Philip Wilkinson
@philipwilkinson.bsky.social
Author: historic architecture, places, history. Here I post English buildings in their variety: churches but also cafés, gazebos but also garages, public houses but also public loos. Plus occasional books, art, carvings, and other stuff.
Lullington, Sussex. Tiny church (actually the chancel of a church once much larger) with tiny steeple. #SteepleSaturday #churchcrawling
Stanton, Gloucestershire. Telephone box repurposed as information point.
The glorious Art Nouveau facade of Edward Everard’s printing works in Bristol. Tiles made by Doulton and designed by their chief designer, W J Neatby, c 1900. Johannes Gutenberg at his press on the left, William Morris on the right.
Looking up at the Welsh Back Granary, Bristol, one of the most dazzling bits of architectural patterning I know.
Gwalia Stores, Ross-on-Wye, and its extraordinary collection of enamel advertising signs.
Venetian Gothic in Bristol. Browns, originally museum and library, a building of the 1860s-1870s.
Sun on Dent’s Terrace, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, the other day. Almshouses designed by George Gilbert Scott and and J Drayton Wyatt, 1865.
Snowdrops in the churchyard, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, a couple of hundred yards from where I live.
The Vine: a beautifully tiled Victorian pub in Cheltenham.
Gloucester Docks. Penfold post box — a Victorian design, although this may be a later replica, as the slot looks rather large for an original.
Another from Gloucester Docks. Biddle and Shipton warehouses.
Gloucester Docks, Llanthony Warehouse, this morning. Dull weather but still a reflection.
Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. Font carved with figure of centaur with bow and arrow, inscribed SAGITTARIUS.
Northleach, Gloucestershire, this morning. Limestone lower walls and roof, timber-framed upper storey. #woodensday
Re-used carved slab (early medieval?) used as door lintel, Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire.
Tewkesbury Abbey. Light from a stained glass window projected on to stone wall and shafts. Warm light on a cold day.
Tewkesbury Abbey, west front a few days ago. Enormous Norman arch framing later medieval window and doorway.
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Carved door with gothic panelling and angel. A medieval survival that always stops me in my tracks. #adoorablethursday
The great font at Castle Frome, a work of the Herefordshire school of Romanesque sculptors. This one has a baptism scene—complete with fishes. Marvellous. #FontsonFriday
Pershore, Worcestershire. Doorway with Tuscan columns and fanlight with Gothic glazing. A delightful hybrid. #adoorablethursday
