brick in 1794. The late-14th-century south aisle survives, while the nave and chancel were rebuilt in 1869–70 by George Edmund Street. Grade II* listed. #Hilgay #Norfolk #AerialPhotography
Fifteenth century glass at Burnham Deepdale Church, Norfolk.
Corfe, Somerset, St Nicholas. An 1842 rebuilding in the Romanesque style by Benjamin Ferrey. Later beautifications followed and there are many furnishings in neo Romanesque form which also extends to a chest tomb in the churchyard where you can find the grave of first Time Team historian, Robin Bush
South Huish, Devon. In the care of @friendlesschurches
